Items for Discussion

• Role of digital librarians?

• • Institutional repository is key component of e-infrastructure
  • • nearly always in library domain
    • how ‘sharable’ or flexible? Access and preservation?
    • Interoperability with departmental, national, subject repositories?
  • Data curation
  • • creation, metadata, preservation of institutional intellectual assets
    • • but disparate data types and ontologies
  • Training provision
  • • research methods training for graduates and staff
    • data creation, documentation, management
  • Awareness raising, policy setting
  • • cross-disciplinary approach to key issues
    • • expand open access agenda
    • weave together e-research, open access, VREs