Raised a wide range of sustainability issues, including:
- repository communities need to talk to one another more
- 3 year funding cycles create a stop–start environment
- need rich contextual information around digital objects so they can be managed long term
- data plus services model; eg apply algorithms to data to derive information, present content differently for different uses
- who will pay for sustainability; what is the business model?
- repositories are becoming trans-national, but funding models are national
- what is the role of university libraries in repository management?
Requires a new form of information literacy — repositories are a high-value institutional asset
Diversity with interoperability is good; monocultures are bad
