The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012)

EDINA, the University of Edinburgh's Information Services and the Digital Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh will be hosting the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) from 9-13 July, 2012. 

The theme and title of the 2012 conference at Edinburgh – Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out – reflects the current move towards open content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems and data delivery infrastructures.

The conference will have both general conference sessions and open user group meetings for the three main open source repository platforms: DSpace, Fedora, and Eprints.

There will also be a strand for the popular ‘Repository Fringe’, an informal, creative gathering of repository managers and developers which has been hosted at the University of Edinburgh each year since 2008 – to coincide with the internationally well known Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The Call for Proposals is now available and the Key Dates are as follows:

• 20th February 2012: Deadline for papers, workshops & user group sessions
• 31st March 2012: Deadline for posters and demos
• 6th April 2012: workshop/paper submitters notified
• 11th May 2012: Poster/demo submitters notified
• 9th July 2012: Conference pre-workshops begin

More information about the event will be added soon.