JISC

Many of the results and outputs from FAIR projects have already led to or informed subsequent work, either building directly on the area the project has been investigating, or where results have been picked up by others and taken forward. This ongoing work demonstrates the success of the projects in addressing the issues of the Programme, and also re-inforces the high level of interest in depositing and disclosing institutional resources. A number of projects within the JISC Digital Repositories programme are either following on from FAIR projects or have been informed by them - please see the programme page for information on these.

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Authentication

TARDis

• Authentication for Publication - part of the JISC Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting programme, 2003-4.  This has addressed the technical and management issues related to the authentication of research papers that have been submitted electronically.  The TARDis archive has been used as the test-bed for this work.  See details.

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Copyright, IPR and Rights Metadata within OAI

RoMEO

• RoMEO's work has influenced and fed into the formation of the OAI-rights Technical Working Group in the US, which has sought to extend the findings from RoMEO as a generic solution for use with the OAI specification. Implementation guidelines have been produced. 
• The work of RoMEO has also influenced the development of joint further work on copyright and author's rights by the JISC and the SURF Foundation in the Netherlands. See details.

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Data provision

ePrints UK

• eBank UK - a JISC funded project which is investigating the issues surrounding provenance and the use and re-use of original data for research and learning purposes. See details.

Harvesting the Fitzwilliam

• 24Hour Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum participates as a test OAI data provider to the 24Hour Museum pilot.  This data provision is based on the DC.Culture schema
• BRICKS A EU FP6 project seeking to establish a distributed European cultural network.  The Fitzwilliam is a BRICKS member and hopes to provide content via OAI to this project, a role that was enabled through the Harvesting the Fitzwilliam project
• DSpace@Cambridge The Fitzwilliam is an early adopter of DSpace within this University of Cambridge initiative and is investigating metadata provision required to support the use of DSpace institutionally and how such a repository can be used for preservation.

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

DAEDALUS/Electronic Theses/Theses Alive!

• EThOS project - this JISC-funded collaborative project will extend the findings from the FAIR ETD activities and projects, and investigate the practical applicability of a national ETD solution.  The University of Glasgow is leading EThOS, and The Robert Gordon University and the University of Edinburgh are partners within the project.

Electronic Theses

• E-Measures project team - Susan Copeland has worked with the team to ensure inclusion of ETDs in the e-measures pilot project (see details).  The SCONUL Advisory Committee on Performance Improvement (see details) has now adopted the findings of this work
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - Susan Copeland sits on the Board of Directors for this organisation to represent the UK and JISC. See details.

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Institutional Portals

PORTAL

• The project has worked closely with the Java Architectures Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) in the US and was instrumental in the formation of the JA-SIG UK group.
• The CREE project has followed up on the findings of PORTAL and examining these more closely where appropriate. See details.

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Preservation

DAEDALUS

• The espida project is developing a sustainable business-focussed model for digital preservation at an FE/HE Institution. It will bring digital preservation to the core of strategic thinking, planning and culture at the University of Glasgow and disseminate the model to the wider community. See details. 

HaIRST

• The Mandate project - Managing Digital Assets in Tertiary Education, part of the JISC Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions Programme, 2004-5 [led by John Wheatley College].  An OAI-compliant repository has been used within this project for both learning materials and Freedom of Information content, in the latter case using the repository as a means of disseminating this and complying with the terms of the FOI Act.  See details.

Hybrid Archives/SHERPA

• SHERPA DP project - part of the JISC Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions Programme, 2004-5. This was run by the AHDS in collaboration with the SHERPA project and will be using the outcomes of the Hybrid Archives project to inform this work.  See details.

TARDis

• Preserv - part of the JISC Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions Programme, 2004-5. This examined the preservation of e-prints.  See details.

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Repositories and e-prints

DAEDALUS

• ERPANET - DAEDALUS has worked with ERPANET to launch the subject-based ERPAePRINTS service
• University of Glasgow IT Education Unit - DAEDALUS has worked in conjunction with this department to develop an open access journal, the Journal of eLiteracy, on the back of the repository collections developed as part of the project. See JeLit.

ePrints UK

• CILEA - CILEA provides ICT services to nine Italian Universities in the Lombardy region.  They have taken the ePrints UK software for their own use and are collaborating with UKOLN on possible future work

SHERPA

• Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) is a collaboration between SHERPA and Lund University in Sweden.  DOAR 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.See details.

TARDis

• International Association of Aquatic and Marine Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC) - The project has fed its work into this group, which is now building its own subject repository.  The project manager is also involved in a UN project to develop a marine science repository for Africa.

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Software

ePrints UK

• OCLC - OCLC are a partner in the project involved in developing two of the web services; they also have ongoing links with UKOLN.

Theses Alive!

• DSpace Committers Group - Richard Jones is a member of the DSpace Committers Group and the DSpace Implementation Group for the NDLTD

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Subject classification

Accessing the Virtual Museum

• The Accessing Virtual Egypt project is adopting the outputs from the Accessing the Virtual Museum project, particularly the thesaurus, in order to provide access to Egyptology collections across the Petrie and four other museums
• Work is also being scoped with a range of partners to investigate further the use of collection descriptions and how the thesaurus might feed into and enable this