Conference Agenda

Inspired by Prof Hussein Suleman’s closing keynote at OR2023 “Designing Repositories in Poor Countries” this workshop will explore practical implementations of Suleman’s principles and goals. We will encourage developers, metadata specialists and managers to embrace, simple and sustainable approaches to making data safe and available using well established static web publishing techniques with on-demand indexes and discovery interfaces – contrasting with the complexity of current repository stacks which have grown into bloated enterprise software where setup and data migration are very expensive and hosting requirements are substantial. We will explore a range of technologies including those mentioned in the keynote and encourage people to join teams that take them away from the large, complex vertically integrated systems that many of us work in day to day. We aim to have participants work (in a sustainable way) on their ideas and present them in a special developer stream on the final day, and for us all to report back on what we learned at the closing keynote and to talk about possibilities for progressing the ideas we explored during the workshop and OR 2024.