A presentation & workshop I devised and gave/ran for the RSP - http://www.rsp.ac.uk/ - in 2009, looking at the future developments that might happen within UK institutional repositories. The event was held at the University of Bath.

1. Repository Services Day
15th January 2009
Workshop: Repository
Services of the Future
Stephanie Taylor, UKOLN

2. Workshop Session
1. What services are working well?
– Could they be improved and how?
2. Are there any other existing services you
would like to know more about?
3. What services are missing for the repository
community?
4. What services are missing for the research
community?
5. Make a wish!

3. Where we are going - facilities
• Exposure for harvesting . . .
• Linkage to departmental pages
• Linkage to personal pages - career logs
• RAE/REF - citation and usage analyses
• Beyond pdf - text and data-mining
• Virtual Research Environments
• Web 2.0 - mash-ups and tagging

4. Where we are going - intentions
• Supporting research through repositories
– researchers’ needs
– institutional goals
– researchers’ and institutional working practices
– research communication
– research itself
– research process
– research assessment

5. Where we are going - embedding
Institutional integration
• Workflows
• Repository as a set of services
• Staffing and management
• Funder mandate compliance
• Information management & REF
• Exploitation and outreach
• Virtual research environments

6. Stephanie Taylor
RSP/UKOLN, University of Bath
s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk

7. Stephanie Taylor
RSP/UKOLN, University of Bath
s.taylor@ukoln.ac.uk