Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and learning in 2013
In 2006 JISC funded a roadmap for digital repositories. This roadmap was produced by Rachel Heery of UKOLN and Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation. The roadmap presented a vision for the role of digital repositories in 2010.
As 2010 is approaching and there have been significant developments in policy, practice and technology relevant to digital repositories JISC funded Rachel Heery to produce a review of the original roadmap and to extend the vision until 2013. The review is based on consultation with experts using a Web forum (IdeaScale), a questionnaire based survey, and a workshop.
The review is structured into two parts. Firstly it makes a number of recommendations targeted at the JISC Executive. The review then goes on to identify a number of milestones of relevance to the wider community that might act as a measure of progress towards the wider vision of enhanced scholarly communication. Achievement of these milestones would be assisted by JISC through its community work and funding programmes. The review addresses repositories for research outputs, research data and learning materials in separate sections.
The original roadmap has been replaced by this review and this document will be used to inform JISC planning for future funding of repository related activity.