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2025

CRKN Virtual Conference: Open Knowledges and Sustainable Futures

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May 13 - 15, 2025

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May 08, 2025

Welcome / Closing

May 08, 2025 1:00pm

Intro to CRKN

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If you want to learn more about CRKN and the work that we do to make knowledge accessible to all, join us for this pre-conference Intro to CRKN session.

Clare Appavoo
Clare Appavoo

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Brittny Lapierre

John Aspler
John Aspler

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Claire Duncan

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Rebecca Dempsey

May 13, 2025

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 13, 2025 12:00pm

Welcome & Keynote Session - How Open Licences Help Sustain the Open Ecosystem

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Out of 118 elements on the planet, nitrogen is the most abundant. It is crucial for the existence of life on our planet, yet plants can’t use it in its most abundant form. Bacteria play a crucial role by fixing nitrogen into an available form for plants. Nearly 3 million research papers are

Monica Granados
Monica Granados

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May 13, 2025 1:15pm

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Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 13, 2025 1:30pm

Unlocking Research Potential: Advancing Open Science in Eight Steps

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In the pursuit of promoting transparency, collaboration, and accessibility of research outputs that benefit science and society, the integration of open science practices is paramount, and institutions play a key role. This presentation delves into the eight strategic recommendations for advancing

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Leigh-Ann Butler

Caroline Hyslop
Caroline Hyslop

Digital Heritage

May 13, 2025 2:00pm

Reparative Description for Truth and Reconciliation: Devil is in the Dietz-tails

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The province of Saskatchewan is home to 75 First Nations, covered by multiple treaties, and is the Homeland of the Métis. The University of Saskatchewan (USask) operates on Treaty 6 Territory and the University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) holds a significant volume of archival materials

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Jessica Ye

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Sadie Anderson

Persistent Identifiers

May 13, 2025 2:30pm

UBC ROR - the "Where" of persistent identifiers for linked digital assets

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The Research Organization Registry (ROR), launched in late 2019, addresses a critical gap in the scholarly infrastructure by enhancing the network of open persistent identifiers used to track and discover research outputs. The academic community requires reliable ways to answer key questions about

Eugene Barsky
Eugene Barsky

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Bronwen Sprout

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 13, 2025 2:45pm

University libraries and scholarly publishing in Quebec—moving from collaboration to pooling via the Circé Network

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Created in June 2024, with five-year funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), the Circé Network aims to provide concrete support to the ecosystem of French-language scholarly journals in Quebec in its transition to Diamond open access, an immediate open access model without any author or

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Stéphanie Gagnon

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Nadia Zurek

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 13, 2025 3:15pm

FishSounds Fisheries: Open Knowledge in Support of Industry

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FishSounds (fishsounds.net) is a growing online portal that makes the science of fish sonifery, or sound production, openly available and easy to access. The website compiles information on fish species and their habitats, summaries of academic publications that studied sound production in fishes

Sarah Vela
Sarah Vela

Digital Heritage

May 13, 2025 3:30pm

Fostering Open Knowledge and Sustainable Futures: Internet Archive Canada's Collaborative Initiatives

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This presentation explores how Internet Archive Canada (IAC) and its partners advance open knowledge and sustainable futures through collaborative digital preservation. We'll discuss IAC's partnerships with Canadian institutions, including the Canadian Government Information Digital Preservation

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Andrea Mills

May 14, 2025

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 14, 2025 12:00pm

Sustainable Open Access in Quebec and Canada? The Impact of Plan S on FRQ-Funded Researchers

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Granting agencies play a key role in advancing sustainable open access (OA) scholarship globally and in Canada. Plan S, a European initiative by cOAlition S, has catalyzed global shifts towards immediate OA. Its relevance to Canada grew significantly in 2022 when Québec’s granting agency, Fonds de

Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange

Rachel Harris
Rachel Harris

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Pierre Lasou

Digital Heritage

May 14, 2025 12:30pm

Global Access to Local Treasures: A Botswana-Canada Collaboration

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The Khama III Memorial Museum and University of Toronto Libraries have entered into an innovative partnership to digitize an exceptional collection of rare archival material in Botswana, the Khama family papers. This project is important because it supports a valuable African institution in their

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Gase Kediseng

Amal Hussien
Amal Hussien

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Jordan Pedersen

Persistent Identifiers

May 14, 2025 1:30pm

Optimizing Research Assessment through ROR IDs: Insights from Université Laval Library's Experience

In March 2024, the Université Laval Library was tasked with managing ROR IDs within the institution. Beyond managing the institution’s ROR ID, the Library also supports qualifying research groups in creating their own ROR IDs, enabling them to better assess their publication output. This

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Charlie Lessard-Berger

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 14, 2025 1:45pm

Sharing and Preserving Nuclear Science: A Case Study of the Canadian Nuclear Society Proceedings

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The Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS), founded in 1979, is dedicated to facilitating information exchange, supporting ongoing education, and promoting the peaceful development and application of nuclear science and technology. Since its inception, the CNS has held regular conferences and produced

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Caitlin Bakker

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Christopher Read

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May 14, 2025 2:00pm

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Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 14, 2025 2:15pm

OMP Under the Spotlight

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Open Monograph Press (OMP) is an open source tool developed by PKP that enables a global community of users to publish scholarly books, including monographs, edited volumes and other kinds of long-form scholarship. While crucial to our collective knowledge, book publishing has seen a slower uptake

Zoe Wake Hyde
Zoe Wake Hyde

Digital Heritage

May 14, 2025 2:30pm

More than “Creoles and Pidgins, Other”: Follow up on CRKN Study on Indigenous Languages Collections

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As a follow up to the recent study of CRKN member libraries collections in Indigenous languages presented at this conference last year by Jurczyk & Bennett, University of Toronto Libraries’ Indigenous Metadata Working Group is undertaking a project to refine the discoverability and accessibility of

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Kaelen Bennett

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Susan Bond

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Juliya Borie

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 14, 2025 3:00pm

Collaborate, Communicate, and Connect through Communities of Practice

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Communities of Practice (CoPs) are vital spaces where Canadian research library professionals come together to collaborate, innovate, and share knowledge. This session will introduce three CoPs that are supported by CARL—Canadian Repositories, Library Publishing, and Bibliometrics and Research

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Taleen Aktorosian

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Emily Hopkins

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Thane Chambers

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Mark Swartz

Digital Heritage

May 14, 2025 3:30pm

ARCHIVESCANADA.CA: analyzing our past to build better open knowledge digital infrastructure for Canada's documentary heritage

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ARCHIVESCANADA.CA, the national finding aid network, was once envisioned as a cornerstone for democratizing online access to Canadian archives. On October 20, 2001, the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) launched the ARCHIVESCANADA.CA database, initially containing profiles for 800 archival

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Kelli Babcock

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 14, 2025 4:00pm

Bridging Gaps, Building Relationships: Understanding Indigenous Humanities Data in the Context of Open Science

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This panel considers the current priorities and potential future opportunities for humanities scholars working with Indigenous data. Specifically, we are interested in highlighting ways of increasing the accessibility and discoverability of data associated with The People and the Text (TPatT), a

Deanna
Deanna Reder

Alix Shield
Alix Shield

Susan Glover
Susan Glover

May 15, 2025

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 15, 2025 12:30pm

Lessons in Collaboration: Insights from the Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals

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Recognizing that scholarly journals and the libraries that support them are undergoing profound shifts in their environments and are facing increasingly complex challenges with the shift toward immediate open access and the adoption of related standards and best practices for persistent identifiers

Jeanette Hatherill
Jeanette Hatherill

Karine Morin
Karine Morin

Samantha MacFarlane
Samantha MacFarlane

Persistent Identifiers

May 15, 2025 1:00pm

Better Data, Lower Burden, Higher Impact: the Value of Persistent Identifiers Across the Research Ecosystem

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Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are long-lasting, globally unique, digital labels for a person, place or thing. Examples include digital object identifiers (DOIs) for journal articles, books, and datasets, ORCID iDs for people, and Research Organization Registries (RORs) for organizations. PIDs are

John Aspler
John Aspler

Adam Eikenberry
Adam Eikenberry

Robyn Nicholson
Robyn Nicholson

Mike Nason
Mike Nason

Digital Heritage

May 15, 2025 2:00pm

Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Research Infrastructure in Canada: A Landscape Analysis and Future Directions

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In 2024, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada: A Landscape Analysis was developed with the aim to survey the main organizations and initiatives that make up humanities and social sciences digital research infrastructure in Canada today. The goal of this

Alyssa Arbuckle
Alyssa Arbuckle

Digital Heritage

May 15, 2025 2:30pm

Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership (CCDDP): Building a comprehensive inventory for open discovery and pathways for sustainable stewardship

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The Census of Canada is a key data source available to Canadians to support both contemporary and historical research. However, much of the historical census data in Canada is scattered across various collections including archival census returns, print census volumes, maps, data tables, and born

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Leanne Trimble

Open Access / Open Scholarship

May 15, 2025 2:45pm

The Institutional Alignment Challenge: Grappling with AI in Collections

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With the rise of publicly available generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, librarians have been working to understand their impact on library-licensed e-resources while ensuring users receive accurate, timely guidance on privacy, intellectual property and other usage considerations. In

Graeme Slaght
Graeme Slaght

Klara Maidenberg
Klara Maidenberg

Shelby Thaysen
Shelby Thaysen

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