Getting to the Repository of the Future Round Table

Editor's Notes

1. Since 2002 to now – have grown a repository infrastructure. 200 repositories Exploratory, Building Capacity, Enhancements, Rapid Innovation, Deposit, Recent focus on efficiency and sustainability of national shared services (Sherpa RoMEO, IRUS, RJB) - (RepNet) The repository is now being seen to play a central role in the management of a university ’ s digital assets, including research papers, data and learning materials and it is seen as a response to competitive demands to attract students and research funds, and to national and international policy requirements. Our strategic planning in this area needs to keep abreast of drivers, rapid advances in technologies and academic practices. More recently, a number of policy drivers in the uk such as research funders ’ policies on Open Access and research data, the UK Government ’ s White Paper on Data , and the funding councils ’   learning strategies and Research Excellence Framework have recognised the value of curating, reporting/measuring and sharing these assets.  Finch – Instrumental in forwarding the OA agenda. It ’s been a Game changer in the UK. Altho many interpreted Finch as saying gold and no need for repositories this wasn ’ t what was meant – underneath it was a recognition that repositories wld have a role for supplementary materials, changing models of scholarship & the transition to gold OA would require repositories to take a part. G8 summit - all G8 nations – signing up to Open Access to Peer reviewed published research and research data E.g. FASTR. – The Fair access to Science and Technology Act – introduced
2. Exploratory FAIR Programme 2002 – this really was about seeing what could be done with OAI-PMH – various projects looking at institutional resources, museum resources and scoping services such as Sherpa and Romeo   Building capacity – Start-Up repositories funding 33 project – this was facilitating institutions building their repository from scratch.   Enhancement – 33 - seeing what services/tools could be built on top (SNEEP) – social networking extensions for ePrints     rapid innovation 2009 – 41 projects – small, short term funding – Walking Through Time project – mobile app that allows allow architectural historians, conservationists and tourists to download historical maps when standing in a specific location, to annotate and tag these maps and to record and follow routes through historical space Students were interested in walking through real space whilst following a map from say 200 years ago - and being able to tag locations and overlay related data that offers historical and contextual information. PRONOM - A technical registry for file formats DROID - : An automatic file format identification & characterisation tool. JHOVE - : An identification, characterisation and validation tool NZ Metadata Extractor : programmatically extracts preservation metadata from a range of file formats
3. Slide courtersey od Azhar Hussain from Sherpa Services OpenDOAR. This graph maps IR growth from 2005 to 2012, notice the step, which is due to initial addition of records, after which we see steady growth … It is safe to say that this graph shows significant growth …… Timely to assess where we are going (given changes in our policy environment)
4. Even though our infrastructure is relatively mature, it is still evolving. We are now are at a point where it seems timely to assess emerging strategic requirements and the role and value of the repository to the institution in meeting them.  How do we ensure that our development plans will meet future demands? I will stress that today is not just about OA and scholarly communications but about the value and impact of all types of content.  Aims of the day is to get your input to trends, pioneering examples and possible futures to jointly support strategic planning.
5. Rachel Botsman – Speaking at the WIRED Money financial event. She is teaching business and Governments how to make use of a “what’s mine is yours” philosophy that is changing the shape of our economy. Technology is transforming our relationship to assets and ownership – Bruce Willis is currently trying to find a way of adding his extensive iTunes library to his will to his children – which is not currently possible – even though he has paid for them. In the future we could see the emergence of peer to peer mortgage companies (Banks may not necessarily be needed in the equation) Quote: “The sharing economy… We can definitely see a really strong role for the repository as part of the edges…