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Hi Les, It's certainly giving us a lot to talk about this afternoon! ;-) As you know, I see these social networks as a discovery layer, that functions as a reducing valve - dealing with information overload by harnessing the combined wisdom of your particular 'crowd' or crowds. But yes indeed, the repository infrastructure and the metadata are needed as a foundation to this ephemeral, yet increasingly important social networking layer. The search, storage and management of the data itself will always be important. How could this work in practice? Repositories themselves could import social data, from social platforms like connotea.org*, citeulike ..., or there could be some kind of interaction between repositories themselves. Perhaps the repository service model could be invoked in some way to facilitate this. It's an area that is wide open, in my opinion and developments in it won't replace so much as extend what has gone before. An 'emergent property' of the existing infrastructure perhaps? David. 2008/5/2 Les Carr <[log in to unmask]>: > On 2 May 2008, at 11:19, David Kane wrote: > > > > > > My perspective on this is that the repository service model just has > > not taken off. ... > > > > The repository > > service model won't take off in the future either, at least not on its > > own. ... > > > > What's going to happen, I think, is that people are increasingly going > > to discover relevant scholarly information through social networks in > > the future. > > > > But if not for information on repositories and similar services, what would > people on social networks talk about ? > -- > Les > *http://tinyurl.com/4wgngl -- David Kane Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology http://library.wit.ie/ T: ++353.51302838 M: ++353.876693212