The IRD: Improving knowledge about the state of the repository system landscape through automated curation processes

The International Repositories Directory (IRD) will be launched at Open Repositories 2025. The IRD will address concerns about repository metadata quality, including harvesting, de- duplication, responsiveness checks, and platform identification. This session will demonstrate the more technical aspects of this system, focussing on how the metadata quality is maintained with a set of automated curation functions. The session will conclude with a brief presentation of the improved dataset from the IRD, showing a more positive picture of repository functionality worldwide - notably that OAI-OPMH support is actually 67% rather than 50%.