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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please excuse any cross-posting.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(via Adrian Ho, University of Chicago)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://or2025.openrepositories.org/__;!!DZ3fjg!-YISOMYjqOzWM-Fb6wT3hyqt9L8kJ_gLxax6rlrGhoxwgNb6CUZDv6K7u9ILC5FMHPNMW01cW02TAZPcCkCq1cyUqPg$" title="https://or2025.openrepositories.org/">
20th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2025)</a> will be held <b>from Sunday, June 15, to Wednesday, June 18, in Chicago, IL</b>. The theme for the Conference is “Twenty Years of Progress, a Future of Possibilities”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">OR2025 is the 20th anniversary of the Open Repositories Conference. We are marking this milestone with a Conference theme that reflects the progress and contributions that
the repository community has made toward equitable access to digital resources and research outputs. In addition, we are also exploring the future possibilities of what repositories can do to tackle the many global challenges that currently exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We particularly welcome proposals aligned to the overall theme, but also on other administrative, organizational, or practical topics related to open digital repositories.
We are interested in the following sub-themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Community: How can repositories continue to serve a global community with diverse uses and needs? What can we as a repository community do
to create connections through integrations, foster trust in the material held in repositories and promote local and indigenous knowledge?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sustainability and Preservation: How can we ensure that repositories and their digital content last beyond the next 20 years in a financially
and environmentally sustainable way?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Inspiration: Have you been inspired by attending an Open Repositories conference to develop, implement, change practices or start a project?
We would love to hear how this is going!<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Blue-sky thinking: What might the future of equitable access to digital resources and research outputs look like? How can we go beyond the
status quo and AI as the answer to everything?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Submission categories include posters, workshops, lightning talks, papers, the repository showdown, and panels. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please visit the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://or2025.openrepositories.org/program/call-for-proposals/__;!!DZ3fjg!-YISOMYjqOzWM-Fb6wT3hyqt9L8kJ_gLxax6rlrGhoxwgNb6CUZDv6K7u9ILC5FMHPNMW01cW02TAZPcCkCqYrtRt7A$" title="https://or2025.openrepositories.org/program/call-for-proposals/">Call for
Proposals page</a> to learn more about the sub-themes and submission categories of the Conference, including a full list of submission templates and key dates for submission deadlines and approvals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The deadline for submissions is
<b>Wednesday, December 18. 2024</b>. Submitters should note that presentations are in person and there is no remote/pre-recorded presentation option.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Registration will open in February of 2025. Please check the Conference website for more information as it becomes available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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