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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
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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!)

Kate Lynch, Hector Correa, Hannah Hadley

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

Rebeca dos Santos de Moura, Bernardo Dionízio Vechi, Ingrid Torres Schiessl, Diego José Macêdo, Lucas Rodrigues Costa, Milton Shintaku

Brazilian Institute of Information in Science e Technology, Brazil



After more than 20 years of eScholarship...where to now

Chad Nelson, Justin Gonder, Alainna Wrigley

California Digital Library, United States of America



Repositories in the US Federal Funding Workflow: Lessons from the “Reasonable Costs for Public Access” Project

Lauren B Collister, Katherine Skinner, Gail Steinhart

Invest in Open Infrastructure, United States of America



Harnessing Sustainable Technologies for Digital Preservation using the concept of Green Repositories

Danjuma Saidu1, Njideka Nwawih Charlotte Ojukwu2

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

Leanne Olson1, Julia Gilmore2, Julie Shi2

1: Western University, Canada; 2: Scholars Portal



IIIF at one end, OCFL at the other, Fedora in the middle.

Claire Knowles1, Tom Crane2, Karen Abel1

1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: Digirati, United Kingdom



Embedding Accessibility into ETD Workflows: A Case Study

Carmen Mitchell, Amy Carpenter

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

Jenny Evans1, Adam Vials Moore2, Eleanor Dumbill3, Rory McNicholl3, Claire Knowles4

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

Juliet L. Hardesty

Indiana University, United States of America



InvenioRDM features powering the EU Open Research Repository

Pablo Tamarit1, Zacharias Zacharodimos1, Kristi Holmes2

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

Megan Scott, Shelley Barba

Texas Tech University, United States of America



Reimagining DSpace Analytics: A Blue-Sky Approach to Accessible, Author-Centered Metrics

Franny Gaede, Catherine Flynn-Purvis

University of Oregon, United States of America



Reinstating Central Open Access Repository in Nepal: Renovation, Collaboration and Wider Participation

Jagadish Chandra Aryal1,2

1: Social Science Baha; 2: Nepal Library and Information Consortium



A Secure Hub for Access, Reliability, and Exchange of Data (SHARED)

Torsten Reimer, H. Birali Runesha

University of Chicago, United States of America



Building Inclusive Repositories: Addressing the Accessibility Gap for BVI Users

Omorodion Okuonghae

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S. A



Enhancing Search in Digital Collections: Traditional vs. AI Keyword Searches

Quinn Sluzenski, Jennifer Young

Northwestern University Libraries, United States of America



Publishing datasets with JoDaKISS and Episciences overlay journals

Raphaël Tournoy1, Sibylle Hermann2

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

SILVANA AQUINO REMIGIO

BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DEL PERU, Peru



Concepts of Visibility, findability, discoverability, SEO and ASEO in digital repositories.

Danilo Reyes-Lillo1, Cristòfol Rovira1, Alejandro Morales-Vargas2

1: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 2: Universidad de Chile, Chile



Experimentation, Implementation, and Evaluation of AI/ML Tools in Repository Submission Workflows

Brian Joel Cain

Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America



Exploring ETD Embargo Policies: Survey Results and Practical Guidance for Repository Managers

Emily Johnson1, Shelley Barba2

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)

Ilkay Holt, Susan Miles, Nora Ramsey

British Library, United Kingdom



Improving Research Availability in Low-Bandwidth Areas: Eprints3v5 Bundle Export

Edward Oakley

EPrints Services, University of Southampton, United Kingdom



New Work Types are Here: Expanded ORCID Metadata Schema based on COAR

Brian Minihan, Tom Demeranville

ORCID, Inc., United States of America



PHAIDRA: A Journey Towards Scalable Open Repositories

Eva D. Gergely, Raman Ganguly

University of Vienna, Austria



Plucking and Re-planting ORCIDs in Data Repository Datasets: Readme Harvesting for Metadata Improvement

Kent T Gerber

University of Minnesota Libraries, United States of America



TU Wien & OSTrails: Connecting services

Maximilian Moser, Tomasz Miksa

TU Wien, Austria



Change Platforms at the Next Station: A Repository Migration Itinerary

Natalie Beth Burnett

National Transportation Library, United States of America



Leveraging ReCiter to identify articles, notify authors, and facilitate deposition of manuscripts into Cornell’s eCommons

Drew Wright, Paul Albert

Weill Cornell Medicine, United States of America



PROMOTING INCLUSIVITY IN OPEN REPOSITORIES: A COMMUNITY-CENTRIC APPROACH IN NEPAL

ROSHAN KUMAR KARN

OPEN ACCESS NEPAL, Nepal



Toward accessible PDF documents in Open Access Repositories

Alexa Ramirez Vega

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica



Digital Repositories in the Arab World: Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects

Sherine Mahmoud Eid

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt



Helping to preserve and share Oaxaca's history

Lisa Lamont, Matt Ferrill

San Diego State University, United States of America



Bridging the Gap: Developing Open Digital Repositories for Namibian Cultural Heritage

Tertu Ponhele Haihwa, Sylvia Umana, Liina Kamenye

Namibia University of Science Technology, Namibia



COAR Resource Type Vocabulary - Enhancing Interoperability Across the Repository Ecosystem

Kathleen Shearer1, Isabel Bernal2, Ellen Ramsey1

1: COAR, Netherlands, The; 2: CSIC, Spain



Nice DSpace

Brian Keese

Indiana University Libraries, United States of America



Powering Institutional Repository Growth with OA Switchboard

Emily Bongiovanni, Katie Behrman, Jonathan Kiritharan

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

Daliso Mvula

Lusaka Apex Medical University, Zambia



Open Access Repositories Tracking Project

Petr Knoth, Matteo Cancellieri, David Pride

CORE, The Open University, United Kingdom



Rescuing Legacy Data: Using Optical Character Recognition Technologies to Make Airline Consumer Data Accessible

Peyton Carolynn Tvrdy

National Transportation Library, United States of America



Engaging a City’s History through Consortial Search

Jessica BrodeFrank

Chicago Collections Consortium, United States of America



An attempt to create a sustainable data repository and CRIS using a bespoke application

Kosuke Tanabe

National Institute for Materials Science



Preserving Narratives of Disinformation: a digital repository for research and analysis of disinformation

Denise Oliveira de Araújo, Larissa de Araújo Alves, Nathaly Cristine Leite Rocha, Tainá Batista de Assis, Ingrid Torres Schiessl, Tiago Emmanuel Nunes Braga

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesse Ann Long

National Transportation Library, United States of America



The Future of Nuclear Data Preservation at the IAEA: Challenges and Opportunities

Ludmila Marian

IAEA, Austria



From Legacy to Leadership: Transforming OLCF’s Data Repository for the Future of Open Scientific Data

Olga Anna Kuchar1, Joshua Brown1, Tirthankar Ghosal1, Meghan Berry1, Patrick Widener1, Tatiyanna Singleton1, Michael Tharp1, Keith Kawasaki2

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

Santi Thompson1, Michael Shensky2, Millicent Weber3, Christina Chan-Park3, Laura Sare4, Andrea Schorr5, Xuan Zhou6

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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