Digital Repositories Roadmap: Looking Forward

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rachel Heery and Andy Powell: Digital Repositories Roadmap: Looking Forward, Ukoln May 3, 2006

An ambitious paper that will challenge your thinking. "This roadmap presents a vision for 2010 in which a high percentage of newly published UK scholarly output is made available on an open access basis and in which there is a growing recognition of the benefits of making research data, learning resources and other academic content freely available for sharing and re-use." That's where it starts, at least, but as you get into the depths of the paper you see more and more discussion of the bundling of complex objects, digital object identifiers, and of digital rights management (see esp. section 6.3). More...