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Revision as of 11:14, 23 December 2014
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Keep it simple, stupid (KISS)
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Give a person a fish and you feed that person for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed that person for a lifetime.
The repository content and the technological systems that run the repository need the following teams to manage and preserve them so that they are always available now and in the far future.
This is the core of the much bigger strategic objectives of (a) the self-hosting value proposition and (b) repository preservation.
The "Systems Team" Skills
The "Content Team" Skills
What are the functions of these people, with these new job descriptions?
There seems to be some confusion regarding the role and function of the people described in the links above.
Let me try to explain by way an analogy, using the medical services field as an example..
Hospitals are full of specialists and administrators. Each is professionally trained to fulfil a specific task. One does not expect an administrator to also be a brain surgeon and vice versa. The hospital administrator ensures the smooth functioning of the hospital, for the benefit of the specialists, in order to provide excellent service to patients.
So it is with the greatly expanded and currently expanding, technology and information sciences fields, in that, more specialisation is becoming the norm as it was and is in the medical field.
And now an attempt to translate the medical services definition to a library services definition, in support of academic research publishing and archiving below.
Academic libraries are full of specialists and administrators. Each is professionally trained to fulfil a specific task. Academic repository managers provide a smooth functioning repository with the assistance of the academic repository content librarians and academic repository system administrators (hopefully each becomes professionally trained now and in the future), in order to provide an excellent service to academic researchers.
What else can these teams do for the library and the institution?
These same teams, with their skills, are also then capable of enabling other open systems for the institution, for example:
- An open journal system
- An open conference system
- An open educational resources system
- An open research data management system
- An open research collaboration system
- An open bibliography system
- An open library management system
See: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenCampus
Communities of Practice (CoP)
In lieu of the lack of professional training venues for open online scholarly publishing practice, it is suggested that communities of practice be formed for both the "soft" and "hard" skills mentioned above.
Below is more detail about communities of practice.
- WENGER - A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice
http://adlsn.org http://www.itoca.org http://open-access.org.uk http://openaccess.jiscinvolve.org http://is4oa.org http://aoasg.org.au https://www.openaire.eu http://chorusaccess.org http://www.driver-community.eu http://www.medoanet.eu http://www.libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/repository-interoperability http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/shared-access-research-ecosystem-share
Scholarly Publishing Links
http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org http://www.openaccesspublishing.org http://www.librarypublishing.org http://hybridpublishing.org http://www.pubs-for-dev.info http://www.sparc.arl.org/theme/campus-based-publishing http://www.sspnet.org http://www.aaupnet.org
Essential Reading (Only available online)
- 2014 - BREMBS - THE DESOLATE STATE OF OUR SCHOLARLY INFRASTRUCTURE
- 2014 - STEELE - SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION, SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
- 2014 - SWAN - NEW APPROACHES IN LIBRARY BASED PUBLISHING
- 2014 - COAR - TASK FORCE: LIBRARIAN COMPETENCIES FOR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS PUBLISHING
- 2014 - COAR - TOWARD A SEAMLESS GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REPOSITORIES
- 2014 - SKINNER - LIBRARY-AS-PUBLISHER: CAPACITY BUILDING FOR THE LIBRARY PUBLISHING SUBFIELD
- 2014 - MANGIAFICO - MODELS FOR LIBRARIES IN AN EVOLVING SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING ECOSYSTEM
- 2014 - RAJU - KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR THE DIGITAL ERA ACADEMIC LIBRARY
- 2014 - NISO - OPEN ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE
- 2014 - MF - DON'T REINVENT THE WHEEL
- 2014 - MF - BUILD ROADS NOT STAGECOACHES
- 2014 - ARL - DEVELOPING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP SERVICES ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET
- 2014 - LIBRARY PUBLISHING COALITION LAUNCHED
- 2014 - ALIA - FUTURE OF LIBRARIES AS PUBLISHERS
- 2014 - EC - INFRASTRUCTURES FOR OPEN DIGITAL SCIENCE
- 2014 - PRWEB - OPEN STANDARDS AND THE DIGITAL AGE
- 2014 - KN - A SCALABLE AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
- 2014 - WEF - STATE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT 2014
- 2014 - AKAMI - STATE OF THE INTERNET REPORT
- 2013 - OSSWATCH - NATIONAL SOFTWARE SURVEY
- 2013 - DLIB - A VISION TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURES
- 2013 - IDRC - CONNECTING ICT TO DEVELOPMENT
- 2013 - MDPI - THE IMPORTANCE OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND STANDARDS IN MODERN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING
- 2013 - AAUPNET - LIBRARY AND UNIVERSITY PRESS COLLABORATION
- 2013 - A4AI - INTERNET AFFORDABILITY REPORT
- 2013 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS - SOUTH AFRICA - BROADBAND POLICY
- 2013 - EU - EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA (ERA) PROGRESS REPORT
- 2013 - AAUPNET - LIBRARY AND UNIVERSITY PRESS COLLABORATION
- 2012 - JLSC - SIMMONS - NEW ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: EXAMINING TRAINING NEEDS OF REPOSITORY STAFF
- 2012 - BOAI - ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY
- 2012 - PURDUE UNIVERSITY - STRATEGIES FOR LIBRARY PUBLISHING SUCCESS
- 2011 - PERRY - THE BALANCE POINT
- 2011 - RSP UK - REPOSITORY STAFF AND SKILL SET
- 2011 - LSE - TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
- 2009 - UMINHO - DRIVER AND COAR - FROM INFRASTRUCTURE TO CONFEDERATION
- 2009 - SPARC - OPEN ACCESS INCOME MODELS - CURRENT PRACTICE
