Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 17/Feb/2026 | |||
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Welcome: Conference welcome Location: Emerald Ballroom Chair: Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre A welcome to the 20th International Digital Curation Conference, with essential information about the next two days. |
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| 9:30am - 10:15am |
Keynote 1: Opening keynote Location: Emerald Ballroom |
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| 10:15am - 11:00am |
Poster presentations: One-minute poster presentations Location: Emerald Ballroom Each poster presenter will have one-minute to address the conference.
Can Evidence from Croatia’s National Repository Demonstrate the Maturity of Data Management Plans? Dubrava University Hospital, Croatia Top-Ranking Data Repository Benefits - Results from an International Delphi Study 1: World Data System, Canada; 2: Royal Holloway University of London; 3: Australian Antarctic Division; 4: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 5: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology; 6: Kyoto University Building an Integrated Scientific Knowledge Graph for Neuroscience: Enhancing Research Impact Analysis and Optimizing Data Curation 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 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 Tampere University, Finland Bridging The Research Data Management Skills Gap: The Fair's Fair Impact Award Scheme As A Model For Professional Development Through Mentorship 1: Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom; 2: Digital Curation Centre, The University of Edinburgh; 3: CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland Connecting The Research Data Lifecycle: Event-Driven Vertical Interoperability with DMPonline, RSpace, and DMPsee 1: Digital Curation Centre, United Kingdom; 2: Research Space FAIRway: A Pathway to Open and FAIR Research Data - Empowering Researchers and Institutions 1: INESC TEC, Portugal; 2: CIIMAR, Portugal; 3: BIOPOLIS, In-BIO Ethics Guidance on Sharing and Publishing Sensitive Data from Local to National Scales University of Bern, Switzerland Building Resilient (Meta)Data Futures Using DDI, FAIR and Collaboration University of Essex, United Kingdom EOSC EDEN: Advancing FAIR-Enabling Digital Preservation and Curation Across Europe KU Leuven, Belgium The Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research Network+ (CaSDaR) University of Southampton, United Kingdom Designing Support Strategies For Enabling Cultural Change In Data Practices For The Physical Sciences University of Southampton, United Kingdom IIIF as an Enabling Tool in Data Curation IIIF-C, United States of America Anatomy of a Fatberg: Algorithmic Waste, Data Overflow, and the Politics of Digital Curation 1: Academy of Art, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; 2: Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia People-Powered Metadata: Building a Community of Curators with OpenOrgs Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia PATTERN's Innovative, Co-created, and Multi-lingual FAIR RDM Training 1: DANS; 2: Ruđer Bošković Institute; 3: National and University Library in Zagreb Training And Support For All - The FIDELIS Approach To Increased Representation And Understanding DANS Nailing Jelly To The Wall: Sensitive Longitudinal Dataset Citation University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Building An In-organization Research Data Management Training Community In An AI-forward World UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom The Collaborative Activity of the Research Data Management and Utilization Working Group at the Kyushu Okinawa Open University in Japan Kyushu University, Japan Working With Silos At An Agricultural University Swedish University Of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden The drone brings the AI-package Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Navigating Data Curation Activities in CroRIS Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, Zagreb, Croatia Expanding the Understanding of Population Descriptors for Biomedical Research to Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) - Corpora Development 1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: Howard University; 3: Villanova University; 4: Drexel University Being Future Ready: Software Heritage, a Resilient Infrastructure Software Heritage, France Data Stewardship Pilot at TU Wien TU Wien, Austria Curating for Reuse: FAIR and Trustworthy Services for Interdisciplinary Data Applications National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics - INOE 2000, Romania ArtInsight AI: Integrating Generative AI into Curators' Art Critique Systems National Central University, Taiwan Curating in Unstable Systems: Transmedia Strategies for AI Art Rijkuniversiteit Groningen Digitization Of Heritage Materials: The Role of Artificial Intelligence In Bridging The Past, Present, And Future. A Project At The Balme Library. University of Ghana, Ghana Teaching Data Literacy Through Active Curation: The Grad Student's Data Survival Guide 1: University of Notre Dame, United States of America; 2: Indiana University, United States of America From Crisis to Coordination: Building the Data Rescue Project for Rapid-Response US Federal Data Curation 1: Princeton University, United States of America; 2: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 3: Indiana University, United States of America RDM101 at TU Delft: Short- and Long-Term Impact on Data Curation Skills TU Delft, the Netherlands CESSDA Trust Support: a Peer-Driven Multi-Way Process 1: Tampere University, Finnish Social Science Data Archive; 2: Data Archiving and Networked Services; 3: Slovenian Social Science Data Archives; 4: CESSDA ERIC; 5: Progedo; 6: Swedish National Data Service Navigating Pressure: How FedOSC Builds Resilient Digital Curation for Open Science 1: KBR; 2: Belnet; 3: Institute of Natural Sciences; 4: Royal Observatory of Belgium Launching DataverseLV website and repository: Enhancing FAIR Data Sharing in Latvia 1: Riga Stradins university, Latvia; 2: Higher Education and Science IT Shared Services Center (VPC), Latvia Lessons Learned From Harmonizing Data Management Plans: A Case Study To Build A Generic But Compatible DMP-Template Across Diverse Funding Agencies In Germany And Europe 1: Leibniz IPK Gatersleben, Germany; 2: ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences: Cologne, Germany Uedu: Implementing a Data Sovereignty Framework in a Trusted Multimodal Learning Data Lake National Central University, Taiwan Call for Proposals DDI For Beginners: Free, Bilingual Training Resources To Start Making Your Data FAIR With DDI 1: Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP), CNRS, France; 2: UCL, CLOSER UK Monitoring Data Sharing Practices Using FAIR Assessment Tools: Insights from the University of Primorska University of Primorska, Slovenia The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in Open Science Research Data Alliance, United Kingdom |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Tuesday coffee: Coffee break |
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| 11:30am - 1:00pm |
Session A: AI/ML: Curation challenges and opportunities: I Location: Emerald Ballroom Paper session.
Leveraging LLM for Semantic Search and Curation in a National Research Data Catalog INRAE, France Taming the AI Curator: A Content Focused Data Description Diagnostic and Assistive Writing Tool 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 1: Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom; 2: DataSeer |
Session B: Sensitive and complex data Location: Istanbul Suite Paper session.
Acting in the Best Interest of the Other: An Ethics of Care in Digital Curation 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 University of Bristol, United Kingdom Curation and Reproducibility in an Artificial Intelligence World: Challenges and Solutions for Scientific Research Cornell University, United States of America |
Session C: Contemporary curation challenges: I Location: Venice Suite Paper session.
Preserving Under Pressure: The 2016/17 Data Rescue Movement and the Limits of Emergency Curation 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 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 British Library, United Kingdom |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch: Lunch break |
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| 2:00pm - 3:15pm |
Session D: Communities for curation support and development Location: Emerald Ballroom Lightning Talk session.
Evolving with the Community: Updates to the CoreTrustSeal Requirements for 2026-2028 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 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 Helsinki university library, Finland FAIRVault, An Inter-University Federated Dataverse Pilot In Flanders 1: Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: Ghent University, Belgium; 3: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; 4: University of Antwerp Archival Information Packages: a Data-Centric Approach to Preservation Artefactual Systems, Canada |
Session E: AL/ML in research support Location: Istanbul Suite Lightning Talk session.
Enhancing the Benefits of Machine-Actionable DMPs with Generative AI University of California Office of the President, United States of America GenAI For Research Support: A Case To Dmps Pre-Filling Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The Exploring the Use of LLMs to Support Research Data Documentation in the Social FORS, Switzerland Combining Machine Learning tools and Terminology Services to support FAIR Data Management in ESS 1: DKRZ (German Climate Computing Center), Germany; 2: Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research |
Session F: Contemporary curation challenges: II Location: Venice Suite Lightning Talk session.
Organizing a Community to Survive Research Ecosystem Instability University of Pennsylvania, United States of America What Should Be Saved? The Impact of Austerity on Data Rescue UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom How Do You Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Your Digital Preservation Activities? 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 FCCN-FCT, Portugal Transforming Historical Records into Digital Assets for Improved Access and Efficiency; The National Social Security Fund Records digitization Journey. National Social Security Fund, Uganda |
| 3:15pm - 4:15pm |
Poster: Poster exhibition with coffee break A chance to look at conference poster submissions, with coffee and tea. |
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| 6:30pm - 9:30pm |
Dinner: Conference dinner Location: Garden Brewery and Taproom |
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| Date: Wednesday, 18/Feb/2026 | |||
| 9:30am - 11:00am |
Session G: Curating complex data Location: Emerald Ballroom Paper session.
On Curating HTR Training Datasets for Romanian Language with use of Transcribathon Tool 1: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria; 2: Facts & Files Digital Services GmbH, Germany; 3: CrossLang NV, Belgium Dealing with Unprecedented Scale and Complexity: Lessons from Archiving HS2 Digital Archaeological Data University of York, United Kingdom Auditing the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) Human Reference Atlas (HRA): An Evaluation of Core Digital Objects Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America |
Session H: Discoverability Location: Istanbul Suite Paper session.
A Citation Analysis of Government of Canada Open Data in Academic Literature: Leveraging AI for Open Data Archive Impact Assessment Concordia University, Canada ‘&%$£ In = &%$£ Out: How Controlled Vocabularies and Metadata Standards Are Fundamental for Developing Open Research Indicators University of Bristol, United Kingdom Standardization Vs. Preservation? Supporting Interoperability by Enhancing Thematic Metadata at Social Science Archives Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary |
Session J: Sustainability Location: Venice Suite Paper session.
Towards a Shared Understanding of what is Necessary for Long-Term Archiving: EOSC EDEN Core Preservation Processes TIB-Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany Towards best practices in Research Data Management: Guiding institutional development in Irish Research Performing Organizations trough collaborative self-evaluation University of Limerick, Ireland Risk and Expertise: How Professional Roles Shape Views of Repository Certification Requirements 1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), United States of America; 3: Einstein Center Digital Future, Germany |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Wednesday coffee: Coffee break |
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| 11:30am - 12:45pm |
Session K: Data stewards Location: Emerald Ballroom Lightning Talk session. (Note: this session has four scheduled presentations)
How & When To Use A Data Steward? The Use-case Of The Czech RDM Ecosystem 1: Czech Technical University, Czech Republic; 2: Charles University, Czech Republic Micro-Creds: Innovative Training for Sustainable Communities 1: HEAnet, Ireland; 2: University College Cork (UCC) Establishment of a Certification Program for Research Data Management Support Personnel at Kyushu University, Japan Kyushu University, Japan Navigating Sensitivity, Scarcity, and Scale: AI and the Future of Sensitive Data Curation in Small Social Science Archives Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Data Management Planning in a Cross-Disciplinary Research Environment: More Than a Tick Box Exercise? UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, United Kingdom |
Session L: Creating communities and developing tools Location: Istanbul Suite Lightning Talk session.
How Do You Make Your University FAIR-er? Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden The Base4NFDI Development Framework: Growing Interoperable RDM Basic Services Across Domains 1: ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences, Germany; 2: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany; 3: Technical University Dresden, Germany Automating Curation To Support FAIR Data Publication: The KU Leuven RDR Review Dashboard KU Leuven, Belgium Helpdesk on Research Data Management: AI-based Chatbot for FAIR Research Data in Portugal 1: Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal; 2: Universidade do Minho, Portugal The File Check Assistant: A User-Friendly Tool for Improving Data Reusability UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
Session M: AI/ML: Curation challenges and opportunities: II Location: Venice Suite Lightning Talk session.
AI in the Archive or an AI-Driven Archive? 1: UK Data Service, United Kingdom; 2: State Archives of Belgium AI And Open Collections: Developing A Position And Policy For Repositories University of Oxford, United Kingdom Big Graphs, AI Black-boxes, And Human-out-of-the-Loop: Regaining Human FAIRness Through Human-Centric Curation And Preservation Of Intelligent Artefacts 1: University of London, School of Advanced Studies, United Kingdom; 2: King's College London Curation and Research Data Management in Big Science projects: A Brazilian case study Federal University of Goiás, Brazil Augmented Intelligence and Ethical Curation: Lessons from the FamilySearch-AUC Arabic Registers Project American University in Cairo, Egypt |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm |
Poster lunch: Lunch and poster session voting Lunch, with a chance to view and vote on the best conference poster. |
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| 1:45pm - 2:45pm |
Session N: Data sovereignty and trusting people Location: Emerald Ballroom Paper session.
Moving Data Citation Forward: The Multilayered Approach of a Social Sciences Data Repository FORS, Switzerland Towards Sustainable Curation: Evaluation of Cost and Accuracy of AI Tools in Scaling Annotation Tasks in Curation of Biomedical Literature 1: University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: Howard University; 3: Villanova University; 4: Drexel University |
Session O: Next generation DMPs Location: Istanbul Suite Paper session.
Introducing FJORD: Orchestrating Research Data Management through Enhanced FAIRness University of Bern, Switzerland Optimizing Historical Data Governance through GEO-Coding: Framework, AI Applications, and Case Study in Bangladesh 1: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh, People's Republic of; 2: Synesis IT Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 3: RK Software (Bangladesh) Ltd, Dhaka |
Session P: Developing curation tools and services Location: Venice Suite Paper session.
One Platform, Many Pathways: Reducing Administrative Burden in RDM Through Service Integration Vrije Universitiet, Netherlands Digitally Preserving e-Theses: Challenges and Opportunities Loughborough University, United Kingdom |
| 2:45pm - 2:50pm |
Transition: Transition time Five minutes to move into the closing conference sessions.. |
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| 2:50pm - 3:35pm |
Keynote 2: Closing keynote Location: Emerald Ballroom |
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| 3:35pm - 3:45pm |
Awards: Best paper and best poster awards Location: Emerald Ballroom Chair: Laurence Horton, University of Glasgow Recognising the best paper submission at the conference as identified by the programme committee, and the best poster as voted for by conference attendees. |
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| 3:45pm - 4:00pm |
Closing: Closing remarks Location: Emerald Ballroom Chair: Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre A thank you and farewell to IDCC26. |
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| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Networking coffee: Closing coffee break and informal networking The conference programme may be over, but there's one more chance for a coffee or tea and network with conference attendees. |
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