An ongoing project has been looking at the global repositories
infrastructure with the aim of determining where work needs to be
done to `fill in the gaps' and produce a truly interoperable system
of repositories for research outputs. With respect to those outputs,
we have focused for the time being on journal articles but are
mindful of the other types of research output and hope that these
will be encompassed at a later date.
An international workshop was held in Amsterdam last month, attended
by a hundred or so repository experts who spent two days in
discussion in small groups to develop draft action plans around four
themes. These four themes had been identified as areas of high
priority during online discussions in this community of experts over
several months prior to the workshop.
The themes are: citation services, repository handshake (deposit
systems), interoperable identification infrastructure (unambiguous
identification on the web of named entities) and international
repositories organisation (how the repository community organises to
work together optimally).
The draft action plans are now available on a wiki and you are all
invited to provide your comments and feedback on these plans. The
wiki is at
http://repinf.pbwiki.com/ . To add comments you will need to request
access, which you can do by clicking on the link in the top right
corner of the front page.
The front page of the wiki provides links to the supporting briefing
materials developed for the online discussions and workshop, and to
the action plans themselves.
We look forward to getting your views.
Alma Swan
Key Perspectives Ltd
Truro, UK
Received on Wed Apr 22 2009 - 14:24:18 BST