Repositories increasingly play a pivotal role in the emerging information landscape. Through a format that blends open user group meetings for DSpace, Fedora, and Eprints, followed by general conference sessions that cover cross-cutting and overarching issues, Open Repositories attempts to create  opportunities to explore the challenges faced by user communities and others in today’s world.

 

The many repository platforms available today are changing the nature of scholarly communication. Institutions such as universities, research laboratories, publishers, libraries, and commercial organizations are creating innovative repository-based systems that address the entire lifecycle of information — from supporting the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, to ultimately ensuring long-term preservation and archiving.

 

OR12: Edinburgh, July 9-13, 2012

The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from July 9-13, 2012.

 

To get announcements about this event and other OR-related communications, you may join the OR announcements mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.

 

Looking back: OR11 Austin

What is the role of social interactions within repository technical communities in developing strong, distributed services and cyberinfrastructure to create open access to and preservation of our shared digital heritage?

 

The Sixth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11) addressed that question in Austin, Texas from June 6-11, 2011, at the AT&T Conference Center. The conference was hosted by the University of Texas Libraries and featured general conference and user group sessions as well as workshops, poster sessions, minute madness and new kinds of sessions designed to bring everyone into a lively exchange of ideas.

For more information about OR11, see the conference website.