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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 Session Convener: Emily Bongiovanni , Carnegie Mellon University
11:00am - 12:30pmPresentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Maureen Walsh , The Ohio State University
11:00am - 12:30pmLightning (24x7) Presentations - Repository showcase Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Laura Vilela Rodrigues Rezende , Universidade Federal de Goiás
11:00am - 12:30pmPresentations- Data Repositories 1 Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Ilkay Holt , British Library
11:00am - 12:30pmDeveloper Track Session 1 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Ianthe Sutherland , University of Edinburgh
12:30 - 13:30Lunch Break Location: Rogers Lobby
12:45pm - 1:30pmWelcome to First-Time Attendees! Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Torsten Reimer , University of ChicagoSession Convener: Elizabeth Krznarich , University of Wisconsin
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Kristi Park , Texas Digital Library, USA
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Citations, Tracking and Impact Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Emily Bongiovanni , Carnegie Mellon University
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Metadata and Harvesting Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Joseph Kraus , Colorado School of Mines
13:30 - 15:00Repository Showdown 1 Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Leigh Stork , University of Strathclyde
13:30 - 15:00Panel- 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 - 15:30Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby
15:30 - 16:30Minute Madness Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Richard David Jones , Cottage LabsSession Convener: Maximilian Moser , TU Wien
16:30 - 18:30Poster Session and Welcome Reception Location: Rogers Lobby
08:00 - 17:00Registration Location: Rogers Lobby
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- Advocacy and the Human Touch Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Jenny Evans , University of Westminster
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- Repository challenges and opportunities Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Richard William Fyson , CoSector, University of London
09:00 - 10:30Lightning (24x7)- Communities Location: N112- Band Room Session Convener: Chinwe Veronica Anunobi , National Library of NigeriaSession Convener: Lazarus Matizirofa , University of the Witwatersrand
09:00 - 10:30Panel- 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 - 10:30Developer Track Session 2 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Kathryn Cassidy , Trinity College Dublin
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break Location: Rogers Lobby
11:00 - 12:30Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Joseph Kraus , Colorado School of Mines
11:00 - 12:30Presentations- Sharing Repositories and Resources Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Adrian Ho , University of Chicago
11:00 - 12:30Repository Showdown 2 Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Leigh Stork , University of Strathclyde
11:00 - 12:30Presentations- DSpace 1 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Ianthe Sutherland , University of Edinburgh
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 Session Convener: Rachael Kotarski , University of Chicago
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- AI and Repositories Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Lazarus Matizirofa , University of the Witwatersrand
13:30 - 15:00Lightning (24x7)- Repository tools and developments Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Aileen O'Carroll , Digital Repository of Ireland
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Provider Communities Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Maureen Walsh , The Ohio State University
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Data Repositories 2 Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Emily Bongiovanni , Carnegie Mellon University
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 Session Convener: Richard David Jones , Cottage Labs
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- DSpace 2 Location: Griffin Auditorium Session Convener: Ianthe Sutherland , University of Edinburgh
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- Repository Retrospectives Location: N110- Orchestra Room Session Convener: Ilkay Holt , British Library
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- Repository Governance, Ethics and Curation Location: C116- Community Gathering Room Session Convener: Kristi Park , Texas Digital Library, USA
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- PIDs and Harvesting Location: C119&121- Classrooms Session Convener: Adrian Ho , University of Chicago
17:30 - 22:00Conference Dinner on the Spirit of Chicago- prior registration required