International Repositories Workshop
Posted on | February 25, 2009 | Comments Off
An international workshop on repository infrastructures in Amsterdam 16-17 March
"An international agenda for action on repositories infrastructure"
Background
Networks of open access repositories for research papers have been created in many countries and regions, and subject and funder repositories have been established that are both national and international. Examples include:
* DAREnet in the Netherlands
* UK Repositories Infrastructure
* OA-Network in Germany
* Digital Repository Federation in Japan
* APSR and Arrow in Australia
* DRIVER in Europe
The scope of these activities reflects typical funding streams for infrastructure. However, research is global, and any services for researchers that are likely to be acceptable need to be global. Hence there is a critical need to join up the repositories work across the world.
Relevant global initiatives do exist, such as metadata communities (eg, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) and a more recent global registries initiative. Where possible and appropriate, a global repositories infrastructure needs to build on this work.
Although the basic architecture for repositories is simple (data providers harvested by service providers), the reality is more complex. Services around rights, authority, access control (eg for deposit), linking between items in repositories, preservation, usage statistics, automatic metadata creation, etc all fall outside this simple model, and will all work best if coordinated at an international level. Added to this, the architecture is evolving, the emergence of OAI-ORE being a noteworthy example.
There are challenges facing the repository infrastructure. Some of these might be described as within the repository community, including recruiting content into repositories, developing and implementing effective policies, resource discovery and increasing the use of material in repositories, establishing a viable and resilient business model for repositories and related services, and ensuring interoperability where that is important. Other challenges might be described as coming from outside the repository community, for example the increasing relevance of the resource-oriented web architecture, user expectations of participation and integration with network services, and the changing ways in which research is undertaken in a networked environment…
See more information at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ir-workshop-2009/
Tags: Conferences > Digital learning content > Digital Learning Resources > learning object repositories > LOR > Metadata > Repository > Standards