Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 15/June/2025
09:00 - 16:00 Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
09:30 - 12:30 Discover and Create Rich Metadata with the DataCite REST API
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
Location: N112- Band Room
09:30 - 17:00 DSpace SEO and Statistics Master Class
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
InvenioRDM Workshop
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Data Repository Descriptive Metadata: Recommendations & Resources
Location: N112- Band Room
14:00 - 17:00 FAIR Metadata Bright Spots: Guides on the Road to Future Possibilities
Location: N110- Orchestra Room

Date: Monday, 16/June/2025
08:00 - 17:00 Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
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.
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
11:00am
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12:30pm
Presentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Lightning (24x7) Presentations - Repository showcase
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Panel- Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs
Location: N112- Band Room
Presentations- Data Repositories 1
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Developer Track Session 1
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
13:30 - 15:00 Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Repository Showdown 1
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Presentations- Metadata and Harvesting
Location: N112- Band Room
Presentations- Citations, Tracking and Impact
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Panel- Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
15:30 - 16:30 Minute Madness
Location: Griffin Auditorium
16:30 - 18:30 Poster Session and Welcome Reception
Location: Sherry Lansing Theatre

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
Presentations- Repository Implementation
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Lightning (24x7)- Communities
Location: N112- Band Room
Panel- Managing Access to Open Repositories in the Age of Generative AI
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Developer Track Session 2
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
11:00 - 12:30 Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Repository Showdown 2
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Presentations- Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities
Location: N112- Band Room
Presentations- Sharing Repositories and Resources
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Presentations- DSpace 1
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
Lightning (24x7)- Repository case studies 2
Location: Sherry Lansing Theatre
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
13:30 - 15:00 Presentations- AI and Repositories
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Lightning (24x7)- Repository tools and developments
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Panel- Software dies, data should be forever: OCFL as a software agnostic storage approach
Location: N112- Band Room
Presentations- Provider Communities
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Presentations- Data Repositories 2
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
 
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
15:30 - 17:00 Presentations- DSpace 2
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Presentations- Repository Retrospectives
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Panel- Recognizing Software as a Critical Component in Open Science: Advancing an Interoperable, Community-Driven Vision for Infrastructures
Location: N112- Band Room
Presentations- Repository Governance, Ethics and Curation
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Presentations- PIDs and Harvesting
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
 
17:30 - 22:00 Conference Dinner on the Spirit of Chicago- prior registration required

Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
08:30 - 14:00 Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
09:00 - 10:30 Presentations- Research Data Preservation
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Presentations- Building National Repositories
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Lightning (24x7) - Repository possibilities
Location: N112- Band Room
Presentations- COAR Notify
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Developer Track Session 3
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
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
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
13:30 - 15:00 Optimizing Metadata Discoverability: A Lean Six Sigma Approach
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
13:30-17:00 Fedora User Group
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
DataCite User Group
Location: C119&121- Classrooms