Scenarios Motivating Integration and Re-Curation

A vast landscape of open scientific and scholarly repositories has arisen over the past two decades as a result of the shared understanding among researchers of the purposes and motivations for creating and maintaining individual institutional and domain repositories. Many of the next developmental steps envisioned and being undertaken for this landscape entail it evolving into a more integrated ecosystem of repositories that enhance or re-curate one another's content, especially metadata, in ways that further the interests of individual researchers, their communities, and the broader research ecosystem.. Exploring possibilities of improved integration for enhancement and re-curation requires a shared understanding of the use cases and associated motivations for collaboration among researchers, repository managers, information service professionals (aka librarians), institutional administrators, and eventually research funders. This panel will catalyze and facilitate a discussion among these groups to identify the most compelling new scenarios for inter-repository integrated processes and re-curation functions, with a special focus on surfacing the motivations and value propositions for such scenarios. Panelists will serve to catalyze and facilitate a structured group discussion for these aims. The primary outcome from the panel-led discussion following OR2025 would be a consolidated summary of the discussion. that invokes the Chatham House Rule.