Open Repository recently hosted a repository workshop at the American Library Association Conference 2010 in Washington D.C., titled Developing A Repository: The Library’s Journey.

The workshop discussed the history of institutional repositories, developments in the open access movement and the growing need for organizations to have their own institutional repository. A case study of a library’s journey in developing and implementing a repository was also included.

The slides from this presentation are now available to view online. If you would like any further information about how Open Repository can help your organization implement a repository solution, please do not hesitate to get in touch. 

At the recent ‘Repositories and the Cloud’ event held at The Magic Circle in London on 23rd February 2010, I was interviewed by Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN:

More interviews are at http://www.viddler.com/explore/ukoln/videos/

Slides and videos of the presentations can be seen at http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/repcloud.

Open Repository recently hosted a repository workshop at the Museums Association conferencein London entitled Digital Asset Management for Museum Collections.

Museums Association conference workshop slides

Graham and Michael attended the 2nd Repository Fringe in Edinburgh, July 30th and 31st. It was a great opportunity to meet and discuss all things repository with fellow developers, administrators and users of repositories, with delegates coming from all over the UK and some from further afield. An excellent wrapup of the event can be browsed by going to the JISC Datashare blog. The Closing Plenary by Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is especially noteworthy, though there are many very interesting aspects of the conference documented on the site. The Twitter thread can be searched using the #rf09 hash tag.

Open Repository recently sponsored and attended OAI6 conference, CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, organised and hosted by the University of Geneva and CERN, last week June 17th to the 19th. The city of Geneva and the Alps were certainly a magnificent backdrop for the lofty ideas that were being generated by the 236 delegates attending from all over the world.

The delegates consisted of repository managers, developers, and representatives from the Open Access community and there great networking opportunities, both informal and planned events, one notably taking place at CERN, the site of the Large Hadron Collider, and the setting for the opening sequences in …

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