Transcript MS PowerPoint format - Institutional Web Management Workshops

The Invisible Repository
Stephanie Taylor, UKOLN
IWMW, Colchester
29th July 2009
[email protected]
UKOLN is supported by:
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
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Now You See It...
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Front end preoccupations
Searching
Browsing
Saving information within the IR
Tagging
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...And Now You Don't!
• Searched through external federated search (e.g. library
portal)
• Integrated with and accessed via other institutional systems
(e.g. CMS, DMS LMS)
• Deposits made
– via Facebook (
– Via email
– Available now or coming soon!
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Do Users Need Another
Front End?
• Something else to learn
• Another place to go
• Being told how to interact with online
resources is always welcome
• It's a Web 2.0 world – users are in the
middle of their own online
experiences and like it like that?
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The Web 2.0 Factor & Users
• Rapid developments in tools
• Small applications that 'talk' to each other
• Many small bespoke developments (e.g. Apps for Facebook,
Twitter, Pageflakes etc.)
• Front end interfaces users like to use – Flickr
– YouTube
– SlideShare
– Delicious
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www.bath.ac.uk
The Web 2.0 (+) Factor & Us
• Flexibility
– we need to adapt to whatever is working now
– We need to make best use of new tools and techniques
• Speed
– we need to react quickly to changes
– we need to be able to connect to what users are wanting
to use now
• Predictions
– do we know what's coming next?
– do we know what ideas we will have in the future?
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So Why The Invisible IR?
• Concentrate on back end developments to – Create good storage/archiving
– Make content easily accessible to a variety of front ends
– Maintain standards and build in flexibility
– Focus on the specialist stuff!
• Leave the front end to other means we – Are always compatible with the latests developments
– Can try out our own ideas and develop them
– Can see what users are doing and work with that
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
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Over To You…
• What do you think?
• What's next for your repository?
• What's next in the world of
repositories?
• What's next in web trends &
technologies?
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