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.
Beyond the EU: DORA and NIS 2 Directive's Global Impact
Doing Things Differently 2010
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Doing Things Differently
Sheffield
27/October/2010
Stephanie Taylor
Research Officer
UKOLN, University of Bath
E - s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk
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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?
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Thankyou!
Questions?
s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk