ABSTRACT

Speaker: Art Rhyno

TITLE: Institutional Repositories and Desktop Silos

Much of the world's scholarly material is created in desktop environments that require all manner of additional processes and steps to reach a wider audience, yet the web has created a world of seemingly infinite links and outward bound content at the edge of the desktop for more than a decade. XML-fuelled systems offer the opportunity to blur the lines between desktop computing and global collaboration in ways that could radically change the knowledge cycle. The long term success of Open Access and Institutional Repositories could be further assured by making it possible to publish and web-enable information much closer to the applications where it currently often lives.

This session looks at wiring XML-based options for syndication, trust networks, and bi-directional computing into standard desktop systems and content creation tools.