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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
 

Discover and Create Rich Metadata with the DataCite REST API

Kelly Stathis, Sara El-Gebali, Bryceson Laing

DataCite

DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
Location: N112- Band Room
 

DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A

Tim Donohue1, Holger Lenz1, Pascal Becker2

1: Lyrasis, United States of America; 2: The Library Code, Germany

09:30 - 17:00 DSpace SEO and Statistics Master Class
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
 

DSpace SEO and Statistics Master Class

Bram Luyten

Atmire, Belgium

InvenioRDM Workshop
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
 

InvenioRDM Workshop

Matthew B. Carson1, Steven Eardley2, Sara Gonzales1, Richard Jones2, Hrafn Malmquist2, Aaron McCollough3, Maximilian Moser4, Kate Pechekhonova5, Chokri Ben Romdhane6, Pablo Tamarit7, Deb Verhoff5, Guillaume Viger1, Zacharias Zacharodimos7

1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: Cottage Labs, United Kingdom; 3: Ubiquity Press, United Kingdom; 4: TU Wien, Austria; 5: New York University, United States of America; 6: CNUDST, Tunisia; 7: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Data Repository Descriptive Metadata: Recommendations & Resources
Location: N112- Band Room
 

Data Repository Descriptive Metadata: Recommendations & Resources

Reyna Jenkyns, Emilie Altman

World Data System, Canada

14:00 - 17:00 FAIR Metadata Bright Spots: Guides on the Road to Future Possibilities
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
 

FAIR Metadata Bright Spots: Guides on the Road to Future Possibilities

Ted Habermann, Erin Robinson

Metadata Game Changers, United States of America


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
 

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

Lightning (24x7) Presentations - Repository showcase
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
 

Tracing the Footprints of Academic Research in Zambia through the Institutional Repository: A Case of the University of Zambia" Zachary Zulu

ZACHARY Zulu

THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA, Zambia



Realizing UNSW’s Vision for a Next-Generation Repository

Marijka Azzopardi

UNSW Sydney, Australia



HAL: Strengthening Connections Between Publications, Data, and Software in the French National Open Science Ecosystem

Yannick Barborini, Bénédicte Kuntziger

CCSD / CNRS, France



George Eliot Scholars: (Middle)Marching Towards Open Access

Eleanor Dumbill1, Beverley Park Rilett2

1: CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Auburn University, United States



The Current Situation, Problems and Future Development of Institutional Repositories in China: Taking the Institutional Repository of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an Example

Ying CUI

National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of



Towards a new digital repository for Qatar National Library

Marcin Werla, Arif Shaon

Qatar National Library, Qatar

Panel- Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs
Location: N112- Band Room
 

Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs

Iratxe Puebla, Maria Gould

DataCite, United Kingdom

Presentations- Data Repositories 1
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
 

The unification of the effort: the Swedish university RDM network

Karin Westin Tikkanen

Swedish National Data Service, Sweden



“Research Data Management repositories with special references to social science”

Krishnamurthy Madaiah1, Ram Vishwas Chourasiya2

1: Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, India; 2: Documentation Research and Training Centre Indian Statistical Institute, India



Bridging the Silos of Institutional Data Repositories: Community Collaboration and Cross-Institutional Development

Mikala Narlock1, Jake Calrson2

1: University of Minnesota, United States of America; 2: University at Buffalo



Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty through Dataverse and Local Contexts Integration

SONIA BARBOSA1, James Myers1, Ashley Rojas2

1: Harvard University, United States of America; 2: localcontexts.org

Developer Track Session 1
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
 

A year of Hybrid ML/AI cataloging aid in Archipelago Commons: The state, the lessons and probable future(s) explained through a real production implementation

Diego Alberto Pino Navarro, Allison Sherrick

Metropolian New York Library Council, United States of America



Deploying DataFed for Scientific Data Management: Lessons Learned

Theodore Samuel Beers1, Joshua Agar1, Chad Peiper2, Jane Greenberg3, Chirayu Patel1

1: College of Engineering, Drexel University; 2: College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University; 3: Metadata Research Center, Drexel University



Renovation and enhancement of statistics pages in DSpace 7

Zhongda Zhang1, Le Yang2

1: University of Oklahoma, United States of America; 2: University of Oregon, United States of America



Putting your middleware on steroids with DSpace 7+ REST API

Bram Luyten

Atmire, Belgium



Jetstream2 and Cloud-Based Dev Tools for Data Curation Training

Seth Erickson

University of California, Santa Barbara

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
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

Repository Showdown 1
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
 

Figshare

Andrew Mckenna-Foster

Figshare, United States of America



Archipelago Commons: blooms, new growth and healthy trees from the community garden.

Diego Alberto Pino Navarro, Allison Sherrick

Metropolian New York Library Council, United States of America



Repository Showdown: Dataverse

Gustavo Durand

Harvard University, United States of America



Introducing Fedora - The flexible, modular, open-source repository platform for long-term digital preservation

Arran Griffith, Dan Field

Fedora



Repository Showdown: DSpace

Maureen Walsh1, Pascal Becker2, Andrea Bollini3, Ignace Deroost4, Ianthe Sutherland5

1: The Ohio State University Libraries, United States of America; 2: The Library Code, Berlin, Germany; 3: 4Science, Rome, Italy; 4: Atmire, Leuven, Belgium; 5: The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland



InvenioRDM: Twenty Years of Supporting Research with FAIR and Transparent Practices

Zacharias Zacharodimos, Pablo Tamarit

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland

Presentations- Metadata and Harvesting
Location: N112- Band Room
 

Content-update Signaling and Alerting Protocol (CUSAP)

Craig Van Dyck1, Patrick Hargitt2

1: Solutions Spectrum, LLC; 2: Atypon



SDG-Classify: Automating the classification of research outputs into UN SDGs

Suchetha Nambanoor Kunnath, Matteo Cancellieri, Petr Knoth

CORE, The Open University, United Kingdom



Identifying and extracting Data Access Statements from full-text academic articles

Matteo Cancellieri, David Pride, Petr Knoth

Open University, United Kingdom



Laying the Groundwork for the Future: Creating Tools to Better Harness Metadata and Data Packages

Peyton Carolynn Tvrdy

National Transportation Library, United States of America

Presentations- Citations, Tracking and Impact
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
 

Citations growth for journal articles that are in open digital repositories

Washington Luís Ribeiro de Carvalho Segundo1, Thiago Magela Dias2, Marcel Garcia de Souza1

1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Brazil; 2: Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Brazil



New Applications for measuring Data Impact in a Domain Science Open Repository

Joshua Freeze, Maria Esteva, James Carson

University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; Texas Advance Computing Center



Enhancing Repository Integration with Crossref Services

Johanssen Odhiambo Obanda, Amanda French

Crossref



Interoperability between Digital Repositories and OpenAlex: Challenges and Strategies

Marcel Garcia de Souza1, Thiago Magela Dias2, Washington Luís Ribeiro de Carvalho Segundo1

1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Brazil; 2: Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Brazil

Panel- Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
 

Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization

Pedro Príncipe1, André Vieira1, Leonidas Pispiringas2, Eloy Rodrigues1, Natalia Manola2, Paolo Manghi2

1: University of Minho, Portugal; 2: OpenAIRE AMKE

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
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

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
 

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

Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
08:30 - 14:00 Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
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

Presentations- Building National Repositories
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
 

Shaping the future now: Piloting national institutional Repository the challenges and the way forward

Deogratus Daniel

Ministry of Finance, Tanzania



Building a Digital Future: Can Bangladesh Develop a National Repository to Internationalize Research?

Md Anwarul Islam

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, People's Republic of



Towards a National CRIS: Building and Perspectives for Open Science in the Dominican Republic

Manuel Made, Elsi Jimenez

Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Dominican Republic, Open Science Caribbean (OSCaribbean)



A Repository of Repositories: Developing a National Registry of Repositories at the National Research Fund in Kenya using Dspace 7

Sanya Otuoma1, Shadrack Mumbe2

1: Mount Kenya University, Kenya; 2: National Research Fund, Kenya

Lightning (24x7) - Repository possibilities
Location: N112- Band Room
 

It doesn’t have to be this way: Reimagining Institutional Repositories in-Transition

Joe Kohlburn, Marcella Lees

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, United States of America



Wikidata and repositories: opening up the future

David Fiora

Saint Mary's College, United States of America



Diamond Open Access: Repositories as journal publishing platforms, practical experiences

Peter Sutton-Long, Agustina Martínez García

University of Cambridge



Possibilities for Accessible Repositories: a Case Study in ADA Title II Implementation

Sarah Barsness, Erik Moore

University of Minnesota, United States of America



120 years of dissertations, a new understanding of scholars

Leila Sterman

Montana State University, United States of America



Barriers to the institutional repository network: how far is integration possible?

Gareth Cole, Miranda Barnes

Loughborough University, United Kingdom



Simplifying Data Curation Through Tooling And Automation

Dieuwertje Bloemen, Ozgur Karadeniz

KU Leuven, Belgium

Presentations- COAR Notify
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
 

Using PCI, COAR Notify and EPrints to Re-Invent the Publication Workflow

Will Fyson, Rory McNicholl

CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom



Impacts on the Repository of COAR Notify, and tools to help you

Richard David Jones

Cottage Labs, United Kingdom



Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify

Matteo Cancellieri1, Martin Docekal2, David Pride1, Morane Gruenpeter3, David Douard3, Petr Knoth1

1: Open University, United Kingdom; 2: Brno University of Technology; 3: Software Heritage



Moving repositories out of the periphery and into the center of scholarly publishing

Kathleen Shearer1, Eloy Rodrigues2, Paul Walk3, Martin Klein4, Tamy Nakano1

1: COAR, Netherlands; 2: University of Minho, Portugal; 3: Antleaf LTD, UK; 4: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US

Developer Track Session 3
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
 

Leveraging AI Programming Assistants for Digital Repository Development: A Practical Demonstration

Hui Zhang

Oregon State University Libraries and Press, United States of America



Building Flexible, AI-Powered Forms for Repositories with react-formule

Miguel García García, Pamfilos Fokianos, Antonios Papadopoulos

CERN, Switzerland



Automated Data Analytics: A Statistical Dashboard Built with GitLab CI/CD for a Data Repository Based on CKAN

Li Fang Wang1, Cheng-Jen Lee2, Tyng-Ruey Chuang2

1: National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; 2: Academia Sinica, Taiwan



Automating Data Imports in a DSpace-CRIS’s Institutional Repository

Jorge Rodrigues de Matos, Julien Sicot

EPFL, Switzerland



Unraveling the Mystery of DSpace Backend Failures: A Debugging Journey

Jozef Misutka, Milan Majchrák

dataquest s.r.o., Slovakia

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
 

Optimizing Metadata Discoverability: A Lean Six Sigma Approach

Kelsey Flynn

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, United States of America

13:30-17:00 Fedora User Group
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
DataCite User Group
Location: C119&121- Classrooms