This is the personal website of Paul Walk. Here you will find various content (mostly blog-posts) created since 2003. I generally write about my work in the areas of scholarly communication, open-access repositories, software development & research data management.

Presentation on Notify project to the Samvera Virtual Connect meeting

This was a short, relatively technical introduction to the COAR Notify project for the Samvera Virtual Connect meeting. Download presentation as PDF

Paul Walk , May 5, 2022

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Five Prerequisites for a Sustainable Knowledge Commons

I very much like this infographic from COAR. I've been working with COAR on the Next Generation Repositories Working Group and we have been gradually building a picture of a technological future for repository systems. As this work has progressed over the last year or so, it has gradually become clear that there is an opportunity to describe a sustainable knowledge commons. While the Next Generation Repository group is gradually assembling a picture of the technical components and protocols which can make this work, this infographic covers some other, non-technical aspects which will also be required. [continues...]

Paul Walk , November 1, 2017

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