In the UK, the repository network is well established, and supports access to research papers and other digital assets created within universities. Increasingly, repositories are part of a research information management solution helping to track and report on research. Over the past few years, Jisc has worked with a number of partners, including the University … Read more
Jisc and CASRAI are piloting the development of a ‘UK chapter’ of the CASRAI dictionary to improve research interoperability. Get in touch by emailing info@casrai.org if you’d like to keep up-to-date with progress and to contribute your views. More information is below. The problem we are addressing Research teams and administrators must retype the same … Read more
Released later this month, with a deadline of mid January, this Call will be for short (max 6 month) projects to develop solutions to enhance the digital infrastructure to support the use of open content in education. Eligible institutions (HEFCE capital) can bid for between £10,000 and £25,000. Technical staff should already be in place. … Read more
On 14th July 2010 David Kay from Sero Consulting facilitated the above workshop, which built on the findings of the JISC MOSAIC project. The event report and presentations from the workshop are now available. The following are few reflections from the workshop: There are a small number of projects (e.g. MOSAIC, PIRUS2 and Journals Usage Statistics … Read more
The JISC Information Environment and eResearch team have been working on a grant funding call which should be released on or around 4th October. There will be a briefing day in London on 11th October; more information to follow about that. Those who keep a close eye on the JISC website and in particular the … Read more
There have been discussions over the years about the potential of repositories to play a role in research management systems, supporting universities’ ability to report, for example, for the Research Assessment Exercise. A few universities have gone down that road a long way, while others have not. Indeed, various surveys (eg infoNet work) suggest that … Read more
It can seem to go somewhat against the spirit of repositories, to be concerned with managing (ie controlling) access to them. Surely repositories are for sharing material? Well, yes, often. But there are reasons why repositories need to work with the developing access management federation in the UK, for example to enable depositors to benefit … Read more
This year the International Dublin Core conference is in Seoul, South Korea on 12th – 16th October. The theme is Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data. There are a few days left to register and qualify for the early bird discount, on 1st September the registration fee will go up. There will be a keynote from … Read more
The Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde is currently investigating the links between university library catalogues and digital repositories as part of a JISC funded study. Can library users find resources in their university’s digital repository through the library catalogue? Do library catalogues and repositories share records for the same items? … Read more
An international workshop in Amsterdam in March, funded by JISC, SURF and DRIVER, discussed work needed to improve interoperability between repositories. Four areas of work were focused upon: – citation services – interoperable identification systems – repository handshaking (interoperable deposit systems), and – repository organisation (supporting repositories around the world) There’s more information and an … Read more