Open Repositories 2008
2008 … is that the date that it’s happening or is that the number of delegates that have decided to come along! This year’s Open Repositories conference (to take place in Southampton 1- 4 April) has easily surpassed the number of registrants that signed up for the same conference last year when it took place in Texas. This is interesting for two reasons I think. Firstly, some people have entertained the notion recently that maybe repositories haven’t lived up to their own hype … that they don’t contain enough material to be taken seriously … and that academics will never be persuaded to engage with them in a sustained and serious way. Well if you want to argue this, where better to do it than amongst more than 400 people from all over the world, almost all of whom are committed to ensuring that repositories are open, interoperable and as effective as possible for everyone involved with research and teaching. Except of course if you do want to do that (and you haven’t registered already) then you’re a bit late … ‘cos registration has closed! What you can do though is look at this blog during the conference because I’m intending to do some posts during the conference.
I said there were two interesting things didn’t I? The other thing is about size. I always thought they like to do everything big in Texas. Big hats. Big steaks. Big country. I didn’t realise that Southampton had even bigger aspirations. I’ll have to remember to pack my fifteen-gallon hat when I set off down South in two weeks time.
Posted by: Neil Grindley
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