UK-CoRR/RSP updateMay, 2012

Andrew Dorward

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What is RepNet ?•a socio-technical infrastructure supporting deposit, curation & exposure of Open Access research literature.

What’s its aim ?•The aim is to increase the cost effectiveness of repositories of such literature. 

How will it do this?•offering a sustained and well-used suite of services that enable repositories to operate more cost effectively

UK RepositoryNet+ (RepNet)

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Open Access“a piece content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute it – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share alike”

Open Knowledge Foundation Definitions (undated)

Open Access journals “are peer-reviewed journals whose articles may be accessed online by anyone without charge”

SwanOpen Access Mandates on research outputs from RCUK, Wellcome etc

Open Access

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• Institutional, Subject, Funder repositories

“a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”

(Lynch 2003).

Repositories

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•JISC-funded

•20 months from 18 August 2011 to 31 March 2013

•Bringing together under one banner services from previous or existing JISC projects and elsewhere

For more definitions see blog posts on

http://www.repositorynet.ac.uk/

Project Context

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Project Director – Peter Burnhill

Project Manager – Terry SloanBusiness Manager – Andrew DorwardTechnical Lead – Gareth Waller

EDINA Staff – Helen McVey, Nicola Osborne, Jackie Clark, Cesare Bellini, Julie Lockley, Christine Rees

Consultants – Leah Bijelic (Halliday), Glenaffric, KPL

Service Providers – MIMAS, Nottingham, EDINA, UKOLN

Staffing

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RepositoryNet Production Environment

hosted

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curationmicro-services

InnovationZone

Rapid Innov.

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hacks

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Service components

Service DeskService Support Service Directory

remote

Funders’Repositories

SubjectRepositories

InstitutionalRepositories

consumers

Sketch of RepositoryNet Infrastructure & Components

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Web Site/Production Environment

www.repositorynet.ac.uk

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NAMES2Naming Authority for the UK assigning identifiers to organisations and individuals engaged in research

Summary of Components by Functional Area

ROAR

Open DOAR

ORI

Authoritative, manually curated registry of OA repositories, combined with harvested metadata

Registry of OA repositories compiled with statistics in mind

Organisation based with information on repositories

Research funders’ policies on OA

RJBroker

RoMEO

Juliet

OpenDepot

Publisher policies on OA deposit

Redirect facility to OA IRs, and default OA repository

M2M direct for multi-authored works to OA repository(ies)IRUS-UK Centralised service for collection of OA

usage statistics

IRS

REPUK

CORE

Aggregated set of metadata for development

Search, aggregation, full-text mining for OA repositoriesSearch, aggregation, data-mining for all IRs

A: Aggregation, Text mining & Search

B: Benchmarking, Statistics and Report

C: Creating Relevant Registries

D: Deposit Tools

E: Enhancing Metadata Quality

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RJBroker Wave 1

Components for Wave 1

RoMEO

Juliet

Wave 1

Wave 1

ORI Wave 1

IRUS-UK Wave 1

OpenDepot

UI for OARJ

NAMES2 Align with ORCID

ROAR

Open DOAR

ITT - OARR

ITT - OARR

IRS

REPUK

CORE

Innovation Zone

Innovation zone

Innovation Zone

A: Aggregation, Text mining & Search

B: Benchmarking, Statistics and Report

C: Creating Relevant Registries

D: Deposit Tools

E: Enhancing Metadata Quality

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Roadmap with functional areas

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Interactions with Innovation Zone

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Timelines

Date Milestone Description

31st March 2012 Initial Production Environment operational

31st May 2012 Subset of Wave 1 components in the Initial Production Environment (IRUS, SHERPA ROMEO, JULIET, RepUK).

9th July 2012 RepNet launch at OR2012. Conference

30th September 2012 Wave 2 components chosen

31st October 2012 Phase 2 Production Environment ready

31st January 2013 Wave 2 components in Phase 2 Production Environment – R-J Broker, ORI go live(includes hosting of SHERPA ROMEO and JULIET)

31st March 2013 Project finishes.