an introduction. aspiration to begin the process of adding significant value to those emerging...

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.


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


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


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


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.


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


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)



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


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.



Do respect local cultures

• Working through established hierarchies and communication routes

• Navigating diverse levels of bureaucracy

• Organising around diverse timetables



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!

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