1. Making effective use of your repository Brunel University, 8 th November 2007 Peter Cliff UKOLN

2. Overview Something Something else Some more stuff Etc.

3. Overview Use vs Effective Use Some Uses Repositories in Global Context Repositories in Local Context Biscuits and Networking!

4. 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.

5. Making Use vs Making Effective Use Consider this:

6. Making Use vs Making Effective Use Making Use: Paperweight? Pasta measure? Tiny Dart Board? Stylish Ring?

7. Making Use vs Making Effective Use Making Use: Paperweight? Pasta measure? Tiny Dart Board? Stylish Ring? Effective Use: Tightening bicycle wheel spokes

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

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

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

11. Repository Context: Global Researchers

12. Repository Context: Global Research Communities

13. Repository Context: Global Institutions

14. Repository Context: Global Stuff

15. Repository Context: Global Services

16. Repository Context: Global Interaction Search Web page Search Talking

17. Repository Context: Global Repositories Search Web page Search Talking

18. Repository Context: Global

19. OpenDOAR/ROAR Harvesting Searching Retrieving! New Services

20. Repository Context: Global OpenDOAR/ROAR Harvesting Collaborating New Interactions Citing

21. Effective Use: Supporting Interaction Search Services

22. Searching Google

23. Searching Google Scholar

24. Searching OAIster

25. Searching OAIster II

26. Searching OpenDOAR

27. Searching BASE

28. Effective Use: Search Services Search Engine Optimisation http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/googlecrawling.htm Sitemaps http://www.sitemaps.org/ Metadata – formats/good quality http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/oaibp/?TableOfContents Interfaces OAIster Guidelines http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html Registration

29. Effective Use: Registration OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/suggest.php Provides charts and statistics ROAR http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=add Provides charts and statistics ROARMAP – Institutional Policys OpenArchives http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html All are also useful for testing!

30. Effective Use: Supporting Interaction Alerts and Feeds Facebook Applications Bibliographic Services: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/index.html Link consistency & easy management Other plug-ins?

31. Effective Use: Bibliographic Services

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

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

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

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

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

39. Effective Use: Grab Local Information Bibliographic information BibApp for example http://code4lib.org/2007/larson

40. Effective Use: Integrate with the Known What will you do with your Personal Information Portal? http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/493 Can you use MIS data? Names Authentication Collections/Communities Campus as consumer Feeds, web pages and the VLE? RAE support

41. Conclusions Be clear what you want to use your repository for. Be aware of who/what you want to expose data to. Make use of data already available. Consider how your repository will fit – who knows, it might be a catalyst for changing your Institution's data management strategy!

42. Peter Cliff p.d.cliff@ukoln.ac.uk support@rsp.ac.uk Questions?