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An Introduction
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Aspiration
To begin the process of adding significant value to those emerging repositories in which are deposited the intellectual products of academic research – principally the published reports and papers that describe what research has been undertaken, and what new knowledge has been established as a consequence – by enabling them to interact directly with the repositories of source data from which these publications were developed.
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Project ClusterJISC Digital Repositories Programme
8 clusters
Legal & policy issues
Data repositories
E-learning
Machine services
Integrating infrastructure
Images
E-theses
Repositories & preservation
Project StORe Project StORe
Project BoardProject Board
UK Data ArchiveNational
Centre for e-Social Science
National e-Science Centre
Archaeology Data Service
Digital Curation Centre
UKOLNCURL
Project Director
Project Director
Project Manager
Project Manager
Project Management
Group
Project Management
Group
Survey TeamSurvey Team
Imperial College
LSE
UCL
Edinburgh U
UKDA
CURL
UKOLN
Birmingham U
Manchester U
York U / White Rose
JHU
The Project StORe Collaboration
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Multi-discipline Project
Biochemistry
UCL
Archaeology
York University
(White Rose)
Social Policy & Political Science
LSE
Astronomy
Edinburgh University
Chemistry
Imperial College
Biosciences
Manchester University
Astronomy
Johns Hopkins
University
Physics
Birmingham University
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Repositories
Discipline Source Repository Output Repository
Archaeology Archaeology Data Service White Rose IR
Astronomy SuperCOSMOS Science Archive
Edinburgh Research Archive; arXiv
Biochemistry Protein Structures Database UCL Eprints
Biosciences UniProt; Genbank PubMed Central
Chemistry National Crystallography Service
Imperial Eprints
Physics Brookhaven; CERN Birmingham Eprints
Social Policy/Political Science
UK Data Archive LSE Research Articles Online
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Project Deliverables• Published user surveys of researchers that identify:
– workflows and norms in their use of source and output repositories;– common attributes across disciplines;– functional enhancements that they consider to be desirable;– their perceived problems in the use of repositories.
• A generic technical specification of the functional enhancements to source and output repositories that were identified from the surveys of researchers.
• A pilot system built using the generic technical specification that demonstrates the linking of holdings in the UK Data Archive (source repository) to research papers stored in ePrints (and potentially DSpace) -compatible output repositories.
• Published independent evaluations of 1) the pilot system and 2) the project itself, including recommendations to the JISC for future development work.
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Current Focus
Survey phase, February – June 2006
• Survey team in place• Questionnaire launched 13th March• Questionnaire closes 14th April• Interviews from May• Reports by end July• Business Analysis phase commences June
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Recent Observations - 1
Don’t assume• the academic community knows about the
JISC, digital repositories and information management
• that libraries are regarded universally as the natural sources of expertise or owners of all things repository
• that your survey is special and exciting (there is survey fatigue lurking out there)
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Recent Observations - 2
Do acknowledge• a broad spectrum of facility with the
terminology we use as common currency– data, metadata, repository – eh?
• a general suspicion that surveys may be the stalking horse for commercial interests
• that clarity in explaining the purpose and the benefits of our projects is a make or break factor
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Perceived Benefits(Selling the Survey)
Improvements in opportunities for information discovery and in the curation of valuable research data, leading to
• the ability more conclusively to track the use and influence of one's published research;
• a structured means of surveying research publications and their associated source data across an entire discipline or within a specific research theme;
• an environment with added value: output repositories that link to their sources and source repositories that link to their outputs will expand the opportunities for dissemination of research and scholarship.
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Recent Observations - 3
Do respect local cultures
• Working through established hierarchies and communication routes
• Navigating diverse levels of bureaucracy
• Organising around diverse timetables
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Recent Observations - 4
Most JISC projects are collaborations
• Make sure your collaborators contribute – they should be the strength of the project
Carrots work better with the academic community than sticks, but your carrots have to be the finest
• The lure of an iPOD may not be enough!