Data repositories confront multiple challenges: building a robust community around their content, features, and use, defining their position within a rapidly growing ecosystem of repositories, weighing the costs and benefits of participating in one or more repository networks, and developing a funding model that can support all of these (and more) critical areas of work. Similarly, community repository networks enable efficient discovery and access to resources shared by member repositories while promoting interoperability and efficiency, but also must confront similar challenges in defining who their community is, developing and communicating the value proposition that the network provides, promoting the value of the network, both to its members and to users of the network's repositories and the services provided by the network as a whole, and developing a funding model that both supports the network as an entity above and beyond the support provided by the member repositories.
This session will bring together a group of panelists from the repository and repository network perspective to seed and participate in a community discussion around:
* Defining what sustainability means in the context of repository networks as compared to repositories themselves
* Successful and unsuccessful models for sustaining repository networks
* Specific examples of sustainability strategies from both the panelists and attendees of the session
* The role of sponsoring agencies in contributing to repository and network sustainability
* Different sustainability challenges faced by repositories and networks:
* Disciplinary differences in value and use
* Cost and complexity variation in repository needs
* Differences in realistic funding models
* How has the sustainability landscape shifted over the past 10-20 years? How do we anticipate it will continue to change over the coming decades?
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