Transcript - Repositories Support Project

Making effective use of your repository
Brunel University, 8th November 2007
Peter Cliff
UKOLN
Overview
Something
Something else
Some more stuff
Etc.
Overview
Use vs Effective Use
Some Uses
Repositories in Global Context
Repositories in Local Context
Biscuits and Networking!
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:
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Making Use:
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Paperweight?
Pasta measure?
Tiny Dart Board?
Stylish Ring?
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Making Use:
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Paperweight?
Pasta measure?
Tiny Dart Board?
Stylish Ring?
Effective Use:
• Tightening
bicycle wheel
spokes
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?
Repository Context: Global
Researchers
Repository Context: Global
Research
Communities
Repository Context: Global
Institutions
Repository Context: Global
Stuff
Repository Context: Global
Services
Repository Context: Global
Search
Interaction
Talking
Search
Web page
Repository Context: Global
Search
Repositories
Talking
Search
Web page
Repository Context: Global
Repository Context: Global
Searching
New Services
Harvesting
Retrieving!
OpenDOAR/ROAR
Repository Context: Global
Citing
New Interactions
Harvesting
Collaborating
OpenDOAR/ROAR
Effective Use: Supporting Interaction
Search Services
Searching Google
Searching Google Scholar
Searching OAIster
Searching OAIster II
Searching OpenDOAR
Searching BASE
Effective Use: Search Services
Search Engine Optimisation
• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/googlecrawling.htm
Sitemaps
• http://www.sitemaps.org/
Metadata – formats/good quality
• http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/oaibp/?TableOfContents
Interfaces
OAIster Guidelines
• http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html
Registration
Effective Use: Registration
OpenDOAR
• http://www.opendoar.org/suggest.php
• Provides charts and statistics
ROAR
• http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=add
• Provides charts and statistics
• ROARMAP – Institutional Policys
OpenArchives
• http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html
All are also useful for testing!
Effective Use: Supporting Interaction
Alerts and Feeds
Facebook Applications
Bibliographic Services:
• http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/index.html
Link consistency & easy management
Other plug-ins?
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
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
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
Repository Context: Local
Personal Information
Portal
Content Management
System
Management
Information
Virtual Learning
Environment
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 will you do with your Personal Information
Portal?
• http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/493
Can you use MIS data?
• Names
• Authentication
• Collections/Communities
Campus as consumer
• Feeds, web pages and the VLE?
• RAE support
Conclusions
Be clear what you want to use your repository
for.
Be aware of who/what you want to expose data
to.
Make use of data already available.
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]