Paul Walk's Website

You can find me on Mastodon, where I am quite active, and on LinkedIn (I have stopped using most of the other global social-media systems). I have also been blogging, intermittently, since 2003. These days, I generally write about my work in the areas of scholarly-communication, open-access repositories, software development & research-data management. No so-called "AI" has been used in the production of this website or blog.

My company is Antleaf. I am also a member of the International BBQ Planning Committee.

Current Work (Selected Projects)

Antleaf

My digital consultancy working in the higher-education and research domains, with particular expertise in scholarly communications, repositories and related infrastructure.

COAR Technical Consultancy

I provide ongoing technical consultancy to the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), working closely with the Executive Director.

The Dealing With Bots Web Resource

A web resource to help repository managers understand the challenges posed by bots, and to provide guidance on how to manage bot traffic effectively.

The COAR Notify Protocol

A set of profiles, constraints and conventions around the use of W3C Linked Data Notifications (LDN) to integrate repository systems with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.

International Repositories Directory (IRD)

I built and help to maintain COAR's International Repositories Directory (IRD). The directory aims to be an authoritative source of information about Open Access repositories.