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, 03:24:40pm UTC
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Daily Overview | |
| Location: Parallel Session 2 |
| 12:00 - 15:00 | Workshop: Automated subject indexing with Annif Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Iryna Kuchma, Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) Session Chair B: Lazarus Matizirofa, University of the Witwatersrand Automated subject indexing with Annif 1: National Library of Finland, Finland; 2: ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany; 3: German National Library, Germany |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workshop: DSpace Seed – Creating gigantic repositories with a new python library Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Kimberly Chapman, University of Arizona Libraries Session Chair B: Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts Amherst DSpace Seed – Creating gigantic repositories with a new python library Atmire, Belgium |
| 16:00 - 16:50 | Round Table: Beyond Compliance: Designing Trust-Centred Research Repositories in Low-Resource and High-Risk Contexts Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Allison Sherrick, Metropolitan New York Library Council Session Chair B: Lazarus Matizirofa, University of the Witwatersrand Beyond Compliance: Designing Trust-Centred Research Repositories in Low-Resource and High-Risk Contexts Africa Bioethics Network, Kenya |
| 17:00 - 17:50 | Round Table: Cross-Community Collaboration: What Could Solidarity Do for Us? Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Kathryn Cassidy, Trinity College Dublin Session Chair B: Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago Cross-Community Collaboration: What Could Solidarity Do for Us? 1: Samvera, United States of America; 2: Fedora, United States of America |
| 18:00 - 18:50 | Round Table: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Open Discussion of Digital Preservation Approaches and Challenges Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago Session Chair B: Emily Bongiovanni, Carnegie Mellon University The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Open Discussion of Digital Preservation Approaches and Challenges Art Institute of Chicago, United States of America |
| 19:00 - 19:50 | Round Table: AI and Repository Takedown Requests: Policies, Practices, and Shared Challenges Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University Session Chair B: Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago AI and Repository Takedown Requests: Policies, Practices, and Shared Challenges University of Chicago |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Developer Track: DSpace 1 (DSpace 10 and DSpace Merger) Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University Session Chair B: Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh DSpace Merger: Authority Framework vs Relationship Framework 4Science, Italy Enhancing Transparency in Repositories: Exploring the DSpace 10 Audit Trail Feature 4Science, Italy |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Presentations: AI & Software Preservation Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Paul Walk, Antleaf Ltd. Session Chair B: Iryna Kuchma, Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) Large Language Models for Software Mention Extraction 1: CORE, KMi, The Open University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bologna; 3: Brno University of Technology From Proof of Concept to Practice: A Repository for Preserving and Managing Running Applications University of Vienna, Austria |
| 16:00 - 16:50 | Presentations: Trust Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Allison Sherrick, Metropolitan New York Library Council Session Chair B: Leila Sterman, Montana State University Advancing Trustworthy Repositories: The Role of Certification and Self-Assessment within the World Data System Community 1: World Data System, United States of America; 2: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; 3: Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, SP, Brazil; 4: ydroinformatics and Socio-technical Innovations, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands; 5: INFLIBNET Centre, New Delhi, India; 6: University of Tennessee-Knoxville, United States of America Bringing Back Trust on the Internet: Authenticity, Content Credentials, and Digital Collections Northwestern University Libraries, United States of America |
| 17:00 - 17:50 | Presentations: DSpace Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Leila Sterman, Montana State University Session Chair B: Erin Jerome, University of Massachusetts Amherst We have liftoff! Launching DSpace 10.0, the first stage in the merger with DSpace-CRIS LYRASIS, United States of America Non-English DSpace user interfaces: Common pitfalls and how to avoid them Atmire, Belgium |
| 11:00 - 11:50 | Developer Track: DSpace 2 (Automated Metadata and Full Text Population) 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 1: University of Galway, Ireland; 2: Atmire Reducing Barriers: Automating Metadata Extraction in Submission Forms for DSpace Repositories KEEP Solutions, Portugal |
| 12:00 - 12:50 | Presentations: Openness & AI 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. 1: Fedora; 2: Metropolitan New York Library Council Repository Practices for the Dark Arts: When Openness Conflicts with Safety Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom |
| 13:00 - 13:50 | Developer Track: DSpace 3 (Performance and AI Enhancement) 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 PCG Academia, Poland Challenges and solutions for reliable and performant DSpace repositories 4Science, Italy |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Presentations: National Repositories 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 University of Tamanghasset, Algeria Reducing regional asymmetries in Brazil through digital repositories: the RBRD experience 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 |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Developer Track: DSpace 4 and Hyku (Upgrades and Customizations) 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 University of Jyväskylä, Finland Unpacking Hyku Knapsack: Sustainable Customization With Less Upgrade Pain Notch8, United States of America |
| 16:00 - 16:50 | Presentations: Metadata Workflows & Service Design 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 1: Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information; 2: University of Maribor Library Institutional repository service design at NYU Libraries New York University, United States of America |
| 12:00 - 12:50 | Presentations: Building Towards Interoperability & Shared Repository Service in Canada Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Adrian Ho, American University of Sharjah Session Chair B: Nick Sheppard, University of Leeds Building community towards interoperability: communities of practice, repositories, and universal indexing 1: University of Waterloo, Canada; 2: University of Saskatchewan; 3: University of Calgary; 4: MacEwan University; 5: Brock University; 6: University of British Columbia; 7: Université de Sherbrooke; 8: Université d’Ottawa Shared Knowledge, Shared Progress: Building a Shared Repository Service with a Network of Experts 1: University of Toronto, Canada; 2: University of Calgary, Canada |
| 13:00 - 13:50 | Developer Track: Dryad and Islandora (Features) Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Kate Blalack, University of Notre Dame Session Chair B: Iryna Kuchma, Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) Leveling Up a Repository Submission Process Dryad, United States of America Islandora Introduction: Core Features and Beyond Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Developer track: OJS and DLCM (Preservation) Location: Parallel Session 2 Session Chair A: Amanda French, Crossref Session Chair B: Kate Blalack, University of Notre Dame Automating Digital Preservation in OJS: Integrating JATS XML, PDF/A, and BagIt for Seamless Repository Integration 1: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentine Republic; 2: PREBI-SEDICI; 3: Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas; 4: CESGI The DLCM Technology, The Swiss Army Knife of Digital Preservation: Research Data, Administrative/Heritage Data and Innovation University of Geneva, Switzerland |