A ROSE* by any other name??

Clever branding of an institutional repository is not to be underestimated. Clearly a catchy name that reflects the purpose of the repository is ideal, but when you’re not a marketing guru overflowing with creative juices, it’s a tricky task.
So what have we got to work with – what’s out and what’s in:
OUT
Repository – Undoubtedly, [...]

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Update on DRAMBORA

I’ve had a response from the DCC helpdesk with this useful advice regarding DRAMBORA:
“The second version is expected in early autumn 2007 and will reflect a second round of pilot audits. We are in the process of developing an on-line tool that can be used to carry out the self-audit and expect [...]

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Repository blogs

I have made an initial foray into discovering who else is blogging from the repository frontline, after a quick email to the UKCoRR mailing list. So far two responses – Les Carr from Southampton University as Repository Man, and Dorethea Salo with her Caveat Lector ‘Reader Beware’ blog.
I’ll put these in my blogroll (when [...]

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DRAMBORA

So I’m just starting down the DRAMBORA road for repository risk assessment. I’ve downloaded the toolkit from the website (including a 221 page document that nearly undid our printer) and arranged it neatly in a folder. It looks quite daunting at first glance. The website doesn’t offer any warm and fuzzy assistance [...]

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Libraries and publishers

I wrote a little in my last post about the ALPSP one day seminar Publishing and the Library of the Future. Here’s my presentation from its resting place on Slideshare (how easy is it to add Slideshare presentations to WordPress or WordPress blog entries to Facebook these days!), but the ALPSP have also made [...]

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Conversations

Something caught my attention last week, at the ALPSP seminar on Publishing and Libraries of the Future (which I’ll blog about shortly). It was a comment by Diana Leitch, chair of the sessions. The seminar itself was intended stimulate thoughts on where publishing and libraries are heading, with views from a practising librarian [...]

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RSP Summer School

The Repository Support Project Summer School was held at Dartington Hall in Totnes, Devon. The event ran from 27-29 June 2007, and offered new or potential repository managers the chance to learn more about various aspects of repository development and management. More on the summer school itself can be found on the RSP [...]

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::Welcome::

Marhaba. Welcome to my blog chronicling my thoughts, storing my links, generally journaling my work working on a university repository.
Please go ahead and click on the About link at the top of the page to get a flavour of who I am and the purpose of this blog.
The first few posts on this blog [...]

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