Let’s Stop Talking About Repositories: A Study in Perceived Use-Value, Communication and Publishing Services
Kelly Smith October 22nd, 2008
Proposed Abstract:
This talk will focus on the CDL’s current, three-pronged effort to articulate and provide innovative digital publishing services to the UC community at large. Beginning with a demo of the dramatic overhaul of eScholarship’s publishing and access interfaces, we will then explore the particulars of our explicit outreach and marketing campaign to the campuses (a campaign that necessarily focuses on unique categories of users by discipline, by rank, by depositor/end user status) and end with a discussion of the exciting developments in our recent efforts to establish and implement a shared services model publishing program with the University of California Press. Throughout this discussion, we will consider how the very notion of the “success” of a repository must be embedded in an awareness of its own irrelevance. In other words, a repository is merely a platform. Its success lies not in its population of objects but rather in its ability to serve the research and teaching needs of its scholarly communities. If that means that we stop talking about “repositories” altogether, so much the better.
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