The Future of Repositories (2009)

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Repository Services Day 15 th January 2009 Workshop: Repository Services of the Future Stephanie Taylor, UKOLN

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A presentation & workshop I devised and gave/ran for the RSP - http://www.rsp.ac.uk/ - in 2009, looking at the future developments that might happen within UK institutional repositories. The event was held at the University of Bath.

Transcript of The Future of Repositories (2009)

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Repository Services Day

15th January 2009

Workshop: Repository Services of the FutureStephanie Taylor, UKOLN

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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Stephanie Taylor

RSP/UKOLN, University of Bath

[email protected]