An increasing number of university institutions and other organisations are deciding to deploy repositories and a growing number of formal and informal distributed services are supporting or capitalising on the information these repositories provide. Despite reasonably well understood technical architectures, early majority adopters may struggle to articulate their place within the actualities of a wider information environment. The idea of a repository ecology provides developers and administrators with a useful way of articulating and analysing their place in the information environment, and the technical and organisational interactions they have, or are developing, with other parts of such an environment. This presentation will provide an overview of the concept of a repository ecology and examine some examples from the domains of scholarly communications and elearning.

8. A scholarly research ecology (2) EThOS Google Netvibes ArXiv OAISTER HILT ELIS Emerald Strathprints QUEprints Loughborough Metalib OpenAIR @ RGU

12. An scientific overlay journal ecology: basic elements

13. An scientific overlay journal ecology: adding data capture

14. An scientific overlay journal ecology: bringing in other repositories

15. An scientific overlay journal ecology: the bigger picture : OJIMS White Rose repository IESR/ OpenDOAR/ ROAR IEMSR DCC Preserv RMetS BADC Sherpa Romeo

16. An scientific overlay journal ecology: analysis Diversity Diversity Diversity Diversity Keystone Species Keystone Species Keystone Species Keystone Species Keystone Species

17. An eLearning ecology Moodle del.icio.us Blogger Bloglines Slideshare Youtube

18. An eLearning ecology Diversity Diversity Diversity Keystone Species Keystone Species Keystone Species Keystone Species

21. An scientific overlay journal ecology: the bigger picture - revisited