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: 19th Apr 2026, 09:59:37pm BST

 
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Emerald Ballroom
Istanbul Suite
Venice Suite
Garden Brewery and Taproom
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Welcome: Conference welcome
9:00am - 9:30am
Emerald Ballroom
Kevin Ashley
Location: Emerald Ballroom
Session Chair: Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre
A welcome to the 20th International Digital Curation Conference, with essential information about the next two days.
Keynote 1: Opening keynote
9:30am - 10:15am
Emerald Ballroom
Kevin Ashley
Location: Emerald Ballroom
Session Chair: Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre
Dr. Antica Čulina
Antica is an evolutionary ecologist and meta-scientist at the Ruđer Boskovic Institute, with expertise in evidence synthesis, open science, and social bond dynamics. At the Institute she leads the project on empowering ecological research via open science and meta-research.
Poster presentations: One-minute poster presentations
10:15am - 11:00am
Emerald Ballroom
Agnes Jasinska
Location: Emerald Ballroom
Session Chair: Agnes Jasinska, Digital Curation Center
Each poster presenter will have one-minute to address the conference.

Building an Integrated Scientific Knowledge Graph for Neuroscience: Enhancing Research Impact Analysis and Optimizing Data Curation

Archana Golla1, Sophia Pieschnik1, Maya Kobchenko1, Ingrid Reiten1, Serafeim Chatzopoulos2, César Parra-Rojas3, Pablo Accuosto3, Nicolau Duran-Silva3,4, Sotiris Kotitsas5, Petros Stavropoulos5, Nikolay Yakovets6, Daan de Graaf6, Miriam Baglioni7, Jan G. Bjaalie1, Thanasis Vergoulis2, Trygve B. Leergaard1

1: Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 2: Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI), Athena Research Center, Athens, Greece; 3: SIRIS Lab, Research Division of SIRIS Academic, Barcelona, Spain; 4: LaSTUS Lab, TALN, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 5: Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Athena Research Center, Athens, Greece; 6: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 7: CNR - ISTI, Pisa, Italy



Artificial vs. Human Intelligence - A Comparative Assessment of Feedback to Data Management Plans

Jari Friman1, Saila Huuskonen1, Maria Kekkonen1, Johanna Laiho-Kauranne3, Jukka Rantasaari2, Juuso Repo2

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: University of Turku, Finland; 3: CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland



From Intentions to Practice – Tracking Data Sharing in Data Management Plans

Jari Friman, Saila Huuskonen, Maria Kekkonen

Tampere University, Finland



Connecting The Research Data Lifecycle: Event-Driven Vertical Interoperability with DMPonline, RSpace, and DMPsee

Andrea Davanzo1, Rory Macneil2, Agnes Jasinska1, Tilo Mathes2, Diana Sisu1

1: Digital Curation Centre, United Kingdom; 2: Research Space



Bridging The Research Data Management Skills Gap: The Fair's Fair Impact Award Scheme As A Model For Professional Development Through Mentorship

Michael OConnor1, Agnes Jasinska2, Liisa Marjamaa-Mankinen3

1: Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom; 2: Digital Curation Centre, The University of Edinburgh; 3: CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland



FAIRway: A Pathway to Open and FAIR Research Data - Empowering Researchers and Institutions

João Aguiar Castro1, Inês Sousa1, Maria Paola Tomasino2, António Muñoz3, Nuno Fonseca3

1: INESC TEC, Portugal; 2: CIIMAR, Portugal; 3: BIOPOLIS, In-BIO



Ethics Guidance on Sharing and Publishing Sensitive Data from Local to National Scales

Olga Churakova, Christine Krebs, Federico Grasso Toro, Martin Wegmann, Dirk Verdicchio

University of Bern, Switzerland



Building Resilient (Meta)Data Futures Using DDI, FAIR and Collaboration

Catherine Yuen

University of Essex, United Kingdom



EOSC EDEN: Advancing FAIR-Enabling Digital Preservation and Curation Across Europe

Roxanne Wyns, Fen Zhang

KU Leuven, Belgium



The Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research Network+ (CaSDaR)

Samantha Pearman-Kanza, Louise Saul

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Session A: AI/ML: Curation challenges and opportunities: I
11:30am - 1:00pm
Emerald Ballroom
Jared Lyle
Location: Emerald Ballroom
Session Chair: Jared Lyle, ICPSR, University of MIchigan
Paper session.

Leveraging LLM for Semantic Search and Curation in a National Research Data Catalog

Richard Moreno1, Thomas Jouneau2

1: INRAE, France; 2: Recherche Data Gouv (Université de Lorraine)



Taming the AI Curator: A Content Focused Data Description Diagnostic and Assistive Writing Tool

Zachary Nowacek2, Maria Esteva1, Bernard Chang1, Gabriel Jaffe1, Masa Prodanovic1

1: University of Texas at Austin, United States of America; 2: Washington University in St. Louis, United States



Scaling Data Sharing Expertise with AI: a Case Study from DataSeer and Taylor & Francis

Rebecca Taylor-Grant1, Adrian Stanley2, Tim Vines2, Molly Cranston1

1: Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom; 2: DataSeer

Session D: Communities for curation support and development
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Emerald Ballroom
Ingrid Dillo
Location: Emerald Ballroom
Session Chair: Ingrid Dillo, DANS
Lightning Talk session.

Evolving with the Community: Updates to the CoreTrustSeal Requirements for 2026-2028

Jared Lyle1, Maaike Verburg2, Tuomas Alaterä3, Maya Dolinar4, Olivier Rouchon5

1: ICPSR, University of MIchigan; 2: DANS-KNAW; 3: Finnish Social Science Data Archive; 4: OpenAIRE AMKE; 5: National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)



Trust, Types & Transparency: TIC-TAC-TOE

Hervé Lhours1, Mari Kleemola2, Oliver Parkes1, Fabio Liberante3

1: UK Data Service, University of Essex, United Kingdom; 2: Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), Tampere University; 3: ELIXIR Europe



Developing Trusted Preservation Services for Sensitive Research Data: A Case Study

Mari Elisa Kuusniemi

Helsinki university library, Finland



FAIRVault, An Inter-University Federated Dataverse Pilot In Flanders

Nicky Daniels1, Kevin Leonard2, Laura Standaert2, Myriam Mertens2, Jone Paesmans3, Sybren Slegers3, Linde Tuybens4, Thomas Van de Velde2, Thomas van Erven2

1: Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: Ghent University, Belgium; 3: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 4: University of Antwerp

Session B: Sensitive and complex data
11:30am - 1:00pm
Istanbul Suite
Olga Churakova
Location: Istanbul Suite
Session Chair: Olga Churakova, University of Bern
Paper session.

Acting in the Best Interest of the Other: An Ethics of Care in Digital Curation

Rebecca Frank1,2,3, Katherine Polasek1, Daniel Delmonaco4, Kara Suzuka5, Elizabeth Yakel1,2

1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), United States of America; 3: Einstein Center Digital Future, Germany; 4: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States of America; 5: Kara Suzuka Consulting LLC, United States of America



Shades of Grey: Designing Privacy Workflows To Identify, Address And Avoid Sensitive Data Leakage Via Informal Data Transfers

Zosia Beckles, Emma Tonkin, Andrew Charlesworth

University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Session E: AI/ML in research support
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Istanbul Suite
Lynda Kellam
Location: Istanbul Suite
Session Chair: Lynda Kellam, University of Pennsylvania
Lightning Talk session.

Enhancing the Benefits of Machine-Actionable DMPs with Generative AI

Becky Grady

University of California Office of the President, United States of America



GenAI For Research Support: A Case To Dmps Pre-Filling

Davide Nardi, Liz Guzman Ramirez, Erwin Hoogerwoord

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The



Exploring the Use of LLMs to Support Research Data Documentation in the Social

Auriane Marmier

FORS, Switzerland



Combining Machine Learning tools and Terminology Services to support FAIR Data Management in ESS

Claudia Martens1, Alexander Wolodkin2

1: DKRZ (German Climate Computing Center), Germany; 2: Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research

Session C: Contemporary curation challenges: I
11:30am - 1:00pm
Venice Suite
Pedro Príncipe
Location: Venice Suite
Session Chair: Pedro Príncipe, University of Minho
Paper session.

Preserving Under Pressure: The 2016/17 Data Rescue Movement and the Limits of Emergency Curation

Laura Rothfritz

School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany



The Conception and Development of Data Steward Training Programs in Hungary: The Roles of Collaboration, Necessity, Flexibility and Community-building

Anna Horváth1, Júlia Egyed-Gergely1, Enikő Meiszterics1, Zsuzsa Sidó2, Bence Tivadar Vida2

1: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; 2: Eötvös Loránd University, Digital Humanities National Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary



The Challanges Of Implementing and Operationalising the CARE Principles

Blanka Matkovic

British Library, United Kingdom

Session F: Contemporary curation challenges: II
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Venice Suite
Mikala Narlock
Location: Venice Suite
Session Chair: Mikala Narlock, Indiana University
Lightning Talk session.

Organizing a Community to Survive Research Ecosystem Instability

Lauren Phegley

University of Pennsylvania, United States of America



What Should Be Saved? The Impact of Austerity on Data Rescue

Shona Jane Ferguson, John Neil Cape, Alan Crossley, Frank Harvey, David Fowler, David Leaver, Christine F Braban

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom



How Do You Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Your Digital Preservation Activities?

Jenny Mitcham1, Catherine Jones2

1: Digital Preservation Coalition, United Kingdom; 2: Science and Technology Facilities Council



How Arquivo.pt is Preserving Scientific Research Project Websites and Promoting Data Reuse

Ricardo Basilio

FCCN-FCT, Portugal

Dinner: Conference dinner
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Garden Brewery and Taproom
Location: Garden Brewery and Taproom
Tuesday coffee: Coffee break
11:00am - 11:30am
Lunch: Lunch break
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Poster: Poster exhibition with coffee break
3:00pm - 4:00pm
A chance to look at conference poster submissions, with coffee and tea.