1. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: Interoperability Stakeholders Peter Cliff, Research Officer, UKOLN, University of Bath, UK SUETr Interoperability Workshop, The LSE Library, December 2008 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

2. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Political/Human Interoperability Interoperability is more than just technical interoperability: Institutions fear loss of control Staff lack skills to support complex systems and a dispersed user community Process change and staff & user training is required

3. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Stakeholders Cataloguer & Open Access fan Web/IS Manager/Developer Repository Manager Researcher

4. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk The Task While trying to imagine yourself in the role consider: What are the benefits and/or threats of "interoperable content"/repository APIs to the repository? (Either incoming or outgoing material). In order to work with these APIs what do I need to put into/do with the repository? Is there anything I want the repository to work with that it doesn't already? How might I make that happen? What could I use? Where do I look?

5. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Cataloguer & OA Advocate Threat to the repository role as source of Open Access material. APIs provide access to systems that cannot be trusted. APIs might generate poor quality metadata. Opportunity to create bespoke cataloguer tools very welcome!

6. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Web/IS Manager/Developer Giving control to third party sites Inappropriate content/"back door“ Speed Reliability Web Standards? Consistency "Linked Data"

7. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Repository Manager Increased Usage/Exposure Easier advocacy Bespoke tools for: – depositor/submitter – curators Alerting services Complexity – interoperability seems too hard! Where will the works end up?

8. A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Researcher Desires a holistic, integrated document/research management system Alerting services Improved visibility of research Community tools Bespoke/integrated repository submission