The 20th International Conference on
Open Repositories
Chicago, Illinois, USA | June 15-18, 2025
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Monday, 16/June/2025 | |||||
08:00 - 17:00 | Registration Location: Rogers Lobby |
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09:00 - 09:40 | Opening Plenary Location: Griffin Auditorium 09:00-09:05- Introduction and housekeeping 09:05-09:15- Welcome to Chicago 09:15-09:30- 09:30-09:40-Steering Committee welcome, introductions & acknowledgements |
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09:40 - 10:30 | Keynote speaker Heather Joseph Location: Griffin Auditorium As the Executive Director of SPARC, Heather Joseph is an internationally renowned and well-respected expert in open research policies, practices, and implementation strategies. Under her stewardship, SPARC has become the leading advocacy organization that promotes innovative, open, and equitable global systems of research and education. |
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10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
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11:00am - 12:30pm |
Presentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing Location: Griffin Auditorium Beyond the Buzzwords: agile collaboration and rejecting a perfectionist mindset (how we did it, and you can too!) Princeton University, United States of America Democratization of Knowledge in the Open Science Era: The Role of Free Software and the Moara Network in Scientific and Technological Innovation Brazilian Institute of Information in Science e Technology, Brazil After more than 20 years of eScholarship...where to now California Digital Library, United States of America Repositories in the US Federal Funding Workflow: Lessons from the “Reasonable Costs for Public Access” Project Invest in Open Infrastructure, United States of America Harnessing Sustainable Technologies for Digital Preservation using the concept of Green Repositories 1: Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria; 2: University of Zululand, South Africa |
Lightning (24x7) Presentations - Repository showcase Location: N110- Orchestra Room Tracing the Footprints of Academic Research in Zambia through the Institutional Repository: A Case of the University of Zambia" Zachary Zulu THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA, Zambia Realizing UNSW’s Vision for a Next-Generation Repository UNSW Sydney, Australia HAL: Strengthening Connections Between Publications, Data, and Software in the French National Open Science Ecosystem CCSD / CNRS, France George Eliot Scholars: (Middle)Marching Towards Open Access 1: CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Auburn University, United States The Current Situation, Problems and Future Development of Institutional Repositories in China: Taking the Institutional Repository of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an Example National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of Towards a new digital repository for Qatar National Library Qatar National Library, Qatar |
Panel- Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs Location: N112- Band Room Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs DataCite, United Kingdom |
Presentations- Data Repositories 1 Location: C116- Community Gathering Room The unification of the effort: the Swedish university RDM network Swedish National Data Service, Sweden “Research Data Management repositories with special references to social science” 1: Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, India; 2: Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, India Bridging the Silos of Institutional Data Repositories: Community Collaboration and Cross-Institutional Development 1: University of Minnesota, United States of America; 2: University at Buffalo Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty through Dataverse and Local Contexts Integration 1: Harvard University, United States of America; 2: localcontexts.org |
Developer Track Session 1 Location: C119&121- Classrooms A year of Hybrid ML/AI cataloging aid in Archipelago Commons: The state, the lessons and probable future(s) explained through a real production implementation Metropolian New York Library Council, United States of America Deploying DataFed for Scientific Data Management: Lessons Learned 1: College of Engineering, Drexel University; 2: College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University; 3: Metadata Research Center, Drexel University Renovation and enhancement of statistics pages in DSpace 7 1: University of Oklahoma, United States of America; 2: University of Oregon, United States of America Putting your middleware on steroids with DSpace 7+ REST API Atmire, Belgium Jetstream2 and Cloud-Based Dev Tools for Data Curation Training University of California, Santa Barbara |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
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13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation Location: Griffin Auditorium Building a Digital Preservation Service Model for Canadian Institutional Repositories Through Community Engagement 1: Western University, Canada; 2: Scholars Portal IIIF at one end, OCFL at the other, Fedora in the middle. 1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: Digirati, United Kingdom Embedding Accessibility into ETD Workflows: A Case Study California State University San Marcos, United States of America Practice research as a lens to enable a future with a FAIRer, more equitable scholarly research landscape 1: University of Westminster, United Kingdom; 2: Jisc, United Kingdom; 3: CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom; 4: University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
Repository Showdown 1 Location: N110- Orchestra Room Figshare Figshare, United States of America Archipelago Commons: blooms, new growth and healthy trees from the community garden. Metropolian New York Library Council, United States of America Repository Showdown: Dataverse Harvard University, United States of America Introducing Fedora - The flexible, modular, open-source repository platform for long-term digital preservation Fedora Repository Showdown: DSpace 1: The Ohio State University Libraries, United States of America; 2: The Library Code, Berlin, Germany; 3: 4Science, Rome, Italy; 4: Atmire, Leuven, Belgium; 5: The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland InvenioRDM: Twenty Years of Supporting Research with FAIR and Transparent Practices CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland |
Presentations- Metadata and Harvesting Location: N112- Band Room Content-update Signaling and Alerting Protocol (CUSAP) 1: Solutions Spectrum, LLC; 2: Atypon SDG-Classify: Automating the classification of research outputs into UN SDGs CORE, The Open University, United Kingdom Identifying and extracting Data Access Statements from full-text academic articles Open University, United Kingdom Laying the Groundwork for the Future: Creating Tools to Better Harness Metadata and Data Packages National Transportation Library, United States of America |
Presentations- Citations, Tracking and Impact Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Citations growth for journal articles that are in open digital repositories 1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Brazil; 2: Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Brazil New Applications for measuring Data Impact in a Domain Science Open Repository University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; Texas Advance Computing Center Enhancing Repository Integration with Crossref Services Crossref Interoperability between Digital Repositories and OpenAlex: Challenges and Strategies 1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Brazil; 2: Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Brazil |
Panel- Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization Location: C119&121- Classrooms Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization 1: University of Minho, Portugal; 2: OpenAIRE AMKE |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
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15:30 - 16:30 | Minute Madness Location: Griffin Auditorium Growing Up with Open-Source: A Digital Library Story Indiana University, United States of America InvenioRDM features powering the EU Open Research Repository 1: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland; 2: Northwestern University, United States Prim and Proper?: Exploring Best Practices for Useful Title Creation on Non-Text Digital Items Texas Tech University, United States of America Reimagining DSpace Analytics: A Blue-Sky Approach to Accessible, Author-Centered Metrics University of Oregon, United States of America Reinstating Central Open Access Repository in Nepal: Renovation, Collaboration and Wider Participation 1: Social Science Baha; 2: Nepal Library and Information Consortium A Secure Hub for Access, Reliability, and Exchange of Data (SHARED) University of Chicago, United States of America Building Inclusive Repositories: Addressing the Accessibility Gap for BVI Users University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S. A Enhancing Search in Digital Collections: Traditional vs. AI Keyword Searches Northwestern University Libraries, United States of America Publishing datasets with JoDaKISS and Episciences overlay journals 1: CNRS - CCSD, France; 2: University of Stuttgart, Germany BNP Digital and its relevance to make visible the documentary bibliographic heritage and the native languages of Peru BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DEL PERU, Peru Concepts of Visibility, findability, discoverability, SEO and ASEO in digital repositories. 1: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 2: Universidad de Chile, Chile Experimentation, Implementation, and Evaluation of AI/ML Tools in Repository Submission Workflows Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America Exploring ETD Embargo Policies: Survey Results and Practical Guidance for Repository Managers 1: University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America; 2: Texas Tech University, United States of America Fostering good practices at the Cultural Heritage Open Scholarship Network (CHOSN) British Library, United Kingdom Improving Research Availability in Low-Bandwidth Areas: Eprints3v5 Bundle Export EPrints Services, University of Southampton, United Kingdom New Work Types are Here: Expanded ORCID Metadata Schema based on COAR ORCID, Inc., United States of America PHAIDRA: A Journey Towards Scalable Open Repositories University of Vienna, Austria Plucking and Re-planting ORCIDs in Data Repository Datasets: Readme Harvesting for Metadata Improvement University of Minnesota Libraries, United States of America TU Wien & OSTrails: Connecting services TU Wien, Austria Change Platforms at the Next Station: A Repository Migration Itinerary National Transportation Library, United States of America Leveraging ReCiter to identify articles, notify authors, and facilitate deposition of manuscripts into Cornell’s eCommons Weill Cornell Medicine, United States of America PROMOTING INCLUSIVITY IN OPEN REPOSITORIES: A COMMUNITY-CENTRIC APPROACH IN NEPAL OPEN ACCESS NEPAL, Nepal Toward accessible PDF documents in Open Access Repositories Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Digital Repositories in the Arab World: Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Helping to preserve and share Oaxaca's history San Diego State University, United States of America Bridging the Gap: Developing Open Digital Repositories for Namibian Cultural Heritage Namibia University of Science Technology, Namibia COAR Resource Type Vocabulary - Enhancing Interoperability Across the Repository Ecosystem 1: COAR, Netherlands, The; 2: CSIC, Spain Nice DSpace Indiana University Libraries, United States of America Powering Institutional Repository Growth with OA Switchboard Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America Turning mirrors into windows: an opportunity to build open repository to promote access to Indigenous Knowledge at Lusaka Apex Medical University, Zambia Lusaka Apex Medical University, Zambia Open Access Repositories Tracking Project CORE, The Open University, United Kingdom Rescuing Legacy Data: Using Optical Character Recognition Technologies to Make Airline Consumer Data Accessible National Transportation Library, United States of America Engaging a City’s History through Consortial Search Chicago Collections Consortium, United States of America An attempt to create a sustainable data repository and CRIS using a bespoke application National Institute for Materials Science Preserving Narratives of Disinformation: a digital repository for research and analysis of disinformation Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil |
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16:30 - 18:30 | Poster Session and Welcome Reception Location: Sherry Lansing Theatre |
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