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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Raleway Medium";color:#660033">Registration now open!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">We are pleased to announce that registration for the 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) is now open. The conference
will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flordcharleshotel.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C53712224dd434f3cb45408db1f265078%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C638138021635234079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=d7%2BexIDSFStkcwho%2BnE6CB2lxJiBAEYVhQHK0aM2l64%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://lordcharleshotel.com/" shash="cVEe5WjeuvHHoJCNavhlJMrRCh+6xCWGdaTDxsv4LWgCSo2H8t/aPaHwSJABvhlzTPVjl+2zanY8q5teEYNW1sbvFIz7iGyP30EkphfnPpAl36jvkp2HF2rgKAhEsfbVTEgvJyHSdhXOwGEksP9Q6H/eiH/VGHAP5nM3DKKfP/0="><span style="font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">Lord
Charles Hotel</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">, Somerset West, close to Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">The theme for the conference is
<b><i>Repositories unlocked for discovery and interoperability </i></b>and will </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">focus on the practices of the international repositories community to develop and implement the standards, frameworks, architectures, and methodologies for open repositories to
serve as knowledge representation databases for the structured web of data. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cognitoforms.com%2FLIBWebforms%2FRegistration&data=05%7C01%7C%7C53712224dd434f3cb45408db1f265078%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C638138021635234079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fPqz9o%2BoIVmfU4OZLSNwFsHi0BMq5zRCday%2Bxn6fMAc%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.cognitoforms.com/LIBWebforms/Registration" shash="nCyIbfXH0HTUBiforUIlmCMSFDvICDPkrLHo3gAFKAVwuH55NqjCk/0bA/i33v5LvoOOyPuxZ0cvWbjtcH9cfdGvcUmI2C1gRwElWLSDQOgiLAa9da2xrkZt9dW3Mv2kMaQpbQKdksXvh6MB8twwtsttk8U0QwTCtCmpidHwcLY="><b><span style="font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">Please
register here</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">See more information about the draft
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2For2023.openrepositories.org%2Fprogramme%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C53712224dd434f3cb45408db1f265078%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C638138021635234079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=upQv%2B9%2BUyXmgP9BeFCzvsMkLZad3iH2o2YD5jaQDhLw%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://or2023.openrepositories.org/programme/" shash="MZja9UQR35A/l1qKsZRUXJUqn51BkHeYG//3CObsQQFL7USEXFfMQyOzSRLVIXEGHcdsXKgPY4+yNF9D1ub3fZUCcEhNi7ucCczPlj7iF3AS0J/sAM31+49AtQ9qQGJKmcYou2qv1O0EfBfz3PkA9S/jqqOcZtlpS8voGbdL2nA="><span style="font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">programme</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">
and </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:#660033"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2For2023.openrepositories.org%2Fregistration%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C53712224dd434f3cb45408db1f265078%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C638138021635234079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8v%2FbAOWCqNHMEeEGGaHT1Zf%2FjqRC9ybsY96WJTYcB0s%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://or2023.openrepositories.org/registration/" shash="xQRO1oTE0DLejfX92jHJ45jpkYoC0ExKn9SiciV3z/uI49QGHAoKfC1qkbfWRliMQDiuYDfPvSwr/ZFu4UNnni8qaZ3R9ihLa1MMtBQeLv1FdonSwBOVP0Wtdw/dpinn0RpLJQl6Jek3K3dDHRtmknSYyW1qnul20zMW2Kt+NAY="><span style="color:#660033">registration</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">
on the conference website.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">Please note that accommodation at the conference venue is limited. Please make your reservation as early as possible if you wish to stay at the Lord Charles Hotel. See more
about the accommodation options </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:#660033"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2For2023.openrepositories.org%2Faccommodation%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C53712224dd434f3cb45408db1f265078%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C638138021635234079%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RZc9Dlkfuj7B4KYrCe43sEePW9r8n96Td09BTqNsZIg%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://or2023.openrepositories.org/accommodation/" shash="dDB7mFCTQsa/OJIFccxdpUexi4Gbg07VW5BzubvKokLIhKcsen/oIs9rEf4+M1cdi2cpbwSMLC0gvqoxT/PGGkybrURusc4XYGf1Hg2Nq6kFIIUqGgkRHCDtc55AGUJklvVOR2RRRrqd5rXvw0H5DAV6AZSw26A5+U3UXo1BjHs="><span style="color:#660033">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">For the Host Organising Committee:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">Ellen Tise, Mimi Seyffert-Wirth and
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:mr@sun.ac.za"><span style="font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">Marié Roux</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">For the Open Repositories Steering Committee:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:C.knowles1@leeds.ac.uk"><span style="font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">Claire Knowles</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> and
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:reimer@uchicago.edu"><span style="font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">Torsten Reimer</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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