Repositories

Repository infrastructure – whether institutional, discipline-based, or focused on primary research data – will form the backbone of science and scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Knowledge Exchange is currently exploring various avenues of co-operation on standards, interoperability and transnational co-operation to promote and implement a common vision of repository infrastructure.

A first preparation meeting with experts from the four countries plus a representative from the European Union-funded DRIVER project took place late August 2006 in Copenhagen. At the meeting a workshop “not of talks, but of tasks” was planned. The Institutional Repositories Workshop took place on 16 and 17 January 2007 in Utrecht.

Interoperationality of Digital Repositories Working Group

Representatives from each of the partner organisations and related experts are actively participating in a working group to consider future activities in this area.

For more information

Contact Bas Cordewener, SURFfoundation, or the Knowledge Exchange Office.