Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 15/June/2025
09:00 - 16:00Registration and Refreshments
Location: Rogers Lobby
09:30 - 12:30DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
Location: N112- Band Room
09:30 - 17:00DSpace SEO and Statistics Master Class
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
09:30 - 17:00InvenioRDM Workshop
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
12:30 - 14:00Lunch Break (not provided- attendees responsible for their own lunch)
14:00 - 17:00FAIR Metadata Bright Spots: Guides on the Road to Future Possibilities
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Date: Monday, 16/June/2025
08:00 - 17:00Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
09:00 - 09:40Opening 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 - 10:30Keynote 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 - 11:00Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
11:00 - 12:00Panel- Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs
Location: N112- Band Room
11:00am - 12:30pmPresentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing
Location: Griffin Auditorium
11:00am - 12:30pmLightning (24x7) Presentations - Repository showcase
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
11:00am - 12:30pmPresentations- Data Repositories 1
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
11:00am - 12:30pmDeveloper Track Session 1
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
12:30 - 13:30Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
12:45pm - 1:30pmWelcome to First-Time Attendees!
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation
Location: Griffin Auditorium
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Citations, Tracking and Impact
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Metadata and Harvesting
Location: N112- Band Room
13:30 - 15:00Repository Showdown 1
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
13:30 - 15:00Panel- Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
15:30 - 16:30Minute Madness
Location: Griffin Auditorium
16:30 - 18:30Poster Session and Welcome Reception
Location: Rogers Lobby
Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025
08:00 - 17:00Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- Advocacy and the Human Touch
Location: Griffin Auditorium
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- Repository challenges and opportunities
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
09:00 - 10:30Lightning (24x7)- Communities
Location: N112- Band Room
09:00 - 10:30Panel- Managing Access to Open Repositories in the Age of Generative AI
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
09:00 - 10:30Developer Track Session 2
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
11:00 - 12:30Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations
Location: Griffin Auditorium
11:00 - 12:30Presentations- Sharing Repositories and Resources
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
11:00 - 12:30Repository Showdown 2
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
11:00 - 12:30Presentations- DSpace 1
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
12:30 - 13:30Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
13:30 - 14:30Panel- Software dies, data should be forever: OCFL as a software agnostic storage approach
Location: N112- Band Room
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- AI and Repositories
Location: Griffin Auditorium
13:30 - 15:00Lightning (24x7)- Repository tools and developments
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Provider Communities
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Data Repositories 2
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
15:30 - 16:30Panel- Recognizing Software as a Critical Component in Open Science: Advancing an Interoperable, Community-Driven Vision for Infrastructures
Location: N112- Band Room
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- DSpace 2
Location: Griffin Auditorium
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- Repository Retrospectives
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- Repository Governance, Ethics and Curation
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- PIDs and Harvesting
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
17:30 - 22:00Conference Dinner on the Spirit of Chicago- prior registration required
Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
08:30 - 14:00Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- Research Data Preservation
Location: Griffin Auditorium
09:00 - 10:30Lightning (24x7) - Repository possibilities
Location: N112- Band Room
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- COAR Notify
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
09:00 - 10:30Developer Track Session 3
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
11:00 - 11:50Keynote 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 - 12:30Closing Plenary
Location: Griffin Auditorium
12:30 - 13:30Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
13:30-17:00Fedora User Group
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room