Last weekend, I had the immense pleasure of attending one of the most vibrant, colourful, and welcoming conferences I’ve ever experienced, the 2025 Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) Summit, held in the bright and modern Nucleus Building at the University of Edinburgh. As a member of the TU Delft Open Hardware Group, I spent two..
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July 2024 sees the launch of a new version of TU Delft’s Repository. It is a landmark moment in TU Delft Library’s commitment to openly built infrastructure, sitting next to other work already done in this area. Our previous repository was also open infrastructure, built around the Islandora software. But after ten plus years of..
On 16 April 2024, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was published. Its focus is on reforming how metadata about scientific outputs is shared and used – specifically making sure that such data is open and not closed. The Declaration has far-reaching consequences. It makes numerous strategic demands of not just university libraries, but..