What the future holds: Metadata and Document Repositories Stanislav Nazarenko (OKI) & Adam McCune (IPH)

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How The Health Well facilitates access to information
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 Less structured
pathway
Structured
pathway

2. What current issues can these future
repositories solve?
▷ Provide long term strategies and systems for the
preservation of information (metadata and document)
Solves issues caused by end of project, lack of funding, lack of
maintenance strategies etc
▷ Provide persistent urls through the DOI system
Solves issues caused by website/system changes,
website/system removal etc
▷ Duplication and version control of resources
▷ Improve end user experience
Less broken links, speed of access, consistent interfaces,
easier access for non academics
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3. What issues may they not solve?
▷ The needs of smaller, less funded, less IT savvy
organisations who may prefer the less structured
pathway
▷ Issues caused by rapidly changing health structures
▷ Organisations that insist/require documents to be
accessed from their own website, but who don’t have
open repositories (less structured pathway)
▷ There is still a need to resolve these issues
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4. The future of OA and public health:
encourage
▷ Continue to encourage organisations and publishers
to embrace open access through the National Open
Access Policy Statement
▷ Embrace the opportunities and ethos provided by
recent developments in Open Data strategy and
policy on the island
▷ Encourage funders to include open access as a
requirement
▷ OA is important, but recognise the need for possible
hybrid repository solutions
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5. The future of OA and public health:
thoughts on how
▷ Provide hybrid open access initiative compliant
systems that provide for the specific requirements of
smaller, less resourced organisations to ensure their
information is made available and preserved
▷ Support these organisations in the development and
maintenance of their open access efforts through
partnership, mentoring and training
▷ Important to maintain the less structured pathway
with option to migrate from this to the structured
pathway, clear user benefits in hybrid repositories
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6. Thank you
Any questions?
Email : adam.mccune@publichealth.ie
Web: www.publichealth.ie
www.twitter.com/publichealthie
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