A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

UKOLN is supported by:

British Academy e-Resources Policy Review:

UKOLN Report

Dr Liz Lyon

Director

Workshop, London November 2006

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JISC Digital Repositories support• Repositories Research Team (with CETIS)

– Roadmap – Use cases and scenarios, workflow exemplars– Dublin Core Application Profile for ePrints (+ Eduserv)

• Requirements: richer metadata set, support for value-added services, version identification, appropriate copy (OA), citations

• Based on FRBR• Data model for scholarly works• Application profile includes simple and qualified DC properties

– Deposit API (GNU eprints, Dspace, Fedora)• Standard deposit interface to repositories

– OAIS Reference Model Evaluation– Contributions to e-Framework: Service usage and service genres– DigiRep Wiki

Version ofRecord

(English)

FRBR for eprints

The eprint as ascholarly work

Author’sOriginal 1.0

Author’sOriginal 1.1

Version ofRecord

(French)

html pdf

publisher’scopy

institutionalrepository

copy

scholarly work(work)

version(expression)

format(manifestation)

copy(item)

…

Slide: Julie Allinson, UKOLN, Andy Powell, Eduserv

The application profile• simple DC properties (the usual suspects … )

– identifier, title, abstract, subject, creator, publisher, type, language, format• qualified DC properties

– access rights, licence, date available, bibliographic citation, references, date modified

• new properties– grant number, affiliation institution, status, version, copyright holder

• properties from other schemes– funder, supervisor, editor (MARC relators) – name, family name, given name, workplace homepage, mailbox, homepage

(FOAF)• clearer use of existing relationships

– has version, is part of• new relationship properties

– has adaptation, has translation, is expressed as, is manifested as, is available as

• vocabularies – access rights, entity type, resource type and status

Slide: Julie Allinson, UKOLN, Andy Powell, Eduserv

Use DC Application Profile for ePrints?

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/JISC_Digital_Repository_Wiki

Repositories Support Project – JISC-funded: SHERPA University Nottingham lead– Partners: Aberystwyth, UKOLN, DCC, Southampton– Supporting institutions– Needs analysis, technical support, workshops, integration

http://www.openarchives.org/ore/

eBank Project: aggregating &

linking data+interpretations

Publishing datasets: crystallography exemplar• Application Profile http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/schemas/

• DOI http://dx.doi.org/10 .1594/ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/145

• Rights & Citation policy http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/rights.html

Aggregator services

Institutional data repositories

Deposit , Validation

Publication

Validation

Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling Search,

harvest

Presentation services / portals

Data discovery, linking, citation

Laboratory repository

Deposit

eCrystals ‘Global Federation’ Model 23/10/2006

Publishers: peer-review journals, conference proceedings, etc

Curation

Preservation

Subject Repository

Institution Library & Information Services

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0Data creation

& capture in “Smart lab”

Data discovery, linking, citation

Search, harvest

Search, harvest

Deposit

Deposit

Deposit

Some issues:– Populating institutional repositories……– Inter-disciplinary variations in workflow: deposit, search etc.– Interoperability across repository federations – Acceptance & deployment of common schema by repository services– Schema for images, geo-spatial data, time-based media?– Complexities of harvesting: simple vs rich DC

e-Infrastructure Studies• Shared Infrastructure Services Synthesis (Ann Chapman and

Rosemary Russell)– Project development lifecycle: project to service– Promote benefits to the community– Demonstrate best practice to enhance take-up– Services for digital policy management: licences – Recommendations for specific shared services

• Terminology Services and Technology (Doug Tudhope, Traugott Koch, Rachel Heery)

– Develop use cases and scenarios– Name authority file and disambiguation services– Experiment with KOS and social tagging– Integrate tagging within existing services– Terminologies registry within IE testbed– Terminology services and repositories for subject-based access

Digital Curation Centre • 2nd International DCC Conference 21-22

November, Glasgow • Representation Information Registry

Repository http://registry.dcc.ac.uk• Development of (M2M) tools & interfaces

for creating, using, re-using representation information: Prototype demonstrator

Supporting the community• www.dcc.ac.uk • HELPDESK@dcc.ac.uk • legal - technical guidance • Curation Manual 45 chapters planned

– Metadata (umbrella)– Open Source– Archival metadata– Preservation metadata– Selection & appraisal– Curating emails

• Briefing Papers– Curating emails – Digital repositories – Geospatial data – Data protection – eScience data

• Case studies

UK Digital Curation Centre

Some issues:

• Enabling access and preservation• Defining notions of trust• Certification approaches• Embedding in research workflow• Developing researchers’ skills