DSpace Workshops

(Please add in a description of any workshop proposals you plan to submit to OR2025.  You are also welcome to provide a link to your proposal if you'd like others to provide feedback.)

DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A (similar to session at OR2024)

• Description: This half day workshop provides an opportunity for developers at institutions using DSpace to discuss recent DSpace releases, share what they are working on, ask questions and find collaborators.
  • NOTE: This is not a training-style workshop.  It's more of an unconference-style, meet-up opportunity for DSpace Committers and Developers to share ideas & feedback on upcoming releases and features.
• Workshop Facilitators: Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Tim Donohue and Holger Lenz 
• Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17h-oDaWAbDsEMOFR9LOJv9_SHiGUZL-gY0DgNv4UqXc/edit?usp=sharing
• Link to the description on the OR Conference Site: https://or2025.openrepositories.org/program/workshops-tutorials/
• Topic Sign Up: OR2025 DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
• Slides: https://bit.ly/or2025-dspace9-dev

DSpace SEO and Statistics Master Class

• Description: In this engaging master class, DSpace committer and Atmire co-founder Bram Luyten will guide participants through proven strategies for search engine optimization and practical statistics configuration in DSpace.
• Workshop Facilitators: Bram Luyten (Atmire)
• Link to the description on the OR Conference Site: https://or2025.openrepositories.org/program/workshops-tutorials/ 

DSpace Presentations

Developer Track Session

Renovation and enhancement of statistics pages in DSpace 7

• Presenters: Zhongda Zhang, Le Yang
• Time: See conference program

Putting your middleware on steroids with DSpace 7+ REST API

• Presenter: Bram Luyten (Atmire) 
• Time: See conference program

DSpace Presentations

Towards enriched open scholarly information: integrating DSpace repositories and OpenAlex

• Presenters: Agustina Martinez-Garcia, Andrea Bollini (4Science), Susanna Mornati (4Science)   

Deep Integration of GND with DSpace’s External Sources Framework: A Case Study of Authority Data Utilization

• Description: An example about a deep integration of external authority data into DSpace.
• Presenters: Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Kim Shepherd 

Bridging Communities: Vireo and DSpace Integration for Open Knowledge Sharing

• Presenters: Alexa Hight, Christopher Starcher, Colleen Lyon, Emily Johnson

DSpace 9.0 and Beyond: What’s next for DSpace

• Description: A general talk on DSpace 9.0 release and upcoming plans for 10.0.
• Presenters: Tim Donohue, Holger Lenz  
• Slides: https://bit.ly/OR2025-dspace9

Integrating IIIF annotations in DSpace

• Description:  Since 2017, 4Science has been working on implementing support for IIIF in DSpace to provide a better user experience in enjoying images, especially in the cultural heritage domain. To achieve this goal, a dedicated add-on has been implemented, easily integrated with a set of external Image Servers, such as Cantaloupe or Digilib. To enrich the content related to the digital cultural heritage managed within DSpace, we are now implementing workflows aimed at saving IIIF annotations created with Mirador and at relating them with all the information provided by metadata, fulltexts and entities. The proposed paper illustrates such workflows and how to relate annotations to each other and to other entities structured at data model level, in order to integrate them in the repository knowledge base.  
• Presenters: Andrea Bollini (4Science) , Claudio Cortese

DASH Stories: Implementing a qualitative feedback service in DSpace 8

• Description: This presentation will highlight Harvard’s institutional repository (DASH) qualitative feedback service, DASH Stories, and this service’s new configuration in DSpace version 8. Introduced in Harvard's DSpace instance in 2012, DASH Stories invites users to share brief narratives about how specific articles or open access has impacted their lives. With over 9,000 responses to date, these stories range from simple expressions of gratitude to poignant accounts of improved lives, access overcoming censorship, or meaningful human connections. Our talk will provide an overview of the DASH Stories service, demonstrate its new iteration in DASH’s newly migrated DSpace8 instance, and explore key development aspects. We will also highlight the key collaboration efforts between Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services (OSRDS) and 4Science that drove this initiative forward.
• Presenters: Colin Lukens, Grace Dunbar, Andrea Bollini (4Science) 

The Governance of Open Repository Programs: Progress and Possibilities

• Presenter: Maureen Walsh 

DSpace Repository Showdown

Repository Showdown: DSpace

• Presentation: Maureen Walsh, Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Ianthe Sutherland, Andrea Bollini (4Science), Ignace Deroost  

DSpace Minute Madness & Poster Sessions

(Please add in a description of any workshop proposals you plan to submit to OR2025.  You are also welcome to provide a link to your proposal if you'd like others to provide feedback.)

Reimagining DSpace Analytics: A Blue-Sky Approach to Accessible, Author-Centered Metrics

• Presenter: Franny Gaede, Catherine Flynn-Purvis

Nice DSpace

• Presenter: Brian Keese

Plucking and Re-planting ORCIDs in Data Repository Datasets: Readme Harvesting for Metadata Improvement

• Presenter: Kent Gerber 
• Note: I renamed the slide and poster to shorten it "Transplanting ORCIDs in Data Repository Datasets: Readme Harvesting for Metadata Improvement"