Conference Organisation

Program Committee Chairs:

  • Ilkay Holt
  • Mimi Seyffert-Wirth
  • Wouter Klapwijk

Contact: or23-program-chairs@googlegroups.com

Program Committee Track Chairs:

  • Kathryn Cassidy, Digital Repository of Ireland, Ireland (General Track Co-chair)
  • Wynand Van Der Walt, Rhodes University, South Africa (General Track Co-chair)
  • Nora Mulvaney, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada (General Track Co-chair)
  • Liz Krznarich, DataCite, USA  (Dev Track Co-chair)
  • Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh, UK (Dev Track Co-chair)
  • Lazarus Gallant Matizirofa, University of Pretoria, South Africa (Dev Track Co-chair)
  • Jessica Lindholm, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (24X7 Co-chair)
  • Alan Stiles, The Open University, UK (24X7 Co-chair)
  • Molebelli Botlhole, University of Botswana, (24X7 Co-chair)
  • Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Posters Co-chair)
  • Mimi Seyffert-Wirth, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (Posters Co-chair)
  • Omo Oaiya, West and Central African Research and Education Network -WACREN, Ghana (Posters Co-chair)
  • Wouter Klapwijk, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (Workshops Co-chair)
  • Ellen Ramsey, University of Virgina, US (Workshops Co-chair)
  • Heather Klein, Samvera, US (Workshops Co-chair)

Host Organising Committee:

  • Ellen Tise, Senior Director, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University
  • Marié Roux, Manager: Research Impact Services, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University (Chair)
  • Mimi Seyffert-Wirth, Deputy Director: Digital Scholarship, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University

Open Repositories Standing Steering Committee:

  • Kathryn Cassidy, Digital Repository of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • Ilkay Holt, British Library, UK
  • Claire Knowles, University of Leeds, UK (Chair)
  • Liz Krznarich, DataCite, USA
  • Jessica Lindholm, Chalmers University, Sweden
  • David Minor, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • Tomasz Neugebauer, Concordia University, Canada
  • Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago, USA (Vice Chair)
  • Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  • Washington Luís R. de Carvalho Segundo, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brasil
  • Sarah Shreeves, University of Arizona, USA
  • Leila Sterman, Montana State University, USA
  • Maureen Walsh, Ohio State University, USA

N.B. The program chairs and host committee members are also members of the OR Steering Committee for the duration of the conference.