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Making effective use of your repository
Queen’s University Belfast, 17th January 2008
Peter Cliff
UKOLN
Overview
Use vs Effective Use
Some Uses
Repositories in Global Context
Repositories in Local Context
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Take a step back and ask: What are you trying to achieve with your repository?
Effective use of a repository is only possible if you know what you want to use your repository for.
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Consider this:Consider this…
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Consider this:
Making Use:
• Paperweight?
• Pasta measure?
• Tiny Dart Board?
• Stylish Ring?
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Consider this:
Effective Use:
• Spoke spanner• Spoke Tightening• Wheel Truing
Repository Uses
Knowledge, information and data sharing
Facilitating research
Impact (& career development)
Data management
Preservation
Anything else?
Repository Uses
Knowledge, information and data sharing
Facilitating research
Impact (& career development)
Data management
Preservation
Anything else?
Global
Repository Uses
Knowledge, information and data sharing
Facilitating research
Impact (& career development)
Data management
Preservation
Anything else?
Global
Local
Repositories in Context: Global
OtherServices
Students SearchServices
Researchers
Institution
OpenDOARROARWeb of Science
Expanding Usage in the Global Context
Institutional Marketing
Overlay Journals
Virtual Workbooks
Alerts & Feeds
Social Networking Applications
Bibliographic Services
Resource discovery
Global Context In Action: Discovery
Searching Google
Searching Google Scholar
Searching OAIster
Searching OAIster II
Searching OpenDOAR
Searching BASE
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use in the Global Context: How?
Search Engine Optimisation/Sitemaps• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/googlecrawling.htm• http://www.sitemaps.org/• http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html
Registration• OpenDOAR / ROAR / ROARMAP / OpenArchives
• http://www.opendoar.org/suggest.php• http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=add• http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html
Machine Interfaces – OAI-PMH, RSS, etc.Metadata
Repository Context: Local
Management Information
Virtual LearningEnvironment
Personal InformationPortal
Web pages File Store
Content ManagementSystem
Repository Context: Local
Management Information
Virtual LearningEnvironment
Personal InformationPortal
Web pages File Store
Content ManagementSystem
Don’t forget people!
Repository Context: Local
Management Information
Virtual LearningEnvironment
Personal InformationPortal
Web pages File Store
Content ManagementSystem
Repository Context: Local
Management Information
Virtual LearningEnvironment
Personal InformationPortal
Web pages File Store
Content ManagementSystem
Repository Context: Local
Management Information
Virtual LearningEnvironment
Personal InformationPortal
Web pages
File Store
Content ManagementSystem? ?
Effective Use: Grab Local Information
Bibliographic information• BibApp for example
• http://code4lib.org/2007/larson
Effective Use: Integrate with the Known
What systems are in use already? How can you use them?• http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/493
Can you use MIS data?• Names• Authentication• Collections/Communities
Campus as consumer – what will the repository give back to the user community?• Feeds, personal web pages and the VLE?• RAE support
Conclusions
Be clear what you want to use your repository for and how that benefits the Institution.
Be aware of who/what you want to expose content to and make it easy for them.
Make use of existing data.
Consider how your repository will fit – who knows, it might be a catalyst for changing your Institution's data management strategy!
