EPrints  State  of  Na/on  

In  our  15th  year  (sw)  And  our  10th  year  (service)  

Where  Are  We  Now?  and  where  are  we  going?  

•  EPrints  Services  –  In  University  of  Southampton  

•  Repository  ac/vity  in  a  state  of  flux  – Mandate  compliance!  – Research  repor/ng!  – Big  Data!  – CRIS!  –  Innova/on  vs  business  

E  EPrints  Timeline  (1994  –  2010s)  

EPrints  Services  HQ  in  Web  Science  research  labs  at  the  University  of  Southampton  

EPrints  Services  Network  Doctoral  Training  Centre  

Web  Science  Ins/tute  

Open  Data  Ins/tute  

Web  Science  Trust  ERCIM  

Digital  Economy  Catapult  

SoFWIREd  

W3C  

WAIS  

Who  Are  We  Now?  •  Les  Carr  academic  lead  •  John  Darlington  University  business  manager  •  Sheridan  Brown  sales  and  marke4ng  •  Adam  Field  business  &  community  rela4ons  mgr  •  Kelly  Terrell  project  management,  OER  lead  •  Jus/n  Bradley  infrastructure  mgr,  specialist  projects  •  Seb  Francois  technical  architect  •  Jiadi  Yao  support  &  new  builds  •  Will  Fyson  support  &  new  builds  •  Nawar  Halabi  projects  

Who  Are  EPrints  Now?  •  What  are  the  team  doing?  – Hos/ng  about  70  repositories  –  Suppor/ng  Open  Access  repositories  for  about  100  ins/tu/ons  •  UK,  France,  Switzerland,  Austria,  Germany,  Australia,  South  Africa,  US,  Canada  

– Maintaining  the  core  so_ware  – Developing  new  versions  

•  Why  are  they  doing  it?  – Not  for  profit  –  To  support  the  Open  Access  agenda  –  To  build  up  and  support  the  Repository  Community  

Recent  &  future  developments  

•  IRStats2  v1.0  released  •  EPrints4  developments  •  Improved  search  with  Xapian  •  Integra/on  with  ROS  &  capture  of  projects  and  funders  data  

•  Towards  Repository  ’16  

Recent  &  future  developments  

•  “We’ve  heard  you!”  – Scalability  issues  (browse  pages)  – Search  not  always  accurate  – Limited  UI  interac/ons  – EPrints3  built  from  many  blocks  –  /me  for  refactoring  

– Rising  interests  in  complementary  domains  (funders,  projects,  data)  

The  EPrints  Path  Ahead  

From  JISC  InnovaCon  projects  

To  actual  business  requirements  

What  is  EPrints  For?  

Research  AcCvity  

Data  Collec/on  

Data  Analysis  

Research  Business  Research  

Management  

Research  Processes  

Research  Impact  

Research  Content  Research  

Publica/ons  Educa/onal  Resources  

Scien/fic  Data  

What  is  EPrints  For?  

•  Suppor/ng  your  researchers  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  data  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  outputs  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  outcomes  &  impact  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  managers    

What  is  EPrints  For?  

•  Suppor/ng  your  researchers  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  data  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  outputs  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  outcomes  &  impact  •  Suppor/ng  your  research  managers  …  

•  Suppor/ng  librarians  

What  Is  EPrints  4?  

It’s  4  open  access,  publica/ons  repositories,  research  repor/ng  It’s  4  open  scien/fic  data,  big  data,  data  science,  analysis  workflows  It’s  4  open  educa/onal  resources,  video  handling,  MOOCs  It’s  4  research  management  repor/ng  and  ins/tu/onal  marke/ng  It’s  4  informa/on  management,  project  and  funding  data  It’s  4  facili/es  informa/on  management  It’s  for  the  data  driven  university    

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EPrints  Engineering  

•  Stripping  EPrints  back  to  its  core  data  management  engine  

•  Tuning  it  for  speed,  efficiency,  scale  and  flexibility  

Sébas/en  François,  EPrints4  lead  developer  

EPrints4  

•  Not  a  rewrite  of  the  so_ware!  •  Making  the  core  as  generic  as  possible  for  re-­‐use  (OER,  data,  …)  

•  Decoupling  the  different  modules  (MVC)  •  Modernizing  the  UI  elements:  – New  tools  have  emerged  – Support  for  on-­‐line  form  valida/ons  

EPrints4  

•  11,000  lines  of  code  added  to  the  source  over  the  last  9  months  

•  Improved  integra/on  with  Xapian  •  DB  transac/ons,  memcached,  fine-­‐grain  ACL’s,  …  

•  Can  run  without  a  UI  at  all:  service  oriented  •  But  it’s  berer  with  one:  Bootstrap  (style),  jQuery  (interac/ons)  &  Mustache  (templa/ng)  

 

Towards  Repository’16  

•  IR’s  must  integrate  new  concepts  for  REF2020,  OA  Compliancy  &  ROS/ResearchFish  reports  

•  JISC  Repository  Shared  Services  •  Capture  of  Projects,  Funders  data  from  various  sources  

•  Integra/on  with  new  external  services  

Towards  Repository  ’16  •  OA  Compliancy,  capture  of  Projects/Funders  data:  project  

started  with  Uni’s  of  Southampton  &  Reading  •  First  submission  to  ROS  completed  for  UoS  earlier  this  year  •  IR  can  import  from  ROS,  Gateway  to  Research,  internal  

systems  and  link  data:  –  Publica/ons  are  linked  to  Projects  and  Funders  –  Users  are  linked  to  Projects  and  Funders  (PI,  CoI,  …)  

•  Development  of  a  Generic  Repor/ng  Framework  for  ROS  &  for  easily  add  new  reports  to  EPrints  (based  on  the  REF2014  plug-­‐in)  

Towards  Repository  ’16  •  Other  services/systems:  

–  IRUS-­‐UK:  released  on  Bazaar  –  Publica/ons  Router:  protocol  na/ve  to  EPrints  (SWORD)  +  importers  

on  Bazaar  –  ORCID:  proof  of  concept  released  on  Bazaar  –  RIOXX:  v1  implemented  –  awai/ng  new  specs  for  v2  –  WoK/Scopus  imports:  in  EPrints  core  –  OA  end-­‐to-­‐end  project:  EPrints  Services  are  partners  

•  These  features  push  EPrints  towards  being  a  de-­‐facto  CRIS-­‐light  system  

 

Bringing  together  key  repository  services  to  deliver  a  connected  naConal  infrastructure  to  support  OA  

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Support  for  Integra/on  

•  Repositories  to  implement  -­‐  patches,  scripts  and  plug-­‐ins  produced  by  repository  shared  services.  Support  is  being  planned  via:  •  Repository  Support  Project  (RSP)  •  Planning  co-­‐ordina/on  with  plauorm-­‐specific  support  

through  EPrints  Services,  the  DSpace  community  and  Fedora.  

Title  of  presenta/on  00/00/2013   23  

Repositories  =  Science  +  Web  +  Praxis  

•  Repositories  aren’t  a  thing  but  a  performance  –  the  crea/on  of  a  network  of  informa/on  by  networks  of  research  professionals  

•  Repositories  aren’t  invented  by  developers,  –  they  are  being  invented  by  all  of  us  as  we  gradually  adapt  our  tools  and  change  our  prac/ce.  

The  web  both  shapes  and  is  shaped  by  society.  There  is  a  gap  between  the  ‘script’  proposed  by  a  

technology  and  what  it  actually  becomes  in  prac/ce.    

Co-­‐consCtuCon

 

Librarians  MediaCng  New  PracCce  

Not  just  enforcing  historic  norms,  but  s/mula/ng  new  prac/ce  to  emerge  

•  Copyright  •  Openness  •  Intellectual  Property  •  Privacy  •  Crea/vity  •  Science  2.0  

EPrints  Futures  

•  Capacity  to  handle  current  and  emerging  open  informa/on  agendas,  policies  and  mandates  

•  Support  for  current  and  emerging  research  prac/ces  and  management  – open  access  –  data  cita/on    –  open  educa/on  – CRIS                          –  open  science    –  MOOCs  

•  Modern  responsive  user  experience  •  Easy  upgrade  path  with  EPrints  3  so_ware