JISC

SHERPA DP, Mark Hedges

Repositories and Preservation - Conference Room 1

The approach taken by the project was not to develop software tools, but to create an infrastructure to support preservation activities through integration of existing software (applications, libraries, etc.). The presentation presents a similar angle, examining the tasks that a digital repository must perform and the software tools that may be used to perform the task. E.g. package diverse types of metadata, perform format validation services, create preservation metadata, etc. Although the presentation is framed around institutional repositories and the disaggregated service model developed for use in SHERPA DP, and how it may be applied to repositories that hold more diverse content types.

StORe, Kenneth Miller      

Research Data - Conference Room 2

The area of interaction between output (research publication) repositories and source (primary research data) repositories was the principal focus of the StORe project. The main aim of the project was to identify options for increasing the value of using both source and output repositories by improving the linkages between them, thereby increasing the potential from significantly enhanced information access and dissemination. A key deliverable from the StORe Project is the pilot demonstrator.  It consists of a set of middleware designed to demonstrate the function of bi-directional links between source and output repositories. This middleware was developed to meet the specific needs of the social science e-research community, but is based on the underlying general requirements as defined from the StORe survey of the behaviours of researchers within seven scientific disciplines represented by the project. The pilot demonstrates the implementation of enhanced functionality within a test environment and the potential for a generic solution across the UK's broader e-research community.

ETHOS, Anthony Troman                    

e- Theses - Conference Room 3

This session will demonstrate the Researcher interface to the prototype Electronic Thesis On-line Service (EThOS) system. The prototype was delivered by the EThOS project and is fully functional - it will be 'scaled-up' for live service over the next year as part of the EThOSnet project. The session will cover searching for a thesis, ordering and download and will demonstrate the practical implementation of Intellectual Property Rights protection and the business model.

MIDESS, Stephen Charles                  

Images - Conference Room 3A

The MIDESS project is a project exploring the management of digitised content in institutional and cross-institutional contexts through the development of a digital repository infrastructures. It addressed how support can be provided for the use of digital content in a learning and research context, in an integrated manner. It explored how use and management of digital content can be joined up in a national context.

ASK, Howard Noble                

Sharing Digital Material for e-Learning - Conference Room 4

Using interoperability specifications and the JISC e-framework to inform the design and implementation of a repository system. Some lessons learnt from the Accessing and Storing Knowledge (ASK) project.

RepoMMan, Richard Green                

Research Papers - Conference Room 5

Using web services and BPEL to facilitate interaction with a Fedora repository. 
RepoMMan is developing a standards-based, flexible workflow tool through which users can interact with Fedora, using the repository not just as a public archive for finished works, but also as a tool that can support the development of such materials through a 'My Repository' facility. Using BPEL (the Business Process Execution Language) to orchestrate web service calls to Fedora and other software, RepoMMan is developing processes to manage a user's "works-in-progress". Automated metadata generation is the second major area being addressed by the RepoMMan project: this will be a further function of the tool that is being developed and will also be managed via BPEL and web service calls.

Rights and Rewards, PEDESTAL, Sue Manuel and Steve Loddington            

Repositories in a Legal Context - Conference Room 6

PEDESTAL (Platform for Exchange of Documents and Expertise Showcasing Teaching At Loughborough) is a demonstrator teaching resource repository service. PEDESTAL is being developed by the Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories project based at Loughborough University. Its production has been informed by user-centred design principles. Target users for the service are teaching resource creators and academics in higher education. Their requirements for the service have been gathered by questionnaires and interviews. The features available in PEDESTAL have been developed to reflect the needs of users, with the focus being on informal sharing mechanisms and social software.

R4L, Simon Coles

DEMOS in Weston 1/Catering Room

The Repository for the Laboratory (R4L) project is concerned with applying repository technology to experimental data capture, analysis and reporting processes in the Chemistry domain to enable linking between datasets and articles, and also between related datasets. R4L has developed an exemplar system demonstrating the impact of an Institutional Data Repository on the capture, preservation, analysis and dissemination of experimental scientific data in a subject that is crucially reliant on such procedures.

SPECTra, Alan Tonge

DEMOS in Weston 1/Catering Room

Chemical information is essential to many sciences outside chemistry, including material, life and environmental sciences, and supports major industries including pharmaceuticals. The reporting of the synthesis and properties of new chemical compounds is central to this and although the bare essentials of these syntheses are published, essential experimental data are almost always omitted.

Project SPECTRa's principal aim was to facilitate the high-volume ingest and subsequent reuse of experimental data via institutional repositories, using the DSpace platform, by developing Open Source software tools which could easily be incorporated within chemists' workflows. It focussed on three distinct areas of chemistry research - synthetic organic chemistry, crystallography and computational chemistry.

The deposition process adopted the concept of an "embargo repository" allowing unpublished or commercially sensitive material, identified through metadata, to be retained in a closed access environment until the data owner approved its release.  The resultant repository architecture envisages a federated framework in which data will first be deposited into an intermediate departmental repository and may later be pushed into a central Open Access repository.

GRADE, Anne Robertson     

DEMOS in Weston 1/Catering Room     

Geo-enabling DSpace - adding a mapping interface, adding file validation to the data upload process, customising DSpace metadata to allow deposit object to be described with simple geograpy.

JORUM, Peter O'Hare

DEMOS in Weston 1/Catering Room

A demonstration of the JORUM Learning Object Repository User Service will give attendees an introduction to the user system: search, preview, download and review functionality. There will also be a brief demonstration of uploading resources: understanding workflows and the work area; adding a learning object; describing a learning object - editing metadata and classifying an object.

OpenDOAR Tools for Dummies, Peter Millington

DEMOS in Weston 1/Catering Room

This demonstration will cover the OpenDOAR Application Programmers' Interface (API) - Showing various ways in which the API can be used to extract data from OpenDOAR and re-purpose it in third party websites and as an offshoot how OpenDOAR charts can be similarly re-purposed.  In addition using the OpenDOAR Policy Tool with EPrints.org software this demonstration will show how easy it is to use the Policy Tool to generate a "Policies" web page for an EPrints repository, and also to add the policies to the EPrints configuration file for the OAI-PMH 'Identify' function.

Les Carr, EPrints3, IRS, IRRA

DEMOS in Weston 1/Catering Room

This demonstration will highlight three major outputs from the EPrints team at Southampton. The first is the new EPrints repository software, Version 3. The second is the approach to usage statistics that has been developed by the IRS project, whereby services (such as analysis and graphical display) can be based on statistics harvested from institutional or other repositories using either EPrints or DSpace. The third is the work undertaken to configure both EPrints and DSpace to enable them to support institutions' RAE 2008 submission.

Preserv project, PRONOM-ROAR, Steve Hitchcock

DEMOS in Weston 1/Catering Room

Preserv is investigating preservation services for repositories. A primary requirement in preservation planning that growing repositories will need to undertake is to be able to identify definitively the formats of objects stored. One tool to do this is PRONOM-DROID (PRONOM is an online registry of technical information; DROID is a downloadable file format identification tool) from the National Archives, a partner in the project. Using PRONOM-DROID the Preserv project has produced format profiles of over 200 repositories that use DSpace and EPrints software, presented through an interface that has been added to the widely used Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR). The demonstration will show how to use this service, PRONOM-ROAR, to find out about your repository's profile and to understand the implications for preservation.