Chris Biggs

I work in Library Services at The Open University as a Repository and Metadata Specialist. I currently manage the Institutional Repository Open Research Online which is one of the most succesful University Repositories in the UK. I also support the research community to publish Open Access by managing the Research Councils UK Open Access block grant and 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.