Project – Overlay journal infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS)

Project Name:

Overlay journal infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences

Short Project Name:OJIMS

Programme Name:Repositories and Preservation

Strand: SUE

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

Project URI:  http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/ojims

Start Date: 1 March 2007

End Date:28 February 2008

Governance: JISC IEEE

Contact Name and Role: Sam Pepler (Project Manager)

Brief project description:

The main aim is to develop the mechanisms which could support both a new Journal of Meteorological Data and an Open-Access Repository for documents related to the meteorological sciences.

Name of Trawler: Mahendra Mahey

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

• An operational metrological document repository
• Overlay journal software
• A business concept description for the ‘Journal of Meteorological Data’ and the ‘RMetS kite-marking journal’
• Recommendations for setting up subject based repositories and overlay journal infrastructure

Project – OARS

Project Name:Open Access Repository System for Forced Migration Online (OARS)

Short Project Name: (OARS)

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation

Strand: SUE

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

Project URI: http://oars.forcedmigration.org/

Start Date: 1 September 2007

End Date: February 2009

Governance: JISC IEE

Contact Name and Role: Mike Cave (Project Manager) Refugee Studies Centre

Brief project description:

‘This project will migrate a fragmented digital repository of scholarly resources, currently managed by two proprietary software systems, to a single open source platform. This repository, based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, is the largest in the world on its subject area of forced migration. It is a unique, widely used and constantly expanding collection of resources. The enhancement of this repository will make it more manageable for those maintaining it, and also make it globally interoperable with other open systems, as well as with the University of Oxford’s institutional repository.’

Name of Trawler: Mahendra Mahey

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

• Single management/search interface across Forced Migration Online (FMO)
• Interoperability between the FMO repository and other institutional repositories and search services
• Potential to make FMO’s grey literature collection available via the University’s online Library Catalogue
• Open source management/search software built on Fedora

Output – UHRA – University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

Title: The University of Hertfordshire Research Archive

Date Released: Approx September 2007

URI for Output: https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/

Summary of contents:

The main output from this project is the establishment of the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive. It is described as “.. a showcase of the research produced by the University of Hertfordshire staff (copyright permitting) which is freely available over the web” and ” .. provides a simple interface to enable researchers to self-archive the full text of their published work with just a few quick and easy steps.”

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Comments:

The archive/repository appears to be fully functional and contains 2556 items as at 30th January 2007.

Project – SAFIR

Project Name: Sound Archives Film Images Repository

Short Project Name: SAFIR

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme
Strand: SUE: Matched funding

JISC Project URI: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/safir

Project URI: http://www.york.ac.uk/services/library/elibrary/digitallibrary.htm

Brief project description:
“This project will set up an open access digital repository at the University of York for resources in a variety of formats, including sound, archives, film and images, to complement both the University’s research publications in the White Rose Research Online repository and the digital teaching materials in the University’s Yorkshare VLE. SAFIR will investigate both open source and commercial software options to determine which is most appropriate for the range of formats and requirements identified by the project, and which conforms to current standards for interoperability within the JISC Information Environment. The project is part of a larger activity to develop a digital library service for the University of York that will contribute to the University strategy for storage, preservation, retrieval and dissemination of digital assets.”

Outputs:

• User requirements specification http://tinyurl.com/35qr8q
• Software recommendation http://yorkdl.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/itll-be-indys-hat-then/
• Policies, metadata profile(s)
• Repository with content from the history of art image collections
• Final report
• Project blog http://yorkdl.wordpress.com/

Start Date: 2007-08-01
End Date: 2008-12-30

Governance: Repositories and preservation advisory group

Contact Name and Role: Julie Allinson Project Manager

Name of Trawler: John Robertson

Output – FAR – FAR attribute requirements report

Output Name: Output – FAR – FAR attribute requirements report

Title: FAR attribute requirements report
Number of pages or page numbers: webpage

Date Released: 19 August 2008

URI for Output:  https://gabriel.lse.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Projects/FAR/AttributeUseReport

Summary of contents:

• Requirements for specific attributes to be used for Federated Access Management (FAM)-mediated access to repositories are not necessary because repository products use groups for access control already
• It is recommended that group membership information is structured in attribute stores on a per-user basis (with a user object containing a list of groups of which the user is a member) as opposed to solely as a per-group basis (with a group object containing a list of members)
• The use of groups for authorisation means that it should be possible for FAM to continue to be applicable with the introduction of new features to repository software

Output – ART – An ontology methodology and CISP the proposed Core Information about Scientific Papers

Output Name: Output – ART – An ontology methodology and CISP (Core Information about Scientific Papers)

Title: An ontology methodology and CISP the proposed Core Information about Scientific Papers
Number of pages or page numbers: 26 pages

Date Released: December 2007

URI for Output:  http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/art/publications/ReportCISPshort.pdf

Summary of contents:

This report contains details about CISP, the results from the online survey as well as the benefits of assuming an ontology methodology when producing meta-data.

This report has two main goals:

• To introduce a new formalism for the description of scientific papers CISP (the Core Information about Scientific Papers);
• Attract more attention to ontologies as a valuable methodology for developing metadata.

The report demonstrates the  advantages of an ontology methodology for developing metadata by applying it to the analysis of the Dublin Core metadata (DC). An ontology approach allows detecting potential weaknesses in the representation of the DC terms. Such weaknesses include overlap in the semantic meaning between the terms, logically incoherent representation of temporal and spatial relations as well as incoherence in the representation of content. An ontology can also suggest improvements to the DC.
The report describes an ontology methodology to construct CISP metadata about the content of papers. It makes use of an ontology of experiments EXPO proposed at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth as a core ontology, and DOLCE (a Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering) developed at the Laboratory for Applied Ontology, the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Italy as an upper level ontology.
CISP is a defined set of leaf classes from these ontologies. It includes such key classes as <Goal of investigation>, <Object of investigation>, <Research method>, <Result>, <Conclusion>.

CISP can be used to generate abstracts and summaries of papers and also to facilitate storage and retrieval of information. CISP will constitute the basis for the ART tool. The latter is an authoring tool for the semantic annotation of papers stored in digital repositories. ART is intended for the semi-automatic annotation of data and metadata describing the scientific investigation represented in a research paper. ART will also be able to aid in the expression of research results directly in both a human and machine readable format, through the composition of text using ontology-based templates and stored typical key phrases. .
To find out more about ontology methodology refer to chapters 2 and 3 .
To learn about the proposed CISP metadata you can start reading from chapter 4 onwards.

Output – SOURCE – Bulk Migration Tool and Service

Title: Bulk Migration Tool and Service

Date Released: Unknown

URI for Output: http://www.source.bbk.ac.uk/code/

Summary of contents: A bulk migration tool that can plug into the common repository plugs of two or more repositories and migrate content interchangeably from one repository to another.

Additonal information: The current version is a java Alpha build available as a zip file from http://www.source.bbk.ac.uk/code/BulkMigrationDemonstrator_ProofOfConcept_AlphaBuild. It require a username and password to download with no information on how to get this.

Ouput – DISC-UK – Datashare -The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories.

Output Name: Output – DISC-UK – Datashare -The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories.

Title: DISC-UK – Datashare -The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Institutional Repositories.
Number of pages or page numbers:  21 pages

Date Released: 28 Feb 2008

URI for Output: http://www.disc-uk.org/docs/DDI_and_IRs.pdf

Summary of contents:

This document reports back from the DDI 3 workshop “Using DDI 3.0 to Support Preservation, Management, Access and Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data” held at the Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany in November 2007. It intends to present the DDI standard to repository managers, data librarians and data managers and provide background information to help them to examine how the DDI fits with developments in their institutional repositories for research-generated data. The report discusses the appropriateness of using the different DDI versions to address the requirements of research data in IRs. It brings together some of the key questions of the DataShare project with regards to access management, linking to other materials and versioning of datasets.

Ouptut – DEXT – Brief report on plausibility of web-based data conversion service

Output Name: Output – DEXT – Brief report on plausibility of web-based data conversion service

Title: Brief report on plausibility of web-based data conversion service
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Ouput – Data Audit Framework and related pilots – King’s College London

Output Name: Ouput – Data Audit Framework and related pilots – King’s College London

Title: Data Audit Framework and related pilots – King’s College London
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Summary of contents:

Case study for Kings College London implementing the Data Audit Framework

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