1. Digital repositories: All hype and no substance? Marinus Swanepoel

2. 1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Research Question 1.3 Methodology 1.4 Delimitations 2. Institutional Digital Repositories 2.1 Definitions 2.3 Characteristics 2.4 Typology

3. 3. Technology models 3.1 Product Life Cycle 3.2 Diffusion of Innovation Theory 3.3 Gartner Hype Cycle 4. The Models Applied 4.1 Product Life Cycle 4.2 Diffusion of Innovation Theory 4.3 Gartner Hype Cycle 5. Conclusions

4. 1. Introduction

9. Meaningful indicator of quality and quantity if intellectual output

16. http://www.kdstudy.ca/chapter2.htm To what extent are IR`s accepted as a method for communicating scientific and scholarly information, or are they just hype?

17. How mature is the technology?

18. How well is it used by faculty and researchers

24. Delimitations

26. http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/presentations/2000ala/acrl/sld001.htm

28. 2. Institutional Digital Repositories

30. http://www.pbase.com/jwalk/image/23678943

34. http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/guidelines/metadata.jpg IR software manages metadata and content

39. Open access to metadata for harvesting

41. 3. Technology models

42. Product Life Cycle/Sigmoid Curve Production Time Start-up Growth Maturity Obsolescence

43. Diffusion of Innovation Theory: Adopter Categories

47. Mapping Adopter Determinants to Adopter Categories Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards

48. Productivity

52. Gartner Hype Cycle Peak of Inflated Expectations Slope of Enlightenment Plateau of Productivity Trough of Disallusionment Technology Trigger Visibility Time

53. http://lifewithalacrity.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/evolution.jpg This framework plots the evolution of a technology

54. 4. The Models Applied

56. IR's estimated position on the Product Life Cycle Start-up Growth Maturity Obsolescence Production Time

57. IR's have moved into the early majority 2.5%13.5%34% 16% Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards

58. Hype Cycle for Higher Education Technology

60. Growth in number of records and number of institutional archives

61. 5. Conclusions

64. Thank you