The 20th International Conference on
Open Repositories
Chicago, Illinois, USA | June 15-18, 2025
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
Location: Griffin Auditorium |
Date: Monday, 16/June/2025 | |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
09:00 - 10:30 | Presentations- Research Data Preservation Location: Griffin Auditorium The CURATE(D) Future of ROSA P: The Implementation of the Data Curation Network’s CURATE(D) Steps and Enhancement of Data Management and Preservation at the National Transportation Library National Transportation Library, United States of America The Future of Nuclear Data Preservation at the IAEA: Challenges and Opportunities IAEA, Austria From Legacy to Leadership: Transforming OLCF’s Data Repository for the Future of Open Scientific Data 1: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America; 2: CivicActions Advancing Data Stewardship: Developing a Research Data Retention Policy at the Texas Data Repository 1: University of Houston, United States of America; 2: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 3: Baylor University, United States of America; 4: Texas A&M University, United States of America; 5: University of Texas Health San Antonio, United States of America; 6: Texas State University, United States of America |
11:00 - 11:50 | Keynote speaker Ben Zhao Location: Griffin Auditorium Ben Zhao is the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) distinguished scientist and has received numerous awards. He has authored more than 160 publications in such areas as security and privacy, machine learning, networked systems, Internet measurements, and human-computer interaction. |
11:50 - 12:30 | Closing Plenary Location: Griffin Auditorium |
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