At the recent Open Repositories 2007 conference, held in San Antonio, Texas over 23-26 January 2007, Julie Allinson provided an update on the deposit api activity being co-ordinated by the Repositories Research Team. In the same session, Carl Lagoze talked about the new OAI ORE initiative. Slides from Julie”s presentation, co-authored by Rachel Heery (UKOLN), Martin Morrey (Intrallect), Christopher Gutteridge (University of Southampton) and Jim Downing (University of Cambridge), are now available.