Conference themes

• AI solutions for better deposit, curation, data, and repositories 
  This theme explores how artificial intelligence can enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of repository workflows. Topics include automated metadata generation, data quality assessment, content classification, intelligent deposit and curation support, and processes for AI-ready data. Sessions on this topic might include practical use cases, emerging tools, and ethical considerations, highlighting how AI can empower repositories to manage growing data volumes while improving discoverability and user experience.
• Dataset interoperability and linkage
  This theme focuses on strengthening connections between datasets, platforms, and research infrastructures to enable seamless discovery, integration, and reuse. Discussions might include addressing metadata standards, ontologies, and taxonomies for interoperability, and metadata crosswalks. Participants could showcase initiatives to link data from different sources, enhance the portability of data and metadata, support federated search, and foster richer, more interconnected research ecosystems.
• Mechanisms, policies, and trusted environments for sensitive data
  This theme addresses the challenges and innovations involved in managing sensitive and restricted data within the Dataverse ecosystem. Topics might include streamlining data access, integration with trusted research environments (TRE), and privacy-preserving technologies. Participants will share solutions for balancing openness with necessary protections, ensuring that sensitive data can be shared and reused responsibly, safely, and at scale.
• Dataverse Showcase: Implementations and Use Cases 
  This theme aims to foster cross-institutional learning, inspiration, and dialogue across the global Dataverse ecosystem. With over 140 installations worldwide, the Dataverse Community reflects diverse infrastructures, communities, and innovations. We invite proposals showcasing individual Dataverse installations, or individual repositories within an installation, original ways to use them, highlighting features, use cases, workflows, integrations, sustainability models, or community practices. Submissions may include lightning talks, live demonstrations, or other experimental formats.

We also welcome other topics that fall outside the main areas but are essential to the evolving Dataverse community. We are open to contributions on novel features, community initiatives, infrastructure updates, user experience improvements, governance models, and emerging challenges. Participants can showcase innovative ideas, cross-cutting issues, or early-stage concepts that enrich the community’s collective understanding and spark new directions for collaboration.