Repositories post 2010: embracing heterogeneity in AWE, the Academic Working Environment
Peter Sefton, Duncan Dickinson · Texas Digital Library (University of Texas) · 2011
Abstract: The organizers of the 5th International Conference on Open Repositories list nine polar dichotomies that represent “The Grand Integration Challenge ” for the repository community/movement. In this paper we take up the challenge. We do so in the context of a our work to build infrastructure for the academy in general, with the goal to develop a modular 'Academic Working Environment ' (AWE) which encompasses both teaching and learning on one hand and research on the other. Repositories and the ecosystem of services and workflows that surround them play a key role in this emerging system. 1