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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Raleway Medium";color:#660033">Open Repositories Conference 2023</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Raleway Medium";color:#660033">Early Bird Registration closes soon</span><span style="color:#660033"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">This is a reminder that Early Bird registration for the 18<sup>th</sup> International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will close
on <b>2 May, 08:00</b> (SAST). Thereafter the normal cost will apply. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">The conference will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West, close to Stellenbosch, South Africa. The
theme for the conference is <i>Repositories unlocked for discovery and interoperability</i> and will 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">Please see the registration costs here:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2For2023.openrepositories.org%2Fregistration&data=05%7C01%7C%7C2916389614d748a357fd08db41779a2a%7Ca6fa3b030a3c42588433a120dffcd348%7C0%7C0%7C638175754159590917%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sCm4U1ggyCH5QyW4YTGjSBuIBUtRaUxw%2Boznxjb6Nmw%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://or2023.openrepositories.org/registration" shash="HMFoFM5euSiE/LaDvEvqUiUD2pM1vMJIn7rs39HRKdP5PwvN5lk0QPKjUF9p3m45dmA0CLVnVZOstB5mk7a8YuX1DEEQzBU6iynkDbvnKlBGxw1NOhipBuVid0eLqDb90Qg5VARtkUSwbin3z39fNsibolkEDnhDNQbw7LJkYAQ="><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">https://or2023.openrepositories.org/registration</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Raleway;color:black">We are looking forward to welcoming you at the Open Repositories 2023!
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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="color:black"><a href="mailto:mr@sun.ac.za"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;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 Programme Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black">Ilkay Holt, Mimi Seyffert-Wirth and Wouter Klapwijk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:or23-program-chairs@googlegroups.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">or23-program-chairs@googlegroups.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:#660033"><o:p></o:p></span></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"><a href="mailto:C.knowles1@leeds.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">Claire Knowles</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:black"> and
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:reimer@uchicago.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Raleway;color:#660033">Torsten Reimer</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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