[Sigiii-l] OR2015 NEWS: Registration Opens, Speakers from Mozilla and Google Announced

[Imma Subirats]

- OR2015 NEWS: Registration Opens; Speakers from Mozilla and Google Announced -

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 10th
International Conference on Open Repositories, to be held on June
8-11, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. Full
registration details and a link to the registration form may be found
at: http://www.or2015.net/registration

OR2015 is co-hosted by Indiana University Bloomington Libraries,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, and Virginia Tech
Libraries.

-- OR2015 Registration and Fees --

An early registration fee of $450 USD will be available until May 8.
After May 8, the registration fee will increase to $500 USD. This
registration fee covers participation in general conference sessions,
workshops, and interest group sessions, as well as the conference
dinner on Wednesday, June 10 and poster reception on Tuesday, June 9.
For a draft outline of the conference schedule, please see:
http://www.or2015.net/program/schedule-at-a-glance

Participants may register online at:
http://www.or2015.net/registration. If you have any questions about
registering for OR2015, please contact the Conference Registrar at
iuconfs at indiana.edu. Any other questions about the conference may be
directed to the conference organizing committee by using the form at:
http://www.or2015.net/contact-us

-- Hotel Reservations --

The OR2015 conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency
Indianapolis hotel, conveniently located in the heart of downtown
Indianapolis. Special room rates at the Hyatt starting at $159 USD per
night have been negotiated for conference attendees and will be
available for booking through May 16. More information on hotel
reservations and travel is available at:
http://www.or2015.net/conference-hotel-and-travel

-- Keynote and Featured Speakers --

Reflecting the significant milestone of the 10th Open Repositories
conference and this year's theme of "Looking Back, Moving Forward:
Open Repositories at the Crossroads," we are pleased to announce the
conference's two plenary speakers:

Kaitlin Thaney will be giving the opening keynote talk on the morning
of Tuesday, June 9. Kaitlin is director of the Mozilla Science Lab, an
open science initiative of the Mozilla Foundation focused on
innovation, best practice and skills training for research. Prior to
Mozilla, she served as the Manager of External Partnerships at Digital
Science, a technology company that works to make research more
efficient through better use of technology. Kaitlin also advises the
UK government on infrastructure for data intensive science and
business, serves as a Director for DataKind UK, and is the founding
co-chair for the Strata Conference series in London on big data. Prior
to Mozilla and Digitial Science, Kaitlin managed the science program
at Creative Commons, worked with MIT and Microsoft, and wrote for the
Boston Globe. You can learn more about the Science Lab at
http://mozillascience.org  and follow Kaitlin online at @kaythaney.

Anurag Acharya will be the featured speaker at the plenary session on
the morning of Wednesday, June 10, presenting on "Indexing
repositories: pitfalls and best practices." Anurag is a Distinguished
Engineer at Google and creator of Google Scholar, and he previously
led the indexing group at Google. He has a Bachelors in Computer
Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and a PhD
in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon. Prior to joining Google, he
was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College
Park and an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa
Barbara.

We look forward to seeing you at OR2015!

Jon Dunn, Julie Speer, and Sarah Shreeves
OR2015 Conference Organizing Committee

Holly Mercer, William Nixon, and Imma Subirats
OR2015 Program Co-Chairs