You start with an ideal... and then you wait. And if you're really unlucky, you wait a bit more. If you're a bit impatient, like me, waiting for someone to give you the green light can seem interminable.
There's a reason the phrase, 'so close yet so far' is a favourite of mine. It feels like we've been 'almost there' for so long that we might never actually arrive.
There are complex and often time-consuming decisions to make regarding a repository, talk to someone in the repository community and you'll hear them often, talk to someone else and they will have no idea what you're going on about. Is that part of the problem? We talk about making research public, about communication and dissemination, but are we as a community becoming so insular that we are part of the problem?
Here at least we are finally so near arriving that it's tangible. This thing that I've been working towards for so long is finally here. But what then? A new phase, a new stage of the journey, and more development. See, having a live public repository is only the beginning, the journey is endless and there are still more exciting adventures out there...
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