JISC Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN http://isc.ukoln.ac.uk

JISC Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN is supported by:

Innovation Zone: Support for Developments in

Repository Infrastructure

Thom Bunting

Innovation Zone Project Manager

ISC at UKOLN

Open Repositories 2012 (OR2012)

University of Edinburgh

                                                             

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Innovation Zone: what it is

JISC-funded Innovation Zone supports development of repository infrastructure by facilitating:

technical knowledge-exchange (expert workshops)

sharing of key information on repository components and use cases (knowledge base)

trials of APIs with developer communities, technical feedback on data flows: what works, what doesn’t, what’s to be done and when (DevCSI)

incubation of prospective services (not yet established)

                                                             

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Knowledge exchange: aggregation & visualisationInnovation Zone experts workshop on ‘functional category’

for APIs, aggregation & visualisation tools related to repository metadata (September 2012)

RepNet+ Oversight Group recommends work with three search components into Innovation Zone (Intute Repository Search (IRS), CORE, RepUK)

Knowledge exchange around: harvesting from institutional repositories, managing large aggregations, offering functions through APIs, metadata processing / normalisation, options for faceted search

                                                             

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Knowledge exchange: curation & preservationInnovation Zone is arranging experts workshop on

curation & preservation strategies for research repositories (October 2012)

JISC recommends that experts get together identify curation & preservation services / components required to support RepNet+ infrastructure

Knowledge exchange around: what exists already, dependencies and gaps, groups to be involved (DCC, Digital Preservation Coalition, etc)

                                                             

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Information sharing: components & use casesInnovation Zone maintains a knowledge base of key repository

infrastructure components and use cases

developers providedwith commonreference points (iplus.ukoln.ac.uk/component-catalogue)

use cases collected from workgroups in semi-structured way

linkages of use casesto components

                                                             

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Technical feedback on repository infrastructure Innovation Zone arranges trials of APIs with developer

communities, technical feedback on data flows: what works, what doesn’t, what’s to be done and when

DevCSI ‘HackDays’ and other events / outreach activities with developer communities support highly cost-efficient and productive trialing of APIs

Proven model, recognised as invaluable by commercial content providers (Elsevier, Microsoft Research, Talis etc)

                                                             

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Example: Gateway to Research (GtR) HackDay Innovation Zone supports early and on-going feedback

from developer communities regarding key components of repository infrastructure

Gateway to Research working with us and DevCSI to run activities where developers can test and hack prototypes against GtR APIs

GtR likely to become a consumer of data from institutional repositories or provider of data (funder-related, project codes, subject classifications?)

                                                             

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How can you engage?

Innovation Zone would like to hear from you if you have a service of relevance to repositories with an API that you would like to trial with developers

Let us know so we can help you reach other services and developers

Get in touch also if you have interests in repository infrastructure innovations such as micro-services and the incubation of prospective components (future areas of work in the Innovation Zone)

                                                             

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Dr. Thom Buntingt.bunting@ukoln.ac.uk

Innovation Zone Project Managerhttp://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/work/innovation-zone/

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