1. RIOXX Guidelines & Application Profile

2. 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these guidelines are an interim measure - and are expected to be superseded (perhaps by a CERIF-based approach)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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. elements

10. summary: status
initial, public technical consultation conducted via a blog post at:
closed, general consultation conducted via
general public consultation begins today!
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

11. 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

12. thank you! http://www.rioxx.net
please do comment on the public website or, if you’d prefer, by ing either myself or Sheridan Brown