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 – 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

Output – The Depot – UK Repository Junction

Title: UK Repository Junction

Date Released: June 2007

URI for Output: http://depot.edina.ac.uk/junction.html

Summary of contents:

‘UK Repository Junction’ is a re-direct service to ensure that content that comes within the remit of an existing institutional repository is correctly placed.

Additional information:

The service is essentially part of the functioning of the Depot service quality repository (separately listed as an output).

Comments:

On testing the redirection using the example of the University of Bath which has it’s own repository, the junction worked correctly.

Output – The Depot – Service Quality Repository

Title: The Depot Service Quality Repository

Date Released: Approx November 2007

URI for Output: http://deposit.depot.edina.ac.uk/

Summary of contents:

“The purpose of the Depot is to enable all UK academics to share in the benefits of open access exposure for their research outputs. As part of JISC RepositoryNet, the Depot is provided as a national facility geared to support the policies of UK universities and national funding agencies towards Open Access, aiding policy development in advance of a comprehensive institutional archive network”

The Depot offers the following features:

• a re-direct service, nicknamed UK Repository Junction, to ensure that content that comes within the remit of an existing institutional repository is correctly placed.
• accepts deposit of e-prints from researchers at institutions that do not currently have an Institutional Repository (IR). The principal target is postprints, that is articles that have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication.
• as  institutional repositories (IRs) are established, the Depot will support the transfer of relevant content to help populate those new IRs.  Meantime, the Depot will act as a keep-safe, notifying  institutions when deposits are made.
• an OAI-compliant interface, so, like other open access repositories, its contents is available for harvesting, with special attention being paid to ensure that it can searched through the Intute Search, another part of JISC RepositoryNet.

Additional information:

Comments:

I created a Depot account and submitted a test item for the purposes of assessing the repository on the 27th November 2008. The was later removed. My observations following this are:

• The repository browse functioned well and was responsive. The repository in general was working well.
• When submitting an item, the submission page annoyingly scrolls to the top on opening hidden metadata fields (Firefox 3.0.4 , Mac OS X 10.5.5).
• The submission process is lengthy.
• No subject matches found for ‘jazz’, ‘journalism’ or ‘music’. Seems odd.
• The process of adding a new version of an existing item is convoluted and tricky.  Similar for deletion – not intuiative.

The Depot repository would appear to match a large number of repository benefit and role categories, all of which are self evident. Feedback would be welcomed on these.

Output – SOURCE – Report on Search Demonstrator: OSID Proof of Concept

Title: Report on Search Demonstrator: OSID Proof of Concept

Date Released: 22nd March 2007

URI for Output: http://www.source.bbk.ac.uk/reports/SearchDemonstrator_OsidProofOfConcept_SOURCE_JISC (PDF file)

Summary of contents: Report describes a basic OSID implementation, focused on searching for assets that match a keyword. Integration was tested with VUE and HarvestRoad Hive Explorer repositories to validate the implementations.

Additonal information: Document describes the proof of concept with use of screen shots and description of the implementation. The output looks to be a potentially useful piece of multiple repository search and download software.

Comments: Document is labelled as draft. Software not available for download. Maybe it isn’t intended to be?

Project – The Depot

Project Name: The Depot

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Information Environment

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

Project URI: http://depot.edina.ac.uk/

Start Date: 1st August 2006

End Date: 31st March 2009

Governance: RPAG

Contact Name and Role: Bill Hubbard, Project Manager

Brief project description:

“The Depot is a JISC support service, launched in June 2007 with the specific task of ensuring that all in the UK research community can benefit from making their published papers available under Open Access, and helping maximise readership of their work. The Depot is OAI-compliant, allowing deposited e-prints to be ‘harvested’ by search engines across the world.”

The Depot offers two services:

1. a re-direct service, with the Depot acting as a gateway, especially to repositories at UK universities (institutional repositories)
2. a deposit service for e-prints, with the Depot acting as a national repository for researchers not yet having an institutional repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints).

Outputs:

• Depot project website
• Service-quality repository with the performance and capacity to meet the requirements of stakeholders
• Service website providing a full range of supporting documentation
• Functionality that acts as a UK Repository Junction

Project – VALREC

Project Name:Validating Repository Content (VALREC)

Programme Name: Repositories and Preservation Programme

Strand: Information Environment

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

Project URI: http://valrec.eprints.org/

Start Date: 1st April 2007

End Date: 30th September 2008

Governance: RPAG

Contact Name and Role: Les Carr, Project Mananger

Brief project description:

“The key objective of this project is to increase trust in the contents of repositories by developing and testing a service designed to validate the scholarly research articles found in repositories against the final publisher’s PDF available from the publisher’s website.”

Outputs:

• A verification system that:
  1. verifies the basic facts of publication against the publication claims made in the repository metadata
  2. checks for the differences between repository version and publisher’s PDF
  3. provide a signed, digital certificate that attests to the publication of the postprint and any differences in content

No outputs appear to be available as at 30th Oct 2008.

Ouput – Datashare – Institutional Repository Development

Output Name: Output – Datashare – Institutional Repository Development

Title: Institutional Repository Development
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Date Released:

URI for Output:

Summary of contents:

• State of the Art Review – available as seperate output

The rest of the outputs are not as at available

• ‘Backdoor’ data surveys/ partial audits at each institution (info gathering exercise to identify potential depositors, may or may not include actual survey of staff or interview questions)
• Local publicity (e.g. newsletter articles, flyers)
• Policy documents (defining scope of data repository; copyright policies; depositor agreement forms, etc)
• Depositor guidelines
• Job specifications for new staff
• Reports on TRAC or DRAMBORA methodology used by each site to measure progress toward trusted repository status (facilitated by consultant)
• Develop repository workflow model for deposit of exemplar datasets

Additonal information:

Output – Datashare – Evaluation Report

Output Name: Output – Datashare – Evaluation Report

Title: Datashare – Evaluation Report
Number of pages or page numbers:
Section:

Date Released: not available as yet

URI for Output:

Summary of contents:

Evalaution of the project

 

Output – EThOSnet – Toolkit

Output Name: Output – EThOSnet – Toolkit

Title: EThOSnet – Toolkit
Number of pages or page numbers:
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Date Released: 22 May 2008?

URI for Output: http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk/tiki-index.php

Summary of contents:

Interactive toolkit hosted at Cranfield University. The intention of using this toolkit will enable an institution to work in partnership with other Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and the British Library to ensure a high level of national and international visibility for UK postgraduate theses and dissertations.

Additonal information: