A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is supported by:
British Academy e-Resources Policy Review:
UKOLN Report
Dr Liz Lyon
Director
Workshop, London November 2006
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JISC Digital Repositories support• Repositories Research Team (with CETIS)
– Roadmap – Use cases and scenarios, workflow exemplars– Dublin Core Application Profile for ePrints (+ Eduserv)
• Requirements: richer metadata set, support for value-added services, version identification, appropriate copy (OA), citations
• Based on FRBR• Data model for scholarly works• Application profile includes simple and qualified DC properties
– Deposit API (GNU eprints, Dspace, Fedora)• Standard deposit interface to repositories
– OAIS Reference Model Evaluation– Contributions to e-Framework: Service usage and service genres– DigiRep Wiki
Version ofRecord
(English)
FRBR for eprints
The eprint as ascholarly work
Author’sOriginal 1.0
Author’sOriginal 1.1
Version ofRecord
(French)
html pdf
publisher’scopy
institutionalrepository
copy
scholarly work(work)
version(expression)
format(manifestation)
copy(item)
…
Slide: Julie Allinson, UKOLN, Andy Powell, Eduserv
The application profile• simple DC properties (the usual suspects … )
– identifier, title, abstract, subject, creator, publisher, type, language, format• qualified DC properties
– access rights, licence, date available, bibliographic citation, references, date modified
• new properties– grant number, affiliation institution, status, version, copyright holder
• properties from other schemes– funder, supervisor, editor (MARC relators) – name, family name, given name, workplace homepage, mailbox, homepage
(FOAF)• clearer use of existing relationships
– has version, is part of• new relationship properties
– has adaptation, has translation, is expressed as, is manifested as, is available as
• vocabularies – access rights, entity type, resource type and status
Slide: Julie Allinson, UKOLN, Andy Powell, Eduserv
Use DC Application Profile for ePrints?
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/JISC_Digital_Repository_Wiki
Repositories Support Project – JISC-funded: SHERPA University Nottingham lead– Partners: Aberystwyth, UKOLN, DCC, Southampton– Supporting institutions– Needs analysis, technical support, workshops, integration
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/
eBank Project: aggregating &
linking data+interpretations
Publishing datasets: crystallography exemplar• Application Profile http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/schemas/
• DOI http://dx.doi.org/10 .1594/ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/145
• Rights & Citation policy http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/rights.html
Aggregator services
Institutional data repositories
Deposit , Validation
Publication
Validation
Data analysis, transformation, mining, modelling Search,
harvest
Presentation services / portals
Data discovery, linking, citation
Laboratory repository
Deposit
eCrystals ‘Global Federation’ Model 23/10/2006
Publishers: peer-review journals, conference proceedings, etc
Curation
Preservation
Subject Repository
Institution Library & Information Services
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons LicenceAttribution-ShareAlike 2.0Data creation
& capture in “Smart lab”
Data discovery, linking, citation
Search, harvest
Search, harvest
Deposit
Deposit
Deposit
Some issues:– Populating institutional repositories……– Inter-disciplinary variations in workflow: deposit, search etc.– Interoperability across repository federations – Acceptance & deployment of common schema by repository services– Schema for images, geo-spatial data, time-based media?– Complexities of harvesting: simple vs rich DC
e-Infrastructure Studies• Shared Infrastructure Services Synthesis (Ann Chapman and
Rosemary Russell)– Project development lifecycle: project to service– Promote benefits to the community– Demonstrate best practice to enhance take-up– Services for digital policy management: licences – Recommendations for specific shared services
• Terminology Services and Technology (Doug Tudhope, Traugott Koch, Rachel Heery)
– Develop use cases and scenarios– Name authority file and disambiguation services– Experiment with KOS and social tagging– Integrate tagging within existing services– Terminologies registry within IE testbed– Terminology services and repositories for subject-based access
Digital Curation Centre • 2nd International DCC Conference 21-22
November, Glasgow • Representation Information Registry
Repository http://registry.dcc.ac.uk• Development of (M2M) tools & interfaces
for creating, using, re-using representation information: Prototype demonstrator
Supporting the community• www.dcc.ac.uk • [email protected] • legal - technical guidance • Curation Manual 45 chapters planned
– Metadata (umbrella)– Open Source– Archival metadata– Preservation metadata– Selection & appraisal– Curating emails
• Briefing Papers– Curating emails – Digital repositories – Geospatial data – Data protection – eScience data
• Case studies
UK Digital Curation Centre
Some issues:
• Enabling access and preservation• Defining notions of trust• Certification approaches• Embedding in research workflow• Developing researchers’ skills