JISC

Final Report

Repositories Enhancement Project

University of Cambridge will build on work at MIT on the PLEDGE project to enhance the integration of CamTools and DSpace@Cambridge and deploy that integration to the campus. The University of Highlands and Islands will deploy the same integration components in the TETRA Framework with Fedora. The project will follow two cycles of develop, deploy and evaluate to assess the impact and provide a step change in use of the Institutional Repositories at both institutions. The outputs of the project will be of use and interest to the TETRA Collaboration and the wider JISC community.

Aims and Objectives

• Employ support staff to communicate, educate and support adopters
• Develop policy expression for collections and policy enforcement in online workspaces for Individuals, research groups and courses and integrate into natural workflows
• Integrate CamTools with DSpace@Cambridge such that; the policies of the IR are understood by CamTools and deposited material is managed by an ingest Workflow
• In parallel extend the implementation to work with Fedora@UHI
• Integrate a 3rd party Activity based Workflow Management system with DSpace
• Implement improved ingest Workflow and reviewed policies
• Evaluate impact of improved ingest workflow with a view to continuing improvement by measurement after the end of the project

Project Methodology

This is a 2 phase project, each phase containing a needs, development, deployment cycle culminating in an evaluation to assess impact. There are 2 teams at Cambridge and 2 teams at UHI. The Library teams at Cambridge and UHI will focus on community engagement for the repository, its use and outputs. The Development teams at UHI and Cambridge will focus on taking the needs analysis and integrating the VLE/VRE with the respective IR to achieve a step change in use of the repository without a step change in workload.

Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes

• A step change in the uptake of the DSpace@Cambridge within Cambridge and the potential uptake of Fedora at UHI as the TETRA Framework is adopted
• Greater availability of research outputs from projects hosted at Cambridge via DSpace@Cambridge open access policy
• A Sakai Content Hosting Handler implementation for DSpace capable of read and write access to the DSpace repository, with deposit managed by policy expressions informed by the PLEDGE project at MIT
• An implementation of the same Content Hosting Handler for connection to Fedora Deployment of both of these implementations in the institutional VLE/VRE (CamTools) at Cambridge connected to DSpace and a pilot Fedora implementation
• Publication of sample Policies in use for preservation and deposit
• An online report:
  • outlining the results of the above implementation in use in a selected community of research and teaching
  • Indicating the impact of wider participation in repository deposit with recommendations of how these might be addressed

   

  Technology Standards Used

  DSpace LNI, WebDAV, OAI, XPDL, BPEL, ESB, WSDL, HTTP REST, RDF (PLEDGE)

   

   

   

• An implementation of Activity based workflow using an existing workflow engine to enhance DSpace ingest workflow
• An online report on the results of an evaluation focusing on the impact of improved automated ingest workflow on an Institutional Repository

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