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To lighten the load from all this heavy stuff on repositories and preservation, here's a wee story. We are trialling twitter for internal communications purposes (my assessment: not really working but interesting nevertheless). Somewhat reluctantly, I got persuaded to have a go, open a twitter account, and install Tweetdeck. Parenthetically, I've found out quite a lot of interesting stuff since I started, so even if we abandon twitter for the internal comms purposes, I may carry on. One interesting thing you can easily do is set up a twitter search that it runs every few minutes, returning results in a column on Tweetdeck (sorry to labour this, but I have no idea how many of you are twitterati). I have one for "Repository OR Repositories". I just did a quick count; with around 160 tweets found in the past 2 days containing one of those words, only 14 had anything to do with the sort of repositories this list is interested in! Most of the rest appear to be to do with SVN and git etc version control repositories. Quite a lot appear to be the simple dictionary meaning of places to store something. I hadn't quite realised how much we are overloading someone else's vocabulary with the R-word! (OTOH (digital OR data) AND (curation OR preservation) has only produced a half dozen or so tweets today!) -- Chris Rusbridge Director, Digital Curation Centre Email: [log in to unmask] Phone 0131 6513823 University of Edinburgh Appleton Tower, Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.