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The Invisible Repository Stephanie Taylor,
UKOLNIWMW, Colchester29th July
2009 s.taylor_at_ukoln.ac.uk
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Now You See It...

• 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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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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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?