1. OPEN REPOSITORY Hosting DSpace as a Saleable Service UKI DSUG meeting, Friday 24th November 2006

2. Or taking a peek at what makes us tick

3. Open Repository is a service from BioMed Central to build, launch, host and maintain institutional repositories for organisations. Built upon the latest DSpace repository software the service has been designed to be flexible and cost-effective. BioMed Central's economy of scale makes it possible for organisations that could not otherwise afford to, or lack the infrastructure or technical capacity in-house to run their own repositories. The pitch

4. The deal Repo built and customised by BMC Hosted on BMC servers and db Training and support from BMC Repos administered by customer

5. The results Nov. 2004 - Project launched, Inserm sign up as first customer (although they leave for policy reasons in December 2005!) October 2005 - Manchester Metropolitan University April 2006 - University of Zurich and Landspitali University Hospital, Iceland May 2006 - General Teaching Council of Northern Ireland and University of Wolverhampton August 2006 - Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) Nov. 2006 - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and University of Chester

6. How we do it Multiple apps sitting side by side on Tomcat Code deployed from a single code base with custom configs / jsps etc One db schema with additional repo ids on each table to create repo specific ‘views’ of the schema Windows servers and Oracle database Currently DSpace 1.3.2

7. The extra bits Customised ‘OR’ interface Upload metadata from PubMed ID or DOI Submission without bitstream PDF conversion within submission form OA Datafeeds from PubMed Central Saved Searches Nate Sarr’s Researcher Pages Custom browse displays

8. Developing a hosted service BMC’s customer base traditionally biomedical OR’s customer base is NOT! And no one wants ‘out-of-the-box’ There’s no such thing as a standard repository solution Everyone has individual requirements / needs Everyone has ideas… Most ideas are good, most are transferable, ALL are important to the customer

9. Keeping the customers happy All non-core features have to be ‘turnoffandonable’ Admins want to be able to make most of the custom interface changes themselves (and so do we) Interfaces needs to be intuitive – some of our librarians may still wear horn rimmed spectacles The only classes they need to worry about should have students in If all else fails send them cakes

10. Which means… Interoperability Configurability Scalability Usability Stability

11. Mark Merifield Open Repository Project manager mark.merifield@biomedcentral.com Questions?