Open Repositories Conference 2025: Call for Proposals and Fellowship Applications
Adrian Ho
Apologies for cross-posting
The 20th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2025) will be held from June 15-18, 2025 in Chicago, USA. Its theme is: Twenty Years of Progress, a Future of Possibilities
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.
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:
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?
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?
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!
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?
Submission categories include posters, workshops, lightning talks, papers, the repository showdown and panels.
Please visit the Call for Proposals page to learn more about the sub-themes and submission categories of the conference, including a full list of submission templates that can be downloaded, and key dates for submission deadlines and approvals. Note that all submissions must be made in ConfTool, our conference management tool.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 13, 2025.
We are also pleased to announce that applications for fellowships to attend OR2025 are now open. Fellowship recipients will receive funding for travel, accommodation, meals and incidentals, as well as full conference registration, including the poster reception and conference dinner. To apply, please complete this form by January 22, 2025. Applicants will be notified by February 25, 2025.
Programme Co-Chairs:
Adrian Ho, University of Chicago
Ellen Catz Ramsey, University of Virginia
Dr Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde
Contact: or25-prog...@googlegroups.com
For the Open Repositories Steering Committee:
Torsten Reimer and Liz Krznarich
Website: https://or2025.openrepositories.org/