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A William Nixon is a deputy chief executive of research
libraries in UK,
and a he previously work
at the University of Glasgow Library as deputy director
to a leading research to support a digital libraries
initiative, including open access and with 21
in his experience in their own
a research libraries UK, he focused on the role of data
sets, libraries and digital chains and strategies.
Nixon also works across a research libraries.
UK networks, particularly particularly
around collaboratives, have partnered to Advance Research
Libraries UK mission to transform libraries.
He is a member of the International Association
of Coalescing with the board, and that's the reason
he is today with us.
So a he is a he's going to talk to us
about a next generation of repositories.
And now, if you have
had the floor, so come.
Gracious. And apologies.
No Espanol.
So I'm afraid but very Scottish
and so I will try not to speak
too fast, which sometimes we do to help colleagues translating.
So thank you very much for the introduction and thank you so much.
Muchas gracias for the invitation to join you for,
this, this today, conference around
kind of open libraries, open science and open learning.
I have been involved with, repositories for 20 kind of,
gosh, 20 years.
So, and I it's something I feel very,
very passionate about and very privileged to have
the opportunity to work in that space.
So here today, I'm
representing the Confederation of Open Access, repositories.
So core is an international organization.
And if I can work out how to advance my slides.
Yeah.
There we go.
So I really wanted to talk about, as well, realizing the vision
of an interoperable and trusted global repository network.
And there's some really good words in there,
which I could quite happily spend the next half hour just unpacking
with, interoperable with, trusted with global.
And I think following on from kind of Pablo's talk as well,
I see repositories very much as a sort of complementary,
piece of sort of the open scholarship
ecosystem, the infrastructure to the Cris system.
They are very much about discovery.
They are very much about, about access.
So, just first of all, a little bit about, core.
And, so the Confederation of Open Access
Repositories has is an international organization.
It is 130 plus members that are five members in Spain.
And again, my thanks to Isabel Bernal, who is Spanish,
member on the advisory board and had recommended me for this,
this presentation,
we are led by Kathleen Scherer, who is the core executive director,
and I am on the executive board, as the treasurer.
And Martha Whitehead is the, the chairperson of Core
and the librarian at the University of Harvard.
So Core is about bringing together individual repositories
and repository networks to build capacity, align policies and
practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community.
So I think one of the things I really wanted
to sort of focus on this morning, where a number of the things
that really came out of the
the core meeting in the summer in Gothenburg.
So the core meeting came after open repositories.
So, which is another,
kind of conference series, which I highly recommend.
I've been, very privileged to be involved with as well.
And there were five themes which I think helped to inform
what sort of involve next generation repositories.
And I think the important thing as well is I think what we could call
next generation repositories, it isn't just about technology.
It's not about having a shiny or faster platform or a new unit
user experience, although those things are very important.
It is about some of the things which Pablo had sort of referred to.
It is about that sort of trust component as well.
It is about the interoperability,
it's about the actual engagement and the.
So I think as part of that, we need to see where repositories sit
as part of the wider diamond open access publishing system,
looking at that as it gains traction,
as a more credible and cost effective approach.
In Europe, there's a really very active policy
discussions related to moving away from more of the commercial models
and repositories can play a really important role around that.
But I think there's a recognition that as you look at the
the sort of challenges
in flipping journals and transformative agreements,
as Wilhelm commented yesterday, you know, the report from the EU,
the United Kingdom, from Jyske about how long it will take us to
flip journals is a long time.
So I think we really need to look at other opportunities, other models,
and we need to make sure that repositories are part of that mix.
And there's a really nice piece of technology called the core.
The sort of notify protocol, which I'll talk a little bit about,
as part of this, I have already mentioned
trustworthiness, and I think trustworthiness is really important.
It's sometimes quite difficult to define
that core has a community of a good practice framework.
It's being refreshed and will be released again in autumn.
But I think it's really important there to think about
those relationships, those conversations
that Pablo was talking about that you have
with your academic colleagues, the advocacy, the engagement.
It is a very it is ongoing.
Trust is something that, you know, you don't just you don't
just get a thing, you move on.
It really is part of that ongoing dialog.
I think, I think I'm contractually obliged to mention
artificial intelligence now in any, any presentation that you do.
But I think the impact of AI, particularly large language models,
the advent of sort of ChatGPT, again, thinking about trustworthiness,
where do, the content of repositories,
the scholarly record, where does some of that sit?
How can that inform
some of the material that we start to see on our desktop?
And then I think the last two are really important as well,
thinking about advocacy, advancing equity and resisting monopolization.
So again, coming very much from an open source,
and kind of scenario, but particularly around equity,
thinking about, this sort of wider
ecosystem there of things like digital object
identifiers, persistent identifiers, the commercial costs
for some of these, where some of our colleagues
in Africa and South America are looking at less,
kind of less expensive options to do that so that they aren't
just having to buy or kind of pay for, for Dois
and then the importance of open,
kind of climate change, being able to really look at how you kind of
leverage the content in repositories to support the, the,
the material around open climate.
You know, you look at the work that open air had done as well
around Covid 19, building a portal around all of that.
So the real sort of importance for actual societal
and global change, I think, is really, really important
and something which I feel very strongly about, in which
I feel that repositories can play a very key role.
So the links for all of the, the, the, the,
the, the reports and everything that I'll be mentioning, will be
in, are in the, are in the slides.
But I also wanted to kind of draw attention
to, to this sort of reports, the current state and future directions.
This was published,
kind of
in kind of December 2023.
But Libre, Spark Europe Core and Open Air
are really looking at how they can launch that joint strategy,
strengthening the European repository network, reaffirming
that commitment to work together to develop and execute an action plan
to reinforce and enhance repositories in Europe.
Because again, it's really important.
As I say, we've been doing this for 20 years.
We can't stand still.
You know, technologies move on, the environment moves on.
And it's really important to keep up to date with that.
And the report had three main recommendations,
which I think are really, I think a really important,
one of them is maintaining up to date, highly functioning
software platforms.
And I think that's incredibly important.
So beyond thinking about the next generation
is it's incredibly important to actually,
have that investment and have the infrastructure to have
the current version of your software kind of upgraded and engaged.
Being able to look at the good practices in terms
of metadata preservation and usage statistics.
So usage statistics are incredibly important.
You look at services like counter, which provide
very kind of standardized, metrics.
The importance of preservation.
Preservation, I think, is something which has been perhaps,
been a poor cousin sometimes with repositories.
But increasingly, as we have built up
the volume of content, as we look at the,
the rights retention, the author accepted manuscripts
which we are holding, preservation becomes increasingly important.
And I think from my former institution, I was really passionate
about how important it was, for instance, around our, our feces.
So content which is held in the theses service, that is unique
content to the university, to the to the individual.
It's not material which is just published, elsewhere.
So I think it's really important to be thinking
about preservation and also that visibility.
So being able to actually come to talks like, like this one today,
being able to use these reports to actually engage and highlight
how important repositories are in the wider ecosystem.
So building on that report,
an open consultation just ended in August there.
And now work is going to be underway between core
Spark Europe and Open Air to help craft
that collective vision for the future of repositories.
So I think it will be really, really exciting to see that
there's a real interest in sort of building that momentum.
And I think it's really important to see how we can continue
to strengthen the European network.
But I think what's also exciting is beyond Europe and,
you know, that are on the rise of some new and newer initiatives,
shared repository services, for instance, galleries, is being
has been developed, running deep space
in Canada, being administered
by the Canadian Association for Research Libraries.
It's already got a number
of participating institutions and early adopters.
And really, it's an intent.
It's its intention is to provide,
a much more, kind of updated and sort of innovative,
but also integrated shared service for the Canadian scholarly community.
So it's really exciting to look at, how that's emerging.
And also, I think they,
they've done some really clever things with it because,
for instance, University of Calgary's
repository can look different from the University of Alberta.
So they are institutionally branded.
But they are getting the advantages of scale.
So those upgrades and those resources to create
what they're describing as a vibrant national repository network,
which I think is really exciting to actually see and watch.
So, for myself, as well as
deputy executive director for, research libraries, UK
infrastructure is a key part of our strategy,
and we've been doing a lot more at the moment around,
repositories.
Just in the last week, we, did a panel session
in the UK, on next steps for repository infrastructure.
And so we
brought a number of colleagues together from universities, from,
from funders.
And again, this is, this has been recorded.
It's it's made available will be uploading, the uploading the slides.
And it provided a range of perspectives.
Actually preservation bubbled up as a very important, kind of element.
But again, it was really sort of, exciting to get
some of those perspectives and also just to highlight
where there are what could be called nontraditional outputs in research.
So not just research data, but for instance,
plays and performances and films,
you know, content which is perhaps less typical for, for research.
And I think the other real, really important great takeaway
from that session.
And with kind of one of Pablo's former colleagues, George McGregor,
who's at the University of Glasgow, is also the importance
of actually maintenance and making sure that our repositories
are actually kept up to date looking at the IP
end points, making sure that actually they're up to date and working
so that we can take advantage of the harvesting
on the global network, which we actually have.
So next generation repositories
are a key part of course, strategy.
Core did next generation repositories report,
kind of a few years ago.
This was in 2017.
And it had a couple of really important recommendations.
And one of those came up at last week's talk.
Again, one of them is around adopting signposting
to support machine access to resources.
So it's brilliant.
We need to think about the people
who will be downloading and reading our material.
But machine to machine interoperability
is incredibly important for what is is going on here.
And the Core Notify project has its origins
in this next generation reports.
And Core Notify is a really exciting, really transformational project
which is accelerating community adoption through
standard, interoperable and decentralized approach
to linking research outputs hosted in a distributed network.
So this also is really important for where
repositories can play a role in diamond journals, in overlay
journals, and in open peer review services.
And I'm not going to go
into all the details of the core Notify protocol specification.
I've got links in the presentation here.
This has been led by a number of of colleagues.
We have,
colleagues from
across the institutional, repository platform.
And we are very grateful to Arcadia for the funding
which made, this project happen.
But really, it's it's exciting to see
where DSpace where it prints,
where a number of other repository services are starting to develop
that, Paul Wark, who is the lead on that project,
presented on the on the work in the summer at Open Repositories.
And it's really fantastic
to actually start to see some real examples around that.
And there's a link in the slides
to the notify catalog, which provides further details.
Pablo's already mentioned, rights retention.
As, as of Wilhelm again,
within the United Kingdom, this is something which,
we've really seen, kind of take off in the last couple of years,
led by the University of Edinburgh, very much in the vanguard, and
over the
summer, I did, I kind of led a panel session
focusing around the role for rights retention.
And repositories
and repositories are absolutely critical infrastructure there because
we're asking people for their author accepted manuscripts.
We're asking them for their publications.
We need to have somewhere trusted, secure
and, available for those those to go
and I suggest to you the repository is the best place for that.
Pablo and I can argue over if it's a Chris or not later,
but I would argue it is the repository you can see here
from this map there is about 30 plus UK
universities including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow,
Strathclyde and Saint Andrews, within Scotland.
So repositories have a very, very powerful role
in actually underpinning and supporting rights retention.
Core to,
have a fantastic discovery service.
Are also doing some, exciting work around
identifying and extracting rights retention statements from full text.
So there's some, some examples here from their their blog,
and really looking at starting to do that.
So this is intended to actually do some, some harvesting around that
and building a new model for its members.
If you can support rights retention,
I think core as well.
This is I think this is really just, just a bit,
as I said, there's an AI elephant in the room.
How are we best going to engage, and work with that around
rights, around training, around discovery, around workflow,
not just for our repositories, but for our wider
library services.
Core GPT three, was,
a sort of a beta experiment for core starting to look at ways in which,
you could use the, the,
the trusted know, again, that trusted phrase, the trusted
knowledge of scholarly communication to potentially help to inform,
sort of some of the responses that you get from from ChatGPT,
as I say, this was very much just, just a beta service.
And I highlighted here just as an example of the sort
of, experiments which, we are looking at and which,
which are important for repositories.
So, here in my final slide,
I really just wanted to highlight
what I think are very broadly, some of our challenges as our next
steps and our opportunities, thinking about what our best practices are.
So, as I say, making sure that your repository is in tiptop condition.
I'm not sure how well Tip-Top translates in Spanish, but
it's in good condition.
Thinking about the advent of
sort of technology where kind of artificial intelligence
is going to, to fit the importance of trust,
whether that could be looking at some of the good practice
kind of opportunities.
Taking pride and being credibly,
secure in how important repositories are in global equity
and actually enabling us to share and remove paywalls
and open up the access to the material
to not just the publications,
but also the theses and non traditional outputs
to a wider world and really accelerate
that wider open scholarship and open science network.
Look at where our partnerships are.
So not just being able to be, you know,
as I say, with Core and Spark Europe,
but also partnerships, nationally
and locally, sort of looking at that,
looking at opportunities for where you can continue to raise
the visibility and the profile of your institutional repository.
I think sometimes they feel, very much not quite like an unloved child.
But they really sometimes need to be brought out into the sun,
and they need to be kind of showered with adoration,
and also value added services.
So thinking there around,
opportune cities for kind of preservation
opportunities for using services like Core Notify
to create new journals, a new ways of scholarly engagement.
So I think there are lots of challenges,
but lots of opportunities for us in that wider open science.
Ecosystem.
So muchas gracias.
And thank you.
Might have a alguna pregunta de la.
Bring us adelante.
It's ambient.
Set up the.
I would like to know your opinion about.
For instance, this year in July, I think one, commercial publisher.
I'm not going to say the name,
and so, sold part of the
or the, the rights to another company.
So called Google.
Microsoft,
for the artificial intelligence, models.
So as the repository is open for that.
And what about the rights, I mean, or the acknowledgment of authorship
in, in terms of this, the use for for it, for the AI?
Yeah, I, I think that's a really yeah.
I think that's a really interesting area.
I think it's,
yeah, it's it's a really interesting area.
I think there's, there's,
there's an interesting tension between the fact that in many cases,
you know, with the licenses we want, but the getting the licenses
in many cases are not for, for commercial use.
So, but we do want them to be used.
But that's why I think things like, keyword GPT was a really interesting
one, which was looking at a much more kind of closed,
kind of closed approach.
I was listening on the radio, this week and I think,
I get the sense that, I think is it California
that has pushed back on some of the legislation around AI?
And I get the impression that perhaps,
legislation and rights
are possibly starting to catch up with that.
And I think at some point we will have a better idea of where
of of where that sits for, for repositories.
But yeah, I think it's, it's an interesting
and a challenging one.
Thank you.
I'll give it a there
alguna question.
No. Okay.
So there's no other questions.
So thank you very much. Gracias.