James Hilton on open source development and IRs

Jester has blogged some notes on James Hilton's presentation at Open Repositories 2007 (San Antonio, January 23-26, 2007).  Excerpt:

This is a summary of a presentation by James L. Hilton, Vice President and CIO of University of Virginia, at the opening keynote session of Open Repositories 2007. I tried to capture the essence of his presentation, and omissions, contradictions, and inaccuracies in this summary are likely mine and not that of the presenter....

Repositories are at the center of everything at the institution. It connects with the library, with the presses/scholarly publishing operation, with classroom teaching, with the laboratory, and with the world. It is a core piece of of infrastructure for the university of the 21st century. As institutions, we need to make sustaining investments in our repositories.

Hilton sees three different approaches to "community" in the existing projects:

• dspace: community of user/developers. The come together to talk about what they want to do, write code, and support each other. Clearly there are enthusiastic users as developers.
• eprints: appears as like a vendor talking with customers wanting the community help shape the direction.
• fedora: in transition from a combination of the previous two models moving towards a Sakia-like model. it will require institutions to make commitments to it....