1. JISC February 2011 Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting education and research

2. JISC Future of Repositories Balviar Notay
Programme Manager – Digital Infrastructure
Repositories Programme
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3. Celebrate

4. Repositories are now common in the UK 147 Repositories Shared Services
Development of software application and tools
Development of preservation tools
Development of national support and guidance
International and national collaboration
The building and enhancement of institutional repositories, subject repositories – there are now 147 UK repositories (according to OpenDoar[1]) and PubMed Central[2] is an example of an open access subject based repository.
The development of shared services such as SHERPA RoMEO[3], OpenDOAR, ROAR[4], Repository Junction[5], JORUM[7], RepUK[8] and Institutional Repository Search[9].
The development of software, applications and tools – examples of these are ePrints[10], DSpace[11], Fedora[12] (Please note that both DSpace and Fedora are now part of the same organisation[13]), MePrints[14] and SNEEP[15].
The development of preservation tools such as the Drambora Toolkit[16].
Providing training and skills through JISC projects and in particular RSP[17].
The development of national support and guidance - examples of these are RSP, UKCoRR[18], DCC[19], UKOLN[20].
There is now wide international collaboration - examples of this include Repositories and Preservation Knowledge Exchange Groups[21], Confederation of Open Access Repositories[22] (COAR), OpenAir[23] PEER[24], SONEX[25].
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5. Future of Repositories
Now focus is on addressing specific issues such as:
Deposit – DepositMo, DURA, RePosit, Kultivate and, SWORD, OARJ, Sonex
Shared services – refining, consolidating and identifying new requirements, we have a number of shared services in this area – e.g. SHERPA RoMEO, OpenDOAR
Take-up and embedding/integration – 6 projects. Also producing a guide to integration and embedding.
National and International collaboration – possible joint strategy development for repository infrastructure (Research Councils, UKCoRR, PubMed Central), Knowledge Exchange Groups, COAR, openAIRE
Not going to be funding repository projects as such – any innovation will be done through RIM MRD OER, Activity Data strands of work – recognising that the repository needs to be integrated and embedded within the institution processes, workflows, policies and procedures.
It about to make the most of the content in the repository and how it can feed and interoperate with research systems – provide consolidated data for the REF, feed staff pages, provide business intelligence for decision making, provide impact data….it’s about having a holistic view of that content.
Now focus is on addressing specific issues such as:
Shared services – refining, consolidating and identifying new requirements, we have a number of shared services in this area – e.g. Sherpa Romeo, OpenDOAR
Deposit:
DepositMo – From desktop to depost – developing tools for Microsoft Office to allow direct depost
DURA - Working with Mendeley and Symplectic to allow researchers to synchronise their personal research collections with institutional systems
Reposit: University of leeds - Keele University, Queen Mary University of London, University of Exeter, University of Plymouth, Symplectic Ltd. This project has a strong advocacy element to increase the repository holding – symplectic system
KULTIVATE – University of Creative Arts – build a deposit tool for creative arts community. This has a wide community engagement element. There are about 15 institutions involved in the community engagement. Non textual items are tricky business for repositories and the relationships between them.
National and International collaboration – possible joint strategy for repository infrastructure (research councils, UKCoRR, PubMed Central) Knowledge Exchange Groups, COAR, openAIRE – what are the common things that we need to align on for interoperability and efficiencies

6. Take –up and embedding
Hydrangea Project – Hull university – building on the Hydra Project at Stanford and Virginia universities – to build flexible interfaces to fedora
Bringing a buzz to nectar Northampton university - will implement a number of the best existing repository tools and services to gain efficiencies in research workflows and improve the repository interface. R4R, ENRICH, ENQUIRE.
MIRAGE-2011: Repository Enrichment from Archiving to Creation – Middlesex University - medical image repository – using ParaView to allow the construction of 3D images to improve the user experience.
Hydrangea Project – Hull university – building on the Hydra Project – Stanford and Virginia universities – to build flexible interfaces to fedora - develop a model that would enable the building of easy to use interfaces and workflows, with the scalable ability to apply this to different content types and use cases as required.
Bringing a buzz to nectar Northampton university - will implement a number of the best existing repository tools and services to gain efficiencies in research workflows, improve the repository interface integration with the ethos service, REF preparation – via R4R tools, and looking at the RIM workflows – by picking up good practice from the Enrich and Enquire projects at Glasgow
MIRAGE-2011: Repository Enrichment from Archiving to Creation – Middlesex University - medical image repository – using ParaView to allow the construction of 3D images to improve the user experience.

7. Take –up and embedding
eNova – University of Creative Arts. Building on the MePrints tool to improve the interface for arts based researchers and linking in with the KULTURE project – building a deposit tools for ePrints for non textual material
EXPLORER (Embedding eXisting & Propriatary Learning in an Open-source Repository to Evolve new Resources) - De Montfort University – using various tools to improve the repository. Using Enrich, Embed and Kuture project outputs
Enhanced interface design for supporting take-up and embedding of the Glasgow School of Art. Improving the research repository – implementing ePrints interface over their existing repository.
eNova – University of Creative Arts. Building on the MePrints tool to improve the interface for arts based researchers and linking on with the KULTURE project – building a deposit tools for ePrints for non textual material
EXPLORER (Embedding eXisting & Propriatary Learning in an Open-source Repository to Evolve new Resources) - De Montfort University – using various tools to improve the repository – Enrich and Embed projects – embedding and workflows. Kuture project output to increase content types and the IRRA tool (R4R tool)
Enhanced interface design for supporting take-up and embedding of the Glasgow School of Art. Improving the research repository – implementing ePrints interface over their existing repository.

8. Making the most of your content
ENRICH and ENQUIRE projects at Glasgow University – exemplar for embedding and integration
Readiness for REF (R4R) – CERIF for REF plugins – ePrints, Dspace, Fedora
ResearchRevealed – Bristol University – applying semantic web technologies over their repository and research systems to allow for intelligent discovery.
RKBExplorer – Southampton – providing a semantic search over harvested repositories – linking researchers, research outputs with institutions and organisations.
Automatic metadata generation and text mining projects – 6 projects -exploring some of the automatic metadata and text mining tools and applying them to a repository – e.g. MERLIN Project at UCL (TerMine)
As mentioned before - it’s now not just about having a repository – but how it holistically works as part of the whole information landscape – and how it can be used to improve and enhance research, to allow different views on to the content – intelligent presentation and communication, used to improve social networks, used to improve and streamline processes, used to gather impact data/business intelligence for a variety of management and service needs.
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The MERLIN project has used the TerMine tool to extract keywords from the full text digital objects harvested by the University of London's repository aggregator, LASSO. These keywords are presented as part of an interactive 'cloud' display to create an innovative, subject-specific search interface.