JISC: repository development work

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JISC repository development work

• Neil Jacobs

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Open Archives / Access / Source / Standards

• Infrastructure
• (databases, search services, vocabularies,
  security services, workflow support)
• Business models
• Open source
• Proprietary

• Content
• (research papers, primary and secondary data,
  images, cultural heritage materials)
• Business models
• Open access
• Toll access

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Open Archives / Access / Source / Standards
These combinations are not mutually exclusive and
may sustainably co-exist by offering different
value to the user

• Infrastructure
• (databases, search services, vocabularies,
  security services, workflow support)
• Business models
• Open source
• Proprietary

• Content
• (research papers, primary and secondary data,
  images, cultural heritage materials)
• Business models
• Open access
• Toll access

eg, publishers own both content and portal
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Open Archives / Access / Source / Standards
These combinations are not mutually exclusive and
may sustainably co-exist by offering different
value to the user

• Infrastructure
• (databases, search services, vocabularies,
  security services, workflow support)
• Business models
• Open source
• Proprietary

• Content
• (research papers, primary and secondary data,
  images, cultural heritage materials)
• Business models
• Open access
• Toll access

unlikely
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Open Archives / Access / Source / Standards
These combinations are not mutually exclusive and
may sustainably co-exist by offering different
value to the user

• Infrastructure
• (databases, search services, vocabularies,
  security services, workflow support)
• Business models
• Open source
• Proprietary

• Content
• (research papers, primary and secondary data,
  images, cultural heritage materials)
• Business models
• Open access
• Toll access

eg, proprietary repositories such as those
offered by ProQuest or BioMed Central
and open access journals
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Open Archives / Access / Source / Standards
These combinations are not mutually exclusive and
may sustainably co-exist by offering different
value to the user

• Infrastructure
• (databases, search services, vocabularies,
  security services, workflow support)
• Business models
• Open source
• Proprietary

• Content
• (research papers, primary and secondary data,
  images, cultural heritage materials)
• Business models
• Open access
• Toll access

eg, institutional and subject repositories using
(eg) DSpace, Eprints or Fedora
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Open Archives / Access / Source / Standards
Bring it all together to offer integrated
services to the user

• Infrastructure
• (databases, search services, vocabularies,
  security services, workflow support)
• Business models
• Open source
• Proprietary

• Content
• (research papers, primary and secondary data,
  images, cultural heritage materials)
• Business models
• Open access
• Toll access

Open Standards
Open processes
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Repository ecology or model
content
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Repository ecology or model
content
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Repository ecology or model
research practice and workflow
learning design
business models
file sharing
rights management
search
browse
evaluation tools
registries of file formats
quality control
registries of terminology
security
terminology
version control
metadata
registries of content
content
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Open standards the e-Framework
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Open standards the e-Framework
Repository ecology
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Open processes policy and practice questions

• Softer issues within repositories ecology
• incentives for, and cultural barriers to, sharing
• research and learning sequences and workflow
• legal concerns
• reliable versioning
• preservation (of objects and repositories)
• evaluation (of objects and repositories)
• certification and audit (of processes)

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Open processes open standards usage models

• Understandable name
• Domain that is addressed
• Purpose that is addressed (outcome)
• Human context (relation to wider goals)
• Human computer system workflows / processes
• Machine context (relation to wider
  infrastructure)
• Service orchestration / choreography
• Specifications / standards
• XML bindings for specifications / standards

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Repositories programme

• Activities (each with soft and tech elements)
• Advocacy / KnowledgeBank
• Data repositories cluster
• eLearning repositories cluster
• Media-specific (etheses, images)
• Machine services (registries, tools)
• Versions of academic papers
• Digital rights constraints and opportunities
• Web-metric evaluation
• (Search tools and infrastructure)

Plus support posts synthesis, usage models and
framework
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Partnership

• JISC DEST partnership
• Looking for project-project links
• MERRI projects
• FRODO projects
• Opportunities future collaboration / coordination
• Neil Jacobs ltneil.jacobs_at_bristol.ac.ukgt