-    A researcher wishes to use their research paper and associated data (citation, usage, links, etc) to manage and improve their online reputation, adopting tactics to have themselves represented well in key web services (databases, blogs, social networking sites).  They look to repositories as a tool to help them.

-    A research manager (in a university or funding organisation perhaps) needs to compile a report identifying all the outputs from a set of projects, together with measures of their impact (citations, usage, etc).  Many of these outputs are in repositories, often duplicated across the web.

Potential components include:

•  - effective, real-time, automatic forward and backward citation mechanisms (see Storelink  and CLADDIER  projects)
•  - factual authority (common tagging of objects with funder / grant number metadata), which implies:
  • institution identifier 
  • author identification 
  • funder identifier
  • probably grant / project identifier
• open citation data?  technically and financially agreed APIs onto Web of Science / Scopus data?
• Usage stats , eg COUNTER-compliant usage statistics - see PIRUS project 
• Shared OpenURL log data - see bX project 
• prestige and profiling services 
• interoperable persistent identifier infrastructures 
• some agreed and implemented version identification  convention

 - etc