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 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. |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Presentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library, USA |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Minute Madness Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Richard David Jones, Cottage Labs Convener: Maximilian Moser, TU Wien |
| Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Presentations- Advocacy and the Human Touch Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Jenny Evans, University of Westminster |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Presentations- AI and Repositories Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Lazarus Matizirofa, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Presentations- DSpace 2 Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Presentations- Research Data Preservation Location: Griffin Auditorium Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines |
| 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 |
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