This year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce. One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents— whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software—and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order to promote reproducible research.

If you are arriving early for OR2013 next July, you are in luck. The annual Cavendish Beach Music Festival is slated to be held just before the conference. The lineup of artists is still TBA, but last time around it included Rascal Flatts and Alabama, so if that tickles your fancy, add a few days to your trip and enjoy some music on the beach before you get down to conferencing.

Browse around the Location section of the site, and you will find a page that purports to give you Practical Information About PEI. This is a little guide we threw together, following the very helpful page made up by the OR2012 folks in Edinburgh, to cover some basic info about our province and country for those who may not have visited before. Just a few little things, like population stats, emergency phone numbers, and what a Toonie looks like.

Have any suggestions on what we should add? Questions about Canada, or our little island corner of it? Post a comment or shoot us an email!