CONFERENCE Programme

Download the conference programme here: PISA 2025 Programme.pdf

PISA 2025 Conference Programme- Day 1, Wednesday, May 7th, 2025

The first day is dedicated to OpenASFA, and by invitation only to users of this platform and members of the ASFA European Regional network. If you are not a member, and would like to join the session, please contact Tamsin.Vicary@fao.org.

TIME	SESSION INFORMATION
09:30 - 09:45	Welcome to OpenASFA retreat and introductions OpenASFA convener: Tamsin Vicary, FAO
09:45 - 10:30	OpenASFA Technical Review Current functionalities and performance analysis; User feedback & common issues. Tiziano Di Condina, Luca Berloco, and Tamsin Vicary, FAO
10:30 - 11:30	User Needs & Feature Requests Review of user survey results, which features are working, which need improvement and what new features are needed?
11:30 - 11:50	Coffee/Tea Break and Group Photo
11:50 - 13:00	Future Development & Enhancements. Brainstorming session: short-term vs. long-term goals; integrations with other systems
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break and optional wellness walk
14:00 - 15:00	Formulating a Work plan Funding sources, timelines and milestones for development of new features, responsibilities.
15:00 - 15:20	Coffee/Tea Break
15:20 - 15:50	OpenASFA and D4Science: review of services.
15:50 - 16:20	Sustainability & Maintenance Long-term governance & support models
16:20 - 17:00	Finalising work plan
16:20 - 17:00	Conclusion and summary
	End of Day 1

PISA 2025 Conference Programme – Day 2, Thursday, May 8

TIME	SESSION INFORMATION
09:00 - 09:15	Registration and speaker setup Sign-in, badges, conference program and materials
09:15 - 09:20 09:20-09:30 09:30-10:00 10:00-10:30	Conference Convener: Gina Pavone, ISTI-CNR, Italy Time Keeper: Stefania Biagioni, ISTI-CNR, Italy (Traffic light system: green card=time ok, orange card=3 mins left, red card= time over, stop presentation!) Opening session Welcome, Introduction Dr. Pasquale Pagano, InfraScience Laboratory Director, ISTI-CNR Keynote address Donatella Castelli, Research Associate at ISTI-CNR, Italy Opening Address Olaf Siegert, Head of Publication Services at ZBW, Germany
10:30 - 11:00	Scientific Communication Practices A discussion with Donatella Castelli, ISTI-CNR, Tamsin Vicary, ASFA, Stephanie Ronan, EURASLIC & Dominic Farace, GreyNet International to introduce the organisations, and discuss the relevance and impact of this joint collaboration on our communities and on our scientific communication practices.
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee/Tea Break and Group Photo
11:30 - 13:00	Panel Session – “From a Panel Discussion to a Position Paper” Panel Chair: Tamsin Vicary, ASFA A new approach to grey literature must confront a dated mindset and misnomers that information professionals and practitioners still adopt in their understanding of grey literature. Consideration must be given to the past three decades of research linked with technological developments that have been carried out in this field of information science. Panel: Daryl Superio, NISU, Philippines Saida Messaudi, INSTIM, Tunisia Dominic Farace, GreyNet International, Netherlands Gina Pavone, ISTI-CNR, Italy
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break and optional wellness walk
14:00 - 16:00	Lightning Talks, Poster Session and Sponsor Showcase Each presenter will give a lightning presentation of their poster up to 3 minutes each in the auditorium. We will then move to the poster viewing area where we can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee while interacting with our poster presenters and hearing more details on their work. Poster Jurors: Simone Angioni, ISTI-CNR Lottie Provost, ILC-CNR Biagio Peccerillo, ISTI-CNR Making Grey Literature FAIR: OSTrails and the Power of Scientific Knowledge Graphs Claudio Atzori, Paolo Manghi, Miriam Baglioni, and Alessia Bardi, ISTI-CNR, Italy; Thalassia Kontino, CLARIN ERIC, Netherlands; Tassos Stavropoulos, OpenAIRE MAKE, Greece; and Elli Papadopoulou, Athena Research Center (ARC), Greece Advancing Diamond Open Access: Tools for Visibility, Interoperability, and Impact Alessia Bardi and Michele Artini, ISTI-CNR, Italy; Leonidas Pispiringas, OpenAIRE AMKE, Greece; Michal Růžička, Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University and Radek Gomola, University Press, Masaryk University, Czech Republic MOD, Mappa Open Data: A Digital Repository Enhancing Open Access to Archaeological Grey Literature and Data Salvatore Basile and Filippo Sala, University of Pisa, Italy; Lorena Bravi and Chiara Giovannetti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy PIDS enhance the quality of grey literature and facilitate scientific communication Stefania Biagioni and Carlo Carlesi, InfraScience; ISTI-CNR, Italy; Dominic Farace, GreyNet International, Netherlands Enhancing Scientific Communication: What do we do to make scientific research and knowledge accessible? Ingrid Čatić, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries – Library, Croatia Tackling the metadata challenge of funding attribution for grey literature resources Serena Danssen and Margo Hilbrecht, The Vanier Institute of the Family; Jennifer Turner and Andrea Doucet, Brock University, Canada Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Grey Literature in the Study and Protection of Northern Tuscany's Archaeological Records Francesco D’Antoni, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy “Living datasets” of long-term biodiversity monitoring: The importance of logging versions and snapshots Bart Goossens and Emily Veltjen Research Institute for Nature and Forest; INBO, Belgium From doodles to discoveries: Publications types in CroRIS - module CROSBI Sofija Konjević, Marina Mayer, and Ivana Končić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Centre for Scientific Iformation, Croatia From Grey Literature to Global Impact: "INSTM Bulletin of Marine and Freshwater Sciences” Goes Digital Saida Messaoudi, University of Carthage. National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies INSTM), Tunisia Supporting the Research Synthesis Process Kristen LaBonte, Interim Director of Research and Engagement; University of California, Santa Barbara Library, United States Adriatic marine fisheries research: findings from the OpenASFA-AdriaMed collection Tamsin Vicary, Maria Kalentsits, and Nicoletta Milone; FAO - AdriaMed Project, Italy; Ingrid Čatić, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Croatia; Sofija Konjević, Ruđer Bošković Institute; Centre for Scientific Information, Croatia D4GNA: A Service for Enhancing Access to Archaeological Grey Literature Leonardo Candela, Francesco Mangiacrapa, Pasquale Pagano, and Gian Luca Vannini, ISTI-CNR, Italy Enabling FAIR Publishing of Community-defined Grey Research Outputs: The D4Science Catalogue Leonardo Candela, Luca Frosini, Francesco Mangiacrapa, and Pasquale Pagano, ISTI-CNR, Italy
15:00 - 16:00	Coffee/Tea and POSTER SESSION
16:00 - 16:15	Conclusion and summary
18:30 - 20:00	Meet for Pisa Walking Tour
20:00	Social dinner- End of Day 2

PISA 2025 Conference Programme – Day 3, Friday, May 9

TIME	SESSION INFORMATION
08:45 - 09:15	Euraslic Board meeting in-person & virtual (Link in email)
09:15 - 09:50	Euraslic Business meeting in-person & virtual (all members, link in email)
10:00 - 10:05 10:05-10:35 10:35-11:05 11:05-11:35	Open Day 3: Conference Convener: Stephanie Ronan, EURASLIC/Marine Institute, Ireland Time Keeper: Sofija Konjevic, EURASLIC/Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia (Traffic light system: green card=time ok, orange card=3 mins left, red card= time over, stop presentation!) Session 1: Current Initiatives in the field of AI with broad applications for grey literature Evaluating the quality and credibility of AI-generated grey literature; AI incorporated in indexing, bibliographic descriptions, and in refining the workflow; and the application of ChatGPT research Challenges in Evaluating the Quality and Credibility of AI-Generated Grey Literature Dobrica Savić, IAEA Consultant in Nuclear Knowledge Management (Austria) Transforming INIS: Artificial Intelligence and Automation for Modern Information Systems Brian Paul Bales, Coordinator, International Nuclear Information System, INIS-IAEA (Austria) The Novelty of ChatGPT Research in the Southeast Asian Region: A Bibliometric Analysis of the First 15 Months Daryl L. Superio and Felicisimo V. Wenceslao, Jr., College of Information and Computing Studies; Northern Iloilo State University (Philippines)
11:35 - 12:00	Coffee break
12:00 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:00 13:00 - 13:30	Session 2 Grey literature seen as both a driver and vehicle for scientific communication As a driver, grey literature is on the forefront of information produced in multiple fields of science. As a vehicle, grey literature serves in publishing and disseminating that which is produced in diverse and multiple document types both in textual and non-textual formats. Delivering equitable knowledge exchange for the advancement of aquatic sciences: The OpenASFA use case Tamsin Vicary, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, ASFA-FAO of the United Nations (Italy) Science needs an alternative to YouTube! Exploring the TIB AV-Portal for the international GreyNet Community and beyond Margret Plank and Matti Stöhr, Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology, TIB (Germany) How Diamond Open Access affects scholarly communication: The Italian case Gina Pavone, Simone Angioni, Miriam Baglioni, Alessia Bardi, and Andrea Mannocci Institute of Information Science and Technologies, ISTI-CNR (Italy)
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break and optional wellness walk
14:30 - 15:00 15:00 - 15:30 15:30 - 16:00	Session 3 Data Sharing of Trusted Grey Resources Exploring data retention, data curation, and data specifications carried out by recognised organisations in the field of grey literature and in so doing expand the data spectrum through collaboration. KISTI's Digital Curation Practice: A Case Study SeokJong Lim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, KISTI (South Korea) Global information Repository Research for STI Development: Results from a Collaborative Research Project Dominic Farace, Grey Literature Network Service, GreyNet International (Netherlands) Jayhoon Kim and SeokJong Lim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, KISTI Preparing policy and technology for data sharing and reuse In the AI era Jayhoon Kim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, KISTI (South Korea)
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee/Tea Break
16:30 - 17:00	Poster Prize winner: announcement & presentation of the prize Closing Address & wrap-up Farewell