Looking back: DeepGreen user meeting at the BiblioCon 2025
This year’s DeepGreen user meeting took place on 25.06.2025 as part of BiblioCon 2025 in Bremen. 18 users took part in the event.
At the beginning of the meeting, the technical developments of the past year and the new operating model were presented. We are currently working on a sustainable operating model and the repositories are to participate in the financing of the service at the beginning of next year.
The subsequent Q&A session led to a very constructive discussion, which resulted in the request for a list of arguments as to why libraries should pay for DeepGreen.
This was followed by a presentation on the current publishing negotiations and the planned community building measures.
This year, the DeepGreen client was presented in the input section. A prototype of an automated article retrieval system for Opus 4 repositories is to be developed this year as an alternative to SWORD. The participants discussed whether such a client would also be interesting for other types of repository software.
Finally, there was brief time for discussion in small groups. The opportunity to exchange ideas was well used and current challenges were discussed.
We would like to thank everyone who took part and look forward to seeing you again next year!