Making effective use of your repository Queens University Belfast, 17 th January 2008 Peter Cliff UKOLN

Overview Use vs Effective Use Some Uses Repositories in Global Context Repositories in Local Context

Making Use vs Making Effective Use Take a step back and ask: What are you trying to achieve with your repository? Effective use of a repository is only possible if you know what you want to use your repository for.

Making Use vs Making Effective Use Consider this: Consider this…

Making Use vs Making Effective Use Consider this: Making Use: Paperweight? Pasta measure? Tiny Dart Board? Stylish Ring?

Making Use vs Making Effective Use Consider this: Effective Use: Spoke spanner Spoke Tightening Wheel Truing

Repository Uses Knowledge, information and data sharing Facilitating research Impact (& career development) Data management Preservation Anything else?

Repository Uses Knowledge, information and data sharing Facilitating research Impact (& career development) Data management Preservation Anything else? Global

Repository Uses Knowledge, information and data sharing Facilitating research Impact (& career development) Data management Preservation Anything else? Global Local

Repositories in Context: Global Other Services Students Search Services Researchers Institution OpenDOAR ROAR Web of Science

Expanding Usage in the Global Context Institutional Marketing Overlay Journals Virtual Workbooks Alerts & Feeds Social Networking Applications Bibliographic Services Resource discovery

Global Context In Action: Discovery

Searching Google

Searching Google Scholar

Searching OAIster

Searching OAIster II

Searching OpenDOAR

Searching BASE

Effective Use: Bibliographic Services

Effective Use in the Global Context: How? Search Engine Optimisation/Sitemaps Registration OpenDOAR / ROAR / ROARMAP / OpenArchives Machine Interfaces – OAI-PMH, RSS, etc. Metadata

Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages File Store Content Management System

Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages File Store Content Management System Dont forget people!

Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages File Store Content Management System

Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages File Store Content Management System

Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages File Store Content Management System ? ?

Effective Use: Grab Local Information Bibliographic information BibApp for example

Effective Use: Integrate with the Known What systems are in use already? How can you use them? Can you use MIS data? Names Authentication Collections/Communities Campus as consumer – what will the repository give back to the user community? Feeds, personal web pages and the VLE? RAE support

Conclusions Be clear what you want to use your repository for and how that benefits the Institution. Be aware of who/what you want to expose content to and make it easy for them. Make use of existing data. Consider how your repository will fit – who knows, it might be a catalyst for changing your Institution's data management strategy!

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