The 20th International Conference on
Open Repositories
Chicago, Illinois, USA | June 15-18, 2025
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |||
08:00 - 17:00 | Registration Location: Rogers Lobby |
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09:00 - 10:30 | Presentations- Advocacy and the Human Touch Location: Griffin Auditorium Our Common Cause: Advocating for Human Labor for Outreach, Technical Expertise, and the future of Institutional Repositories Syracuse University Libraries, United States of America Better Together: Growing Digital Repositories through Community-building and Collaboration 1: California State University San Marcos, United States of America; 2: California State University Office of the Chancellor; 3: California State University Northridge; 4: California State University Fullerton; 5: California State University Dominguez Hills Automating depositing research to the institutional repository and reshaping the ‘call to action’ for authors University of Oxford, United Kingdom Empowering Community Voices Cal Poly Humboldt, United States of America |
Presentations- Repository Implementation Location: N110- Orchestra Room Towards a Plan S compliant repository: Building a safe and sustainable haven for scholarly content. 1: Tilburg University; 2: Atmire The Green Road to Open Access: potential and limitations in the experiences of the University of Brasilia (UnB) Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY: EVOLUTION AND CHALLENGES IN MANAGING POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH REPORTS KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY, Zambia Health Educational Resources Repository (ARES): experience report on its updating process 1: Universidade Aberto do Sistema Único de Saúde (UNASUS), Brazil; 2: - |
Lightning (24x7)- Communities Location: N112- Band Room You Can’t Force a Community: Trusting Your Instinct in Digital Collection Partnerships Oregon Health & Science University, United States of America Longitudinal growth and use of Open Repositories in the U.S. since 2015 Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America Lessons Learned from the Internet Archive's Vault: Expanding Access to Digital Preservation through Community Collaboration Internet Archive, United States of America From Open Archive to Multifaceted Platform: Reconciling the Diverse Stakeholders Needs in HAL CNRS-CCSD, France Why and how the TRUST Principles for digital repositories are used 1: World Data System, United States of America; 2: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Cost-benefit of open research infrastructures: the case of the Portuguese repositories network RCAAP 1: University of Minho, Portugal; 2: FCT-FCCN; 3: CSIL |
Panel- Managing Access to Open Repositories in the Age of Generative AI Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Managing Access to Open Repositories in the Age of Generative AI 1: CORE, The Open University, United Kingdom; 2: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL); 3: The University of Glasgow; 4: Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR); 5: Metropolitan New York Library Council |
Developer Track Session 2 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Benefits of integrating publication cost data into repositories: An aggregator's perspective Bielefeld University, Germany The IRD: Improving knowledge about the state of the repository system landscape through automated curation processes Antleaf Ltd., United Kingdom Repository Insights with OpenSearch California Digital Library, United States of America Integrating Digital Repositories and Learning Management Systems using EduLink University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States of America Tailoring Research Data Management Solutions: Lessons from Ethiopian Institutions Addis Ababa University; AcaTech Technology, Ethiopia |
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10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
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11:00 - 12:30 | Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations Location: Griffin Auditorium Exploring global academic repositories for software. Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom A Repository for Preserving and Managing Running Applications University of Vienna, Austria Enhancing Metadata Workflows and Long-Term Preservation of Research Outputs: Adopting FAIR Principles with Dagstuhl Publishing Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Germany Promoting Visibility into Collections through Object Analysis California Digital Library, United States of America |
Repository Showdown 2 Location: N110- Orchestra Room Hyku Samvera, United States of America Towards EPrints 3.5: repository developments, roadmap, and governance improvements 1: EPrints Services, University of Southampton, UK; 2: CoSector, University of London, UK; 3: University of Glasgow, UK; 4: Concordia University, Canada; 5: University of York, UK; 6: University of Leeds, UK Repository Showdown: Islandora Islandora Foundation, United States of America Hyrax Tufts University, United States of America Open Science Framework (OSF) Center for Open Science, United States of America Avalon Media System Indiana University Libraries, United States of America |
Presentations- Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities Location: N112- Band Room 404 not found – Approaches for Ensuring the Sustainable Management of Living Resources apart from Data Repositories in the Digital Humanities Data Center for the Humanities (DCH), University of Cologne, Germany Conundrums of Open Repositories: Challenges in Establishing a Collaborative Framework for Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections Across the Midwestern United States Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America Ili-ili: i-Library and Index to Ilonggo Literature and Indigenous Knowledge 1: College of Information and Communications Technology, West Visayas State University, Iloilo, Philippines; 2: University Learning Resource Center, West Visayas State University, Iloilo, Philippines; 3: Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Iloilo, Philippines; 4: Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, West Visayas State University, Iloilo, Philippines Open Repositories beyond Academic Communities in Ethiopia: The Case of Ethiopian House of People Representatives Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia |
Presentations- Sharing Repositories and Resources Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Building a Sustainable Open Repository Network: The Launch of Open Repositories Ireland (ORI) 1: University of Galway, Ireland; 2: University of Limerick The Big Picture: Visualizing Networks in the Shared Research Repository British Library, United Kingdom The Expanding and Overlapping Roles of Institutional and Generalist Repositories: Building an Interoperable Data Repository Ecosystem Together 1: Northwestern University; 2: Harvard University Library; 3: Elsevier - Mendeley Data; 4: University of Rochester; 5: Vivli; 6: Figshare Ensuring the Future of Digital Repositories in West and Central Africa: A Case Study on BAOBAB and Sustainable Repository Development West And Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), Ghana |
Presentations- DSpace 1 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Towards enriched open scholarly information: integrating DSpace repositories and OpenAlex 1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: 4Science Deep Integration of GND with DSpace’s External Sources Framework: A Case Study of Authority Data Utilization The Library Code, Germany Bridging Communities: Vireo and DSpace Integration for Open Knowledge Sharing 1: Texas State University; 2: Texas Tech University; 3: University of Texas; 4: University of Texas at San Antonio DSpace 9.0 and Beyond: What’s next for DSpace Lyrasis, United States of America |
Lightning (24x7)- Repository case studies 2 Location: Sherry Lansing Theatre Documenting Maternal Health Practices: Building a Culturally Sensitive Repository for Kerala’s Indigenous Tribes University of Calicut, India Managing traditional and scientific knowledge: A case study of the Takinahakỹ Center for Indigenous Higher Education at the Federal University of Goiás – Brazil 1: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Preserving Knowledge, Promoting Equity: The Current Landscape and Future Prospects of Institutional Repositories in India 1: Chandigarh University, India; 2: Akal University, India Digital Curation in Deposita Dados: Challenges, Solutions and the Role in Academic Rigorosity 1: Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Preserving Our Past, Securing Our Future for Inclusivity: A Nigerian Perspective on Route To Digital Contents Sustainability National Library of Nigeria, Nigeria |
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12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
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13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- AI and Repositories Location: Griffin Auditorium A Data Curation, Interrogation, and Access System for the Texas Robotics DataVerse University of Texas at Austin, United States of America Can this robot query my Linked Data Store? Exploring retrieval-augmented models for Repository Search & Discovery University of Toronto Repository of the Future: A Hybrid Approach of Human Expertise and AI-Driven Data Enrichment University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Integrating Machine Actionable Data Management and Sharing Plans (maDMSP) into Campus-Based Open Research and Repository Workflows: A Case Study from the University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America We Need to Chat: A presentation about real-world AI use cases 1: Northwestern University Libraries, United States of America; 2: Harvard University; 3: Emory University |
Lightning (24x7)- Repository tools and developments Location: N110- Orchestra Room Implementing UN SDG Auto-Tagging: A Practical Guide for Librarians Cal Poly Humboldt, United States of America Walking to IIIF Presentation 4.0 - Moving IIIF API Integrations Forward in Archipelago Metropolitan New York Library Council, United States of America A Flexible Workspace: Using the Cloud to Stage & Ingest New Content California Digital Library, United States of America Integrating IIIF annotations in DSpace 4Science, Italy Sustainable Development Goals in EPrints: Updates, Failures, and Experiments CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom AI as a Responsible Partner in FAIR Metadata Creation: Lessons Learned University of Michigan Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, United States of America How do you describe software in record metadata? Open University, United Kingdom |
Panel- Software dies, data should be forever: OCFL as a software agnostic storage approach Location: N112- Band Room Software dies, data should be forever: OCFL as a software agnostic storage approach 1: Cornell University; 2: Emory University; 3: University of Oxford; 4: University of Wisonsin, Madison; 5: University of Texas at Austin; 6: Harvard University |
Presentations- Provider Communities Location: C116- Community Gathering Room The Fedora Community finds its future path by learning from the past and bringing others together. Fedora/Lyrasis, Canada Balancing the Global and the Local at the Research Organization Registry (ROR) Crossref, United States of America USRN Discovery Pilot: Increasing the Discoverability of Open Access Content Through a National Network 1: CORE, The Open University; 2: Antleaf; 3: Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR); 4: SPARC |
Presentations- Data Repositories 2 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Development Of An Integrated Lifecycle Of RDM Tools For Data Publication: Looking Back And Forward @ KU Leuven KU Leuven, Belgium Scaling Up: Expanding Data Repository Support for Growth in Large Datasets 1: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2: Texas Digital Library; 3: Texas A&M University; 4: Southern Methodist University; 5: Baylor University Mapping the Infrastructure and Awareness Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Data Management Practices in Latin America 1: DataCite, Germany; 2: Remolino, Chile Toward a Comprehensive Research Data Catalog at Texas A&M University Texas A&M University, United States of America |
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15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
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15:30 - 17:00 | Presentations- DSpace 2 Location: Griffin Auditorium From Load Times to Bot Traffic: A Comprehensive Approach to DSpace Performance Atmire, Belgium Transitioning Repositories: From EPrints to DSpace CRIS – The Case of the Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) 1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: PCG Academia, Poland DASH Stories: Implementing a qualitative feedback service in DSpace 8 1: Harvard University, United States of America; 2: 4Science, Italy Reimagining a trusted institutional repository: transforming EPFL’s Infoscience with DSpace-CRIS EPFL, Digital repositories and archives - Library, Switzerland |
Presentations- Repository Retrospectives Location: N110- Orchestra Room 17 years of PHAIDRA at the University of Vienna. Opportunities and challenges of managing an open repository at a large and heterogeneous university. University of Vienna, Austria Three Repositories Walk into a Library: recapping 30 years of repository development at Duke University Libraries Duke University Libraries, United States of America Advancing Open Science: Transforming UFPR’S Digital Repository Infrastructure Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Going deeper: the case for multiple repositories at UChicago University of Chicago, United States of America Ensuring the Longevity of University of Johannesburg Institutional Repository through Innovative Practices University of Johannesburg, South Africa |
Panel- Recognizing Software as a Critical Component in Open Science: Advancing an Interoperable, Community-Driven Vision for Infrastructures Location: N112- Band Room Recognizing Software as a Critical Component in Open Science: Advancing an Interoperable, Community-Driven Vision for Infrastructures 1: Software Heritage, Inria; 2: swMath, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure; 3: CCSD / CNRS; 4: Schloss Dagstuhl – LZI, Publishing; 5: Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) |
Presentations- Repository Governance, Ethics and Curation Location: C116- Community Gathering Room The Governance of Open Repository Programs: Progress and Possibilities The Ohio State University Libraries, United States of America An Integrated Open Ecosystem: Whose Responsibility Is it? 1: Lyrasis; 2: California State University San Bernardino; 3: DataCite; 4: Indiana University; 5: University of Maryland; 6: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom The Case for a National Repository of Policing Data in the United States 1: University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: CBS News Scenarios Motivating Integration and Re-Curation 1: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States of America; 2: Metadata Game Changers, United States of America; 3: University of Pittsburgh, United States of America |
Presentations- PIDs and Harvesting Location: C119&121- Classrooms The Decentralized Archival Resource Key (dARK) - from a Proof of Concept to a Service Implementation in the Brazilian Open Science Ecosystem 1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Brazil; 2: Red Latinoamericana para la Ciencia Abierta (LA Referencia), Spain; 3: Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil The Utility of PIDs in Harvesting Open Data Repositories: Challenges in Operating a National Data Discovery Service Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Canada Analysis of Requirements and Solutions for Issuing Persistent Identifiers (DOIs) in the Brazilian Repository of Biodiversity - SiBBr 1: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 3: Rede Nacional de Pesquisa, Brazil |
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17:30 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner on the Spirit of Chicago- prior registration required |
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