doing things differently 2010
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A presentation I gave on behalf of UKOLN - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ - at the 'Doing Things Differently' event run by the RSP - http://www.rsp.ac.uk/ . The presentation looked at where institutional repositories might go in the future, the practical and the dream scenarios.TRANSCRIPT
A centre of expertise in digital information management
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Doing Things Differently
Sheffield27/October/2010
Stephanie TaylorResearch OfficerUKOLN, University of BathE - [email protected]
UKOLN is supported by:This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat)
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About Me
Stephanie Taylor:• Work with UKOLN as a research officer• Work on the practical side of institutional
repositories• Worked on the first phase of the RSP
UKOLN:• National centre of expertise in digital
information management• Located at the University of Bath
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Repository History…
• New technologies• New concepts• New ways of working• Doing things differently from the
beginning…
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Trends…
• Evolving content• Linking up with other systems• Adding new features• Continuous revolution?
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Evolving Content
• From text to…• Moving images/sound• Still images• Sound• Anything and everything…
• Dance, choreography notation• Music, sound, scores, videos• Maps• Whatever?!
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The “Other” Repositories
What *might* be a repository?• Flickr?• Google Docs?• YouTube?• SlideShare?• Wikipedia?• Twitter?
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Putting it in…
• Easier deposit workflow• Move from ‘expert’ to enduser depositing• Mandates• Quality control• Embedding repos into the institution• Tempting the enduser, making useful
tools• The dreaded copyright & IPR
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Getting it out…
•Search engine optimisation•Directories•Linking in to other systems•Who are our users?•What do users need?•Do different users need different things?
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Shaking it all about…
•Multi-tasking - archive or repo?•Supporting other library and information services•‘Hidden’ repositories•Other entry points & conversations• Facebook• RSS feeds• Tagging
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The Guerrilla Repo
•Scholarly communications•The ‘P’ word•Copyright & IPR•Innovative advocacy•Challenging accepted behaviour, roles & responsibilities
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If We Build It, Will They Come?•Subject repositories•National repositories•Aggregation services•What do endusers want?
A centre of expertise in digital information management
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Thankyou!
Questions?