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<span><span>Conference Theme: <b>Use, Reuse, Reproduce</b></span></span></p>
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<span><span>Conference dates: 8 -12 July 2013</span></span></p>
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<span><span>Conference location: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada</span></span></p>
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<span><span><b>Important dates:</b></span></span></p>
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<span><span>EXTENDED to 4 March 2013: Deadline for proposal submissions</span></span></p>
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<span><span>19 April 2013</span>: <span>Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups</span></span></p>
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<span><span>11-12 July 2013: DSpace User Group program</span></span></p>
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<span><span>The DSpace User Group program committee invites your contributions to OR2013, whether you’re a developer, researcher, repository manager, administrator or practitioner. We invite one to two-page proposals </span>that focus
on the use of the DSpace platform and that describe novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of <span>DSpace</span> repositories. Presentation formats could include panels, tutorials, facilitated round table discussions,
stories, or presentations of varying length. Please indicate the preferred format in you proposal.<span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<span><b>Some specific areas of interest for OR2013, from the conference web site are:</b></span></p>
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<span><span>Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
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<span><span>Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
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<span><span>Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents</span></span></li></ul>
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<span><b>Submitting your proposal:</b></span></p>
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<span>Visit the Open Repositories 2013 conference website to <b>submit your proposal online</b>: <span style="color:blue"></span></span><a href="http://or2013.net/cfp" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>http://or2013.net/cfp</span><span></span></a><span><span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<span>Also check out the conference blog<span style="color:blue"> </span></span><a href="http://or2013.net/blog" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>http://or2013.net/blog</span><span></span></a><span><span style="color:blue"> </span>and
the OR2013<span>CrowdVine</span> </span><a href="http://or2013.crowdvine.com/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>http://or2013.crowdvine.com/</span><span></span></a><span><span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>
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<span>For inquiries, please contact the <span>DSpace</span> User Group Chair, Hilde Colenbrander </span><a href="mailto:hilde.colenbrander@ubc.ca" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>hilde.colenbrander@ubc.ca</span><span></span></a><span></span></p>
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