1. JISC Feb 2012 Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting education and research

2. JISC Repositories Programme Overview Balviar Notay b.notay@jisc.ac.uk
Programme Manager - Digital Infrastructure Team
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3. Background Since 2002 – have grown Repository Infrastructure
Exploratory
Building Capacity
Enhancement
Rapid innovation
Deposit, Text Mining
Take-up and embedding
Shared Infrastructure Projects “above campus” – SHERPA RoMEO, Juliet, Names, Pirus2, OARJ, Depot, IRS, PRONOM, DROID…..
Funding from HEFCE to focus on Shared Services.
Exploratory FAIR Programme 2002 – this really was about seeing what could be done with OAI-PMH – various projects looking at institutional resources, museum resources and scoping services such as Sherpa and Romeo
Building capacity – Start-Up repositories funding 33 project – this was facilitating institutions building their repository from scratch.
Enhancement – 33 - seeing what services/tools could be built on top (SNEEP) – social networking extensions for ePrints
rapid innovation 2009 – 41 projects – small, short term funding –
Walking Through Time project – mobile app that allows allow architectural historians, conservationists and tourists to download historical maps when standing in a specific location, to annotate and tag these maps and to record and follow routes through historical space
Students were interested in walking through real space whilst following a map from say 200 years ago - and being able to tag locations and overlay related data that offers historical and contextual information.
PRONOM - A technical registry for file formats
DROID - : An automatic file format identification & characterisation tool.
JHOVE - : An identification, characterisation and validation tool
NZ Metadata Extractor : programmatically extracts preservation metadata from a range of file formats

4. Take-Up and Embedding Projects
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.
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.

5. Take-Up and Embedding Projects
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
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.

6. Guide to Embedding

7. Programme and Strands Research Management Programme
Repositories and Curation Shared Infrastructure
Research Information Management
Managing Research Data
(OA Research Papers)

8. Consolidation and building coherence (economies of scale and scope)
Aims
Consolidation and building coherence (economies of scale and scope)
Efficiencies and effectiveness at local, national and where desirable at international levels
Enable ease of use of services
Sustainability and accountability

9. Why we doing this?
Efficient and effective repository and curation infrastructure with key services - ensuring scholarly outputs are managed, shared and reused
Ensuring universities are able to contribute to more effective and efficient forms of scholarly communication and work towards open scholarship
Align our policies and shared infrastructure with Research Councils, Research Funders, and International initiatives to enable more efficient and effective workflows and ensure infrastructure supports developing the research profile for the UK.
Provide value for money by building on previous investments (building on opportunities and successes in order to realise the investment made)
Having an efficient and effective repository and curation infrastructure with key services - ensures scholarly outputs are managed, shared and reused
Ensuring universities are able to contribute to more effective and efficient forms of scholarly communication and work towards open scholarship
At national and international levels we need to align our policies and shared infrastructure with Research Councils, Research Funders, and International initiatives to enable more efficient and effective workflows. Particularly this relates to policies around open access and deposit to allow the management (including metrics), sharing and reuse of research papers. This infrastructure needs to support developing the research profile for the UK.
In order to provide value for money this strand is building on previous investments (as mentioned above) We are building on the opportunities and successes in order to realise the investment made.

10. How
Set up a production environment (works closely with the innovation environment) – UK RepositoryNet+ project
Scope and deliver repository and curation services via the production (working in partnership with others) - UK RepositoryNet+ project
Provide market research/ intelligence, quality assurance, business case and sustainability planning - UK RepositoryNet+ project
Set up of an Innovation Zone/Environment (UKOLN) – provide an incubator space for components.
Set up strand Oversight Group
Rapid innovation projects

11. Governance Model Owned by programme steering group
Owned by Data Centre
Owned by JISC Executive
Ownership defined on a case-by-case basis
Owned by UKOLN
Owned by JISC Executive, led by Data Centre
Input from various sources

12. Related Work
RIO project – technical guidance for repositories –community resource (Southampton and Key Perspectives)
RIO Extension – mapping the repository metadata requirements (Key Perspectives)
Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)
Knowledge Exchange (JISC, SURF, DEFF, DFG – Sustainability of Open Access Services (Alma Swan)
The ResearcherID task and finish group, reporting in January, on recommendations for the UK HE sector on identifiers for researchers, including working with ORCID.
SWORD sustainability

13. Mapping the landscape

14. Functional specification
Functional specification for service environment – what is it that we need to achieve? e.g.
Providing awareness of what is available – Registries (to what end?/who for)
Depositing content in an appropriate location – Deposit tools, protocols
Enhancing the quality of what is held – IPR/copyright information resources, metadata generation, identifier services, authority files
Making use of what is held – Content aggregation and discovery services, authentication and authorisation
Analysing what is held and how it is used – Citation analysis, statistics aggregation, activity data
Protecting what is held over time – Preservation and curation services
Other potential hosts for the service?

15. Requirements Gathering
Conduct a targeted survey
UKCoAR and the Project Steering Group
Use initial functional specification scaffold for the survey – what would be useful shared services in people’s day to day operation.
Collect use cases.
Collecting particular requirements
Research Councils, Funders, International Initiatives e.g. OpenAIRE – FP7/8 etc)
Mapping of workflows
There may be different overlay mappings e.g. metadata flow, deposit, etc for different requirements and use cases.
Collect evidence of use:
current prototype services and their use cases
collect people’s current experience of them.
Combine with broader use case from targeted survey

16. Complicated landscape (political, technical, organisational etc….)
Challenges
Complicated landscape (political, technical, organisational etc….)
Financial (do more with less) - Institutions and JISC
Business models not easy to factor
“New JISC”?
Tight timelines – finish by March 2013

17. Future: Shared Solutions, Shared Services, built on Shared Perspectives

18. Thank you 