I’ve been following with interest the tweets and blog posts from the SPARC Digital Repositories meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/). Online casino bonuses; Though I haven’t given them the attention the deserve yet, I was struck by a presentation that didn’t get given…

On his blog and slideshare Les Carr posted a presentation that he didn’t get round to giving at one of the pre-conference meetings.

http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2008/11/value-that-repositories-add.html

It offers a really concise overview of the different ways repositories can give back/ add value to the stuff that users deposit. Not all repository platforms can do all of these things yet but they’re all and real in use somewhere (afaik). A good starting point when thinking about what might motivate people to deposit.

Prompted by Stuart Lewis announcement about a facebook plugin to support SWORD deposit

http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2008/11/17/launched-today-the-facebook-repository-deposit-application/

there’s also been a fascinating discussion on JISC-Repositories about similar issues

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=jisc-repositories

See these threads (started by Stuart and Les): ‘Perform repository deposits from within Facebook using SWORD’ and ‘Repository Value: good ways of getting material OUT of your repository’