Doing Things Differently Sheffield 27/October/2010 Stephanie Taylor Research Officer UKOLN, University of Bath E - s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat)

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

Repository History… New technologies New concepts New ways of working Doing things differently from the beginning…

Trends… Evolving content Linking up with other systems Adding new features Continuous revolution?

Evolving Content From text to… Moving images/sound Still images Sound Anything and everything… Dance, choreography notation Music, sound, scores, videos Maps Whatever?!

The “Other” Repositories What *might* be a repository? Flickr? Google Docs? YouTube? SlideShare? Wikipedia? Twitter?

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

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?

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

The Guerrilla Repo Scholarly communications The ‘P’ word Copyright & IPR Innovative advocacy Challenging accepted behaviour, roles & responsibilities

If We Build It, Will They Come? Subject repositories National repositories Aggregation services What do endusers want?

Thankyou! Questions? s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk