From the year 2000, digital repositories have developed as the main support for the Open Access Movement. Over the years digital repositories (e-repositories) have matured into a tool not only for open access to research literature, but also the tool to manage and make accessible an institution’s multimedia digital assets whilst at the same time providing the organization with a centralized research information reporting mechanism. Expansion as multimedia repositories and descriptions of their uses in digital asset management will bring participants to the discussion on how these transformations in the digital environment has changed the role of libraries and librarians/library agents. Practical experience of contributing to a repository will be included.

Learning Outcomes

• • Understand the role of repositories in the Open Access Movement (OA)

• • Update knowledge of important repository parameters and latest trends in South-east Asia

• • Know why repositories are an important tool in Digital Asset Management

• • Recognize the importance of Persistent Identifiers (PID) in Web 2 technologies

• • Know the extent that repositories can support data and research information systems

• • Be aware of the concepts of the semantic web and linked data

• • Appreciate the changing and challenging role of libraries/librarians and library agents

• • Obtain practical experience of contributing to an online publications repository

Course Topics

• • Overview of Digital Asset Management

• • OA policies and state of art in South-east Asia

• • Repositories and Open Access to Information

• • Repositories supporting research management: documents, data, archives, DAM

• • Important aspects of repositories: Copyright; Preservation; Metadata; Ontologies

• • Using repositories for Research information management

• • Changing Role of libraries

• • Repositories in South-east Asia

Target Audience

• • New or intending repository managers (documents, data, multimedia)

• • (Marine) information (library) managers and (Marine) data librarians

• • (Marine) researchers and postgraduate students

• • Research managers

Course Pre-requisites:

• • Interest or new responsibilities in working with (marine) sciences repositories

• • Good Working knowledge of English language

• • Computer IT skills

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to all successful students.