Project – RELI

Pilot implementation of a license registry/ Registry of Electronic Licences

Short Project Name: RELI

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Information Environment

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/shared_services/project_license.aspx

Project URI: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/RELI/ReliHome.html

Start Date: 2007-03-15

End Date: 2009-03-15

Governance:

Contact Name and Role: ?? probably Charles Oppenheim/ Steve Proberts in first instance

Brief project description:
“The Registry of Electronic Licences (RELI) project aims to to establish the user requirements for a Licence Registry able to integrate with the JISC Information Environment. It also aims to design, build, deploy and test a pilot based on the requirements. The Registry will enable key elements of licences to be made available so that a user can be provided with licence information at the point of use without additional human intervention. A licence registry is an essential element in the technical architecture necessary to support such functionality.”

Name of Trawler: John

Outputs:
registry itself
no reports available as yet;
briefing paper:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/sharedservices/reli.pdf

project not yet complete

Project – POCKET

Project on Open Content for Knowledge Exposition and Teaching

Short Project Name: POCKET

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Matching funding for digital repository development

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/repositories_sue/pocket.aspx

Project URI: http://www.derby.ac.uk/pocket

Start Date: 2007-09-01

End Date: 2009-02-28

Governance: Repositories and preservation advisory group

Contact Name and Role:

Sarah Malone, Project Manager

Brief project description:

“This Project aims to investigate the potential of migrating open content approaches in a range of disciplines across a number of different higher education institutions. The project will run from November 2007 until February 2009 and will be led by the University of Derby. The partner institutions currently working with the University of Derby on the POCKET project are: University of Bolton, Open University and the University of Exeter.”

Name of Trawler: John

Output:
Project Plan

Project still in process; further outputs still to be produced

Project – NTU

An institutional repository for Nottingham Trent University

Short Project Name: NTU

Programme Name: Repositories start-up and enhancement projects

Strand: SUE

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/repositories_sue/ir_nott_trent.aspx

Project URI: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/irep/

Start Date: 2007-03-01

End Date: 2008-03-30

Governance:

Contact Name and Role:

Sue McKnight, David Lonjon, Project Director, Project Manager

Brief project description:

“Nottingham Trent University will develop a repository for the storage of a wide variety of materials, teaching and learning, research and institutional in an eclectic variety of formats integrated into a single search mechanism which addresses all the locations we store information. Essentially we want to build a location for anything and everything which will extend the body of knowledge held by the University for the benefit and extension of our members.”

Name of Trawler: John

Output:

(only visible public output is final report…)

• NTU Final Report http://www.ntu.ac.uk/irep/63815.doc

Project – INSPECT

Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic
Content Over Time

Short Project Name: INSPECT

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Preservation Assessment

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/inspect.aspx

Project URI: http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/

Start Date: 2006-10-01

End Date: 2008-09-30 – tbc

Governance: Integrated Information Environment Committee (JIIE)

Contact Name and Role: Paul Wheatley, Project Team Member -tbc

Brief project description:
“The purpose of INSPECT is to develop and expound the concept of “significant properties” (or characteristics) of digital objects, and to analyse a range of digital objects in order to develop a generalised methodology for determining the significant properties of digital object types.”

Name of Trawler: John

Available Outputs:
Project Plan – this lists a number of other deliverables of interest which are not yet available

Significant Properties Report

Framework for definition of significant properties

Output – IncReASe: Funder scenarios

Title: IncReASe: Research Funders and their Repository Deposit Requirements (Scenarios)

Page: 1 web page

Date Released: [page notes last update] 21-Jun-2007

URI for Output: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/increase/esrc.html

Summary of contents:

Context of funders requiring deposit.
Policies of different funders are available through Juilet http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php

Most funding bodies relevant to White Rose Resaerch Online (WRRO) only require some form of recognized OA deposit. ESRC and Welcome require deposit into their archives.

Scenarios around ESRC / WRRO single deposit to two repositories have been detailed by the project http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/increase/esrc.html

Four scenarios outlined:
Deposit to local with SWORD push to Funder
Deposit local, harvested by funder
Deposit funder, with SWORD push to local
Deposit funder, harvested or bulk import to local

The scenarios briefly explore available options to avoid dual deposit, or single deposit.
They require a reliance on affiliation metadata, grant metadata, and timestamps.
The issue of how many copies/ version control is raised.

Comment:
see update comment below