Project – PRESERV2

Project Name: PRESERV 2

Short Project Name: PRESERV 2

Programme Name:  Repositories and Preservation

Strand:  Preservation

JISC Project URI:  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/preservation/preserv2.aspx

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

Start Date:  July 2007

End Date:  Feb 2009

Governance: JISC IIE

Contact Name and Role: Steve Hitchcock (Project Manager)

Brief project description:

Preserv 2 is a JISC project investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories. Project partners are Southampton University, The National Archives, The British Library and Oxford University.

Name of Trawler: Mahendra Mahey

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

Output – OARS – OARS Functional Specification Document

Output Name: Output – OARS – OARS Functional Specification

Title: OARS Functional Specificationn
Number of pages or page numbers:30 pages
Section:

Date Released: 18 January 2008

URI for Output: http://oars.forcedmigration.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/oars-functional-specification.pdf

Also of interest might be:

http://oars.forcedmigration.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/oars-specification-migration.pdf

Depicting the current system in place for managing content.

Summary of contents:

Useful fucntional specification document for the OARs project.  Could be useful for instituions who need to look at exemplars of funtional specifications for their own needs, with useful fucntionality check list on page 27 (appendix 1) and for metadata requirements – appendix 2 – pages 28-30

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 – OJIMS – Overlay Journal – The Journal of Meteorological Data

Output Name: Output – OJIMS – Overlay Journal – The Journal of Meteorological Data

Title: Overlay Journal – The Journal of Meteorological Data

Date Released:

URI for Output:http://zonda3.badc.rl.ac.uk/index.php/MetData

Summary of contents: Overlay journal proof of concept demonstration for data journal.

Additional information:

Comments:

Output – OJIMS – CEDA Repository

Output Name: Output – OJIMS  – CEDA Repository

Title: CEDA Repository
Date Released: Unknown

URI for Output: http://cedadocs.badc.rl.ac.uk/

Summary of contents: ‘Information in this repository is grey literature primarily concerning Earth observation and atmospheric sciences.’ The Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA) is based at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and hosts a range of activities associated with environmental data archives.

Project – Fedorazon

Project Name: Fedorazon

Short Project Name: Fedorazon

Programme Name:  Repositories and Preservation

Strand: Repositories Start-up and Enhancement projects

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

Project URI: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Fedorazon

Start Date:  1 October 2007

End Date: 31 March 2008

Governance: JISC IE

Contact Name and Role: David Flanders (Project Manager)

Brief project description:

The Aim of project Fedorazon is to enhance the content of repositories throughout the UK’s HE and FE sector by providing solutions for the scalability of repositories as they grow in size and complexity. It looks to remove the “hardware” barriers involved in launching and maintaining a repository. It will accomplish this initially by enabling the use of Fedora Commons repository software on-top-of Amazon’s virtual servers (EC2 & S3). By pre-configuring these servers, any HE/FE institution can “rent” Amazon server space and launch their own secure Fedora repository without having to pre-configure a local server within their institution. In short, institutions can launch their repository service in the same day they decide to have one, and without hiring a “hardware” expert. Overall, the project will begin to formulate the cost effectiveness for this kind of set-up and recommend best-practice to other repository departments.

Name of Trawler: Mahendra Mahey

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

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

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