Case studies galore
As part of the Repositories Support Project’s session for Repository managers at the splendid Open Repositories 08, the conference organisers collected a load of case histories from repository managers in the US and Europe.
The case histories have been made available on the Repository Support Project’s website. They cover a variety of different repositories in a variety of different settings. Some of them are short and some are long but they are all an interesting read.
As far as I can see these are useful in a number of ways:
- A great way of seeing how similar problems have been handled in different institutions.
- A guide for dealing with repository problems for new repository managers.
- A collection of the current concerns of repository managers.
- An evaluation resource, they represent a picture of where we are now with repositories. Looking back on these a couple of years into the future could prove to be very interesting in terms of what has been achieved and what still needs to be achieved.
- A research resource - if i was an information science student I would be grabbing this resource with both hands, I imagine that common themes, successful strategies, lessons learned etc would make a good dissertation topic.
Posted by: Andy McGregor
April 17, 2008 | Filed Under repositories, events
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