Shared Research Repository Service and competency framework for cultural heritage professionals

This presentation covers an overview of the British Library’s Shared Research Repository Service to make GLAM research discoverable and a proposed training programme for GLAM professionals to manage repository services as a result of a recent scoping report conducted by the British Library.

British Library’s Shared Research Repository Service features content from partner cultural heritage organisations and increases the visibility of heritage research outputs. Each partner can have their own institutional identity, manage their content but their content can also be discovered via the shared search layer of the service. As part of an AHRC funded repository infrastructure project, we undertook a study to support Shared Research Repository partners and other GLAM organisations. In this study, we looked at the roles and people involved in the research workflow in GLAMs and their skills’ needs in sharing heritage research openly through digital repositories, developed a competency framework and proposed a training program for cultural heritage professionals.