CNI is = very pleased to serve as a cooperating organization for Open = Repositories again this year. Registration details are below; reduced = early registration fee is available until April 20, 2018.

-Diane = Goldenberg-Hart, CNI Communications

Open Repositories = 2018 registration is open!

We are pleased to = announce that registration is now open for Open Repositories 2018: = Sustaining Open. 4th - 8th June 2018, Bozeman, Montana, USA

http://www.or2018.net/registration-is-now-open/

Please sign-up = for workshops when = registering.

We are also pleased to announce our keynote speakers for OR = 2018!

Opening Keynote - Casey = Fiesler, JD, Ph.D.

Casey Fiesler is an = Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at = University of Colorado Boulder. A social computing researcher and legal = scholar, she holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia = Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. = Fiesler studies governance in socio-technical systems, with an emphasis = on copyright in online communities, technology ethics, and social = norms.

Fiesler = previously interned for Creative Commons, and is a member of the legal = committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind = the open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. A portion of her = research is current funded under the large National Science Foundation = PERVADE project, dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for = pervasive human data.

Closing Keynote - = Asaf Bartov

Asaf Bartov is a = senior program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit = operating Wikipedia around the world. His work focuses on capacity = building with emerging volunteer communities all over the world, with = particular emphasis on India, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, and eastern = Europe. While his academic background is in Greek and Latin = language and literature, he has a strong professional background in = software development, and an abiding volunteer interest in digital = libraries. He is the founder, chief technologist, and chief editor of = Project Ben-Yehuda, an award-winning volunteer-run digital library of = public domain Hebrew works. He is also a structured and linked = data enthusiast, and previously served as an invited expert on the W3C's = Library Linked Data Incubator Group. He frequently teaches = introductory classes on Wikidata, the Wikimedia Foundation's linked open = data project, and on querying Wikidata with the SPARQL = language.

Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub

Program Committee Co-Chairs

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