The Welsh Repository Network (WRN) Enhancement Project seeks to build on the technical infrastructure established during the WRN Start-Up project by investigating the potential of a collaborative, centrally managed model for accelerating the development and uptake of repository services in HEIs in Wales and across the UK as a whole. The project will not only sustain already established WRN support mechanisms but also investigate a number of value added outputs which spin out from the support agenda, including exploratory collaborative models for mediated material ingest, support tools and services to enhance functionality and promote uptake and developmental work on creating a Welsh Thesis Harvesting Service in conjunction with the National Library of Wales.

Welsh Repository Network Enhancement Project

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Overview

The Welsh Repository Network (WRN) Enhancement Project seeks to build on the technical infrastructure established during the WRN Start-Up project by investigating the potential of a collaborative, centrally managed model for accelerating the development and uptake of repository services in HEIs in Wales and across the UK as a whole. The project will not only sustain already established WRN support mechanisms but also investigate a number of value added outputs which spin out from the support agenda, including exploratory collaborative models for mediated material ingest, support tools and services to enhance functionality and promote uptake and developmental work on creating a Welsh Thesis Harvesting Service in conjunction with the National Library of Wales.

Lead institution
  • University of Wales, Abersytwyth
Partner Institutions
  • Bangor University
  • Cardiff University
  • Glyndwr University
  • Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
  • Swansea University
  • Swansea Metropolitan University
  • Trinity College Carmarthen
  • The National Library of Wales
  • University of Glamorgan
  • University of Wales, Lampeter
  • University of Wales, Newport

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Summary
Start date
1 April 2009
End date
1 March 2011
Funding programme
Information Environment Programme 2009-11
Strand
Repository start up and enhancement strand
Committees
  • JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
Topic