The 20th International Conference on
Open Repositories
Chicago, Illinois, USA | June 15-18, 2025
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Sunday, 15/June/2025 | |
| 09:00 - 16:00 | Registration and Refreshments Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 09:30 - 12:30 | DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Yves Vincent Grossmann, Goethe University |
| 09:30 - 17:00 | DSpace SEO and Statistics Master Class Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Elizabeth Krznarich, University of Wisconsin |
| 09:30 - 17:00 | InvenioRDM Workshop Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Matt Carson, Northwestern University |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break (not provided- attendees responsible for their own lunch) |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | FAIR Metadata Bright Spots: Guides on the Road to Future Possibilities Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde |
| 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 the University of Chicago 09:15-09:30- Steering Committee welcome 09:30-09:40- Program Committee welcome |
| 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 |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Panel- Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Presentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Lightning (24x7) Presentations - Repository showcase Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Laura Vilela Rodrigues Rezende, Universidade Federal de Goiás |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Presentations- Data Repositories 1 Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Ilkay Holt, British Library |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Developer Track Session 1 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 12:45pm - 1:30pm | Welcome to First-Time Attendees! Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago Session Convener: Elizabeth Krznarich, University of Wisconsin |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library, USA |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- Citations, Tracking and Impact Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- Metadata and Harvesting Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Repository Showdown 1 Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Panel- Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Ellen Ramsey, University of Virginia |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Minute Madness Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Richard David Jones, Cottage Labs Session Convener: Maximilian Moser, TU Wien |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Poster Session and Welcome Reception Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 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 Session Convener: Jenny Evans, University of Westminster |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Presentations- Repository challenges and opportunities Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Richard William Fyson, CoSector, University of London |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Lightning (24x7)- Communities Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Chinwe Veronica Anunobi, National Library of Nigeria Session Convener: Lazarus Matizirofa, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Panel- Managing Access to Open Repositories in the Age of Generative AI Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Developer Track Session 2 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Kathryn Cassidy, Trinity College Dublin |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Presentations- Sharing Repositories and Resources Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Adrian Ho, University of Chicago |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Repository Showdown 2 Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Presentations- DSpace 1 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Panel- Software dies, data should be forever: OCFL as a software agnostic storage approach Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Rachael Kotarski, University of Chicago |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- AI and Repositories Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Lazarus Matizirofa, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lightning (24x7)- Repository tools and developments Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Aileen O'Carroll, Digital Repository of Ireland |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- Provider Communities Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- Data Repositories 2 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Panel- Recognizing Software as a Critical Component in Open Science: Advancing an Interoperable, Community-Driven Vision for Infrastructures Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Richard David Jones, Cottage Labs |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Presentations- DSpace 2 Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Presentations- Repository Retrospectives Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Ilkay Holt, British Library |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Presentations- Repository Governance, Ethics and Curation Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library, USA |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Presentations- PIDs and Harvesting Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Adrian Ho, University of Chicago |
| 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 Session Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Lightning (24x7) - Repository possibilities Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Ellen Ramsey, University of Virginia |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Presentations- COAR Notify Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Elizabeth Krznarich, University of Wisconsin |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Developer Track Session 3 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Maximilian Moser, TU Wien |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Keynote speaker Ben Zhao Location: Griffin Auditorium Ben Zhao is Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a TED/AI speaker, and was recently named to TIME Magazine’s AI/100, 100 most influential people in AI. He has spent the last 3 years building tools that shield visual artists (and other creatives) from non-consensual training and image mimicry. |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Closing Plenary Location: Griffin Auditorium |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break Location: Rogers Lobby |
| 13:30-17:00 | Fedora User Group Location: C116- Community Gathering Room |
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