Open repositories

The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring together the repositories community with stakeholders (such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others) to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information. This year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce.

By looking at issues ranging from the creation and management of digital content to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, Open Repositories 2013 will make a contribution to long-term preservation and archiving of information. The notion of use and reuse can also be extended to repository infrastructure, making repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and interact with distributed computational services and social communities.

Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:

• Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded repository tools and services
• Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support repository development
• Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code
• Services making use of repository metadata
• Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content
• Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with repositories to provide solutions to specific domains
• Added-value services for repositories
• Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents
• Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem.

Jisc is sponsoring the Developer Challenge at OR13 and is organising the workshop  “Where Next for Institutional Repositories?”, run by Balviar Notay.

For more information, visit the event website.