JISC

This project is now complete. See the Final Report

This project (EIDeR) aims to develop a demonstrator that implements enhanced deposit and ingest for institutional repositories (IRs). The demonstrator will not be a production system – however, it will be implemented within a real-life repository environment at KCL, and the implementation will address genuine needs, in particular by reducing the need for manual intervention and providing a more streamlined deposit process.

In the course of this, EIDeR will demonstrate a number of machine-to-machine interfaces referenced or implied by the scenario in Para. 18 of the Call, wherever possible building upon existing work and services. These interfaces will include preservation, automatic metadata extraction, determination of access rights/restrictions, and deposit/capture. The main focus will be on access rights and restrictions, as less prior work has been done in this area.

Specific objectives of the project will be to:

• develop detailed scenarios and use cases for enhanced ingest
• examine services and tools that may be used to support this functionality
• create a demonstrator integrating these services to implement the identified workflows
• evaluate the results of the project, and in particular the extent to which the available services and tools, and associated standards, support the requirements

The deliverables of the project will include:

• demonstrator system
• case study
• shorter report co-authored with the CRIG Support Team
• e-Framework components, including detailed scenarios, SUMs, Service Expressions

Lead institution

• King's College London