THE Open Repositories conference (OR) took place in

Edinburgh in July, and showcased five days of the best the repository world has to offer. This year’s conference attracted 460 delegates from more than 40 countries, and once again showed the passion and enthusiasm of the repository community

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http://go.warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications          Original citation: Budden, Yvonne C. (2012) Open Repositories 2012. CILIP Update, October issue, p. 44.  Permanent WRAP url: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50529  Copyright and reuse: The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes the work of researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions.  Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners.  To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.  Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.  Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way.  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This year’s conference attracted 460 delegates from more than 40 countries, and once again showed the pas-sion and enthusiasm of the repository community.This year the key topic was research data manage-ment, which has been discussed at previous OR confer-ences, but which this year took centre stage. There was a sense that repositories have reached a level of technical and infrastructure maturity that is allowing them to move into curating a much wider portfolio for resourc-es. There was also a sense that the community is ready to position itself as a central part of the research process and this will be essential to manage research data. Demand side filteringThe keynote address, given by Cameron Neylon, emphasised the idea of connectivity and low-friction information transfer.  He also discussed the idea of ‘de-mand-side filtering’ – that traditional processes like peer review can block useful information from users, and that the best people to filter material are the users them-selves. Cameron also touched on the need to recognise that a research outcome is not the same as a research output and to be clear in our mind who our users are and why we are doing what we are doing.OR2012 continued its tradition of including a strong participatory element this year with a wide range of ‘hands-on’ workshops and software specific sessions run by the developers of the main software solutions used by repositories, a great chance to get your hands dirty and experiment. This year the conference also included ele-ments from the popular Repository Fringe1, including the ‘pecha kucha’2 talks. Something new and something coolA regular feature of OR is the developer’s challenge, hosted by the DevCSI team. This year the challenge was simply to ‘show us something new and cool in the world of Open Repositories’.3 All the entries have potential to be developed into exciting tools, but the winning entries, Patrick McSweeney’s ‘Data Engine’ (repository tools for small science data manipulation and visualisation) and the ‘MATS: Mobile Audio Tran-scription and Submission’ app from Keith Gilbertson and Linda Newman (audio/video record, repository deposit and submission to transcription services, in one app) really caught the attention of judges and del-egates alike.The session topics were wide-ranging: digital preser-vation; name identifiers; usage statistics and showing im-pact; shared services; non-traditional content and much more. Posters were presented in under a minute in Post-er Minute Madness, a great way to ‘trailer’ your poster before the drinks reception in the evening. Our poster FEATUREcontribution, on a branding and marketing project we had undertaken,4 proved very popular at the reception (which was fantastic, but meant I didn’t get to speak to as many of the other poster presenters as I might have liked). Networking at OR events is always great fun – discussions focused on the key topics from the confer-ence, but also on open access issues more widely. These were felt keenly by the UK repository community after the publication of the Finch report5 and the new RCUK policy6 on research outputs and linked back to the work being started on research data management, in part due to, new guidelines7 from the RCUK.  The OR conference is a world-class event for anyone interested in any area of repository work. The team in Edinburgh has done a great job to make as much of the material available as possible.8 The conference sent me home enthused about the work I and my team are doing and with a list of new ideas to prioritise with my development team. Here’s to next year!References1  www.repositoryfringe.org/2  A challenging presentation style of 20 slides progressing automatically every 20 seconds for a total time of six minutes and 40 seconds.3  Details of the challenge and all the entries can be found on the DevCSI website: http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/4  http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/477775  ‘Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications. Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings’ (2012). www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/6  www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/outputs.aspx7  www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx8  Live blog available on the website (http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/ category/liveblog/) and most sessions available on the You Tube channel (www.youtube.com/user/OpenRepos2012).Open Repositories p44.indd   1 3/10/12   15:36:53

A challenging presentation style of 20 slides progressing automatically every 20 seconds for a total time of six minutes and 40 seconds.

excellence: how to expand access to research publications. Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings’

the challenge and all the entries can be found on the DevCSI website: http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/

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