Output – IESR – OpenURL Link-To Resolver

Title: IESR OpenURL Link-To Resolver

Date Released: Unknown

URI for Output: http://iesr.ac.uk/use/openurl/

Summary of contents:

“The IESR OpenURL ‘Link-To’ Resolver service provides retrieval of IESR XML records for single entities using Z39.88-2004, OpenURL Framework, syntax. Currently support for OpenURL syntax is limited allowing retrieval by identifier only using a Key/Encoded Value (KEV) request inline by HTTP. Values must be URL-encoded.”

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Output – IESR – OpenSearch Plug-in

Title: IESR OpenSearch Plug-in

Date Released: Unknown

URI for Output: http://iesr.ac.uk/use/opensearch/

Summary of contents:

“The IESR OpenSearch Plug-in allows you to add an IESR search to your browser in order to discover new electronic resources. OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. The plug-in adds a search box to the top right-hand side of your browser.”

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Output – IESR – HTML Plug-in

Title: IESR Registry HTML Plug-in

Date Released: Unknown

URI for Output: http://iesr.ac.uk/use/htmlplugin/

Summary of contents:

“The IESR Search HTML Plug-in allows you to add an IESR search to your website in order to discover new electronic resources. The plug-in is a simple HTML search box that shows results on the IESR website.”

Additional information:

You need a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS plus the ability to edit webpages. Simply add the following HTML, CSS and Javascript to your webpage to create the search box.

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Project – OpenDoar

Project Name: OpenDoar

Programme Name:Digital Repositories Programme 2005-7

Strand: Information Environment, e-Administration

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitalrepositories2005/opendoar.aspx

Project URI: http://www.opendoar.org/

Start Date: 1st Jan 2005

End Date: 30th June 2006

Governance:

Contact Name and Role: Bill Hubbard, Project Manager

Brief project description:

“OpenDOAR will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world. Such repositories have mushroomed over the last 2 years in response to calls by scholars and researchers worldwide to provide open access to research information.

OpenDOAR will provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories, as well as archives set up by funding agencies – like the National Institutes for Health in the USA or the Wellcome Trust in the UK and Europe. Users of the service will be able to analyse repositories by location, type, the material they hold and other measures. This will be of use both to users wishing to find original research papers and for third-party “service providers”, like search engines or alert services, which need easy to use tools for developing tailored search services to suit specific user communities.”

Outputs:

• Descriptive list of open access repositories of relevance to academic research.
• Comprehensive & authoritative list for end users wishing to find particular types of, or specific repositories.
• Comprehensive, structured and maintained list with clear update and self-regulation protocols to enable development of the list.
• Crominent international role in the organisation of and access to open access repository services.
• Supporting Open Access outreach and advocacy endeavours within institutions and globally.
• Survey the growing field of academic open access research repositories and categorise them in terms of locale, content and other measures

Project – HILT Phase IV

High-Level Thesaurus (Phase IV)

Short Project Name: HILT IV

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Shared Infrastructure Services

Brief project description:
Pilot terminology service to assist users of the IE with the discovery of the appropriate resources by subject browse and search.

“‘HILT phase IV: Transition to Service Testbed and Future Requirements Study’ aims to research, investigate and develop pilot solutions for problems pertaining to cross-searching multi-subject scheme information environments, as well as providing a variety of other terminological searching aids.

HILT phase IV will build on the work of phase III by moving HILT to a transition to service phase. This will allow an initial entry-level service to be built, tested for user requirements and retrieval effectiveness, refined in line with the findings, and extended to permit the use of a range of distributed terminology services for interoperability. It will also allow an examination of the level of need and interest amongst JISC services in respect of an operational service and, if appropriate, a scoping of the costs and requirements of a future operational phase of the service.

HILT phase IV will also conduct a parallel programme of research into selected topics germane to terminology services, as well research into the costs and requirements of an initial entry-level operational service and any future extension of this. ”

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sharedservices/hilt2

Project URI: http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index.html

Start Date: 1st June 2002

End Date: 29th January 2009

Governance: JIIE

Contact Name and Role: Dennis Nicholson (Project Manager)

Name of Trawler: John

Available Outputs:
The following demostrator services are available:

• HILT SOAP client
• Demo of SRU
• HILT2 Emulation
• Vocabulary Browse/Search
• Lucene Spell Checker
• Wordnet
• BUBL Search (example of embedding toolkit elements in a service)
• OCLC client

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Project – RSP

Project Name: Repositories Support Project

Short Project Name:RSP

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation

Strand:

JISC Project URI:  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/repsupport.aspx

Project URI: http://www.rsp.ac.uk

Start Date: October 2006

End Date: March 2009

Governance:JISC IIE

Contact Name and Role:  Bill Hubbard (Project Manager)

Brief project description:

The Repository Support Project (RSP) is a 2.5 year project to co-ordinate and deliver good practice and practical advice to English and Welsh HEIs to enable the implementation, management and development of digital institutional repositories.

Name of Trawler: Mahendra Mahey

Outputs: (just link to individual output postings) as a bulleted list

Project – NAMES

Project Name: Names: Pilot national name and factual authority service

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Information Environment

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sharedservices/names.aspx

Project URI: http://names.mimas.ac.uk/

Start Date: 1st May 2007

End Date:30th September 2008

Governance: RPAG

Contact Name and Role: Amanda Hill, Project Manager

Brief project description:

“The project is scoping the requirements of UK institutional and subject repositories for a service that will reliably and uniquely identify individuals and institutions.

A prototype service is under development to test the various processes involved. This includes determining the most appropriate data format, setting up a test database, mapping data from different sources, populating the database with records and testing the use of the data.

This will provide important information about the future usefulness of a name authority service for institutional and subject-based repositories, and other applications beyond the repository sector.”

Outputs:

• Prototype name authority service
• Web interface using NAMES api (mentioned in blog post)
  
• Landscape Report
• Usage Scenarios
• Requirements Report
• Data Analysis and FRAD mappings
• Software Requirements Specification
• NAMES blog

Comments:

The prototype service is now available as at 13th Jan 2009, but some development work is still to be done (acc to Names blog last paragraph).

Project – IESR

Project Name: Information Environment Service Registry (IESR)

Programme Name: Information Environment

Strand: Shared Infrastructure Services programme

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/mimas/iesr.aspx

Project URI: http://www.iesr.ac.uk/

Start Date: 1st Jan 2003

End Date: 31st Match 2009

Governance: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee?

Contact Name and Role: Vic Lyte, Project Manager

Brief project description:

“The IESR has been developed to provide a registry of information about electronic resources that are of value to teachers, researchers and learners. The IESR project is part of JISC‘s Shared Services Programme.

The aim is to create a reliable source of information that other applications, such as portals, can freely access through machine-to-machine protocols, in order to help their end users discover resources of assistance to them.

The IESR contains information about the resources themselves, technical details about how to access the resources, and contact details for the resource providers. For resource providers the IESR will hold a master description of their electronic resources, to which other potential users of the resources may be directed.

The registry is held in an XML repository using Cheshire information retrieval software.”

Outputs:

• UDDI Summary Report (PDF: 190 kB), March 2007.
• IESR Evaluation Report (Executive Summary), January 2006.
• Report on UDDI and IESR, August 2005
• Final Evaluation Report, Phase 1, February 2004
• Interim User Requirements Report, September 2003
• Stakeholder Analysis Final Report, March 2003

Output – CAIRO: Tools survey

Title: Cairo tools survey: a survey of tools applicable to the preparation of digital archives for ingest into a preservation repository

Pages: all
Date Released:21 May 2007

Summary of contents:
“The purpose of this tool review is to identify a set of ingest and metadatarelated applications, tools or code that could form the components of the overall Cairo tool package.”p5

This document contains an overview of 54 tools that the project has indentified that have functionality relevant to ingest of personal digital archives for curation and preservation.

Crtieria for inclusion on this list is:
“General criteria for the survey include applications and tools that:

1. are available now;
2. are available for public re-use;
3. may be open source, ‘free to use’ or commercially available;
4. extract or generate some form of metadata from or about a file object or
5. objects;
6. operate on a variety of computing platforms;
7. have some basic information about them available.”p3

URI for Output: http://cairo.paradigm.ac.uk/projectdocs/cairo_tools_listing_pv1.pdf

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Output – Nectar: Software Functional requirements

Title: Software for NECTAR: Functional requirement

Pages: all
Date Released: 2008

Summary of contents:
3 page specification of the functional requirements for NECTAR’s repository.
It covers key points including:

• Visibility / accessibility
• User interface
• File handling
• Support
• Management
• Demonstration
• Hardware [recommendations]

URI for Output: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/IR_Final_functional_spec.doc

Comments:
This requirement specifcation informs other institutions considering their requirements of a repository system.