getting to the repository of the future round table

Getting to the Repository of the Future – Round Table

Chris Awre

Balviar Notay

Repository Fringe Jisc Workshop: Getting to the Repository of the Future

Background, Context and Aims for today


• Since 2002 the UK has grown a repository infrastructure• Now over 200 in operation

• Repositories are playing an increasingly central role in the management of a university’s digital assets (including research papers, data, learning materials, etc.)

• Recent focus: efficiency and sustainability of national shared services (Sherpa RoMEO/JULIET, IRUS, RJB)

• Many component parts are in place• Where do we go from here?

Background and Context



• Two views

• High level• Institutions need to be responsive to competitive

demands to attract research funds and students, and must also meet national and international policy requirements.

• Strategic planning needs to keep abreast of policy drivers, rapid advances in technologies and academic practices (RCUK Policy on OA, Finch Report, Funding Councils’ Learning Strategies G8, FASTR, HEFCE REF 2020, etc.)

• On the ground• Repository systems have been with us for over 10

years• Are they still the right systems?• Are they enabling the management of the content we

need to curate?• What other options exist?• What impact will repositories have on staffing, skill

requirements, etc.?• What scale of operation can we manage? How?

• Focus today is on the repositories themselves and how we address the issues these two views raise


• Further the sector’s understanding of the costs and value that flow from the digital assets of universities

• Start to shape new futures for repositories

• Work together – inform how we move forward in the UK (whilst acknowledging global picture)

• Develop sector wide perspective

• Requires your participation and ideas

Aims and Objectives


Agenda13:30 – 13:40 Context, background and aims of the day (CA)

13:40 – 13:45 Current Picture - A brief overview (BN)

13:45 – 13:50 Reflections from pre-conference workshop (CA)

13:50 – 14:50 Roundtable discussion

14:50 – 15:00 Next steps


The Current Picture

Overview


Jisc Repository Programmes Since 2002.Now 200 Repositories (approx)

•Exploratory •Building Capacity •Enhancements •Rapid Innovation •Deposit•Take-Up and Embedding•Repository Shared Services Infrastructure•Preservation•Metadata - RIOXX

•Repository now plays central role in management of a university’s digital assets, (including research papers, data and learning materials)


OR13 Jisc Workshop: Where next for Institutional Repositories?

The CRIS/IR Landscape in the UK

Mirage2011

Sir Muir Gray, (Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS)

the “application of what we know already will have a greater

impact on health and disease than any drug or technology likely to be introduced in the

next decade”. Repositories are a typical example collecting large

amount of information waiting to be exploited.


“the sharing economy is rapidly disrupting conventional trade models

so that power is moving from the centre to the edges”

Rachel Botsman

Speaking at the WIRED money financial event


Reflections from pre-conference workshop


Breakouts

• Questions as prompts

• Please raise your own points as well

• Horizon view – 2, 5, and 10 years

Repository content

Repository content

Repository organisationRepository

organisationRepository

functionalityRepository

functionality

What do we need to do now to enable the developments we’d like to see?

Jisc Repository Fringe Workshop: Getting to the Repository of the Future

Four main takeaways (for me)

•The role and need for a repository as a place to manage digital ‘stuff’ seems well accepted and here to staybut•There is a need for re-stating the clarity of purpose for our individual repositories, and taking ownership/leadership in how they develop

•No gaps perceived – we know what we wish to achieve with repositories, but just need a way of doing itbut•We need to clarify the barriers getting in the way and look at ways of overcoming them


…and some scenarios


Repositories will become capable of dealing with contenttypes according to their needse.g.,•Research data•Research ephemera, e.g., blogs, notebooks•Learning materials•Code•…


Repositories will move beyond being a store of PDFsto enable re-use to a greater extent

• Exposure to the web• Text/data mining


Repositories will benefit greatly from linked data, but weneed persistent identifiers and vocabularies to be betterestablished and standardised


Repositories will focus on holding material and preserving it,leaving all other functions to services built around therepository

Repositories will become invisibly integrated withinuser-facing services


Repositories will be challenged by other systems offeringsimilar capabilitye.g.,•Institutional – CRIS, VLE, VRE?, etc.•Commercial – Academia.edu, Mendeley, etc.•Community – Gateway to Research

Repositories will develop ways of demonstrating their impact


Barriers to getting to the repository of the future


• Skills

• People/resource

• …


Gaps?

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