[copy of my post from the RRT Team blog] Introductory Report released We’re pleased to announce the release of the final version of RRT’s introductory report: An ecological approach to repository and service interactions . In the report we examine the idea that ecology can usefully serve as a metaphor (or source of metaphors) to … Continue reading »
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An ecology of repositories?
[this is a copy of my post on the Repository Research Team blog http://jiscrrt.wordpress.com/%5D In issue 57 of Ariadne, Phil, Mahendra, and myself have an article introducing some of our work on ecological models of repository and service interaction. “A Bug’s Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions” In … Continue reading »
Metadata in an Ecosystem of Presentation Dissemination
Metadata in an Ecosystem of Presentation Dissemination – R. John Robertson, Phil Barker, Mahendra Mahey How and how why do academics disseminate their presentations? How does this relate to their other forms of dissemination? What academic and organisational influences affect their dissemination? What influences their choice of tool? What metadata is created about the various … Continue reading »
Upcoming CRIG unConference
At the end of this week JISC’s Common Repositories Interfaces Group (CRIG) are holding a two day meeting to look at the key scenarios affecting repository interfaces. Our discussions for the two days are going to build on a series of teleconferences organised by the CRIG support project – WoCRIG which have just been podcast. … Continue reading »
Domain models and the ecological approach
This a more focused brief discussion to follow up my last post about different approaches to modeling. It attempts to understand some of the similarities and differences between a domain modeling approach and an ecological approach. Thoughts so far: Like a domain model an ecological view is concerned with more than the technical issues and … Continue reading »
Recent developments in the repository ecology work
A brief update on the progress of the repository ecology work. We’ll be revising the draft report shortly but here’s an overview of what else is going on with this work. ECDL2007 Workshop We held a workshop in conjunction with this year’s ECDL conference (workshop home page http://tinyurl.com/27jses ). I’ll return to some of the … Continue reading »
Ontologies, domain models, use cases, and the ecological approach (part 1)
Or: a Friday afternoon study of poker. In an attempt to make some more sense of how the ecological view fits with some other key ideas in the repository space here are some different views on a game of poker. I hope that taking a non-repository related example should force a clearer articulation. When time … Continue reading »
Repository ecology
The introductory report is finally done (well the draft anyway). I’ll post some more around the topic of an ecological approach to repository and service interaction but in the meantime. the draft report is here: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Ecology The following blogs have commented on the report (I’ll try to keep this current ) OL Daily http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=40727 eFoundations … Continue reading »
