CUL Repository Executive Group
 
The Cornell University Library manages an increasingly distributed and complex suite of services and platforms and therefore needs to consider a range of issues including architecture, policy, metadata/interoperability, service provision, communication, usability, resource requirements, and innovation. The RepoExec will explore these issues with the goal of crafting recommendations to create a more cohesive repository policy for CUL, with an eye towards the broadening venues for scholarly communication and the role of open access in changing the publishing landscape.
 
CUL supports several digital repositories to archive and/or provide access to a wide range of digital information. Examples include eCommons, DigitalCommons@ILR, DigitalCommons@Law, CULAR, Luna Insight, Kaltura, Greenstone, Shared Shelf, as well as specific digital collections built using DLXS (Digital Library eXtension Service). These systems include many digital genres such as visual images, digital images, research data files, AV, electronic records, code, etc.  We will need to factor in outsourced services such as HathiTrust, ArchiveIT, and DPN (Digital Preservation Network) as they relate to CUL's overall repository policy. The group will operate as a cross-functional forum for exchanging ideas, creating policies, drafting proposals, making recommendations, and acting as advocates for CUL's repositories and their users.
 
The goals of this group will be:

• Reach out to stakeholders at CUL and Cornell at large to determine what is needed from repositories in terms of content, service needs, and sustainability.
• Develop recommendations and/or scenarios by which CUL can meet those needs, addressing questions of software and architecture, workflow and staffing, and collection development.
• Work with LibExec to develop an actionable plan to implement the recommendation(s) that best fit the needs for CUL.
   
  The group's first year will be a pilot, with the charge to be reexamined and modified in Fall 2014 to better reflect priorities and gaps that we are trying to fill. If it is decided that the group will continue long-term, the charge will be reviewed every two years, in the Fall. The group will have monthly meetings and organize retreats and CUL forums as needed.
   
  Members: Michael Cook (Mann), Jim DelRosso, Coordinator (HLM/DSPS), Steven Folsom (LTS), Jason Kovari (LTS, DCAPS, & VRWG liaison), Wendy Kozlowski (LTS), Danielle Mericle (DSPS, DCAPS, & VRWG liaison), Liz Muller (RMC), Jean Pajerek (Law), Michelle Paolillo (DSPS), David Ruddy (DSPS), Gail Steinhart (Mann & PSEC Liaison), Kizer Walker (Scholarly Resources & CDExec Liaison), Simeon Warner (CUL IT)

LibExec Liaisons: Oya Rieger & Dean Krafft

Consultants: Jaron Porciello, Business Planning Consultant & others TBD (e.g., CIT, CISER)