Open Repositories is an annual conference that brings together an international community of stakeholders engaged in the development, management, and application of digital repositories. Through a program of presentations, panels, posters, tutorials and workshops, attendees exchange knowledge, best practices and ideas on strategic, technical, theoretical and practical issues. International user group meetings of open repository technologies (DSpace, EPrints, Fedora) will also take place in concert with the main conference.

The program committee encourages proposals explore or demonstrate this theme, including:

• building, scaling and sustaining inter-institutional efforts in digital repository space
• user-focused service design, and models that align with scholarly and research community practices
• sustainability and business models that support repository services over the long term
• key success factors and common stumbling blocks in building collaborations among technologists, users & managers
• tools, techniques and practices that build team with heterogeneous skill sets
• training & skills development for repository developers and managers
• areas of opportunity and need for the repository community to collaborate further