Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Parallel Session 1
Parallel Session 2
8:00am
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11:00am
12:00pm
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Presentations: Presenting Metadata Differently
11:00am - 11:50am
Parallel Session 1
Ianthe Sutherland, Richard William Fyson
Location: Parallel Session 1
Session Chair A: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh
Session Chair B: Richard William Fyson, CoSector, University of London

Beyond FAIR: Designing Cognitive Accessibility in Data-Rich Repositories

Aga Domanska

Cottage Labs, United Kingdom



Public Health Data in Context: Publishing the RKI research graph

Luca Leipold1, Franziska Diehr1, Nicholas Drebenstedt1, Richard Jones2

1: Robert Koch Institute, Germany; 2: Cottage Labs, United Kingdom

Panel: Connecting Research Assets: RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) and Repositories
12:00pm - 12:50pm
Parallel Session 1
Isabel Bernal, Nick Sheppard
Location: Parallel Session 1
Session Chair A: Isabel Bernal, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council)
Session Chair B: Nick Sheppard, University of Leeds

Connecting Research Assets: RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) and Repositories

Sheila Rabun1, Matthias Liffers2, Bryan Gee3, Trent Dunkin4, Sigrid Kelsey4

1: Lyrasis, United States of America; 2: Australian Research Data Commons, Australia; 3: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 4: Louisiana State University, United States of America

Presentations: Cultural Heritage
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Parallel Session 1
Nick Sheppard, William J. Nixon
Location: Parallel Session 1
Session Chair A: Nick Sheppard, University of Leeds
Session Chair B: William J. Nixon, Research Libraries UK (RLUK)

Historica: Exploring Cultural Heritage Through Space and Time with DSpace-GLAM

Martina Caroli2, Marialaura Vignocchi2, Campione Ludovica1, Claudio Cortese1, Benedetta Luisa Gandolini1, Immacolata Scancarello1

1: 4Science, Italy; 2: ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna, Italy



Open to All? Repository Workflows for Ethical Access, FAIRness, and Cultural Heritage Data

Sanjin Muftic, Thomas Slingsby

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Panel: Repository Responses on the Frontline of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution
2:00pm - 2:50pm
Parallel Session 1
Richard Jones, Leigh Stork
Location: Parallel Session 1
Session Chair A: Richard Jones, Cottage Labs
Session Chair B: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde

Repository Responses on the Frontline of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Maureen P. Walsh1, Will Fyson2, Steinn Sigurðsson3, Ianthe Sutherland4

1: The Ohio State University, United States of America; 2: CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom; 3: arXiv, United States; 4: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Presentations: Scaling Agile Practices & APTrust Roadmap
3:00pm - 3:50pm
Parallel Session 1
Joseph Kraus, Erin Jerome
Location: Parallel Session 1
Session Chair A: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines
Session Chair B: Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts Amherst

TigerData’s Big Year: Scaling Agile Practices Across Diverse Teams to Support Research Activity

Kate Lynch, Hector Correa

Princeton University, United States of America



New Horizons: How APTrust Developed a Community-Centered Technical Roadmap Process for Digital Preservation

Melissa Iori

APTrust, United States of America

Panel: Balancing Act: Achieving Accessible and Sustainable Repositories
4:00pm - 4:50pm
Parallel Session 1
Heather Greer Klein, Kimberly Chapman
Location: Parallel Session 1
Session Chair A: Heather Greer Klein, Samvera
Session Chair B: Kimberly Chapman, University of Arizona Libraries

Balancing Act: Achieving Accessible and Sustainable Repositories

Teresa Schultz1, Emily Boss1, Leila Sterman2, Rachel Molina3

1: University of Nevada, Reno, United States of America; 2: Montana State University, United States of America; 3: Indiana University Indianapolis, United States of America

Developer Track: DSpace 2 (Automated Metadata and Full Text Population)
11:00am - 11:50am
Parallel Session 2
Iryna Kuchma, Erin Jerome
Location: Parallel Session 2
Session Chair A: Iryna Kuchma, Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
Session Chair B: Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fill The Gap – Automated retrieval of full text from emerging open APIs

Cillian Joy1, Bram Luyten2

1: University of Galway, Ireland; 2: Atmire



Reducing Barriers: Automating Metadata Extraction in Submission Forms for DSpace Repositories

José Carvalho, Carlos Silva, Paulo Lima, Henrique Malheiro, Pedro Pinto, Tiago Oliveira

KEEP Solutions, Portugal

Presentations: Openness & AI
12:00pm - 12:50pm
Parallel Session 2
Leigh Stork, Adrian Ho
Location: Parallel Session 2
Session Chair A: Leigh Stork, University of Strathclyde
Session Chair B: Adrian Ho, American University of Sharjah

When Openness Meets a Breaking Point: Perspectives on capacity, responsibility and stewardship under the threat of AI-driven harvesting.

Arran Griffith1, Allison Sherrick2, Pino Navarro Diego Alberto2

1: Fedora; 2: Metropolitan New York Library Council



Repository Practices for the Dark Arts: When Openness Conflicts with Safety

Domhnall Carlin

Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

Developer Track: DSpace 3 (Performance and AI Enhancement)
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Parallel Session 2
Iryna Kuchma, Ianthe Sutherland
Location: Parallel Session 2
Session Chair A: Iryna Kuchma, Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
Session Chair B: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh

DSpace Reimagined: AI-Powered Search and Accessibility

Małgorzata Paszkowska, Maciej Iwaniszewski, Mateusz Adamiak

PCG Academia, Poland



Challenges and solutions for reliable and performant DSpace repositories

Andrea Bollini, Giuseppe Digilio, Alexandru Raileanu

4Science, Italy

Presentations: National Repositories
2:00pm - 2:50pm
Parallel Session 2
Emily Bongiovanni, Nick Sheppard
Location: Parallel Session 2
Session Chair A: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University
Session Chair B: Nick Sheppard, University of Leeds

Developing a national aggregator of open access repositories in Algeria: project proposal

Ahcene Babori

University of Tamanghasset, Algeria



Reducing regional asymmetries in Brazil through digital repositories: the RBRD experience

Priscila Sena1, Dayane Dornelles2, Fhillipe Campos1, Letícia Bonetti1, Washington Carvalho-Segundo1

1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), Brazil; 2: State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC); Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), Brazil

Developer Track: DSpace 4 and Hyku (Upgrades and Customizations)
3:00pm - 3:50pm
Parallel Session 2
Paul Walk, William J. Nixon
Location: Parallel Session 2
Session Chair A: Paul Walk, Antleaf Ltd.
Session Chair B: William J. Nixon, Research Libraries UK (RLUK)

Why harvest your own DSpace? Benefits of separating repository and search

Ari Häyrinen, Veli-Matti Häkkinen, Miika Nurminen, Toni Tourunen

University of Jyväskylä, Finland



Unpacking Hyku Knapsack: Sustainable Customization With Less Upgrade Pain

Shana Moore

Notch8, United States of America

Presentations: Metadata Workflows & Service Design
4:00pm - 4:50pm
Parallel Session 2
Richard William Fyson, Allison Sherrick
Location: Parallel Session 2
Session Chair A: Richard William Fyson, CoSector, University of London
Session Chair B: Allison Sherrick, Metropolitan New York Library Council

Open research information in repositories - modelling repository metadata workflows

Bárbara Rivera López1, Jerneja Grasic2, Bianca Kramer1

1: Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information; 2: University of Maribor Library



Institutional repository service design at NYU Libraries

Laura Henze, Jonathan Greenberg, Deb Verhoff

New York University, United States of America