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LIR Seminar, 27th March 2009
IReL-Openfor business soon
Rachel HillDORAS Institutional Repository Manager, Dublin City [email protected]
Outline
• IReL-Open overview• Key milestones in the project• The IReL-Open portal• Metadata and the portal• The harvest is ripening• IReL-Open - beyond the project
IReL-Open overview
• 3 year project 2007-2010• Managed by IUA Librarians Group• €1.6m funded through HEA Strategic Innovation Fund
and matched by the institutions• Project workspace: http://www.irel-open.ie
IReL-Open objectives
• Establish IRs in all 7 IUA universities• Create a national portal
– Contain content harvested from the individual IRs– Facilitate a range of value-added services– Potential of scaling up to include harvested
content from other partners beyond the IUA universities
What stage are we at now
What stage are we at now
• Approx 6000 open access papers in Irish IRs• Containing a mix of journal articles, theses,
conference proceedings, book chapters, technical reports, etc.
• Using a mixture of DSpace, EPrints and Digital Commons platforms
IReL-Open activities
• Metadata group working on guidelines for metadata harvesting
• May-Sept 2008 – consultant developed specifications for the portal
• Dec 2008 – advertised tender for portal development• Mar 2009 – contract awarded for portal development• Apr 2009 - Tech group will liaise with portal developer• Dec 2009 – new portal will go live
Key features of the portal
• The portal will act as a single point of access to full-text national research output
• From one location users will be able to access the harvested open access content from Irish IRs
• Will use OAI-PMH protocol to harvest metadata from Irish IRs
How the portal will work
Irish IR
NationalPortal
Irish IR
Irish IR
Metadata Harvester
Example portal - DRIVER
• DRIVER portal (beta)
http://www.driver-community.eu/• Open Access to European research• Contains approx 1,000,000 records harvested from
around 200 institutional/subject repositories
Search for “optical communications”
Example portal – DART-Europe
• http://www.dart-europe.eu/ • Free online access to over 100,000 research theses• Theses are harvested from 12 European countries,
using the OAI-PMH protocol
Key features of the IReL-Open portal
• Faceted browsing by– Author– Institution– Year of publication– Item type– Keyword
• Refine and filter results• Sort results• Export search and faceted queries as RSS feeds
Metadata in the portal
• Simple Dublin Core – basic standard for OAI-PMH
Simple Dublin Core record
Metadata in the portal
• Simple Dublin Core – basic standard for OAI-PMH• Metadata group has worked on creating guidelines
for how Simple Dublin Core is interpreted – – general guidelines– thesis-specific guidelines
• E.g. All records must contain a title [dc:title]• All records must contain a link back to the source
repository [dc:identifier]• For theses, dc:creator field is used for the author and
dc:contributor field is used for the thesis supervisor
Key back-end features
• Each IR manager will be able to log in, schedule harvests, specify repository-specific normalisation, generate statistical reports
• Scalable – can scale up to include more IRs. Potential for each institution to set up harvests from multiple repositories.
• OAI-PMH proxy will re-expose metadata
The harvest is ripening
• 62% of journal publishers listed on Sherpa Romeo allow some form of self-archiving
• Greater awareness of open access amongst Irish academics
• Move towards open access of public-funded research– IRCSET– SFI– HEA– HRB
• Stats show that people are using Irish IRs
6 months stats – DORAS
• Total of 23561 full-text downloads• Each open access journal article was downloaded an
average of 26 times• Each open access book chapter was downloaded an
average of 50 times• Each open access thesis was downloaded an
average of 84 times
1 September 2008 – 28 February 2009
6 months stats – DORAS
1 September 2008 – 28 February 2009
IReL-Open – beyond the project
• Integration with research profiles and research support systems
• Preservation• Digitisation of theses
