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. Templates can be downloaded from the OR 2025 website, and all submissions must be made in ConfTool, our conference management tool.
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