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Digital Repositories Roadmap:

looking forward

The JISC/CNI Meeting, July 2006

Rachel Heery

Assistant Director R&D, UKOLN

www.ukoln.ac.uk

A centre of expertise in digital informaion management

                                                             

Summary

• Vision for 2010

• Where we are now

• Way forward– Closer look at Deposit

                                                             

AimsDigital Repositories RoadmapRachel Heery, UKOLNAndy Powell, Eduserv FoundationApril 2006http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/publications/roadmap-200604/

• To inform JISC’s planning of integrated repositories network

• To support JISC’s repository funding calls

• Aspirational to stimulate discussion• Working document, things change

                                                             

A week is a long time in politics….• First call for JISC Capital Programme repository related projects June 22 2006 deadline

• Funding for RDN/Intute repository aggregator

Work started to develop ePrints Dublin Core Application Profile May 2006

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

                                                             

Research Councils UK updated position statement on access to research outputs, June 30 2006

• Encouraging deposit of articles published in journals and conference proceedings

• Devolving power of mandate to individual RCs

• Initiating further consultation

                                                             

Vision 2010

• Richer scholarly communication based on open access to and re-use of scholarly materials

• Integrated life-cycle of knowledge from research to learning

• Available metadata about scholarly materials• Added value services on scholarly materials

(involving HE and commercial sectors)

                                                             

More repositories and more content!

• Working papers, primary data, audiovisual, images• Hardware in research labs will automatically

deposit experimental data• Desktop tools will deposit content• Rich data flow between networks of repositories• Rich data flows between repositories and other

components in information landscape

• National and institutional preservation strategies in place!

                                                             

Repository interworking with other components

repositoryRepository

Virtual Learning Environment

Authoring tool

Name authority service

Institutional research system

Automated classification service

Packaging tool

                                                             

Where are we now?

Scholarship today? OA landscape

Repository ecology

Institutional Repository

Departmentalrepository

Authoring tool

Subject repositories

Institutional research system

Data Centres

Learned society repositories

Laboratory repository

Experimental machine

Aggregators:

OAIster, Google

Regional, national

Text mining tools

Terminology services

Research council repositories

                                                             

Defining workflows and dataflows

• Analyse roles and interactions within and beween repositories

• What does the user want? • Identify and define services

– Potential for ‘shared services’, re-use of services– In context of JISC e-Framework

• Explore potential dataflows– Aggregation, data exchange, metadata extraction

and enhancement

                                                             

Deposit a priority!

• To enable users to populate repositories simply, effectively and preferably automatically

• To capture content from desktop applications, experimental equipment (smart labs), learning content development tools etc

• To enable repository of deposit to exchange data with further repositories in predictable manner

• To hide complexity from end-user• To be compatible with follow-on added value services

layered on repository content• Deposit API Working group meeting July 11/12, Warwick

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

                                                             

Thank you!