JISC

Introduction

DAEDALUS will establish a network of Open Archives compliant digital collections at the University of Glasgow. These collections will include:

• Academic [Published] papers
• Pre-prints, grey Literature and working papers
• Theses
• Research Resource Finding Aids (Archives and Special Collections)
• Institutional Management, Policy and Regulatory documents

We will also build an Open Archives compliant search service to enable users to retrieve assets across the spectrum of data providers.

Aims and Objectives

Aims

• To establish and populate a range of OAI-compliant Digital Collections at the University of Glasgow using a range of different OAI-compliant pieces of software.
• To act as a catalyst for cultural change and ongoing discussions about the “crisis in Scholarly Communication” within the University of Glasgow and the wider community
• To disseminate our experiences and findings to the wider community through reports, workshops, exemplars and guides to best practice in the development of these services.
• To liaise with other members of the ePrints and e-Theses cluster to share experiences, co-host events as appropriate and to ensure co-ordination within the cluster.
• To investigate digital preservation issues in conjunction with the SHERPA project

Objectives

• An OAI-compliant service for the deposit and disclosure of published and peer reviewed academic papers authored (or joint authored) by members of the University of Glasgow.
• An OAI-compliant service for the deposit and disclosure of pre-prints and grey literature (to include working papers, technical papers and conference papers and other appropriate research output) authored (or joint authored) by members of the University of Glasgow.
• An OAI-compliant service for the deposit and disclosure of Doctoral theses successfully defended at the University of Glasgow
• An OAI-compliant service for access to research finding aids held by the University of Glasgow
• An OAI-compliant service for the disclosure of public University Administrative Documents
• An OAI-compliant service provider which will enable users to cross search all of these services with a single interface
• An OpenURL Resolver service for published and peer reviewed papers in conjunction with SHERPA
• Guidelines and proof of concept for an Institutional Advocacy campaign
• Evaluation reports on the cultural and technical issues of the implementation of a range of OAI-compliant services
• A range of events of events to raise awareness of the issues of   “Scholarly Communication” within the University of Glasgow and beyond in the wider community

Overall Approach

The projects overall methodology will be a practical twin track approach of service development and advocacy activities.

The project will comprise a series of nine interlocking workpackages.   Workpackages 4-9 will build a range of OAI compliant data providers and a single, local service provider. Interoperability between these services will be ensured through the implementation of version 2.0 of the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH).

These services will be underpinned by workpackages 1-3 which will focus on project management, dissemination and advocacy activities.

Project Consortium

DAEDALUS is a single institution project but it is also a partner in the CURL  SHERPA project.  We would also anticipate working closely with colleagues in the following JISC FAIR projects:

• HaIRST (University of Strathclyde)
• TARDIS (University of Southampton)
• Theses Alive! (University of Edinburgh)
• Electronic Theses Project (Robert Gordon University)