Open Scholarship Conference, Glasgow, October 20 2006 IRIScotland and the Repository Landscape Philip Hunter Project Manager [email protected] 'Institutional

Open Scholarship Conference, Glasgow, October 20 2006

IRIScotland and the Repository Landscape

Philip HunterProject Manager

[email protected]

'Institutional Repository Infrastructure for Scotland'


The Menu• Some Background to the Project• What we have done so far• The OAI Repository Architecture• The IRIScotland Portal• What researchers think• The Repository Landscape


IRIScotland

• was originally proposed by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), the National Library of Scotland and others.

• was conceived as a means to provide the ‘organisational and technological framework for a Scotland-wide institutional repository infrastructure for research’.


IRIScotland

• is building a pilot repository hosting service to make it possible for Scottish institutions that may not wish to set up their own repositories to increase the visibility of their research output

• The hosting service may be developed beyond the life of the project by the NLS


IRIScotland

• Is also implementing a harvester-based pilot cross-repository search and browse service to enhance exposure of the Scottish research output as a whole – a framework applicable to any regional or subject groupings that might become building blocks for a UK-wide digital repository infrastructure


IRIScotland

• seeks to bring about cultural and organisational changes by developing, in close co-operation with researchers and senior administrators, institutional policies, procedures and workflows conducive to open access publishing and self-archiving with a view to encouraging the rapid population of institutional repositories

• The project is employing an empirical, rather than an ideological approach


What have we done so far?

•Created a website and a project wiki

www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk

• Experimented with two repository softwares (DSpace and Fedora) • Produced a Position Paper on the relative merits of DSpace and Fedora for a pilot hosting repository service (26 April 2006)•Member of DSpace Users Group (UK DSUG)•Member of Fedora Users Group

http://www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk/



•Conducted a successful nationwide survey of awareness of and attitudes to institutional repositories (15th March – 25th April 2006)• We are developing a metadata format for a nationwide network of repositories (workpackage 5: CDLR)•Participated in the UK ePrints UK metadata application profile working group• Informally surveyed materials available in Scotland which might better be accessed through a Scottish research portal• Informally surveyed materials of Scottish relevance which are available internationally



• Created the pilot hosting repository service using DSpace (NLS)• Created a Fedora implementation• Created the IRIScotland search service (CDLR)• Discussions with Cambridge Science Abstracts on future developments in scientific communication, and possible futures for the technology (in conjunction with PerX) • Discussions with Blackwells on the possibility of using CrossRef tools for the IRIScotland repository



• We are developing a toolkit on workflows, good practice, institutional requirements, and cultural change (all project partners)• Workshop and conference dissemination - WWW2006 (Edinburgh), EThOs workshop day (Glasgow), Electric Connections (Dundee), a press demo, etc. • Publication of survey analysis in OCLC Systems and Services, Spring 2007• this year we will run focus group discussions, which will feed into the final version of the toolkit, and the refinement of the IRIScotland portal.


The OAI Repository Architecture

Data providers

Service providers

Harvestingbased onOAI-PMH


IRIScotland Scope• Why Scotland?• Why a geographic scope?• One harvester, many repositories?• Tiered repository services• Tiered repository network architecture• Quality Assurance (metadata records)• Record normalisation• Name authority services (outside scope)• Multilingual cross-walks (outside scope)• National service seen as part of an international

repository architecture


IRIScotland Portal demo

Edinburgh Research Archive Enlighten (Glasgow ePrints Service)


Pilot Hosting Repository

http://iriscotland2.nls.uk:8080/iris-poc/

http://iriscotland2.nls.uk:8080/iris-poc/


IRIScotland Search

http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/iriscotland/

http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/iriscotland/


Pilot Hosting Repository


Fedora Development• Riding two development horses• DSpace implementation a proof of concept for the hosting repository• Fedora development now well advanced but not publicly available

yet• Main current work is on the deposit interface and management of

the underlying workflow• 3 species of deposit envisaged (normal, quick and mediated)• Some synergies with the PROSPERO project repository (same

building)


What researchers think

• Survey conducted in two main phases March to May 2006• Covered research authors, university administrators, library

directors, and technical implementers• Analysis will be published in OCLC: Systems and Services, and

in the IRIScotland toolkit• Practicalities of the survey (every university is different; third

party online survey tools are quirky)


The Survey


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IRI-Scotland author survey:subject areas

Biological Sciencesn=91 (19%)

Medicineand Healthn=88 (18%)

Engineering & Technology n=47 (10%)

Anon n=46 (10%)

Physical Sciences n=32 (7%)

Social & political studies n=23 (5%)

Mathsn=28 (6%)

History & philosophyn= 24 (5%)

Informaticsn=15 (3%)

Lang. andlinguisticsn=16 (3%)


IRI-Scotland author survey:attitudes to OA repositories

Strongly againstn=10 (2%)

Mildly againstn=26 (5%)

Neutraln=59 (12%)

Mildly in favourn=160 (33%)

Strongly in favourn=228 (47%)


IRI-Scotland author survey:does your institution have a repository?

Yesn=107 (22%)

Non=88 (18%)

Unsuren= 288 (60%)


IRI-Scotland author survey: Do you deposit publications yourself ('self-archive')?

Yesn=29 (24%)

Non=92 (76%)


The Repository Landscape UK

• IRIScotland and Prospero (Depot)

• IRIScotland and ePrints UK (Intute Repository Search)

• IRS and Prospero



• ‘Intute Repository Search’ and ‘Depot’



• IRIScotland and eThOS

• The Harvesting Question: who harvests who?

• Business models: IRIScotland and the Scottish Digital Library Consortium


The Repository Landscape (UK)


The Repository Landscape (Europe)DRIVER Project

DRIVER meets the three key strategic objectives of the EC programme for research infrastructures: a) it optimises the use of the technical infrastructure GEANT by delivering all types of content resources, b) it contributes to the creation of a new Europe wide infrastructure for knowledge and c) it aggregates and presents the knowledge base of European research to the world.

DRIVER will deliver content resources, i.e. any form of scientific output, including scientific/technical reports, working papers, pre-prints, articles and original research data. The vision, to be accomplished in a second phase, is to establish the successful interoperation of both data network and knowledge repositories as integral parts of the E-infrastructure for research and education in Europe.

Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research


The Repository Landscape (Europe)DRIVER Project (press release)

‘….The project is a joint collaboration between ten international partners with theintention to create a knowledge base of European research. DRIVER will put a testbedin place across Europe to assist the development of a knowledge infrastructurefor the European Research Area. The project will develop over the next 18 months,building upon existing institutional repositories and networks, from countries includingthe Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium and the UK. The aim is for one large scalevirtual content resource to be created to access and integrate individualrepositories. DRIVER will also prepare for the future expansion and upgrade of theDigital Repository infrastructure across Europe and will ensure the widest possibleuser involvement’.

https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/3311-02-B/DRIVER_GeneralPressRelease_EN1.pdf




The Repository Landscape (Europe)Driver project consortium

• University of Athens, Greece• Bielefeld University, Germany• Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Italy (CNR)• SURF, Netherlands• University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (SHERPA)• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique DIS, France• University of Bath, United Kingdom (UKOLN)• Uniwesytet Warszawski, Poland• Universiteit Gent, Belgium• Goettingen University, Germany

http://www.driver-repository.eu/

http://www.driver-repository.eu/


Philip HunterProject Manager

[email protected]

Charts prepared by Theo [email protected]

Thank you!

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Open Scholarship Conference, Glasgow, October 20 2006 IRIScotland and the Repository Landscape Philip Hunter Project Manager [email protected] 'Institutional