Information Services

Repofringe rises again

Edinburgh, the festival city, is hosting a little known event this week called Repository Fringe. Timed to coincide with the “real” Fringe preview week and designed to have a decidedly “unconference” feel, this is the sixth annual event that repository managers and developers from across the UK and beyond love to join—not least because it remains free to attend.

Since its inception in 2008, dedicated IS staff from EDINA and Data Library, Library & University Collections, and the Digital Curation Centre have worked to bring the event to life. This year the committee is chaired by Nicola Osborne, EDINA Social Media Officer, well-known for her live-blogging in real time of past events.

As in other years, the first day is for workshops organised by attendees. L&UC are delivering a workshop on the use of Open Journal Systems, in which they have developed expertise through Library projects, and two other workshops are being delivered as well, on the topics of Linked Open Data and the Repository of the Future.

The programme on Thursday and Friday offers two keynote speakers: Jacqui Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO of FlyingBinary and Mark Hahnel, founder of Figshare. In between there will be lightning talks (pecha kucha-style), round tables and short presentations for the repository managers, and a Developer Challenge for the code-minded.

Other Edinburgh contributions are from EDINA on Geo Metadata and repositories and the RepNet project, DCC on data management planning and roles for repositories within research data management, Data Library on use cases for the data repository, Library and Collections on interoperability standards and image collections.

Everyone will mix half-way through at a drinks reception provided by one of our generous sponsors. The evenings will let people roam the city in search of Fringe performances.

Follow the action

...via the twitter hashtag #rfringe13.

...on the live blog.

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