Repository Services Day

15th January 2009

Workshop: Repository Services of the FutureStephanie Taylor, UKOLN

Workshop Session

1. What services are working well?– Could they be improved and how?

2. Are there any other existing services you would like to know more about?

3. What services are missing for the repository community?

4. What services are missing for the research community?

5. Make a wish!

Where we are going - facilities

• Exposure for harvesting . . . • Linkage to departmental pages• Linkage to personal pages - career logs• RAE/REF - citation and usage analyses• Beyond pdf - text and data-mining• Virtual Research Environments• Web 2.0 - mash-ups and tagging

Where we are going - intentions

• Supporting research through repositories– researchers’ needs– institutional goals– researchers’ and institutional working practices– research communication– research itself– research process– research assessment

Where we are going - embedding

Institutional integration• Workflows• Repository as a set of services• Staffing and management• Funder mandate compliance• Information management & REF• Exploitation and outreach• Virtual research environments

Stephanie Taylor

RSP/UKOLN, University of Bath

s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk