Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 15/June/2025
09:00 - 16:00 Registration
Location: Rogers Lobby
09:30 - 12:30 DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
Location: N112- Band Room
Convener: Yves Vincent Grossmann, Goethe University
09:30 - 17:00 DSpace SEO and Statistics Master Class
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
InvenioRDM Workshop
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
Convener: Matt Carson, Northwestern University
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Data Repository Descriptive Metadata: Recommendations & Resources
Location: N112- Band Room
Convener: Yves Vincent Grossmann, Goethe University
14:00 - 17:00 FAIR Metadata Bright Spots: Guides on the Road to Future Possibilities
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
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 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
11:00 - 12:00 Panel- Pushing the boundaries on citation tracking and usage reporting for open research outputs
Location: N112- Band Room
Convener: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University
11:00am
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12:30pm
Presentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Convener: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University
Lightning (24x7) Presentations - Repository showcase
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Convener: Laura Vilela Rodrigues Rezende, Universidade Federal de Goiás
Presentations- Data Repositories 1
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Convener: Ilkay Holt, British Library
Developer Track Session 1
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
Convener: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh
 
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
13:30 - 15:00 Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Convener: Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library, USA
Repository Showdown 1
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Convener: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde
Presentations- Metadata and Harvesting
Location: N112- Band Room
Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines
Presentations- Citations, Tracking and Impact
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Convener: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University
Panel- Community-Driven Global Governance of the OpenAIRE Interoperability Guidelines: advancing sustainability, openness, and modernization
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Location: Rogers Lobby
15:30 - 16:30 Minute Madness
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Convener: Richard David Jones, Cottage Labs
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
Presentations- Repository Implementation
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Convener: Richard William Fyson, CoSector, University of London
Lightning (24x7)- Communities
Location: N112- Band Room
Convener: Chinwe Veronica Anunobi, National Library of Nigeria
Panel- Managing Access to Open Repositories in the Age of Generative AI
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Convener: Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago
Developer Track Session 2
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
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
Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines
Repository Showdown 2
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Convener: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde
Presentations- Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities
Location: N112- Band Room
Convener: Kathryn Cassidy, Trinity College Dublin
Presentations- Sharing Repositories and Resources
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Convener: Adrian Ho, University of Chicago
Presentations- DSpace 1
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
Convener: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh
Lightning (24x7)- Repository case studies 2
Location: Sherry Lansing Theatre
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
Convener: Rachael Kotarski, University of Chicago
13:30 - 15:00 Presentations- AI and Repositories
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Convener: Lazarus Matizirofa, University of the Witwatersrand
Lightning (24x7)- Repository tools and developments
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Presentations- Provider Communities
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Convener: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University
Presentations- Data Repositories 2
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
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
Convener: Richard David Jones, Cottage Labs
15:30 - 17:00 Presentations- DSpace 2
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Presentations- Repository Retrospectives
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Convener: Ilkay Holt, British Library
Presentations- Repository Governance, Ethics and Curation
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Convener: Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library, USA
Presentations- PIDs and Harvesting
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
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
Convener: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines
Presentations- Building National Repositories
Location: N110- Orchestra Room
Convener: Lazarus Matizirofa, University of the Witwatersrand
Lightning (24x7) - Repository possibilities
Location: N112- Band Room
Convener: Ellen Ramsey, University of Virginia
Presentations- COAR Notify
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room
Developer Track Session 3
Location: C119&121- Classrooms
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
13:30-17:00 Fedora User Group
Location: C116- Community Gathering Room

 
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