Research Repository System

Chris Rusbridge of the Digital Curation Centre (Edinburgh, UK) has come up with a great idea which I think has captured the zeitgeist. He started with "negative click" repository – and has mutated the name to Research Repository System. I was about to blog something just to say that I really supported his idea but hadn't time to comment more when I suddenly found SEVEN Posts on his blog.

Here's the latest post – it links back…

Research Repository System persistent storage

This is the seventh and last of a series of posts aiming to expand on the idea of the negative click, positive value repository, which I'm now calling a Research Repository System. I've suggested it should contain these elements:

• web orientation
• researcher identity management
• authoring support
• object disclosure control
• data management support
• persistent storage
• full preservation archive, and

spinoffs

I'll try to find time to add comments. However we are preoccupied and very actively building our own repository system here for crystallgraphic and chemical data in the Department and I'll be blogging bits as we go along. I'll try to keep in sync with Chris.

For me the true repository system has to be invisible…perhaps in the way the web is going. Universal = invisible. But that will take a while