User:NicolaOsborne/drafts/Open Repositories Conference

The Open Repositories Conference is an annual event that provides a forum for the Repository Application groups to meet, and to enable people interested in the Repository and Open Access movements to explore the challenges and opportunities in today's world. Generally speaking, the conference alternates between Europe and the USA.

Current Conference
The 2012 Open Repositories Conference will be held in Edinburgh by the University of Edinburgh, EDINA and the Digital Curation Centre. A call for proposals from European organisations to host the event was sent out in early 2011 by the Open Repositories Steering Committee.

2011
Open Repositories 2011 was held in Austin, Texas, from June 6 through 11th.

Open Repositories 2011

2010
Open Repositories 2010 was held in Madrid, Spain, From July 6 to July 9, 2010.

Open Repositories 2010

2009
Open Repositories 2009 was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, from 18–21 May 2009.

Open Repositories 2009

2008
The 3rd Open Repositories Conference was held at Southampton University between April 1 & 4, 2008.

Open Repositories 2008

(2008 saw the birth of the Repository Fringe event)

2007
The 2nd International Conference on Open Repositories was held at San Antonio, Texas USA, on January 23–26, 2007

2006
The very first event - Open Repositories 2006 was held at the University of Sydney. It consisted of two primary "arcs": a Forum entitled "The Well-integrated Repository" and a Symposium called "Managing Openness"

Open Repositories 2006