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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025
08:00 - 17:00 Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
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

Grace Swinnerton, Dylan Mohr

Syracuse University Libraries, United States of America



Better Together: Growing Digital Repositories through Community-building and Collaboration

Carmen Mitchell1, David Walker2, Andrew Weiss3, Michaela Bettez4, Dana Ospina5

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

Ruth Mallalieu, Jason Partridge

University of Oxford, United Kingdom



Empowering Community Voices

Kyle Morgan

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.

Frank Diepmaat1, Maarten Leenders1, Bram Luyten2

1: Tilburg University; 2: Atmire



The Green Road to Open Access: potential and limitations in the experiences of the University of Brasilia (UnB)

Juliana Araujo Gomes de Sousa, Michelli Pereira da Costa

Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil



KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY: EVOLUTION AND CHALLENGES IN MANAGING POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH REPORTS

MPUNDU CHILONGA

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY, Zambia



Health Educational Resources Repository (ARES): experience report on its updating process

Wagner dos Santos Boaventura Filho1, Fhillipe de Freitas Campos1, Juliana Araujo Gomes de Sousa1, Tainá Batista de Assis2, Alysson Feliciano Lemos1

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

Pamela Pierce

Oregon Health & Science University, United States of America



Longitudinal growth and use of Open Repositories in the U.S. since 2015

Jimmy S Ghaphery

Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America



Lessons Learned from the Internet Archive's Vault: Expanding Access to Digital Preservation through Community Collaboration

Piotr Adamczyk, Amanda McCabe

Internet Archive, United States of America



From Open Archive to Multifaceted Platform: Reconciling the Diverse Stakeholders Needs in HAL

Nathalie Fargier, Bénédicte Kuntziger

CNRS-CCSD, France



Why and how the TRUST Principles for digital repositories are used

Meredith P. Goins1,2

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

Pedro Príncipe1, Antónia Correia1, Paulo Lopes2, Louis Colnot3, Jessica Catalano3

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

Matteo Cancellieri1, Martin Klein2, George Macgregor3, Kathleen Shearer4, Allison Sherrick5, Petr Knoth1

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

Julia Bartlewski

Bielefeld University, Germany



The IRD: Improving knowledge about the state of the repository system landscape through automated curation processes

Paul Walk

Antleaf Ltd., United Kingdom



Repository Insights with OpenSearch

Terrence W Brady

California Digital Library, United States of America



Integrating Digital Repositories and Learning Management Systems using EduLink

Corey Halpin

University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States of America



Tailoring Research Data Management Solutions: Lessons from Ethiopian Institutions

Teshome Alemu Wedajo, Melkamu Beyene Ababu

Addis Ababa University; AcaTech Technology, Ethiopia

 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
11:00 - 12:30 Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations
Location: Griffin Auditorium
 

Exploring global academic repositories for software.

Domhnall Carlin

Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom



A Repository for Preserving and Managing Running Applications

Raman Ganguly

University of Vienna, Austria



Enhancing Metadata Workflows and Long-Term Preservation of Research Outputs: Adopting FAIR Principles with Dagstuhl Publishing

Saadet Bozaci, Michael Didas, Michael Wagner

Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Germany



Promoting Visibility into Collections through Object Analysis

Eric Lopatin

California Digital Library, United States of America

Repository Showdown 2
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
 

Hyku

Heather Greer Klein

Samvera, United States of America



Towards EPrints 3.5: repository developments, roadmap, and governance improvements

Justin Bradley1, Will Fyson2, George Macgregor3, Rory McNicholl1, Tomasz Neugebauer4, Kate Petherbridge5, Edward Oakley1, John Salter6

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

Noah Smith

Islandora Foundation, United States of America



Hyrax

Nicholas Homenda

Tufts University, United States of America



Open Science Framework (OSF)

Gretchen Gueguen

Center for Open Science, United States of America



Avalon Media System

Jon Brandon Cameron

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

Patrick Helling

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

Michelle Dalmau, Julie Hardesty, Sudha Anand

Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America



Ili-ili: i-Library and Index to Ilonggo Literature and Indigenous Knowledge

Stephen Alayon1, Manuela Losanes1, Elra Di Madalogdog2, Elvi Nemiz3, Ma. Christine Asuncion Dequilla4, Ma. Beth Concepcion1, Regin Cabacas1

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

Melkamu Beyene, Teshome Alemu

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)

Christopher Loughnane1, Cillian Joy1, Caleb Derven2

1: University of Galway, Ireland; 2: University of Limerick



The Big Picture: Visualizing Networks in the Shared Research Repository

Nora Ramsey

British Library, United Kingdom



The Expanding and Overlapping Roles of Institutional and Generalist Repositories: Building an Interoperable Data Repository Ecosystem Together

Sara Gonzales1, Julie Goldman2, Aaron Doran3, Matthew Mariner4, Julie Wood5, Matt Carson1, Pearl Go1, Lisa Curtain6

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

Wisdom Sefakor Ankora

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

Agustina Martínez García1, Andrea Bollini2, Susanna Mornati2

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

Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Kim Michael Shepherd

The Library Code, Germany



Bridging Communities: Vireo and DSpace Integration for Open Knowledge Sharing

Alexa Hight1, Christopher Startcher2, Colleen Lyon3, Emily Johnson4

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

Tim Donohue, Holger Lenz

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

Syamili C

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

Laura Vilela Rodrigues Rezende1, Geisa Muller de Campos Ribeiro1, Maria das Graças Monteiro Castro1, Cassia Oliveira1, Fabiano Couto Corrêa da Silva2

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

Subhajit Panda1, Shahzeb Hasan2

1: Chandigarh University, India; 2: Akal University, India



Digital Curation in Deposita Dados: Challenges, Solutions and the Role in Academic Rigorosity

Rene Faustino Gabriel Junior2, Marcel Garcia de Souza1, Letícia Guarany Bonetti1, Tatyane Guedes Martins da Silva1, Samile Andrea de Souza Vanz2, Caterina Groposo Pavão2

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

Chinwe Anunobi, Chukwuemeka Udoji

National Library of Nigeria, Nigeria

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
13:30 - 15:00 Presentations- AI and Repositories
Location: Griffin Auditorium
 

A Data Curation, Interrogation, and Access System for the Texas Robotics DataVerse

Xingru Zhou, Zhiyun Deng, Yao-Cheng Chan, Sadanand Modak, Maria Esteva

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

Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Bennett Steinburg, Natkeeran Ledchumykanthan, Kyle Huynh

University of Toronto



Repository of the Future: A Hybrid Approach of Human Expertise and AI-Driven Data Enrichment

Omorodion Okuonghae

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

Aditya N. Ranganath, Andrew M. Johnson

University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America



We Need to Chat: A presentation about real-world AI use cases

David Schober1, Carolyn Caizzi2, Elizabeth Roke3

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

Kyle Morgan

Cal Poly Humboldt, United States of America



Walking to IIIF Presentation 4.0 - Moving IIIF API Integrations Forward in Archipelago

Allison Sherrick

Metropolitan New York Library Council, United States of America



A Flexible Workspace: Using the Cloud to Stage & Ingest New Content

Eric Lopatin

California Digital Library, United States of America



Integrating IIIF annotations in DSpace

Andrea Bollini, Claudio Cortese

4Science, Italy



Sustainable Development Goals in EPrints: Updates, Failures, and Experiments

Eleanor Dumbill

CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom



AI as a Responsible Partner in FAIR Metadata Creation: Lessons Learned

Jenny Li

University of Michigan Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, United States of America



How do you describe software in record metadata?

Matteo Cancellieri, Petr Knoth

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

Simeon Warner1, Rosalyn Metz2, Neil Jefferies3, Becky Andresen4, Dustin Slater5, Andrew Woods6, Tom Wrobel3

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.

Arran Griffith

Fedora/Lyrasis, Canada



Balancing the Global and the Local at the Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Amanda French

Crossref, United States of America



USRN Discovery Pilot: Increasing the Discoverability of Open Access Content Through a National Network

Petr Knoth1, Paul Walk2, Matteo Cancellieri1, Michael Upshall1, Halyna Torchylo1, Jennifer Beamer3, Kathleen Shearer4, Heather Joseph3

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

Dieuwertje Bloemen, Ingrid Barcena Roig

KU Leuven, Belgium



Scaling Up: Expanding Data Repository Support for Growth in Large Datasets

Michael Shensky1, Courtney Mumma2, Laura Sare3, Robert Kalescky4, Millicent Weber5, Bryan Gee1

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

Arturo Garduño Magaña1,2

1: DataCite, Germany; 2: Remolino, Chile



Toward a Comprehensive Research Data Catalog at Texas A&M University

James Creel

Texas A&M University, United States of America

 
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
15:30 - 17:00 Presentations- DSpace 2
Location: Griffin Auditorium
 

From Load Times to Bot Traffic: A Comprehensive Approach to DSpace Performance

Ignace Deroost, Art Lowel, Yura Bondarenko, Lieven Droogmans

Atmire, Belgium



Transitioning Repositories: From EPrints to DSpace CRIS – The Case of the Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA)

Martin Brändle1, Łukasz Nowak2, Piotr Masalski2, Łukasz Wawer2, Mateusz Adamiak2

1: University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2: PCG Academia, Poland



DASH Stories: Implementing a qualitative feedback service in DSpace 8

Colin Lukens1, Grace Dunbar1, Andrea Bollini2

1: Harvard University, United States of America; 2: 4Science, Italy



Reimagining a trusted institutional repository: transforming EPFL’s Infoscience with DSpace-CRIS  

Jorge Rodrigues de Matos, Julien Sicot

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.

Susanne Blumesberger

University of Vienna, Austria



Three Repositories Walk into a Library: recapping 30 years of repository development at Duke University Libraries

Jennifer Jordan, Maggie Dickson

Duke University Libraries, United States of America



Advancing Open Science: Transforming UFPR’S Digital Repository Infrastructure

Karolayne Costa Rodrigues de Lima, Paula Carina de Araújo, Marcos Sfair Sunye

Federal University of Paraná, Brazil



Going deeper: the case for multiple repositories at UChicago

Rachael Kotarski

University of Chicago, United States of America



Ensuring the Longevity of University of Johannesburg Institutional Repository through Innovative Practices

Mutali Lithole

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

Morane Gruenpeter1, Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz2, Yannick Barborini3, Saadet Bozacci4, Fotis Psomopoulos5, Raphaël Tournoy3

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

Maureen Walsh

The Ohio State University Libraries, United States of America



An Integrated Open Ecosystem: Whose Responsibility Is it?

Bridget Almas1, Sheila Rabun1, Michele Mennielli1, Paolo Gujilde1, Jennifer Beamer2, Sarala Wimalaratne3, Jon Dunn4, Kate Dohe5, Agustina Martinez Garcia6

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

Cheryl Danton1, Christopher Graziul1, Elliott Ramos2

1: University of Chicago, United States of America; 2: CBS News



Scenarios Motivating Integration and Re-Curation

Martin Halbert1, Ted Habermann2, Jamaica Jones3

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

Washington Luís Ribeiro de Carvalho Segundo1, Lautaro Julian Matas2, J. Edilson Filho1, Márcio Gurgel do Amaral1, Gabriel Marques1, Thiago Nóbrega3

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

Tristan K Kuehn

Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Canada



Analysis of Requirements and Solutions for Issuing Persistent Identifiers (DOIs) in the Brazilian Repository of Biodiversity - SiBBr

Laura Vilela Rodrigues Rezende1, Geisa Muller de Campos Ribeiro1, Maria das Graças Monteiro Castro1, Cassia Oliveira1, Fabiano Couto Corrêa da Silva2, Carolina Howard Felicissimo3

1: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 3: Rede Nacional de Pesquisa, Brazil

 
17:30 - 22:00 Conference Dinner on the Spirit of Chicago- prior registration required

 
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