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Workshop Session Repository Integration - Possibilities and Pitfalls. Bill Hubbard Head of Centre for Research Communciations. RSP ‘Goes back to’ School Matfen Hall, September 2009. Repository Darwinism. Repositories have mission creep? or Repositories are evolving?
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Workshop SessionRepository Integration - Possibilities and Pitfalls Bill Hubbard Head of Centre for Research Communciations RSP ‘Goes back to’ School Matfen Hall, September 2009
Repository Darwinism • Repositories have mission creep? or • Repositories are evolving? • Growing into a well-populated environment • Some turf has been well marked • Some clear and fertile pasture • Isolation will mean extinction • Mix that DNA!
Repository Integration • What related interfaces/systems/databases are there in your institution? • What system tie-ups are desirable? • What ways can the repository be used? • What replication of information exists across systems? • What about workflows for gathering and using material -- and what systems/interfaces support these?
Separate functions interfaces systems databases
Exercise: model an ideal system • Identify all of the related interfaces, systems and databases in your institution • Place these on the model of interface/ system/ database • Identify overlaps, synchronicities, gaps - which could be filled with innovative and useful systems • Draw out workflows between each component • Identify owners of each component and each workflow
Guidelines • Think about relationships between systems • Think about political aspects of control and authority • Ingest once, store once, use many times • Ensure authority for each point of information can be backtracked to an appropriate authority
Bill Hubbard bill.hubbard@nottingham.ac.uk