<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://codata.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/or2020.png" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)"><img class="gmail-alignleft gmail-size-large gmail-wp-image-1828" src="http://codata.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/or2020-1024x152.png" alt="" width="625" height="93" style="margin: 0.857143rem 1.71429rem 0.857143rem 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 1px 4px;"></a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The <a href="https://or2020.sun.ac.za/en/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">15th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2020</a>, will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 1-4 June 2020. The organisers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. This year’s conference theme is:<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </strong><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Open for all</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">In today’s world, access to knowledge by all is viewed by some as a fundamental freedom and human right. In our societies, open knowledge for all can enable sustainable development and growth on many levels. How well do repositories support knowledge in the service of society? How well do they enable local knowledge sharing and support not only academic use, but also use in education and practice?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Invitation to participate</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">OR2020 will provide an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories enable openness for all. We hope that this discussion will give the participants new insights and inspiration, which will help them to play a key role in developing, supporting and sharing an open agenda and open tools for research and scholarship.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">We particularly welcome proposals on the overall “Open for All” theme, but also on other administrative, organisational or practical topics related to digital repositories. We are particularly interested in the following sub-themes:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">1. Equity and democratization of knowledge</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Accessibility of repositories and their content</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Equity and democratization of knowledge</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented voices</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Local knowledge sharing</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Moving beyond traditional academic content and services, supporting educators and practitioners</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Supporting knowledge in the service of society, encouraging non-academic use</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Enabling access to governmental publications/data</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Addressing language barriers</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">2. Beyond the repository</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Integration with other open knowledge resources (e.g. Wikimedia and Wikidata)</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Next Generation Repositories, Pubfair</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Convergence and integration with other types of systems (e.g. current research information systems, digital asset management systems, publishing platforms, ORCID)</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Interoperability vs integration</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">New models for scholarly sharing</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Data mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">3. Open and sustainable</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Local systems vs repository as a service</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Securing long-term funding for open infrastructures</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Open business models and governance for open infrastructures</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sustaining community-based infrastructure</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">4. Policies, licensing and copyright laws</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Impact of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act) and copyright laws</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Publisher policies, embargoes and rights retention</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Licenses and re-use of content</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Compliance and impact of funder policies (e.g. Plan S) on repositories</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">5. Discovery, use and impact</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Data/metadata visualization</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Open access discovery, research data discovery</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Tools for researchers and practitioners, interfaces for machines</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Measuring impact particularly outside of the academic context.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Supporting use by practitioners.</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">6. Supporting open scholarship and cultural heritage</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Providing access to different types of materials (e.g. research data, scholarly articles, pre prints and overlay journals, open access monographs, theses and dissertations, educational resources, archival and cultural heritage materials, audiovisual materials, software, interactive publications and emerging formats)</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Repositories as digital humanities and open science platforms</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented voices</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Process</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Program Committee has provided templates to use for submissions (see below for links). Please use the submission template, and then submit through ConfTool (link coming soon) where you will be asked to provide additional information (such as primary contact and the conference subtheme your submission best fits).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Accepted proposals in all categories will be made available through the conference’s website. Later, the presentations and associated materials will be made available in an open repository; you will be contacted to upload your set of slides or poster. Some conference sessions will be live streamed or recorded, then made publicly available.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">After the completion of the conference, we will solicit full papers from a selection of presentation  in order to be published in the OR2020 proceedings (open access, no article processing charge) in cooperation with a scholarly publisher. If you are proposing a presentation or panel, you may want to consider whether it could be turned into a full paper.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Submission Categories</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Presentations</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Presentations make up the bulk of the Open Repositories conference. Presentations are substantive discussions of a relevant topic; successful submissions in past years have typically described work relevant to a wide audience. These typically are placed in a 30 minute time slot (generally alongside two other presentations for a total of 90 minutes). We strongly encourage presentations that can be delivered in 20-25 minutes in order to leave time for questions and discussion.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Presentation proposals should be 2-3 pages.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Panels</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Panels are made up of two or more panelists presenting on work or issues where multiple perspectives and experiences are useful or necessary. Successful submissions in past years have typically described work relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single software system. All panels are expected to include diversity in viewpoints, personal background, and gender of the panelists. Panels can be 60 or 90 minutes long. If 60 minutes, the panel may be combined in a session with a presentation.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Panel proposals should be 2-3 pages.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">24×7 Presentations</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">24×7 presentations are 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Successful 24×7 presentations are fast paced and have a clear focus on one idea. 24×7 presentations about failures and lessons learnt are highly encouraged.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated question and answer session involving the audience and all block presenters.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Proposals for 24×7 presentations should be one page.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Posters</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">OR2020 will feature physical posters only. Posters should showcase current or ongoing work that is not yet ready for a full 30 minute presentation. Instructions for preparing the posters will be distributed to authors of accepted poster proposals prior to the conference. Poster presenters will be expected to give a one-minute teaser at a Minute Madness session to encourage visitors to their poster during the poster reception.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Proposals for posters should be one page.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Developer Track</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Developer Track provides a focus for showcasing technical work and exchanging ideas. Presentations are 15-20 minutes and can be informal. Successful developer track presentations include live demonstrations, tours of code repositories, examples of cool features, and unique viewpoints.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Proposals for the developer track should be one page.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Workshops and Tutorials</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The first day of Open Repositories 2020 will be dedicated to workshops and tutorials.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Workshops and tutorials generally cover practical issues around repositories and related technologies, tools, and processes. Successful workshops include clear learning outcomes, involve active learning, and are realistic in terms of the number of attendees that can actively participate in the workshop.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Workshops and tutorials can be 90 minutes, 3 hours (half-day), or 6 hours (full day).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Proposals for workshops should be no longer than 2 pages.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Templates</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The OR2020 proposal templates help you prepare an effective submission. Please select the submission type below to download the templates. Templates are available in Microsoft Word, Open Document Format and Plain Text. Submission in PDF format is preferred.</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop template [<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_workshop_tutorial_template.docx" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">docx</a>|<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_workshop_tutorial_template.txt" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">txt</a>]</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Presentation template [<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_presentation_template.docx" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">docx</a>|<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_presentation_template.txt" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">txt</a>]</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Poster template [<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_poster_template.docx" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">docx</a>|<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_poster_template.txt" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">txt</a>]</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Panel template [<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_panel_template.docx" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">docx</a>|<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_panel_template.txt" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">txt</a>]</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">DevTrack template [<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_DevTrack_template.docx" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">docx</a>|<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_DevTrack_template.txt" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">txt</a>]</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">24×7 template [<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_24x7_template.docx" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">docx</a>|<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_24x7_template.txt" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">txt</a>]</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">All templates [<a href="http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/or2020/OR2020_templates.zip" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">zip</a>]</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Submission System</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The system will be open for submissions by the end of November,  and the link will be on the conference website (<a href="https://or2020.sun.ac.za/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">https://or2020.sun.ac.za/</a>).</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Review Process</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated according to the criteria outlined in the call for proposals, including quality of content, significance, originality, and thematic fit. The program committee makes the final decisions on inclusion in the conference. If you would like to volunteer to be a reviewer, please contact the program committee below.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Also, please note that the program committee may accept a submission with the requirement that it move to another format (a presentation to a poster, for example). In such cases, submitters will have the opportunity to make a decision on whether to accept or decline such a move.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Code of Conduct</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The OR2020 Code of Conduct is available at <a href="https://or2020.sun.ac.za/code-of-conduct/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">https://or2020.sun.ac.za/code-of-conduct/</a>. We expect submitters to hold to the Code of Conduct in their proposals, presentations, and conduct at the conference.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Fellowship Programme</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">OR2020 will again run a Fellowship Programme, which will enable us to provide support for a small number of full registered places (including the poster reception and conference dinner) for the conference in Stellenbosch. The programme is open to librarians, repository managers, developers and researchers in digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting a proposal for the conference will be given priority consideration for funding, and preference will be given to applicants from the African continent. Full details and an application form will shortly be available on the conference website.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Key Dates</strong></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">13 January 2020: Deadline for submissions</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">20 January 2020: Deadline for Fellowship Programme applications</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">10 February 2020: Submitters notified of acceptance of workshop proposals</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">10 February 2020: Registration opens</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">17 February 2020: Fellowship Programme winners notified</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">9 March 2020: Submitters notified of acceptance of full presentation, 24×7, poster and developer track proposals</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">20 April 2019: Close of Early Bird registration</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">1-4 June 2020: OR2020 conference</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Program Co-Chairs</strong></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:outside;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Iryna Kuchma, EIFL</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Lazarus Matizirofa, University of Pretoria</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 2.57143rem;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Dr Daisy Selematsela, University of Johannesburg</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Contact: <a href="mailto:or19-program-chairs@googlegroups.com" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">or19-program-chairs@googlegroups.com</a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Local Hosts</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.sun.ac.za/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">Stellenbosch University</a></li><li><a href="https://library.sun.ac.za/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">Library and Information Service</a></li><li>Contact: Mimi Seyffert-Wirth (<a href="mailto:mseyf@sun.ac.za" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">mseyf@sun.ac.za</a> / <a href="mailto:or2020@sun.ac.za" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">or2020@sun.ac.za</a>)</li></ul><p></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Website and Social Media</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.71429rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.71429;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>Website: <a href="https://or2020.sun.ac.za/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">https://or2020.sun.ac.za/</a></li><li>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenRepo2020" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">https://twitter.com/OpenRepo2020</a></li><li>Hashtag: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/openrepos2020?src=hash" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">#openrepos2020</a></li><li>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ORConference" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(159,159,159)">https://www.facebook.com/ORConference</a></li></ul><p></p><div>Thanks,</div><div>Asha</div>-- <div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">___________________________<br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.codata.org/events/science-and-policy-workshops/codata-and-codata-china-high-level-international-meeting-on-open-research-data-policy-and-practice" target="_blank"><b>Beijing Declaration on Research Data</b></a> -released 8 November 2019 on UNESCO World Science Day</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.codata.org/about-codata/message-from-president-barend-mons" target="_blank"><b>Message from CODATA President, Barend Mons</b></a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration-line:none">VizAfrica Botswana, 18-19 Nov</a> - <a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/conference/2019-Botswana/register/" target="_blank">REGISTER NOW</a></b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://codata.org/blog/2019/11/01/october-2019-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/" target="_blank"><b>October 2019 Publications</b></a><b> in the <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank">CODATA Data Science Journal</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Stay in touch with CODATA:</b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Stay up to date with CODATA activities: <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank"><b>join the CODATA International News list</b></a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?  <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank"><b>Sign up to the CODATA early career community-run data science training and careers list</b></a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>