Comments on: Presentation to the EMERGE community – after the fact (2) http://personanews.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/presentation-to-the-emerge-community-after-the-fact-2/ Personal Engagement with Repositories through Social Networking Applications Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:04:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: John Gray http://personanews.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/presentation-to-the-emerge-community-after-the-fact-2/#comment-27 John Gray Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:36:36 +0000 http://personanews.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-27 Some critical and crucial comments in this posting. Staff do need to see benefits from engaging with a repository, in fact the missing question here might well be are formal institutional repositories the way forward? The existence of 'open repositories' and 'social respositories' begs the question why use an institutional repository other than because you are required to do so by your institution? There is anecdotal evidence indicating that using a 'formal' repository is perceived as awkward and unhelpful; providing an external web based interface that places minimal demands on users when interacting with 'formal' repositories could help here. Similarly siting such tools outside any specific repository enables opportunities to interact with multiple repositories with minimal extra overhead for the user. ARe these potential benefits for users and would they begin to influence their views of 'formal' repositories? Some critical and crucial comments in this posting. Staff do need to see benefits from engaging with a repository, in fact the missing question here might well be are formal institutional repositories the way forward? The existence of ‘open repositories’ and ’social respositories’ begs the question why use an institutional repository other than because you are required to do so by your institution?

There is anecdotal evidence indicating that using a ‘formal’ repository is perceived as awkward and unhelpful; providing an external web based interface that places minimal demands on users when interacting with ‘formal’ repositories could help here. Similarly siting such tools outside any specific repository enables opportunities to interact with multiple repositories with minimal extra overhead for the user. ARe these potential benefits for users and would they begin to influence their views of ‘formal’ repositories?

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