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).
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Monday, 08/June/2026 | ||
| 11:30 - 18:00 | Online Express Location: Online Express 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 Current Challenges and Future Directions for Institutional Repositories: Results from a Systematic Review, an Interview Study, and a Series of Workshops Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany 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 Open knowledge exchange inside universities: turning repositories into daily workflows, not side projects Maaref University of Applied Sciences, Syrian Arab Republic Open cost data in repositories – FAIR enough? 1: DESY, Germany; 2: Universität Regensburg, Germany; 3: Universität Bielefeld, Germany Scoring AI for Accessibility: A Rubric-Based Framework State University of New York at Buffalo, United States of America 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 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 The Landscape of Arab Digital Repositories: Evidence from OpenDOAR Beni-Suef University, Egypt University of Edinburgh Research Data Infrastructure Requirements Review 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 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 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 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 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 |
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| 16:00 - 17:00 | Round Table: Beyond Compliance: Designing Trust-Centred Research Repositories in Low-Resource and High-Risk Contexts Location: Parallel Session 2 Beyond Compliance: Designing Trust-Centred Research Repositories in Low-Resource and High-Risk Contexts Africa Bioethics Network, Kenya |
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| 17:00 - 18:00 | Round Table: Cross-Community Collaboration: What Could Solidarity Do for Us? Location: Parallel Session 2 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 Introduction to Modern Islandora: Architecture, Metadata, and Discoverability 1: Discoverygarden Inc, Canada; 2: University of Iowa |
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| 18:00 - 19:00 | Round Table: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Open Discussion of Digital Preservation Approaches and Challenges Location: Parallel Session 2 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 - 20:00 | Round Table: AI and Repository Takedown Requests: Policies, Practices, and Shared Challenges Location: Parallel Session 2 AI and Repository Takedown Requests: Policies, Practices, and Shared Challenges University of Chicago |
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| Date: Tuesday, 09/June/2026 | ||
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Welcome/Opening Keynote |
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| 14:00 - 15:00 | Developer Track: DSpace 1 (DSpace 10 and DSpace Merger) Location: Parallel Session 2 DSpace Merger: Authority Framework vs Relationship Framework 4Science, Italy Enhancing Transparency in Repositories: Exploring the DSpace 10 Audit Trail Feature 4Science, Italy |
Repository Showdown 1 Location: Parallel Session 1 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 - 16:00 | Presentations: AI & Software Preservation Location: Parallel Session 2 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 |
Repository Showdown 2 Location: Parallel Session 1 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 Open Science Framework (OSF) Center for Open Science, United States of America |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Presentations: Trust Location: Parallel Session 2 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 |
Repository Showdown 3 Location: Parallel Session 1 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 CERN, Switzerland |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Presentations: FAIR Location: Parallel Session 1 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 |
Presentations: DSpace Location: Parallel Session 2 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 |
| Date: Wednesday, 10/June/2026 | ||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Developer Track: DSpace 2 (Automated Metadata and Full Text Population) Location: Parallel Session 2 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 |
Presentations: Presenting Metadata Differently Location: Parallel Session 1 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 - 13:00 | Panel: Connecting Research Assets: RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) and Repositories Location: Parallel Session 1 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 |
Presentations: Openness & AI Location: Parallel Session 2 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 - 14:00 | Developer Track: DSpace 3 (Performance and AI Enhancement) Location: Parallel Session 2 DSpace Reimagined: AI-Powered Search and Accessibility PCG Academia, Poland Challenges and solutions for reliable and performant DSpace repositories 4Science, Italy |
Presentations: Cultural Heritage Location: Parallel Session 1 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 - 15:00 | Panel: Repository Responses on the Frontline of the Artificial Intelligence Revolution Location: Parallel Session 1 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 |
Presentations: National Repositories Location: Parallel Session 2 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 - 16:00 | Developer Track: DSpace 4 and Hyku (Upgrades and Customizations) Location: Parallel Session 2 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 |
Presentations: Scaling Agile Practices & APTrust Roadmap Location: Parallel Session 1 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 - 17:00 | Panel: Balancing Act: Achieving Accessible and Sustainable Repositories Location: Parallel Session 1 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 |
Presentations: Metadata Workflows & Service Design Location: Parallel Session 2 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 |
| Date: Thursday, 11/June/2026 | ||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Panel: When "Open to All" Threatens Sustainability: AI, Bots, and the Future of Open Repositories Location: Parallel Session 1 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 |
Presentations: Building Towards Interoperability & Shared Repository Service in Canada Location: Parallel Session 2 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 - 14:00 | Developer Track: Dryad and Islandora (Features) Location: Parallel Session 2 Leveling Up a Repository Submission Process Dryad, United States of America Islandora Introduction: Core Features and Beyond Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
Presentations: Including publishers in PIDs & arXiv Updates Location: Parallel Session 1 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 - 15:00 | Developer track: OJS and DLCM (Preservation) Location: Parallel Session 2 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 |
Presentations: OA Public Health Archive & Platform for OERs Location: Parallel Session 1 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 |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Closing Keynote/Wrap up |
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