Mr Chris Biggs

Professional biography

I work in Library Services at The Open University as a Research Support Librarian. I currently manage the Institutional Repository Open Research Online. I also advise on the challenges of publishing Open Access across the academic disciplines.

I have supported the transition to a cloud based Library Management System providing metadata guidance for the management of bibliographic metadata across systems.  I work to ensure silos of metadata interoperate within Library and across institutional systems.  I am particularly interested in the developing metadata standards to support research including ORCIDs and Open Access vocabularies.

Impact and engagement

I have presented at several professional conferences.  Including:

• Now we are 13. Open Research Online becomes a teenager! (Open Repositories 2015)
• MARC, Voyager and OUDA (CIG Conference 2014)
• Using Metadata from the Institutional Repository for the REF Submissions (CIG Conference 2014)
• Reporting the Repository (UK CORR Members Day 2013)