RIOXX Guidelines & Application Profile

outline guidelines for repository managers, building on much previous work, including a report by Sheridan Brown, on how to represent certain metadata attributes the project is wider than just the guidelines - for example, a certain (modest) amount of software development will be necessary to see the guidelines implementable in deployed repositories these guidelines are an interim measure - and are expected to be superseded (perhaps by a CERIF-based approach) this effort is expected to be ongoing beyond these interim guidelines, to address longer-term guidelines and measures

phases phase 1 - until end of March 2013 tightly focussed - deliver: guidelines an application profile of Dublin Core driven by requirements from RCUK and Jisc informing the Vocabularies for Open Access project phase 2 - latter half of 2013? proposal being prepared will be informed by the Vocabularies for Open Access project

phase 1 concerns primary: implement a solution to represent the funder in IR metadata a solution to represent the project/grant in IR metadata secondary: consider how to point to the item described how to point to related dataset(s) how to represent the rights of use of the item described (this is becoming more of an issue)

principles must be easy to implement, with little/no development required (e.g. a plugin for existing repository platforms) are interim guidelines, so judgement needed about how future-proof these should be should respect and even adopt, where viable, existing guidelines/standards: OpenAIRE EThOS DC Terms should seek to avoid being too UK-specific, while serving UK goals several compromises - pragmatic rather than elegant

approach extend OAI-DC, rather than start again stick with OAI-PMH, and XML (for phase 1) considered OpenAIRE and EThOS chose EThOS as the better model for what we wanted to do

initial technical consultation blog post outlining an early draft of the application profile very good feedback - many useful suggestions many of which are incorporated into the latest draft

general public consultation hoping for feedback from a more general audience (i.e. not necessarily technical) especially from repository managers feedback on guidelines as well as the application profile

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summary: status initial, public technical consultation conducted via a blog post at: http://blog.paulwalk.net/2012/10/23/rioxx-application-profile-draft-1/ closed, general consultation conducted via email general public consultation begins today! http://rioxx.net/v0-8/ we’re at version 0.8, aiming for a 1.0 release by the end of March following the general consultation, we’ll be working with developers to implement the necessary plugins etc. Some revision of the guidelines likely as a result of development work

next steps FundRef - a globally persistent/unique way of representing Funders we may possibly be able to get this into version 1.0 DOIs for projects/grants - still speculative, but an attractive idea figure out how to represent access rights (e.g. expressing embargoes, flavours of Open Access etc.) figure out how to represent relationships to other outputs - e.g. the relationship from a paper to an auxiliary research dataset

thank you! http://www.rioxx.net please do comment on the public website or, if you’d prefer, by emailing either myself or Sheridan Brown paul@paulwalk.net sbrown@keyperspectives.co.uk