Transcript JISC Feb 2012 Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting and research 07/11/2015 | Supporting educationeducation and research | Slide 1

JISC
Feb 2012
Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting
and research
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educationeducation
and research
| Slide 1
JISC
Repositories Programme
Overview
Balviar Notay [email protected]
Programme Manager - Digital Infrastructure Team
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Background
 Since 2002 – have grown Repository Infrastructure
– Exploratory
– Building Capacity
– Enhancement
– Rapid innovation
– Deposit, Text Mining
– Take-up and embedding
 Shared Infrastructure Projects “above campus” – SHERPA RoMEO,
Juliet, Names, Pirus2, OARJ, Depot, IRS, PRONOM, DROID…..
 Funding from HEFCE to focus on Shared Services.
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Take-Up and Embedding Projects
 Hydrangea Project – Hull university – building on the Hydra Project at
Stanford and Virginia universities – to build flexible interfaces to fedora
 Bringing a buzz to nectar Northampton University - will implement a
number of the best existing repository tools and services to gain
efficiencies in research workflows and improve the repository interface.
 MIRAGE-2011: Repository Enrichment from Archiving to Creation –
Middlesex University - medical image repository – using ParaView to
allow the construction of 3D images to improve the user experience.
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Take-Up and Embedding Projects
 eNova – University of Creative Arts. Building on the MePrints tool to
improve the interface for arts based researchers and linking in with the
KULTURE project – building a deposit tools for ePrints for non textual
material
 EXPLORER (Embedding eXisting & Propriatary Learning in an Opensource Repository to Evolve new Resources) - De Montfort University –
using various tools to improve the repository
 Enhanced interface design for supporting take-up and embedding of the
Glasgow School of Art. Improving the research repository –
implementing ePrints interface over their existing repository.
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Guide to Embedding
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Programme and Strands
Research Management Programme
Repositories and
Curation Shared
Infrastructure
Research
Information
Management
Managing
Research Data
(OA Research Papers)
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Aims
 Consolidation and building coherence (economies
of scale and scope)
 Efficiencies and effectiveness at local, national and
where desirable at international levels
 Enable ease of use of services
 Sustainability and accountability
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Why we doing this?
 Efficient and effective repository and curation infrastructure with key services ensuring scholarly outputs are managed, shared and reused
 Ensuring universities are able to contribute to more effective and efficient forms
of scholarly communication and work towards open scholarship
 Align our policies and shared infrastructure with Research Councils, Research
Funders, and International initiatives to enable more efficient and effective
workflows and ensure infrastructure supports developing the research profile for
the UK.
 Provide value for money by building on previous investments (building on
opportunities and successes in order to realise the investment made)
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How
 Set up a production environment (works closely with the innovation
environment) – UK RepositoryNet+ project
 Scope and deliver repository and curation services via the production
(working in partnership with others) - UK RepositoryNet+ project
 Provide market research/ intelligence, quality assurance, business case
and sustainability planning - UK RepositoryNet+ project
 Set up of an Innovation Zone/Environment (UKOLN) – provide an
incubator space for components.
 Set up strand Oversight Group
 Rapid innovation projects
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Governance Model
Owned by
programme steering
group
Owned by Data
Centre
Governance of
production
(service and service
enhancement)
Maintenance of
production
environment
Horizon scanning:
re-factoring
production
environment
Development:
re-factoring
Owned by JISC
Executive, led by
Data Centre
Input from various
sources
Prioritisation of
service development
Maintenance of
production services
Development:
New features /
services
Support for the use
of production
services
Horizon scanning:
New features /
services
Sustainability
planning for
production services
Support for third
party innovation /
development
Owned by JISC
Executive
Owned
by
UKOLN
Market research and
requirements
gathering
Partnership
management
Co-ordination of
distributed service
provision
Quality assurance
Business case
development for
candidate services
and features
Transition of
prototypes to
production service
PRODUCTION
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Governance of
innovation
(service
development)
Hosting of
production services
Sustainability
planning for
production
environment
Ownership defined
on a case-by-case
basis
OVERSIGHT
INNOVATION
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Related Work
 RIO project – technical guidance for repositories –community resource
(Southampton and Key Perspectives)
 RIO Extension – mapping the repository metadata requirements (Key
Perspectives)
 Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)
 Knowledge Exchange (JISC, SURF, DEFF, DFG – Sustainability of
Open Access Services (Alma Swan)
 The ResearcherID task and finish group, reporting in January, on
recommendations for the UK HE sector on identifiers for researchers,
including working with ORCID.
 SWORD sustainability
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Mapping the landscape
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Functional specification
 Functional specification for service environment – what is it that we need to
achieve? e.g.
– Providing awareness of what is available – Registries (to what end?/who for)
– Depositing content in an appropriate location – Deposit tools, protocols
– Enhancing the quality of what is held – IPR/copyright information resources,
metadata generation, identifier services, authority files
– Making use of what is held – Content aggregation and discovery services,
authentication and authorisation
– Analysing what is held and how it is used – Citation analysis, statistics
aggregation, activity data
– Protecting what is held over time – Preservation and curation services
– Other potential hosts for the service?
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Requirements Gathering
–
Conduct a targeted survey
• UKCoAR and the Project Steering Group
•
Use initial functional specification scaffold for the survey – what would be useful shared
services in people’s day to day operation.
• Collect use cases.
–
Collecting particular requirements
• Research Councils, Funders, International Initiatives e.g. OpenAIRE – FP7/8 etc)
–
Mapping of workflows
• There may be different overlay mappings e.g. metadata flow, deposit, etc for different
requirements and use cases.
–
Collect evidence of use:
• current prototype services and their use cases
• collect people’s current experience of them.
• Combine with broader use case from targeted survey
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Challenges
Complicated landscape (political, technical,
organisational etc….)
Financial (do more with less) - Institutions
and JISC
Business models not easy to factor
“New JISC”?
Tight timelines – finish by March 2013
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Future: Shared Solutions, Shared Services, built on Shared
Perspectives
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Thank you 
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