OR2018 Panel or Discussion Q&A Submission 13th International Open Repositories Conference June 4th-7th, Bozeman, Montana, USA For authors: remove all text in **text** and replace with your own content. #Title of Proposal **Author 1 name, affiliation, email address; Author 2 name, affiliation, email address** #Session Type Indicate the type of your proposal (remove the other) * Panel * Q&A Discussion #Abstract **Summary of your proposal; maximum 200 words. The abstract include a brief biography of the community member who will be subject of the Q&A and what topics they will be asked about for example: how a decision was made, how a project got started, where an idea came from, or anything else that you want to know more about . You can copy and paste this into the submission system at the time of submission.** #Conference Themes List the conference theme(s) your proposal best addresses (remove the others): * Open source software - sustainability of software developed locally and large open source systems, legacy code * Community - reaching out to new audiences, developing a community, governance * Content - research data, digital preservation, persistent urls, archiving * Teams/People - staff and knowledge within the community, contingency planning, training and development, and succession planning * Projects - sustainability of projects beyond the grant, maturing communities * Infrastructure/Integrations - integrations between systems, changing technical environments * Policy - national, international, local and community policy and decisions * Challenges of sustainability - funding, local, technical, community * Rights and Copyright - including Data Protection, sharing and storing of content * Reuse, standards, and reproducibility - for example: software, data, content types * New open technologies and standards #Keywords **List 3-4 key terms or phrases that describe the subject of the proposal.** #Audience **Tell us in a sentence or two who is the likely audience for this. Some examples might be repository managers, developers, data producers, librarians, etc.** #Background **How does your submission address the conference themes or the overarching topic of open repositories?** #Content * Tell us what will (or won't) be covered in this panel or discussion. Why will your topic be of interest to the intended audience? Include figures and images if they will help reviewers evaluate the proposal content. * If you are proposing a panel, outline how you envision each panelist contributing to the overall discussion and how the composition of the panel will ensure a diversity of viewpoints. * If you are suggestion an individual for a discussion question and answer session, please outline how you envision this discussion contributing to the overall theme of the conference. * All proposals should be in English and 2-4 pages in length - excessively long submissions place undue burden on the reviewers. #Conclusion Summarise the take-home message from the proposal. What are the main points? It would be great if this were a part of the conversation around the conference themes of sustaining open. #Time Please select a preferred time period. * 45 minutes * 90 minutes #Repository System Is your submission related to a specific repository technology? Please select one technology by deleting those not applicable or add another technology not listed below. * Dataverse * Digital Commons * DSpace * Eprints * Fedora * FigShare * Invenio * Islandora * Samvera * Others * Not Applicable #References This is not compulsory but may help. Use any clear unambiguous reference style you like.