Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki: A full and flourishing landscape - Open Repository blog

"We’ve returned home after a fulsome week in Helsinki, attending the Open Repositories 2014 Conference along with approximately five hundred delegates & sponsors. The conference is a leading international event in the Open Access calendar, focusing on post-publication OA: curation, preservation and dissemination of scholarly research, and, data about scholarly research. Open Repository was one of a number of conference sponsors. We’d like to thank our hosts for their excellent hospitality, and for looking after us fabulously ... Advocacy ...  Erin McKiernan gave a typically forthright keynote address. As with her address to the SPARC 2014 meeting in Kansas City, she made another compelling case for researchers to be completely Open Access in publishing, and, to share open research data via institutional repositories or data repository services such as Dryad, FigShare, BioMed Central’s own GigaScience, or CERN’s Invenio project. These are but a few examples of emergent data storage, visualisation and sharing services for researchers, operating in an increasingly crowded field ... Technology ...  We were excited by a number of projects and initiatives in the repository and preservation sphere. Of particular interest were presentations and workshops relating to the curation of institutional research data, common identifier standards, and the development of features enabling greater cross-platform interoperability. As usual there seems to be an element of duplication of effort between different repository platforms when working to make features and initiatives such as ORCID work in repositories. This was reflected in discussions to find ways to mitigate this problem ..."