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Institutional Repositories

Introduction

The stewardship of institutional content resources is a central responsibility for higher education institutions and libraries in the digital age. A variety of CNI projects and collaborations support this important work, including efforts to capture and structure digital content, experiments in the creation of new types of scholarly works for the digital medium, and the migration of theses and dissertations to digital form. We are currently contributing to creating and sharing best pracctices surrounding all aspects of institutional repositories, from policy to system architecture.

CNI-Sponsored Activities

• CNI Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting
  • The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories: Three Different Libraries, Three Different Plans, One Common Goal
• CNI Spring 2003 Task Force Meeting
  • The Challenge of Building Complex Objects from Digital Repositories
  • OAI Metadata Harvesting and Institutional Repositories
• CNI Fall 2002 Task Force Meeting
  • Institutional Repositories: Project Overviews and Organizational Issues
  • Institutional Repositories: Functional Requirements and Technical Issues
• Institutional Repositories: A Workshop on Creating an Infrastructure for Faculty-Library Partnerships (co-sponsored with ARL and SPARC), October 18, 2002, in Washington, DC
• Executive Roundtable, CNI Fall 2003 Task Force Meeting, December 8-9, 2003, Portland, OR

Publications and Presentations

• Spoke at NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Cyberinfrastructure Workshop, January 13-14, 2004, in Washington, DC (Lynch)
• Delivered keynote on digital repositories at "A Workshop on Institutional Repositories," held in conjunction with the meeting of the American Association of Medical Colleges, November 8, 2003, in Washington, DC (Lynch)
• Clifford A. Lynch, "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in a Digital Age," ARL Bimonthly Report (February 2003)
• Organized and moderated a session on "Institutional Repositories: What Does Your Institution Need to Know?" at EDUCAUSE 2003, November 5, 2003, in Anaheim, CA (Lynch and Lippincott)
• Delivered opening keynote at the Conference on the Future of the Library, University of Illinois, October 30-31, 2003, Champaign-Urbana, IL (Lynch)
• Delivered a keynote address at Evolving the Links, a conference on collaboration between public television and the university community on September 24,2003, in Madison, WI (Audio available) (Lynch)
• Presented a keynote at the Cambridge-MIT Institute's Learning about Digital Institutional Repositories, Seminar 1: Organisational and Implementation Planning, September 15, 2003, in London, England (Lynch)
• Addressed a plenary session at ECDL 2003: The 7th European Conference on research and Advanced Technology in August 2003, in Trondheim, Norway on the topic of "Stewardship in the Digital Age." (Lynch)
• Delivered the closing plenary session at IMLS Web-Wise 2003: Sustaining Digital Resources (Lynch)
• Delivered a talk at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), December 17, 2002 (CAL)


• Spoke on the emergence of the institutional repository movement at Scholarly Communication in the Digital World, a symposium to celebrate the launch of MIT's DSpace, November 4, 2002. (Video available) (Lynch)

• Participated in a meeting of the Mellon-funded working group on institutional repository architecture, December 15-16, 2003, in Cambridge, MA. (Lynch)
• Participated in a planning meeting for MIT/HP DSpace future directions, December 11, 2003, in Boston, MA (Lynch)