Bucks Knowledge Archive
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Repositories Start-Up Project
The Bucks Knowledge Archive project will set up an institutional repository for the staff and students of Buckinghamshire New University and it’s partner organisations. The material will include e-theses, research artefact information and other research outputs identified during the life of the project.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this project is to establish a repository of the outputs of research and advanced scholarship to enable dissemination of this information to as wide an audience as possible.
The objectives of the project include:
- the development of a process to populate the repository and material collection
- the implementation of the necessary hardware and software
- modification of institutional culture to establish the principle of open access to research output
- to make institutional research more widely available
A particular highlight of the Bucks Knowledge Archive will be the capture of the outputs from the Faculty of Creativity & Culture artefacts. Examples include photographs and plans of an artefact at a particular exhibition together with the appropriate extract from the exhibition catalogue. The repository will also include e-theses and research papers from all faculties.
Project Methodology
The project will consist of the following stages:
- Purchase & implementation of hardware
- Implementation of Dspace software (selected prior to project start up)
- Design and implementation procedures for deposit of material
- Preliminary loading of data from PhD theses completed 2006/7
- Investigation of storage of other visual media
- Mount preliminary artefact information
- Dissemination of information to Buckinghamshire New University and the wider community
Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes
The following outcomes are expected:
- Establishment of a prototype institutional repository for Buckinghamshire New University PhD theses with pilot loading of initial data
- Design and implementation of policies and procedures required to facilitate material deposit using good practice within the sector
- Design of cataloguing and metadata procedures
- Research, specification and installation of software and other requirements for holding of 3D artefact information and environments and pilot loading of artefact data
- Dissemination of information internally and externally
- Ensuring sustainability of the service on completion of the initial development project within existing staffing resources
Technology and Standards Used
The standards used will be:
- simple Dublin Core and Qualified Dublin Core metadata
- OAI-PMH for data harvesting
- Imaging and metadata standards including TASI Imaging Standards; Library of Congress Imaging Standards; National Archives (U.S.) Digitization Standards and VRA Core (Visual Resources Association Metadata Standard)
- XML and HTML
- Open source software standards as implements using Dspace
Project Staff
Project Manager
Project Team
- Jim Boone, Buckinghamshire New University, LIS, Tel: 01494 522141 ext 3569, Fax: 01494 450774 jboone01@bucks.ac.uk
- Mike Dickinson, Buckinghamshire New University, LIS, Tel: 01494 522141 ext 2249, Fax: 01494 450774 mdicki01@bucks.ac.uk
- Mary Kirkness, Buckinghamshire New University, LRC, Tel: 01494 522141 ext 3441, Fax: 01494 450774 mkirkn01@bucks.ac.uk
- Stephen Gange-Moody, Buckinghamshire New University, LRC, sgange01@bucks.ac.uk
- Elik Borrill, Buckinghamshire New University, LRC, Tel: 01494 522141 ext 3293, Fax: 01494 450774
- Ann Evans, Buckinghamshire New University, Research Unit, Tel: 01494 605016, Fax: 01494 450774 aevans01@bucks.ac.uk
Other team members to be appointed as the project progresses.