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Close encounters of the digital kind: challenges
and opportunities of UCA Research Online
Staff Research Conference 4th May 2012
Anne Spalding
Overview
• What is UCA Research Online?
• What it does
• Why it is important
• Challenges and opportunities
UCA Research Online (UCARO)
Kaptur
eNova
Kultivate
kultur
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
• Context and Open Access
UCA Research Online (UCARO)
• What is it?– An online exhibition of
your work
• What does it do? – Shows your research to the world
Why is UCARO important?
• It provides increased visibility for our research work
• It is a marketing tool to entice staff, students and funding
• It promotes public understanding of research activities
Cloud Computing
Circa 2007
Punch CardCirca 1725
Vinyl RecordCirca 1886
Floppy DiscsCirca 1971
VHSCirca 1973
Flash DriveCirca 1998
BluerayCirca 2006
Punch TapeCirca 1846
Hard Disc DrivesCirca 1956
Cassette Tapes
Circa 1962
CD/DVDsCirca 1982
MP3 PlayersCirca 1987
HVDCirca 2009
Storage Devices Timeline
For image credits see slide 12
Challenges
• Technical
• IPR – copyright
• Terminology
Opportunities
• Linking internal and external • Library catalogue• Working with the Research Office• Working with the Digitisation Unit• Social media• Statistics evidence of viewing figures
March 27 – April 26 2011 = 308 (20 countries)March 27 – April 26 2012 = 1156 (59 countries)
UK878
Google Analytics Statistics
USA 63
Netherlands19
Australia 18
Germany17
Number of visits to UCARO per country (top 10 countries) in 2012
Canada13
France11
Portugal8
South Africa8
Taiwan7
Show your research to the world
• It is vitally important to researchers, institutions, funders and the wider community that we continue to develop and enhance engagement with repositories and to ensure that the University remains at the forefront of developments across the sector. However, to achieve this, we need your
help! Leigh Garrett, Director, VADS (2012)
Selected references/bibliography Mossink, Wilma and Estelle, Lorraine (2010) Who owns the content
in the digital environment? In: Digital Information order or anarchy p189 London: Facet Publishing
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/kultur.aspx(accessed 18.04.2012)
http://www.vads.ac.uk/kultur2group/projects/kultivate/ (accessed 18.04.2012)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/reptakeup/enova.aspx
(accessed 18.04.2012)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/managingresearchdata/infrastructure/kaptur.aspx
(accessed 18.04.2012)
http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/ (accessed 26.04.2012)
http://www.wikipedia.org/ (accessed 13.04.2010)
Hargreaves, Ian. (2011) Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-finalreport.pdf (accessed 26.04.2012)
Elmes, John (2012) The Scholarly Web. In: Times Higher Education, 26 April p22
http://www.google.com/analytics/ (accessed 26.04.2012)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/ (accessed 20.03.2012)
Punch Card – Gwern. (2009) This is the front of a blue IBM-style punch card At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue-punch-card-front-horiz.png (Accessed 13.04.2012)Punch Tape – Coles, Ted (2010) Five hole and eight hole perforated paper tape as used in telegraph and computer applications At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PaperTapes-5and8Hole.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Vinyl Record – Drumecho. (2006) Greensleeves VinylWar by Wailing Souls & Rankin Trevor At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:281136167_4bf33696b5_o.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Hard Disc Drives – Potts, Paul R. (2008) Six hard disk drives with cases opened showing platters and heads; 8, 5-25, 3-5, 2-5, 1-8 and 1 inch disk diameters are represented At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SixHardDriveFormFactors.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Cassette Tapes – Tyrrell, Malcolm (2009) A photograph showing three types of compact audio cassette At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CassetteTypes1.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Floppy discs – Chernilevsky, George (2009) 8-inch, 5,25-inch, and 3,5-inch floppy disks At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)VHS - Senor k. (2006) A blank Betamax casette next to a blank VHS cassette for size comparison At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Betavhs2.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)CD/DVDs - Tempest, Gemma (2005) DVD-RMP3 Players – Harrison, Chris (2006) A stack of iPods At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Various_iPods.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Flash Drive – Amos, Evan (2011) A Sandisk-brand USB thumb drive, SanDisk Cruzer Micro, 4GBi At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SanDisk_Cruzer_Micro.png (Accessed 13.04.2012)BluRay – Cdnomad. (2007) Back of a Blu-ray Disc At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BluRayDiscBack.png (Accessed 13.04.2012)HVD – Caspertheghost. (2011) Holographic Versatile Disc At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HVD_Disk.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)
Image Credits slide 6