Day 2 - Repositories.

Day 2 - Repositories.

The main purpose of the day was to make sure we gain a good understanding on why repositories are used and how to correctly maintain and use them.

The day started with a short lecture on why repositories are important for universities and libraries and how they are used and maintained by those institutions. We were notified that UP's Library manages most of the university's repositories and uploads to those repositories. This differs from universities like UNISA where it is the responsibility of the students and professors to upload their work to the related repositories.

After the lecture we started with our training. We did multiple exercises on the different functionalities of a repository. We started with the basics, like how to navigate through the repository and submit articles to the repository and later did more advanced stuff, like setting up workflow's and creating templates. After that we were given two extra exercises where we had to implement what we learned during the day and add two new submissions to the repository. 

According to the INL 370 lecturers, we will be using the skills we learned today throughout the two-week duration of the learning program as we will be editing and uploading a lot of things to repositories. I found the day to be very eventful and informative.

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