LIBSENSE Repository Workshop I

19 Nov 2018, 09:00 → 20 Nov 2018, 17:30 Africa/Dar_es_Salaam

Hotel Verde, Zanzibar

Omo Oaiya (WACREN), Tiwonge Banda (UbuntuNet Alliance)

This workshop, organized in conjunction with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and  EIFL, will convene library and NREN stakeholders to explore how repositories can operate embedded in NREN e-infrastructure and provide a foundation for an innovative, open, distributed and networked resource for scholarly communication and open science in Africa.

The 2-day meeting will also discuss results of the LIBSENSE survey of how higher education sector librarians view the enabling and constraining factors of their practice as information resource managers especially regarding the development, implementation and maintenance of open access repositories.

The outcomes from this workshop will be developed further in two follow-on events; in the WACREN region colocated as a side event with the 2019 conference in Accra, Ghana which takes place from 14-15 March 2019, and in the ASREN region where regional stakeholders will meet from April 27-29, 2019 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. 

Group Photo

Monday, 19 November

09:00 → 10:30 Overview

Stage setting for Librarians & Repository managers

09:00 Introduction to the workshop

Getting to know each other and expectations

Speakers: Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Kathleen Shearer (COAR), Omo Oaiya (WACREN)

09:30 General overview: the role of repository

Speaker: Iryna Kuchma (EIFL)

The role of the repository.pdf

09:40 Current experiences of participants - What works, what doesn’t and why?

Insights into attitudes of scholars and academics (focus on Southern and East Africa)
Presentations from countries in the Ubuntunet Alliance region

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Current landscape in Africa: Ubuntunet Alliance region

Presentation of results of LIBSENSE survey and discussion

Conveners: Kokui Appiah (WACREN), Pamela Abbott (Information School, The University of Sheffield)

LIBSENSE Survey Presentation.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Best practices for managing a repository I

Convener: Dr Stephen Akintunde (University of Jos, Nigeria)

13:30 Good practice and guidelines for repositories

Speakers: David Bukenya (Uganda Christian University / Consortium of Uganda University Libraries), Felix Rop (University of Nairobi / Kenya Libraries and Information Services Consortium)

6 Institutional Repositories – Good Practice_Presentation.pdf

7 What is the next step and how to get there.pdf

14:15 Policies and strategies to make more content (and data) available

Includes breakout group discussion

Speaker: Rosemary Otando (University of Nairobi / Kenya Libraries and Information Services Consortium)

8 OA policy development in Kenya.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Best practices for managing a repository I

15:30 Networking and interoperability of repositories - metadata, vocabularies

Speaker: Ms Iryna Kuchma (EIFL)

9 Repositories networking interoperability.pdf

16:15 Discussion

Tuesday, 20 November

09:00 → 10:30 Best practices for managing a repository II

09:00 Recap from Day 1

Day 2 sessions will have NREN managers joining the librarians & repository managers

Speaker: Omo Oaiya (WACREN)

09:20 Open science and next generation repositories

Speaker: Kathleen Shearer (COAR)

LIBSENSE - Shearer - November 20, 2018.pptx

10:05 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Best practices for managing a repository II

11:00 JPCOAR and JAIRO Cloud

A case study from Japan

Speaker: Kazutsuna (Kazu) Yamaji (National Institute of Informatics (NII))

presentation-yamaji.pptx

11:30 OpenAIRE

A case study from Europe

Speaker: Iryna Kuchma (EIFL)

OpenAIRE_Tz.pdf

12:00 DATAD-R

Database of African Theses and Dissertations

Speaker: Abednego Corletey (Association of African Universities (AAU))

Zanzibar '18.pptx

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Building a community of practice

13:30 Improving the visibility and networking of repositories in Africa

Speaker: Omo Oaiya (WACREN)

14:00 Discussion about local needs

14:30 LaReferencia

A case study from Latin America

Speaker: Alberto Cabezas (La Referencia / RedCLARA)

LAreferenciaafricanov2018.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Building a community of practice

Conveners: Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Kathleen Shearer (COAR), Omo Oaiya (WACREN)

15:30 A framework for collaboration and communication in African countries, regions and across the continent

Breakout session to identify next steps towards cohesive network(s) of repositories in Africa, including harvester(s), interoperability of repositories and support frameworks

16:20 Group reports

16:50 Wrap-up

Speaker: Pascal Hoba (UbuntuNet Alliance)