Open Repositories 2026
Online | 8 - 11 June 2026
Conference Agenda
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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 14th Sept 2026, 11:49:53pm UTC
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| 11:30 - 18:00 | Online Express Location: Online Express Recordings available at https://zenodo.org/communities/openrepos/records?q=lightning%20AND%20talk&f=subject%3AOR2026 4TU.ResearchData; a community-driven approach for building an open, domain-specific repository for data and software 4TU.ResearchData / TU Delft Library, Netherlands, The A data storage crisis: how UC Berkeley utilized Dataverse to Respond to faculty data needs University of California Berkeley, United States of America A Little UX Goes a Long Way: How You Can Do Lightweight Testing to Identify Priorities NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States of America Adding Institutional Equipment and Facilities to the Research Activity Snapshot in DSpace-CRIS 1: euroCRIS, The Netherlands; 2: University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom; 3: 4Science S.p.A, Italy; 4: Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH), Germany Archiving under duress: methodologies and tools N/A, United States of America Ask a robot - adding AI search to InvenioRDM Cottage Labs, United Kingdom Balancing Openness, Usability, and Community in Public Health Data University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America Data Modelling in EPrints 3v5 EPrints Services, United Kingdom Demonstrating the value of capturing conference posters in amber – the home of ambulance service research. 1: Library and Knowledge Service for NHS Ambulance Services in England (LKS ASE); 2: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Library Service Designing an external metadata harvester for DSpace: Lessons from the Imec Repository PCG Academia, Poland Designing Open Repository Agreements for a Generative AI World: Mitigating Risks While Enabling Open Knowledge Exchange Appalachian State University, United States of America From Storage Groups to Stories: Evolving Collections in FRDR Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Canada Harnessing CRIS systems to improve disambiguation of sub-organisational units 1: ISTI-CNR; 2: OpenAIRE Incorporating AI Into Your Repository When You’d Rather Not University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America Institutional Repositories in Small Island States - The Open Knowledge Repository of the University of Aruba University of Aruba, Aruba (The Netherlands) Integrating Quality and Impact Metrics in Digital Repositories: The HERA Module for DSpace. 1: PrEBI-SEDICI Universidad Nacional de La Plata; 2: CESGI, Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas The Invisible Problem: Marketing and Culture in Data Repositories 1: Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (Udesc), Brazil; 2: Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict), Brazil Open cost data in repositories – FAIR enough? 1: DESY, Germany; 2: Universität Regensburg, Germany; 3: Universität Bielefeld, Germany Open knowledge exchange inside universities: turning repositories into daily workflows, not side projects Maaref University of Applied Sciences, Syrian Arab Republic Scoring AI for Accessibility: A Rubric-Based Framework State University of New York at Buffalo, United States of America Strategic Recommendations for Professionalizing the Open Access Repository Infrastructure in Germany Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Strengthening and growing a creative and practice-led research repository through collaborative approaches Griffith University, Australia Sustaining Open Educational Resources through Institutional Repositories and Collaborative Networks: A Library–Distance Education Partnership in Argentina Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentine Republic Towards the integration of CORE into DSpace 1: The Open University, United Kingdom; 2: 4Science University of Edinburgh Streamlined Research Data Service Feasibility Study University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom What Happens to the Old Site? Archiving West Chester University Digital Commons During a Redesign West Chester University, United States of America |
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| 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 Recording available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20778543 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 |
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 Recording available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20788961 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 Recording available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20789060 DSpace Seed – Creating gigantic repositories with a new python library Atmire, Belgium |
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| 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 Recording available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20789110 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 |
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| 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 No recording available. Round Table sessions were not recorded. Cross-Community Collaboration: What Could Solidarity Do for Us? 1: Samvera, United States of America; 2: Fedora, United States of America |
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| 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 Recording available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20789066 Introduction to Modern Islandora: Architecture, Metadata, and Discoverability 1: Discoverygarden Inc, Canada; 2: University of Iowa; 3: Lehigh University; 4: Islandora |
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| 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 No recording available. Round Table sessions were not recorded. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Open Discussion of Digital Preservation Approaches and Challenges Art Institute of Chicago, United States of America |
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| 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 No recording available. Round Table sessions were not recorded. AI and Repository Takedown Requests: Policies, Practices, and Shared Challenges University of Chicago |
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