Manchester University IR Project Blog Sharing news, opinions and general information about the University of Manchester's Institutional Repository (IR) Project.

This is me and my first blog - ironic really, I've only been building websites since 1994. I guess "if you can't beat them join them"!

What's the purpose of this blog?

Currently, I'm managing a 2 year Project within the University of Manchester. The Project aims to sustain and enhance the reputations of University researchers by implementing institutional repository services.

The Project has been running for just over six months now. We've made quite a lot of progress but there's still a lot to be decided and done. What has become clear to me is we need somewhere to share opinions whether they be rambles or rants.

We have a Project website where we post all our formal stuff,

• Institutional Repository Project Website

but we need something less formal aswell, hence this blog.

So what might you see on this blog in the coming months?

First I promise (to myself) to post at least one article each month. If I can encourage my colleagues, Scott/Nilani to share their thoughts by blogging here, then you may see other articles as well.

My articles will focus on a range of topics in 'my work world' (no pet or holiday piccies here). These will include things that inspire me, things that bug me and just whats new in the areas of information architecture, institutional repositories, scholarly communication, usability and web technologies.

If anybody reads this stuff, great. If not, well I won't be offended or disappointed, after all its just a blog.

Cheers, Phil

PS. If you want to contact me try p.butler@manchester.ac.uk

# posted by Phil Butler @ 15:31