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April 13th 2025

16.00 – 18.00 Registration 18.00 – 20.00 Welcome dinner

April 14th 2025

ud 07.30 – 10.00 Breakfast and registration 10.00 – 12.00 Workshop I.: Tom Cramer, Open Library Foundation – Folio 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch 13.00 – 13.10 Opening 13.10 – 13.30 Neil Jefferies, Oxford University/Open Preservation Foundation – Why Open Infrastructure is Essential for Long Term Access 13.30 – 14.00 Riitta Koikkalainen, National Library of Finland – Bubbling under: interoperability 14.00 – 14.20 Michaela Bežová, National Library of the Czech Republic – Receipt of Electronic Publications in the National Library of the Czech Republic 14.20 – 14.40 David Baranko, CVTI SR – Smart Laboratories and Smart Education in Slovak Libraries – Innovation for the Future 14.40 – 15.00 Tom Cramer, Open Library Foundation – Open Metadata 15.00 – 15.30 Panel discussion with presenters and coffee break 15.30 – 15.50 Liudmyla Trotsenko, Wrocław University of Science and Technology – Fostering Open Science Culture in Unite!Alliance: The Wrocław Tech Experience 15.50 – 16.10 Péter Váradi, L’Harmattan Publishing House, Budapest – Open Access Book Publishing and Discovery Platform: AI-Assisted Solutions 16.10 – 16.30 Jan Brase, University of Göttingen – How we make our services available in the state via Academic Cloud 16.30 – 17.00 Tomas Foltyn, National Library of the Czech Republic – Modernization of the core library systems – are we looking forward to the successful data big-bang or is the professional „Freddy Krueger“ coming? 17.00 – 18.00 Panel discussion on library systems, chaired by David Minor, UCSD 18.00 – 19.00 Dinner 19.00 – 21.00 Aquarium night

April 15th 2025

07.30 – 09.00 Breakfast 09.30 – 09.40 Opening 09.40 – 10.00 David Minor, UCSD – Why Are the Robots Smarter Than Us? 10.00 – 10.20 Adam Pawłowski, University of Wrocław – An overview of the applications of large bibliographies in information science, linguistics, and cultural anthropology (tutorial) 10.20 – 10.40 Illyria Brejchová, Masaryk University in Brno – Digitalia – research infrastructure for arts and humanities 10.40 – 11.10 Workshop II: Anthony Leroy, University of Brussels – Transcribing Handwritten Documents with eScriptorium 11.10 – 12.00 Workshop III: Jan Černý, University of Economics – Current AI Trends and Core Concepts in Prompt Engineering 12.00 – 12.30 Panel discussion with presenters and coffee break 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 14.20 Norman Meuschke, University of Göttingen – Libraries in the Age of AI: Opportunities and Challenges 14.20 – 14.40 Andrea Hrčková, KINIT – Library and Information Professionals and AI: A Possible Future of Collaboration 14.40 – 15.00 Marcin Kapczynski, Clarivate – Empowering Research Excellence with AI-Driven Clarivate Solutions for Discovery, Evaluation, Impact, and Funding Success 15.00 – 15.20 Patrick Hochstenbach, Ghent University – The Claims Network: Collecting Research, Education, Impact and Leadership Claims on the Decentralized Web 15.20 – 15.40 Anastasia Zhukova, University of Göttingen – Automated Collection of Evaluation Datasets for Semantic Search in Low-Resource Domain Languages 15.40 – 16.10 Panel discussion with presenters and coffee break 16.10 – 16.40 Petr Žabička, Moravian Library a Jan Rychtář, Trinera s.r.o. – AI/ML in Digital Libraries: Designing for Clarity and Control 16.40 – 18.00 Panel discussion on AI in libraries, chaired by David Minor, UCSD 18.00 – 18.10 Closing of the conference 19.00 – 22.00 Gala Dinner

April 16th 2025

7.30 – 10.00 Breakfast