Making%20effective%20use%20of%20your%20repository

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Making effective use of your repository

• Queens University Belfast, 17th January 2008
• Peter Cliff
• UKOLN

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Overview

• Use vs Effective Use
• Some Uses
• Repositories in Global Context
• Repositories in Local Context

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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.

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Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Consider this

• Consider this

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Making Use vs Making Effective Use

• Making Use
• Paperweight?
• Pasta measure?
• Tiny Dart Board?
• Stylish Ring?

• Consider this

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Making Use vs Making Effective Use

• Effective Use
• Spoke spanner
• Spoke Tightening
• Wheel Truing

• Consider this

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Repository Uses

• Knowledge, information and data sharing
• Facilitating research
• Impact ( career development)
• Data management
• Preservation
• Anything else?

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Repository Uses

• Knowledge, information and data sharing
• Facilitating research
• Impact ( career development)
• Data management
• Preservation
• Anything else?

Global
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Repository Uses

• Knowledge, information and data sharing
• Facilitating research
• Impact ( career development)
• Data management
• Preservation
• Anything else?

Global
Local
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Repositories in Context Global
Students
Search Services
Institution
Researchers
Other Services
OpenDOAR ROARWeb of Science
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Expanding Usage in the Global Context

• Institutional Marketing
• Overlay Journals
• Virtual Workbooks
• Alerts Feeds
• Social Networking Applications
• Bibliographic Services
• Resource discovery

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Global Context In Action Discovery
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Searching Google
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Searching Google Scholar
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Searching OAIster
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Searching OAIster II
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Searching OpenDOAR
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Searching BASE
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Effective Use Bibliographic Services
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Effective Use Bibliographic Services
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Effective Use Bibliographic Services
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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?actionadd
• http//www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovide
  r.html
• Machine Interfaces OAI-PMH, RSS, etc.
• Metadata

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Repository Context Local
Management Information
Personal Information Portal
Content Management System
Virtual Learning Environment
Web pages
File Store
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Repository Context Local
Management Information
Personal Information Portal
Content Management System
Virtual Learning Environment
Web pages
File Store
Dont forget people!
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Repository Context Local
Management Information
Personal Information Portal
Content Management System
Virtual Learning Environment
Web pages
File Store
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Repository Context Local
Management Information
Personal Information Portal
Content Management System
Virtual Learning Environment
Web pages
File Store
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Repository Context Local
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Personal Information Portal
?
Content Management System
Management Information
Virtual Learning Environment
File Store
Web pages
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Effective Use Grab Local Information

• Bibliographic information
• BibApp for example
• http//code4lib.org/2007/larson

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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

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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!

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Questions?

• Peter Cliff
• p.d.cliff_at_ukoln.ac.uk
• support_at_rsp.ac.uk