DSpace Lab Day #5

Institutional IDs Unlocked – ROR meets DSpace

  • Date: 26.03.2026
  • Hour: 12:00
  • Małgorzata Paszkowska
  • Amanda French
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About the event

  1. Title: Institutional IDs Unlocked – ROR meets DSpace
  2. When: 26 March 2026, 12:00 CET (Europe/Warsaw)
  3. Speakers: – Małgorzata Paszkowska, PCG Academia
    – Amanda French, Research Organization Registry (ROR)
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DSpace Lab Days

DSpace Lab Days is a monthly series of online meetings designed for the professional exchange of knowledge and experience regarding the implementation and use of the DSpace system. The format of the meetings is flexible: from short lectures and expert panels, through case studies and Q&A sessions, to practical hands-on workshops. The meetings are addressed to members of the DSpace Poland National Group and all repository administrators, digital libraries, developers, and project managers interested in increasing the visibility of scientific achievements through DSpace.

The meetings are primarily addressed to members of the DSpace Poland National Group, but are open to all interested parties. In particular, we also invite repository and digital library administrators, developers, project managers, and anyone interested in the DSpace repository.

DSpace Lab Day #5

The DSpace Lab Days webinars cycle, initiative of the Polish DSpace User Group, opens its doors to English-speaking users to support the community and to build collaboration beyond language barriers!

Persistent identifiers for organisations are becoming essential for accurate affiliation metadata, reporting and open-science workflows. This webinar explores practical approaches to integrating the Research Organization Registry into DSpace installations. Discover what ROR enables, where it appears in repository workflows and why it matters beyond simple affiliation fields.

Attendees will gain both a conceptual overview and a short, hands-on demonstration of how ROR works inside a DSpace instance, and we’ll also highlight some of the less obvious operational and strategic benefits of implementing ROR. Every mature research institution should be familiar with this identifier and include its use in institutional policies.

The webinar will be valuable for repository managers, metadata specialists, IT leads and research-support staff who want to improve affiliation data quality, support institutional reporting and streamline researcher workflows as well as for librarians, research information managers, policy-makers and other stakeholders interested in emerging trends in research information management and open science.

What you will learn:

  • Why institutional identifiers (ROR) matter for repositories and research reporting,
  • Practical benefits and recommended approaches for adopting ROR in institutional workflows,
  • A live DSpace demo showing where and how ROR is surfaced in the system and what to consider when enabling it,
  • Time for audience Q&A with technical and policy-focused guidance.

Agenda:

  • Welcome and introduction,
  • ROR overview and practical guidance,
  • DSpace demo: ROR in action,
  • Non-obvious benefits of implementing ROR in DSpace,
  • Live Q&A and discussion.

Experts:

  • Małgorzata Paszkowska

    Key Account Manager / Project Manager, PCG Academia

    She specializes in project management and business analytics, currently serving as a client supervisor and project manager in the Science line at PCG Academia. A long-time collaborator of the Information Processing Center – National Research Institute. She supervised the implementation of projects such as the Scientific Achievement Evaluation System (SEDN) and the Polish Scientific Bibliography (PBN). As part of her professional work, she has carried out projects related to end-to-end software development – from concept to production implementation to post-implementation user support. She holds numerous certificates in business analysis and traditional and agile project management. She graduated from interdisciplinary studies in European Studies at the University of Warsaw.

  • Amanda French

    Research Organization Registry (ROR), Technical Community Manager

    Amanda French, ROR Technical Community Manager, is a well-known community manager and project director in the scholarly communication and digital humanities spheres. At Crossref, she works to encourage and support use of the Research Organization Registry (ROR). Before coming to Crossref, she served as Community Lead at The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, where she helped build and nurture a community of more than 800 volunteers dedicated to collecting and publishing key COVID-19 data. Prior to that, she directed the Mellon-funded project ‘Resilient Networks for Inclusive Digital Humanities’ at GWU Libraries, directed the Digital Research Services unit at Virginia Tech Libraries, led the THATCamp unconference initiative at GMU’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and was a member of the first cohort of CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows. In her free time she plays guitar and upright bass, plants pollinator-friendly flowers, and enjoys the company of one dog and three cats.

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