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!

Peter Cliff

p.d.cliff@ukoln.ac.uk

support@rsp.ac.uk

Questions?