"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

Projects and Activities

UKOLN is involved with a number of activities related to repositories:

• Repositories Research Team - a collaboration between UKOLN and JISC CETIS to support the JISC Digital Repositories Programme and the JISC Repositories and Preservation (phase two) Programme.
• SWORD project (following on from the Deposit API work)
• eBank UK project
• DRIVER - Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
• CRIS-OAR - Current Research Information Systems and Open Access Repositories

People

The following UKOLN staff are involved in repositories-related activities:

• Adrian Stevenson - Research Officer
• Monica Duke - Software Developer
• Mahendra Mahey - Repositories Research Officer
• Rosemary Russell - Research Officer (DRIVER and UK DCMI Affiliate)
• Stephanie Taylor - Research Officer

Working with the following:

• John Robertson, Phil Barker and Lorna Campbell, JISC CETIS
• The JISC Information Environment team, including Andy MacGregor and Balviar Notay