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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Open Repositories 2018 registration is open!
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open. 4th - 8th June 2018, Bozeman, Montana, USA</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.or2018.net/registration-is-now-open/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://www.or2018.net/registration-is-now-open/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Early registration is $375 until April 20, 2018.
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Regular registration is $425 April 21st to May 25th, 2018.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Late registration is $475 after May 25th, 2018.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Student registration will be $275 for current full time students, increasing to $325.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please sign-up for
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when registering.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are also pleased to announce our keynote speakers for OR 2018!</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Opening Keynote -</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<b>Casey Fiesler, JD, Ph.D.</b></span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">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.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202020">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.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Closing Keynote - Asaf Bartov</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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