The Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2016, will be held on June 13th-16th, 2016 in Dublin, Ireland. The organizers are pleased to issue this call for contributions to the program.

As previous Open Repositories have demonstrated, the use of digital repositories to manage research, scholarly and cultural information is well established and increasingly mature.

August 1–12, 2016

Applications due February 14

The Mandel Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for a workshop focused on the use of testimony in the study of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union. It will bring together scholars whose work relies heavily upon oral and written testimonies of perpetrators, bystanders, and victims of the Holocaust on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Participants from North America and the states of the former Soviet Union will discuss research strategies and some of the central issues surrounding the use of testimonies in their work.

17-18 November 2015, Munich, Institut für Zeitgeschichte

The aim of the EHRI work package “New Views on Digital Archives” is to support and develop creative forms of presentation of digital archival content and provide in-depth perspective on Holocaust sources by focusing on selected key thematic areas. The primary goals of these sub-projects within the second phase of EHRI are to develop – interlinked with the main EHRI portal – online editions of documents, an online document blog and online exhibitions. The first EHRI online document blog will be published on 27 January, to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day.

Poland and Portugal have officially joined DARIAH. DARIAH’s General Assembly voted unanimously to accept the applications of the two countries. "We are delighted to see Poland and Portugal finally become part of DARIAH", said Laurent Romary, the President of the Bord of Directors of DARIAH-EU. 

The applications were prepared during the last two years with the help of DARIAH-EU. "Poland and Portugal have worked hard and we are very happy they will contribute to our vision of advancing digitally enabled reaserch in the arts and humanities in Europe and beyond", said Romary.