Open Repositories 2026
Online | 8 - 11 June 2026
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).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 29th May 2026, 03:25:08pm UTC
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Daily Overview | |
| Location: Parallel Session 1 |
| 12:00 - 15:00 | Workshop: InvenioRDM Workshop Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: William J. Nixon, Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Session Chair B: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh InvenioRDM Workshop 1: Northwestern University, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Chicago, IL, USA; 2: Ubiquity Press, London, UK; 3: Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA; 4: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; 5: NYU Libraries, New York, NY, USA; 6: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Workshop: OCFL Tutorial: Foundations, Affordances and Implementations Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Paul Walk, Antleaf Ltd. Session Chair B: Kathryn Cassidy, Trinity College Dublin OCFL Tutorial: Foundations, Affordances and Implementations 1: Cornell University, USA; 2: Open Preservation Foundation; 3: Emory University, USA; 4: Harvard University, USA; 5: Stanford University, USA; 6: LIBNOVA; 7: Lyrasis; 8: Digirati |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Workshop: Introduction to Modern Islandora: Architecture, Metadata, and Discoverability Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines Session Chair B: Gustavo Durand, Harvard University Introduction to Modern Islandora: Architecture, Metadata, and Discoverability 1: Discoverygarden Inc, Canada; 2: University of Iowa; 3: Lehigh University; 4: Islandora |
| 12:00 - 13:45 | Welcome & Opening Keynote Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Elizabeth Krznarich, University of Wisconsin Session Chair B: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University Opening Keynote 1: Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR); 2: Deakin University; 3: National Institute of Informatics (NII); 4: West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN); 5: LA Referencia |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Repository Showdown 1 Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Richard Jones, Cottage Labs Session Chair B: Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Fedora – The Open-Source Repository Platform Supporting Long-Term Digital Preservation Best Practices Fedora Hyku PALNI, United States of America Hyrax Tufts University, United States of America |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Repository Showdown 2 Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Session Chair B: Richard Jones, Cottage Labs Archipelago Commons: healthy and hearty soups (and pastries) from the community kitchen Metropolian New York Library Council, United States of America Repository Showdown: Dataverse Harvard University, United States of America Repository Showdown: Islandora Islandora Foundation, United States of America |
| 16:00 - 16:50 | Repository Showdown 3 Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts Amherst Session Chair B: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University DSpace University of Minnesota, United States of America EPrints3: Continuous Developer and Community Driven Repository Development in an Ever-changing Research Landscape CoSector, University of London, United Kingdom InvenioRDM repository showdown 1: CERN, Switzerland; 2: Northwestern University, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Chicago, IL, USA |
| 17:00 - 17:50 | Presentations: FAIR Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Kimberly Chapman, University of Arizona Libraries Session Chair B: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines Connecting Global Agricultural Research: FAO AGRIS as a FAIR and Digital Public Good Infrastructure Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy Operationalizing FAIR in National Research Information Systems: The BrCris Example and Its Role in Open Repositories 1: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Brazil; 2: Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Brazil; 3: Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Presentations: Presenting Metadata Differently 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 Cottage Labs, United Kingdom Public Health Data in Context: Publishing the RKI research graph 1: Robert Koch Institute, Germany; 2: Cottage Labs, United Kingdom |
| 12:00 - 12:50 | Panel: Connecting Research Assets: RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) and Repositories 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 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 |
| 13:00 - 13:50 | Presentations: Cultural Heritage 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 1: 4Science, Italy; 2: ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna, Italy Open to All? Repository Workflows for Ethical Access, FAIRness, and Cultural Heritage Data University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Panel: Repository Responses on the Frontline of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution 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 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 |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Presentations: Scaling Agile Practices & APTrust Roadmap 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 Princeton University, United States of America New Horizons: How APTrust Developed a Community-Centered Technical Roadmap Process for Digital Preservation APTrust, United States of America |
| 16:00 - 16:50 | Panel: Balancing Act: Achieving Accessible and Sustainable Repositories 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 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 |
| 12:00 - 12:50 | Panel: When "Open to All" Threatens Sustainability: AI, Bots, and the Future of Open Repositories Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Ellen Ramsey, Big Ten Academic Alliance Session Chair B: Richard Jones, Cottage Labs When "Open to All" Threatens Sustainability: AI, Bots, and the Future of Open Repositories 1: Ubiquity Press, United States of America; 2: CalTech Library, United States of America; 3: CESNET, Czech Republic; 4: CERN, Switzerland |
| 13:00 - 13:50 | Presentations: Including publishers in PIDs & arXiv Updates Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University Session Chair B: Amanda French, Crossref Persistent Identifiers (PIDs): Are there still important PIDs missing? Investigation on agreements with publishers 1: University of Bielefeld, Germany; 2: University of Regensburg, Germany; 3: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Hamburg, Germany Scaling for growth: Aligning people, policy, and infrastructure for a robust future arXiv, United States of America |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Presentations: OA Public Health Archive & Platform for OERs Location: Parallel Session 1 Session Chair A: Adrian Ho, American University of Sharjah Session Chair B: Joseph Kraus, Colorado School of Mines Right To Know: How Legal Milestones Launched an Open Access Public Health Archive University of California San Francisco, United States of America Building a lightweight national platform for OERs in international collaboration 1: Karlstad University, Sweden; 2: Linnaeus University, Sweden; 3: TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany |