EDINA newsline
September 2011: Volume 16 Issue 3
The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) will be held in Edinburgh 9-13 July, 2012, following a successful bid from the combined efforts of EDINA & Data Library, the Digital Curation Centre and the University of Edinburgh’s Library & Collections.
An annual event, the OR Conference is organized by the Open Repositories Steering Committee. It brings together the key stakeholders from around the world who are engaged in the development, management, and application of digital repositories in an open access setting. The last time it met in the UK was when Southampton University hosted OR2008.
Our success is winning the bid for 2012 was due in part to four years of organising the popular Repository Fringe event at the University of Edinburgh. We plan to ensure that the spirit of the Fringe continues alongside the more formal OR Conference.
Planning local arrangements for the conference next July is already underway, led by co-chairs from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Stuart Macdonald and William Nixon respectively. The ‘heavy lifting’ will be a collaborative effort by the groups within the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services: Data Library, Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and the Library & Collections Section Digital Library.