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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: Making Use vs Making Effective Use • Paperweight? • Pasta measure? Consider this: • Tiny Dart Board? • Stylish Ring? Effective Use: Making vs Making Effective Use • Spoke Use spanner • Spoke Tightening this: •Consider 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 Global Impact (& career development) Data management Preservation Anything else? Repository Uses Knowledge, information and data sharing Facilitating research Global Impact (& career development) Data management Local Preservation Anything else? Repositories in Context: Global Students Search Services Institution Researchers Other Services OpenDOAR ROAR Web 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 Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages Content Management System File Store Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages Content Management System File Store Don’t forget people! Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages Content Management System File Store Repository Context: Local Management Information Virtual Learning Environment Personal Information Portal Web pages Content Management System File Store Repository Context: Local Management Information ? Personal Information Portal Virtual Learning Environment ? Content Management System File Store Web pages 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! Questions? Peter Cliff [email protected] [email protected]