Program Chairs: Sarah Shreeves and Jon Dunn

We are pleased to announce the Program Chairs for Open Repositories 2013: Sarah Shreeves and Jon Dunn.

Sarah L. Shreeves has been the Coordinator for IDEALS, the set of services and collections that support scholarly communication services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2005. Since 2010, Sarah has also co-coordinated the Scholarly Commons, a space that supports advanced research services in data access and management and the digital humanities among other things. Sarah has served on the Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee since 2010 and is a long time member of the DSpace Community Advisory Team. She serves on the steering committee for the DMPTool and speaks and publishes regularly on scholarly communication issues. She can be found on twitter at @sshreeves and her full CV can be found at http://sarahlshreeves.com.

Jon Dunn is Director and Interim Assistant Dean for Library Technologies and Digital Libraries at Indiana University Bloomington, where he is responsible for the IU Digital Library Program and technology support for the IU Bloomington Libraries. He has worked at IU in the field of digital libraries since 1994 and over the past ten years has been responsible for the development of repositories based on Fedora, DSpace, and EPrints software. He has a particular interest in music, audio, and video related digital library systems and currently directs the Avalon Media System project, a joint effort of IU and Northwestern University, funded by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services, to develop a Fedora- and Hydra-based open source system to enable libraries and archives to provide online access to audio and video collections. Jon served as Fedora User Group Chair for Open Repositories 2012 in Edinburgh.