SPECTRa
Submission, Preservation and Exposure of Chemistry Teaching and Research Data
Project Description
The SPECTRa project will address the provision of Open Access to primary research data in experimental chemistry through the use of institutional repositories. It will build on experience already acquired in the Chemistry departments at Cambridge University and Imperial College London, linking these with the development of the same universities' institutional strategies for library-managed OAI-compliant repositories. The project will initially study the needs of researchers and scope their data-handling needs. It will use the findings of this study to develop automated tools so that high-volume data can be identified, extracted, and ingested to repositories, where it will be preserved and accessible for use to support research and teaching. The study's outcomes will be analysed to provide generic relevance to the chemistry research community, and its methodology will be formulated to provide generic guidance for similar studies in other sciences. The tools subsequently developed will be available as Open Source code designed for use with the DSpace repository platform.
The project is working closely with the JISC-funded eBank-UK project.
Project Staff
Project Partners
University of Cambridge (lead)
Imperial College London
Project Management
Peter Morgan
Project Director, Cambridge University Library
pbm2@cam.ac.uk