Open Repositories 2026

The 21st annual Open Repositories conference took place virtually on June 8 - 11, 2026. The first virtual conference since 2021, the dozens of presentations and posters featured presenters from around the world, all sharing innovations related to the conference theme: Open to All? Repositories at the Intersection of People, Practice, and Emerging Technologies.

As an added bonus, all presentations except the Roundtables were recorded, and are now available, along with all other conference materials, through Open Repositories' Zenodo community. This includes the InvenioRDM Workshop, one of five half-day workshops offered.

At our fifth annual OR InvenioRDM Workshop, a dozen of our community members collaborated to present on the most recent features and cutting-edge customizations of InvenioRDM. Show-and-tells and demos were presented in the first half. After a short break, we offered participants choices of three breakout rooms, enabling them to ask the experts questions in three key areas: technical installation and support; user support and promotion of an InvenioRDM-based institutional repository; and the activities of, and how to become involved with, the InvenioRDM Community.

Our expert-led Show-and-tells and demos, and supporting slides, included:

Thirteen of our fifty participants completed a post-survey, revealing their differing roles, including Librarians (38%), Developers (23%), Managers (15%), Other (15%), and IT/System Administrators (8%). Most (85%) had never attended an InvenioRDM workshop before, and most (nearly 70%) were at least somewhat familiar with the software. 46% did not have an InvenioRDM instance, while 23% did, and 31% were considering setting one up. Satisfaction levels were high, with expectations generally being met and a high likelihood of recommending a future InvenioRDM workshop like this one to a colleague. The examples and practical applications we demonstrated were considered relevant, awareness of the software was increased, and people affirmed that they were highly likely to use knowledge, skills, and resources from the workshop in their work settings. A slightly lower score was obtained for the statement, "I got all the information about InvenioRDM that I need to implement for my institution", however no specific requests or feedback were provided as to what types of information would be most useful to address this in the future.

InvenioRDM made an appearance in several other sessions apart from the Workshop, including:

At the end of the conference, it was announced that the next Open Repositories will be hosted in Salvador, Brazil from June 6 - 10, 2027. We will aim to host an InvenioRDM workshop once again then, and we hope to see you there!

References

  1. Tarocco, N., Ioannidis, A., & Gonzales, S. (2026). InvenioRDM OR2026 Workshop Kick-off. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20445471
  2. Moser, M. (2026). TU Wien Research Data: InvenioRDM Customized & Certified. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21248860
  3. McCollough, A. (2026). Paradigm’s Bulk Import / Export Tool for InvenioRDM. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21249140
  4. Verhoff, D., & Pechekhonova, E. (2026). Migration from a Spatial Data Repository to InvenioRDM. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20734133
  5. Gutzman, K., & Elder, J. (2026). Beyond Manual Deposit: Exploring a Metadata-Assisted Repository Service Model. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21249205
  6. Morrell, T. E. (2026). Caltech Library Repositories. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21249014
  7. Viger, G., Sharp, A., & Newman, E. (2026). InvenioRDM Technical FAQ - A Remixed Addendum. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21247805
  8. Gonzales, S., & Verhoff, D. (2026). The InvenioRDM Community 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20633150
  9. Tarocco, N., Ioannidis, A., & Gonzales, S. (2026). InvenioRDM repository showdown. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20789135
  10. Eardley, S. (2026). Ask a robot—Adding AI search to InvenioRDM. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20789098
  11. Rice, R., & Sutherland, I. (2026). University of Edinburgh Streamlined Research Data Service Feasibility Study. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20789021
  12. Leipold, L., Diehr, F., Drebenstedt, N., & Jones, R. (2026). Public Health Data in Context: Publishing the RKI research graph. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20788963
  13. Henze, L., Greenberg, J., & Verhoff, D. (2026). Institutional repository service design at NYU Libraries. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20789011
  14. McCollough, A., Morrell, T., Simek, M., & Ioannidis, A. (2026). When “Open to All” Threatens Sustainability: AI, Bots, and the Future of Open Repositories. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20788969
  15. Domanska Aga, Diehr Franziska, & Jones Richard. (2026). Presentations: Presenting Metadata Differently. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20778609