Open Repositories 2014
June 9-13, Helsinki, Finland
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20 Ways to Reuse Repository Metadata 1London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom; 2London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Feeding, exporting, reporting, integrating, sharing and analysing: repository metadata can be leveraged across the web in many different ways to integrate and disseminate open access content widely. We propose to produce a map of how we have reused metadata from LSE’s institutional repository, LSE Research Online, and illustrate where reused metadata links across the web and the scholarly communications network. This poster acts as a visual snapshot of twenty ways to reuse repository metadata, from reporting to funding bodies to integrating with next generation discovery systems. We feature plugins, new metadata enhancements and export features that enable repository managers and researchers to reuse content. We also illustrate our own future repository metadata reuse priorities.
A distributed, cloud-ready, digital content processing and transformation platform and a specific use case EKT/NHRF, Greece
We present the JDistiller, available as open source software at https://code.google.com/p/jp2k-distiller/. JDistiller tackles the problem of processing, and transforming massive amounts of content, in a fast and efficient manner. JDistiller is a distributed platform where an arbitrary, dynamic number of worker nodes process and transform content, with the coordination of a managing node. The most important present use case is the transformation of born digital content, in order to become available as thumbnails and images over a page by page online reading platform, implemented with the DJatoka Image server platform and Internet Archive Book Reader. JDistiller is interoperable with the Open Journal System and the DSpace platform. Additional use cases, for problems that require massive transformation of content, can be implemented.
A museum object repository using LIDO schema 1Hitotsubashi University; 2AMANE LLC.; 3Kanazawa University; 4National Institute of Informatics
Many of the research resources are collected for study by researchers and are put away into warehouses without indexing when the researchers left their research institute. Moreover, in most of cases, these resources become inaccessible although they are cited in research papers. To overcome this situation, we have built a repository system for acquiring, organizing, preserving, and disseminating the research resources especially museum objects in research institutions such as universities and also have formed a research community. We attempt to implement Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) framework on a repository system for describing and sharing the museum objects. LIDO is an XML harvesting schema which designed by the Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CDOC) that intended for delivering metadata of museum objects. We also utilize WEKO , an open source repository software, as based the repository system.
‘Just how (re)usable is Research Data? A legal perspective’ - A poster summarizing the recommendations of the OpenAIRE legal and licensing study. 1University of Goettingen, Germany; 2University of Amsterdam
The open availability and sharing of research results enables and strengthens the scientific process and discovery. Open access to data can make the research process a richer one and can facilitate the reuse of existing research results . However, relatively little is understood as to just how openly accessible research data is and to what extent databases can be reused. For example, under what circumstances can data be protected by law, and how can it be reused without legal infringement? OpenAIRE has carried out a legal and licensing study to answer these questions, and to examine the different forms under which research data could be protected - while leaving room for (re)use in the context of open access e-infrastructures.
This poster will highlight the main findings of this study, and will be of relevance to the following stakeholders, namely: repository managers, librarians, infrastructure providers. The purpose of this poster will be to have a clear overview of where any infringements might lie when reusing data, or parts of databases, and in which situations the role of the rightholders should be respected. It will be divided into two main parts: where do the risks lie and what are the proposed solutions. ZENODO - an open dependable home for the long-tail of science 1CERN; 2Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
ZENODO is an open dependable home for the long-tail of science, enabling researchers to share and preserve research outputs in any size, in any format and from any science.
We highlight experience and new features developed during ZENODO's first year of operation including data visualization, RESTful APIs and integration with external services such as GitHub for easy research software preservation. The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR): An institutional data management service with a virtual research environment, data publication, and archiving Purdue University Libraries, United States of America
The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR, http://purr.purdue.edu) uses HUBzero to provide a free, online research data collaboration platform and data management service platform for the Purdue researchers. Funding agencies like The National Science Foundation have begun requiring that researchers describe in their grant proposals how they will manage and share the data that will be produced in their research. The White House’s Office for Science and Technology Policy has directed federally funded research agencies with budgets over 100 million dollars to ensure that funding recipients make their research output free and accessible online. Purdue researchers can include PURR in their data management plans, invite collaborators to work with them in private projects on PURR, and publish datasets that can be cited using Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).
This poster will explore Purdue's data repository service model including its service definition, governance, roles and responsibilities, workflows, policies, and support, in addition to the functional role of HUBzero. Support for the entire research data lifecycle – from the creation of datasets to their long-term digital preservation and eventual reuse – will be provided including an overview of the project functionality and dataset publication that was developed for PURR. Tag Cloud of Search Queries for Repository System 1Suzuka National College of Technology, Japan; 2National Institute of Informatics, Japan
We propose that a new additional system to display tag cloud of search query of a contents for the repository system. The search queries can be collected from access logs of a HTTP server. After a access log from search engines is picked out, a search query and an accessed resource id is extracted from the log.
Supporting UK Repositories; a Cohesive Strategy Jisc, United Kingdom
Jisc is a UK organisation that from its inception over twenty years ago has worked at the forefront of technology to network universities and research through digital systems. Most recently Jisc has turned its focus onto institutional open access repositories in the UK which provide access to research papers and digital objects created within the Higher education system. Institutional repositories (IRs) are valuable tools in the current climate of open access to help solve issues of data and information management, tracking and research reporting. Jisc is now working with a number of partners through the Repository Shared Services Project (RSSP) to develop a cohesive range of services which would improve the efficiency and effectiveness of UK IRs, in terms of data flows between institutional repositories, subject repositories, publishers, gathering business intelligence such as usage statistics and easier ways to check on compliance to policies.
The poster will illustrate the connectivity between and the functions of 3 SHERPA services, Repository Junction Broker, IRUS-UK, and CORE, and how they all contribute to a cohesive and holistic strategy for supporting a national repository network. Supporting the creation, management, and long-term preservation of social science research data GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Taking its cue from the increasing importance of data sharing and preservation, the Archive and Data Management Training Center, established in 2011 as part of the GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences, offers training and consulting to researchers and persons in projects, repositories, or archives responsible for the curation and preservation of digital social sciences research data. This poster gives an overview of the services and resources we provide to promote excellence in the creation, discovery, management, and digital preservation of data for multipurpose re-use
SimpleREST -RESTful DSpace API National Library of Finland, Finland
This poster presents our internal REST interface for DSpace 3.x instances, using real production servers, Doria, TamPub and Julkari as an example. The focus will be on how SimpleREST actually works and connects the various bits and pieces together.
SimpleREST is a java webapp using the Restlet framework. It works as an app inside DSpace. It supports retrieving, editing and adding data to a DSpace instance using XML (NLF-format) and JSON. Testing has an important role in SimpleREST, and we have extensive unit and integration tests supporting dependency injection in our classes. Using Jetty servlets, Mockito, and stubclasses we can do simple type assertions and tests to ensure everything works as expected. Using SimpleREST, we can connect the DSpace instance to various apps and 3rd party pipes. The project is open source and licensed under the LGPL 2.1 license. The code can be found at GitHub (https://github.com/anis-moubarik/SimpleREST/) and the continuous integration server at Travis (https://travis-ci.org/anis-moubarik/SimpleREST). Repository Junction Broker EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The Repository Junction Broker (RJ Broker) offers a brokering pilot service for the delivery of research output between multiple data suppliers such as publishers and subject repositories to multiple institutional repositories (IRs). The RJ Broker accepts data objects, parses the metadata to determine appropriate target repositories and transfers the data to repositories registered with the service. Notification/Alert emails can be provided to repositories that are not registered for direct delivery. A web based user interface and APIs also allow the browsing and downloading of all Open Access (OA) content in the RJ Broker. The RJ Broker supports Open Access and aims to increase the number of deposits in repositories while minimising the efforts required of potential depositors and repository staff, and thereby maximising distribution and exposure of research outputs. Successful trials have taken place and preparations for the service launch are on-going.
Repository and its place at the University of Pardubice University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
The main impulsion to consider the repository at the university was the amendment of the Higher Education Act. According to this amendment, the university is obliged to make accessible the submitted and accepted theses and dissertations. After the analysis of the current system, we have made a decision to create an institutional repository and the DSpace installation was launched in 2007. The structure of communities and collections copies the university environment (faculties, departments) precisely. Nowadays the theses metadata and full-text are regularly submitted to the repository from the university information system. The repository is also open to submit university research outputs (books, articles, conference proceedings). Some titles are submitted regularly by the cooperation with the university publishing center. Articles in accordance with the open access rules are submitted irregularly on the cooperation with the researchers. By setting up the OAI-PMH, the repository became an open archive and its content can be searchable via the world registers and systems. In 2012 the repository was adapted to the OpenAIRE project and also added to the university discovery system Primo. The poster will also introduce the current works on the repository connection with the university system for managing bibliographic data of research outputs.
RCAAP Validator v.2 1University of Minho, Portugal; 2FCT/FCCN, Portugal
This poster presents the new developments of the second version of the RCAAP validator. It introduces new contexts of validation, a more detailed validation option for each set and the possibility to extend to new validation profiles. This validator also includes a format validation tool to be used with digital preservation plans. Finally, a new interface and an English translation make it usable by all repository managers to promote interoperability.
Painted Into a Corner by Communities and Collections? Free Yourself with Metadata University of Oklahoma, United States of America
Building a community and collection hierarchy that matched our institution seemed like a good idea at the time, but then we found ourselves in input-form hell, with a wall of form-map entries, huge pull-down menus for users, a long list of empty collections, and other cumbersome gotchas.
This poster will present the results of our experiments with using the new Discovery system to maintain a similar sense of hierarchy, while allowing us to reserve DSpace communities and collections specifically for the access control and metadata definition purposes to which they are best suited. ORCiD – Membership and implementation at Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Chalmers University became an institutional member of the ORCID community in June 2013. The membership, as well as the local ORCID services and support, is coordinated and maintained by the university library.
Since then we have completed the first phase of the implementation of ORCID id:s at the university - including a pilot project, in which we worked closely together with one of the research departments, and the development of a new easy-to-use web service for the creation of ORCID id:s and for connecting these – and existing id:s - to the university infrastructure, by the use of API:s provided by ORCID and corresponding systems. This service was launched in January 2014 and can be found at orcid.chalmers.se. The proposed poster will demonstrate the current status of our project and what has been done up until now - including workflows, infrastructure integration, technical implementation and, of course, detailed screenshots to illustrate the different parts of the process. It will also include our key experiences so far, as well as to try and provide a quick look into the future and what our next steps might be. OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories, Data Archives and CRIS managers 1University of Minho, Portugal; 2University of Goettingen, Germany; 3University of Minho, Portugal; 4Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; 5University of Bielefeld, Germany; 6CERN, Switzerland; 7National Documentation Centre, Greece; 8JeiBee Ltd., United Kingdom
OpenAIRE supports the European Commission Open Access policy by providing an infrastructure for researchers to comply with the EU Open Access mandate. It advocates open scholarly communication and makes visible Open Access content from a network of institutional and disciplinary repositories.
Exposure and visibility of content from a range of repositories, data archives and CRIS will be significantly increased when a common and interoperable approach is taken, as well as care to adhere to existing guidelines. OpenAIRE is starting to move from a publication infrastructure to a more comprehensive infrastructure that covers all types of scientific output. To put this into practice an integrated suite of guidelines were developed with specific requirements supporting the goal of OpenAIRE. By following the OpenAIRE Guidelines, managers of scholarly communication systems across Europe will be able to support authors to fulfill the EC OA requirements, as well as the requirements of other funders with whom OpenAIRE cooperates. This poster outlines the OpenAIRE Guidelines, highlighting the set of guidelines for Literature Repository Managers, for Data Archive Managers and for CRIS Managers, and presenting the Guidelines Wiki that provides a public space to share OpenAIRE’s work on interoperability and to engage with the repositories community. Open research data policies, what makes the diference? Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
We examined open access policies to research data required or recommended by funders that data sharing. MELIBEA and SHERPA / JULIET directories to create the list of funders, and found a total of 36 open access policies to research data. Policies were analyzed in terms of: funder’s country, associated costs with data sharing and the requirement for inclusion of the data management plan in the grant, preservation and maintenance of datasets, when and where to deposit datasets. Our preliminary results indicated that: UK has the highest number of these policies; costs associated with data sharing can usually be supported by funders. Funders require data management plans to be included within the grant. Raw or derived datasets must be deposit in a suitable open access discipline or institutional repository within 12 months of final data collection. Regarding storage and preservation of data, PI must ensure raw data or results are stored for a minimum period after completion of the project(from 3 to 10 years). Funders required deposit raw or derived datasets in a suitable open access institutional repository or discipline. Finally, researchers that use shared data are required to acknowledge investigators who generated the data.
Open Repository Theseus – Success Story of 24 Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences AMKIT Consortium, Finland
Open Repository Theseus – Success Story of 24 Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences
The Theseus poster represents the cooperation model used in building a joint open repository for 24 Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS). The aim is to showcase our cooperation model created for Theseus Open Repository, its aim, policies user support and further developments. The model is resource saving for universities as students independently upload their work and user support is centralized with common instructions. Omeka-DSpace REST API Harvester Rice University, United States of America
Omeka-Dspace REST API Harvester is an Omeka plugin, which makes it possible to upload all your DC elements and customized schemas to Omeka during the installation of the plugin and be able to link all the datastreams (including thumbnails) from DSpace.
The development of the plugin is based on Omeka 2.0 and DSpace 3.0 wijiti REST API. It allows you to specify the DC elements and customized schemas you would like to import to Omeka in a configuration file before the installation of the plugin. By giving the URL of the DSpace repository and choosing the collection to harvest, the plugin can load the items with elements imported to the Omeka. However, the datastream are not copied over but linked to Omeka in item list and item summary pages. OCR Correction Tool for Linguistic Corpora National Library of Finland, Finland
We introduce a new tool for correcting OCR errors of materials in a repository of cultural materials. The poster is aimed to all who are interested in digital humanities and who might find our tool useful. The poster will focus on the OCR correction tool and on the background processes.
We have started a project on materials published in Finno-Ugric languages in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. The materials are digitised in Russia. As they arrive, we publish them in DSpace (fennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi). For research purposes, the results of the OCR must be corrected manually. For this we have built a new tool. Although similar tools exist, we found in-house development necessary in order to serve the researchers' needs. The tool enables exporting the corrected text as required by the researchers. It makes it possible to distribute the correction tasks and their supervision. After a supervisor has approved a text as finalised, the new version of the work will replace the old one in DSpace. The project has - benefitted the small language communities, - opened channels for cooperation in Russia. - increased our capabilities in digital humanities. The OCR correction tool will be available to others. Introducing the new and improved DMPTool University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
The goal of the DMPTool, originally released in 2011, is to provide researchers with guidance, links to resources and help with writing data management plans. Thanks to a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, several organizations have been able to develop the DMPTool 2 which adds significant new features and functionality and is scheduled to be released in May 2014.
Within the DMPTool, researchers create plans by selecting their desired funding agency and following along in an online wizard. Institutions can add significant value to the process through customization of the tool with institutional specific help. Along with institutional branding in the interface, they can provide links to resources, such as to repositories, consultation services, or news and event items. Institutions can review plans on request of the users or can require such reviews. In addition, institutions will be able to create templates for institution specific data management plans (for internal grants, for example). This poster will highlight the features and functionality of the new DMPTool, and will solicit feedback on what the focus should be for the next phase of the tool. Interoperability and Services Through Shared Identifiers 1CERN; 2ORCID; 3DataCite; 4Dryad Digital Repository
Shared identifier infrastructures, such as DOIs for research objects and ORCiDs for persons, can improve interoperability, allow for increased efficiency of internal processes, and
facilitate the development of innovative third-party services. DataCite and ORCID technical staff will provide a technical walkthrough to introduce developers to the current APIs. The EC-funded ODIN project, which builds on the ORCID and DataCite initiatives to connect services and infrastructures, will fund a developer challenge in this regard. Hydra Europe 1University of Hull, United Kingdom; 2Royal Library of Denmark; 3Trinity College Dublin; 4Theatre Institute of Barcelona; 5London School of Economics
This poster will demonstrate the breadth of usage of the Hydra open repository solution within Europe, and highlight how the institutions using it have engaged with the Hydra community to establish their own repositories and fed into ongoing development. Readers will become aware of the use of Hydra within Europe, and how this relates to the Hydra project overall.
Heading for Open Science: Filling the Knowledge Ga 1University of Göttingen, Germany; 2University of Minho, Portugal; 3eIFL.net, Netherlands; 4Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; 5KMi, The Open University, United Kingdom
The FOSTER (Foster Open Science Training for European Research) project, funded by the European Commission, will facilitate a wide range of Open Science training – supplemented by a collection of learning and training materials, and a helpdesk, on its platform. New materials will evolve from trainings and in addition, a certification of training units for post-graduate curricula will be explored. For all these, close collaboration with a wide range of partners is foreseen, from the project partners such as European universities and associations with experiences in open access policies and practices, digital curation, as well as infrastructure and services for research data.
Handshake ecosystem for Educational Contents between Institutional Repository and OER based Repository 1National Institute of Informatics, Japan; 2Suzuka National College of Technology, Japan; 3Open University of Japan, Japan
The National Institute of Informatics (NII) has led a Japanese institutional repository (IR) project since 2005 and, developed metadata harvesting system named IRDB from all over Japan. NII also defines metadata specific format named junii2 which can indicate contents type such as journal article, dataset, learning material and so on. According to the IRDB statistical analysis, total ratio of the learning material is only 0.3%, however, its usage statistics is always high compared with that of the other item types. In order to increase the visibility of the learning materials in IRs, we started to collaborate with the OER (Open Educational Resources) repository.
As one of the GLOBE (Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange) activity, Open University of Japan is operating the Japanese node repository (GLOBEreferatory@Japan) which harvests OER metadata from OCW member universities in Japan. GLOBEreferatory@Japan also harvests OER contents from IRs via IRDB by using OAI-PMH, and enrich metadata in terms of the learning object metadata (LOM) schema. GLOBEreferatory@Japan employed our repository system named WEKO which can be the data provider and the service provider of OAI-PMH in both junii2 and LOM formats. We are also planning to feedback the OCW based metadata from GLOBEreferatory@Japan to IRs. From KAPTUR to VADSR: Exploring Research Data Management in the Visual Arts The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom
This poster compliments the paper submitted with the same title. Its aim is to illustrate the aspects that need to be ‘explored’ and considered when looking at the management of visual arts research data.
Exposing usage and workflow in a DSpace repository Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard Library, United States of America
This presentation will demonstrate two of the Office for Scholarly Communication's systems, MyDASH and the DASHboard. The former displays usage data from DASH, Harvard's open access repository; the latter displays workflow status.
E-thesis repository – processes and data University of Helsinki, Finland
E-thesis is an umbrella brand under which electronic thesis related services and systems are advertised by the university of Helsinki library. New DSpace based E-thesis repository handles workflows that support thesis related activities from evaluation and acceptance to public dissemination. It also consumes and creates linked data.
This poster presents user roles, data and workflows required to run the new E-thesis repository. Connections to other systems include semantic wikis, plagiarism prevention system, national ontology services, CRIS, library system, public repository and open data platform. Data Flows and Engaging Visualisations for Your Repositories University of Queensland, Australia
Paradoxically as knowledge and innovation becomes ever more crucial to success of our economies and societies, Universities, the main institutions tasked with leading innovation and advancing knowledge are under increased pressure to justify their place in the public purse. A skunkworks project The University of Queensland has embarked upon is looking at using visual ways to present academic information in new ways to the University community. This work is intended to be integrated into our eSpace repository, and we will also be demonstrating the work already going on within the eSpace repository.
Procuring data from internal and external systems we present that data using dynamic visualisations to provide information to academics and organisations within the University. Our talk will be focusing on the frameworks we are using to visualise this data and the service oriented approach we are taking internally , through which we hope to open up the information sharing culture in our University. COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories: Towards a global open access repositories network for scholarship Confederation of Open Access Repositorires, Germany
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is a dynamic, fast growing association of repository initiatives. Launched in October 2009, COAR now has a membership of over 100 institutions worldwide from 35 countries in 4 continents. Its mission is to enhance the visibility and application of research outputs through a global network of open access digital repositories.
COAR’s activities are undertaken through members’ participation in working groups, interest groups and task forces that fall into three areas: repository content, interoperability, and education and training. This poster will outline COAR’s objectives and current activities in order to inform the broader repository community and promote greater collaboration with others. Building Dynamic Data Centers for Fast Delivery of New Data and Data Updates Cornell University, United States of America
In this presentation I will demonstrate and explain the code that I wrote to build a dynamic data center – the CISER Data Archive Census 2010 Summary File 1 (SF1) Download Center – and its importance in the timely delivery of updated datasets at minimal cost. The code is simple, efficient, and easy to use. When updates are released by the U.S. Census Bureau (CB), I only need to update the source files and run the code to make current all files on the Download Center that are for consumer download. The code is designed to eliminate the multi-step process that consumers would have to undertake to get the information they want, apply the updates to or enhance the 49 file segments provided by the CB, create full data sets by merging the segments; make them available in SAS, SPSS, STATA, and CSV format and zip them for download; and automatically update the download center’s website including information about the size of the compressed (zipped) and uncompressed versions of the datasets. The process to build this dynamic data center is scalable and may be used as a model or guide by other repositories who are planning to develop their own.
Avalon Media System demonstration 1Northwestern University, United States of America; 2Indiana University, United States of America
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has funded a three-year development effort at Indiana University and Northwestern University, in collaboration with nine other institutions, to develop a Hydra/Fedora-based open source system, known as the Avalon Media System, that will enable libraries and archives to easily curate, distribute and provide online access to their video and audio collections, in support of teaching, learning and research. This session will include a demonstration of version 3.0 of Avalon.
AgEcon Search: Evolution of a Subject Repository University of Minnesota, United States of America
In the 20 years since its inception, the AgEcon Search repository has evolved into a trusted disciplinary resource connecting an international community of researchers. It is the home of conference papers, working papers, and journals from nearly every major international and national (USA) applied and agricultural economics association. As members of this community, our close affiliation with their societies has led to complementary relationships with publishers as well, with over 70 journals currently hosted by AgEcon Search. We attend professional conferences around the world to build the AgEcon Search community by forging new relationships, which frequently results in new content.
This repository demonstrates an evolving “repository ecosystem”, connecting researchers and their associations, publishers, and related disciplinary repositories (e.g. the USDA National Agricultural Library repository being built in response to new U.S. Federal mandates) and indexes (e.g. RePEc –Research Papers in Economics http://repec.org/). We want our community members to have a home for their data (linking to Dataverse), and are investigating the addition of DOIs for articles and ORCID identifiers for authors. With over 70,000 papers, growth of 40% over the last two years, and downloads exceeding 6 million in 2013, we continue to improve services and expand our user community. A Rights Expression Language for Federated Repositories Indiana University, United States of America
We will reveal the most common characteristics found in twelve institutional repository deposit licenses and measure whether existing Rights Expression Languages (RELs) are suitable for expressing those characteristics in a machine-readable manner. The creation or adaptation of a REL to express repository and depositor rights and responsibilities is important, as repositories of scholarly content are increasingly included in federations that aggregate content but do not provide straightforward ways to deposit content.
Office File Formats – What’s to be Done? Simon Fraser University, Canada
This submission, which is intended for the 24x7 track (possibly Repository Rants), is intended to collect, weigh, and make recommendations for different approaches to normalizing and preserving office file formats (most commonly those originating from Microsoft Office or compatible platforms). These are a tricky case for a number of reasons, including the sheer number of potentially more preservation-friendly formats they can be exported to using existing open source tools, and the very low likelihood of preserving these files’ original layout using any of the available options. Still, they are ubiquitous in end-users’ workflows. Even if there is no single solution (as indeed there is not), a shared solution to handling these files is needed.
Open Access Button Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
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Envia – a repository for environmental information access and discovery The British Library, United Kingdom
The British Library is working with the UK public sector partnership, Living with Environmental Change (LWEC), to enhance access to and co-ordinate discovery of environmental information, with an initial focus on flooding research. Flooding is a major environmental concern across the globe and is likely to be more so as a result of climate change. Focusing on a specific domain enables the British Library and its partners to model service concepts with a well-defined, cross-sector research audience.
The presentation describes Envia (Environmental Information Access and Discovery), a pilot project based on Dspace open source repository software, which aims to facilitate the discovery of difficult-to-find environmental information. Institutional Repository ecosystem in Japan, IRDB and JAIRO Cloud National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Ecosystem of institutional repositories that we are promoting is made up from the two systems.
IRDB (Institutional Repositories DataBase) provides integrated linking to external systems among more than 400 institutional repositories in Japan. Specifically, it works together with the National Diet Library’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation archiving system. In order to identify the content, JaLC DOI, the Japan Link Center Digital Object Identifier is also provided for institutional repository original contents. JAIRO Cloud supplies equalization environment of institutional repository for the participant institutions. JAIRO Cloud is SaaS-type institutional repository Cloud service for Japanese academic institutions. The National Institute of Informatics developed a software of it and has provided it since April 2012. The number of the participants has reached to 192 as of January 2014. This is about 40% of all Japanese institutional repositories. We can take advantage of this large share and features of a cloud computing to deploy advanced functions which deliver intersystem links between institutional repositories and external systems. Virtual Cellar of the Estonian Literary Museum: the Challenges of the Open Access in the Digital Era Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia
Estonian Literary Museum (ELM) was compiled in 1940 by Soviet authorities on the basis of four former archives forming part of the Estonian National Museum: Estonian Cultural History Archives, Estonian Folklore Archives, Archival Library, and the Estonian Bibliography Institution. Nowadays ELM is a state research institution combining various research groups and archives. The systematic digitization of the collections of the ELM started in 1990s; at the same time, various databases containing the content information and metadata were compiled, following the needs of different research groups. Since mid-nineties the percentage of born-digital materials has grown exponentially. In 2010, an online file repository and archival information system KIVIKE (acronym for the Virtual Cellar of the ELM) was established in order to preserve and manage all the digital collections and the information on all the archival collections of the ELM in one system. KIVIKE is a tool for archivists, researchers, and general public. The presentation will cover the opportunities and problems that have arosen when disclosing the data from a real archival cellar to a virtual one. One of the challenges has been the dichotomy between the open access principle and the protection of the rights of the donators.
HIMALDOC: A Tool for a Regional Open Repository on Sustainable Mountain Development Issues in the Hindu Kush Himalaya ICIMOD, Nepal
HIMALDOC, based on Invenio software, has been developed by ICIMOD as a tool for the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) regional repository on sustainable mountain development issues. The HKH region is the source of 10 large Asian river systems. They provide water, ecosystem services, and the basis for livelihoods to more than 210 million people. The availability of information resources and data on these issues is very crucial to further research and policy making. This paper highlights the need and importance of HIMALDOC, its aims, objectives and future pathways.
Save Consumers Time and Money: Thou Shall Not Forget Digital Native Big Data Consumers Cornell University, United States of America
In order to accommodate all types of data consumers, the Census Bureau (CB) distributed their 9,060-variable Census 2010 Summary File 1 (SF1) tables into 49 segment files, each with variables not exceeding 256 so as not to exceed the older generation spreadsheet column limit. By providing the data in segments, not in full, digital native big data consumers in the U.S. and all over the world who have the technical and logistical capacity to process big data have to process the summary files in the same manner as other data consumers. This translates cumulatively to thousands of person hours spent following the multi-step process of preparing and merging the segments to extract needed information. These costs could have been avoided had the CB or repositories distributing the SF1 also made available full datasets in one file with big data consumers in mind. This is precisely what the CISER Data Archive implemented as it found a repository niche – making available full datasets of the SF1 for free to Big Data Consumers in an easy, one-click download fashion.
Leveraging open access for integrating repository data at Indiana University Libraries Indiana University Libraries, United States of America
Opening access to digital repository data can be done in different ways with different effects. From providing a data packet for bulk download to a web service API, the ways in which that data can be used and understood will vary. Indiana University Libraries is using several of these options at once and improving its ability to provide access to data from its digital repository. The goal is to allow the type of data-sharing necessary to enhance our own ecosystem of information as well as connect our data with external sources. This presentation investigates options available for providing repository-wide access to data, examines what is involved in implementing each of these, and discusses what Indiana University Libraries is undertaking to open access to its Fedora digital repository.
Bye, ContentDM: Another one bites the dust University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
This 24x7 presentation will describe a migration from ContentDM to Fedora (Islandora) completed by the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Digital Scholarship Unit, using CONTENTdm’s tools for data export and CONTENTdm’s API to download derivatives. This move also included a migration into standards-based, structured metadata, the addition of better controls for archival formats, storage, and the creation of new workflows for digitizing collections. This presentation will touch on the migration process, focusing on how repository managers can leverage CONTENTdm’s native toolset to complete the manipulations required to export content for ingest into Fedora.
An Open Source, DDI-based Curation System for Social Science Data 1Digital Lifecycle Research and Consulting; 2Colectica, United States of America; 3Innovations for Poverty Action, United States of America; 4Yale University, United States of America
This presentation describes the development of a curatorial system to support a repository for research data from randomized controlled trials in the social sciences. The Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) are partnering with Colectica to develop software that structures the curation workflow, including checking data for confidentiality and completeness, creating preservation formats, and reviewing and verifying code. The software leverages DDI Lifecycle – the standard for data documentation – and will enable a seamless framework for collecting, processing, archiving, and publishing data. This data curation software system combines several off-the-shelf components with a new, open source, Web application that integrates the existing components to create a flexible data pipeline. Default components include Fedora Commons, Colectica Repository, and Drupal, but the software is developed so each of these can be swapped for alternatives. The software is designed to integrate into any repository workflow, and can also be incorporated earlier in the research workflow. This presentation will describe the requirements for the new curatorial workflow tool, the components of the system, how tasks are launched and tracked, and the benefits of building an integrated curatorial system for data, documentation, and code.
Providing Discourse Services for Researchers in a Repository Setting Rutgers, The State of New Jersey, United States of America
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Developing and useful repository for research requires us to provide many services. These services traditionally include storage, preservation, and access. It is imperative that repositories continue to grow and adapt to researchers needs as their methodologies and communication patterns evolve. Several years ago RUcore, the Rutgers Community Repository, introduced a web-base resource analysis tool. The RUanalytic tool allows researchers to discover and analyze video, creating annotations, while collaborating during the creation process with other researchers. After an initial implementation period with the RUanalytic tool it was obvious an integrated discrete discourse element was needed. During the analysis process researchers communicated through email, shared documents or the re-purposing of elements of the video annotation tool. The discourse element needed to be simple to use, provide threaded discourse, while being adaptable and transferable throughout the repository infrastructure. If accepted this proposal will provide a technical explanation and demonstration of the discourse element that was developed for the RUanalytic tool and how it was integrated as part of the repository framework of services. Preparing for CRIS: Challenges and Opportunities for Systems Integration at Finnish Universities University of Jyväskylä, Finland
This paper raises issues presented by integrating administrative research information to institutional repository (IR) and other systems, especially in the context of Finnish universities. The observations are based on preparing for procurement of a Current Research Information System (CRIS) at the University of Jyväskylä. The CRIS will be used by various stakeholders in different organizational units, having conflicting requirements and different notions on system usage. For example, national reporting affects considerably the publication cataloging conventions. Determining the optimal data flow for handling publications, organizations, or financial information in different systems needs architectural consideration.
While it would be preferable to integrate CRIS and IR to a single system, there are issues with user interface, recording conventions, and selecting the data to be included that may make the task impractical. However, both systems will benefit from synchronization of selected datasets and separation of responsibilities. The overall publication reporting process is problematic in its current form and may need revisions at the national level. Even without a national publication registry, Finnish universities would benefit on services that assist on federated handling of publication data (e.g. publication forum class calculation, determining collaborative publications, transformations for data import/export). A Survey about Integration of Journal Systems with Repositories in Brazil Ibict - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, Brazil
Open Access Movement has two major channels to spread scientific documents without barriers: repositories and open e-journals. Thus, journals publish scientific knowledge, while repositories preserve and proffer access facilities, complementing each other. Integration between these two systems may be performed by a communication protocol called SWORD ( Simple Web Service Offering Repository Deposit ). However, this protocol is not always known or used. In this context, the present study provides an overview of the adoption of the SWORD protocol in Brazil, revealing little adoption among journals and repositories, even when they are bound to the same institution. However there is the intention of future use despite the lack of technical documentation available in portuguese.
Open African Reference Pathology Data Center 1Makerere University, Uganda; 2University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany
Digital Pathology integrates Whole Slide Images (WSI) in daily, scientific and educational practice. The digitalization of histological slides has many advantages: images can be reviewed at
anytime and from any location, digital images can be processed and analyzedautomatically, they can be used in many different purposes such as science and education.We propose development of an automated histopathology diagnostic platform based on searching an established digital-slide data-bank. Using ArchivesSpace to Support Research Data Curation ArchivesSpace, United States of America
ArchivesSpace is a community and an application. The community has over 100 members, ranging from very large organizations, such as NYU and the University of California, San Diego, to the very small, such as the Rockerfeller Archive Center and The Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative. ArchivesSpace, the application, has much to offer to management of research data. An open-source, standards based application publicly released in September 2013, ArchivesSpace has the potential to occupy several points in the research data workflow: accessioning, arrangement and description, rights management, and access. The presentation will show how, by using ArchivesSpace, curators can build and publish dynamic datasets of both born-digital and analog archival resources, which will allow researchers new points of access and discovery. An example we will overview is how ArchivesSpace enables curators to build an EAD representation of a research data project that can also be utilized as a data paper online. The presentation will conclude with a brief over of the ArchivesSpace community, noting its component parts, its membership, and its contributions to the development and sustainability of the Archivesspace application.
Recommendations for Preservation Data Policies 1CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland; 2CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland; 3CINI – Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica, Italy; 4British Library, United Kingdom
In this paper, we summarise selected recommendations that should be taken into account when drawing up data policies concerning digital preservation. It is important to understand what current data policies address and if they miss out on important topics, such as specific requirements for data preservation. This gives an indication of the possible impact of such data policies on individual communities, for example for repository managers, and allows recommendations to be drawn up to guide forthcoming policies. The recommendations suggested in this paper are based on both desktop research on selected data policies and an online survey conducted by the APARSEN project during autumn 2013.
Managing Change: An Organizational Outline for Reimagining the Digital Repository Infrastructure at The Ohio State University Libraries The Ohio State University, United States of America
The Ohio State University Libraries is an example of an organization that had very early success implementing a campus-wide institutional repository. Organizationally, the Libraries, in partnership with the central IT division on campus, developed and implemented one of the early institutional repository success stories by focusing on the capture of content largely ignored by most academic institutional repository programs. However, as time has passed, the Libraries needs have extended beyond the scope of the institutional repository and the libraries present ability to support a wide range of digitized and born-digital content. Realizing that that were gaps within the Libraries’ current infrastructure and organization model, the Libraries has undertaken a self-reflective look at its organization, identifying gaps, and long-term opportunities, and developing a set of recommendations and roadmaps to ensure that the Libraries can meet the needs of the University community and its global partners. Given the size and complexity of the organization and its needs, this paper outlines the process the Libraries has undertaken to build the foundation and consensus necessary in implementing such radical changes.
Designing a Bit Preservation System University of Maryland Libraries, USA
Despite successful operation of DSpace and Fedora repositories, much of the digital preservation work performed at the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries is focused more on backup and restoration of files than on actual archiving and preservation. The Digital Systems and Stewardship (DSS) division has begun a project to examine gaps, risks, and inefficiencies in the current systems, as well as to build support for new functionalities, such as the curation of active research datasets that are used and can be updated over time. Our first phase of repository development narrows the scope to bit-level preservation and access services. We define bit-level preservation as preservation regardless of the semantics or intellectual content of what is included in a file (content, virus, encryption, intellectual content, etc.), the file format, and how files are semantically interrelated.
During high-level requirements development, it became clear that this bit-level preservation system, rather than representing just a back-end for our existing systems, can provide digital content management services in all phases of content’s lifecycle, including selection, creation, acquisition, and disposition. This paper will discuss the decision to design a bit-level preservation system, our high-level requirements, and our investigation and implementation plans. Theses and Dissertations Digital Library: Ten years of Open Access and Open Archives in Brazil Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology - Ibict, Brazil
Open Access and Open Archives are approaches for scientific information dissemination that can be supported by different software platforms. These platforms need to be integrated if a repositories federation is desired. However this integration deals with different metadata schemes that need to be normalized and integrated in order to allow information systems to share data. The Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is an example of integration such systems and it is presented in this paper. Its underlying system’s architecture is described, as well as the type of documents stored, the amount of participant repositories along time and its geographical distribution. Finally, the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is shown as an example of integration of Brazilian scholar production in federated repositories.
B2SHARE – Storing and Sharing Research Data 1Charles University in Prague; 2University of Tübingen
B2SHARE (b2share.eudat.eu), EUDAT’s (www.eudat.eu) data sharing service, is a user-friendly, reliable and trustworthy way for researchers and communities to store and share small-scale research data coming from diverse contexts. Through a simple web interface, B2SHARE offers a solution to a problem faced by many researchers: finding a simple, convenient and durable way of storing and sharing their data. It allows registered users to upload typical “long tail” data objects into the EUDAT store, enables them to share such objects and collections with other researchers, and use other EUDAT services to provide reliability and data retention. Research data uploaded in B2SHARE is assigned a permanent identifier (PID) meaning it is always traceable and citable. Furthermore, it is stored alongside queriable & findable metadata and automatically available via the B2FIND joint metadata catalogue and finally all research data in B2SHARE is managed and stored by a trusted and certified data centre.
Software and Code Finder: making research outputs visible Queensland University of Technology, Australia
QUT’s Software and Code Finder is a searchable registry of code and software which has been created as a result of QUT research activities. The registry is designed to aid the discovery and visibility of QUT research outputs and encourage sharing and re-use of code and software throughout research communities, both nationally and internationally. Software and code as research outputs can be registered and shared openly with other researchers via a link in Software and Code Finder (from GitHub, SourceForge or Google Code, etc) or by mediation via the researcher. Records describing software and code are connected to information on researchers, research groups, publications and related projects. Links to the software or code location are provided alongside licencing and re-use information. Records in Software and Code Finder are linked to related records in the University’s data registry (QUT Research Data Finder) and related publications in the institutional repository (QUT ePrints). This poster describes the rationale for having a metadata registry for software and code, the linkage between the registry and other internal and external repositories and the issues which arose during the development stage.
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