A voir ce rapport des activités de la Digital Repository Federation (Japon) entre 2006 et 2008.

"Main activities are:
(1) Construction of mailing list for information exchange on IR / Open Access and Wiki.
(2) Workshop for IR / Open Access
(3) International symposium for IR / Open Access
(4) International survey on cooperation model for IR
(5) Discussion on ideal future IR community
We have clearly recognized problems through these activities.
- Firstly, library staff must be able to explain the meaning of publishing academic achievements in IR to universities / institutions and researchers. We believe that information transmission by IR is an activity across the academic fields and aim to share the basis of IR, which is a new way of carrying out accountability in the information open access society. IR should be coming to be more and more important for universities / institution libraries.
- Secondarily, it is crucially important to increase contents of IR and improve their quality. Therefore, it is necessary to seek strategy to increase the researchers who register academic achievements.
- Thirdly, all library staff should be able to manage IR. In order to correspond to the unavoidable personnel relocation, it may be good to add IR management to the nationwide training course. Then it will be easier for us to cooperate with each IR.
- Fourthly, it is necessary to confirm if IR was helpful for the researchers who registered their academic achievements and those who accessed the information. We wish to analyze attribute of users at least. [...]"

(source: liste JISC-Repositories, 03/07/09)