getting to the repository of the future workshop

Getting to the Repository of the Future

Chris Awre

Balviar Notay

Repository Fringe Jisc Workshop: Getting to the Repository of the Future

Context, Background and Aims of the Day


• Since 2002 the UK has grown a repository infrastructure• Now over 200 in operation

• Repositories are playing an increasingly central role in the management of a university’s digital assets (including research papers, data, learning materials, etc.)

• Recent focus: efficiency and sustainability of national shared services (Sherpa RoMEO/JULIET, IRUS, RJB)

• Many component parts are in place• Where do we go from here?

Background and Context



• Two views

• High level• Institutions need to be responsive to competitive

demands to attract research funds and students, and must also meet national and international policy requirements.

• Strategic planning needs to keep abreast of policy drivers, rapid advances in technologies and academic practices (RCUK Policy on OA, Finch Report, Funding Councils’ Learning Strategies G8, FASTR, HEFCE REF policy, etc.)

• On the ground• Repository systems have been with us for over 10

years• Are they still the right systems?• Are they enabling the management of the content we

need to curate?• What other options exist?• What impact will repositories have on staffing, skill

requirements, etc.?• What scale of operation can we manage? How?

• Focus today is on the repositories themselves and how we address the issues these two views raise


• Further the sector’s understanding of the costs and value that flow from the digital assets of universities

• Start to shape new futures for repositories

• Work together – inform how we move forward in the UK (whilst acknowledging global picture)

• Develop sector wide perspective

• Requires your participation and ideas

Aims and Objectives


Agenda14:00 – 14:10 Context, background and aims of the day (CA)

14:10 – 14:20 Current Picture - A brief overview (BN)

14:20 – 14:30 Future Watch (CA)

14:30 – 14:35 Breakout Groups – assigning membership of each group

14:35 – 15:50 Breakout Groups Discussion

15:50 – 16:20 Feedback from groups

16:20 – 16:50 Open Discussion (CA)

16:50 – 17:00 Next steps


The Current Picture & Pioneering Examples

Overview


Jisc Repository Programmes Since 2002.Now 200 repositories (approx)

•Exploratory •Building Capacity •Enhancements •Rapid Innovation •Deposit•Take-Up and Embedding•Repository Shared Services Infrastructure

•Repository now plays central role in management of a university’s digital assets, (including research papers, data and learning materials)


OR13 Jisc Workshop: Where next for Institutional Repositories?

Repository Pioneering Examples

University of Hull Repository (Hydra)

–Wanted adaptability in user interfaces and workflows to handle specific content

–Worked US Fedora users, Stanford University and Virginia Tech to create the Hydra framework – to enable multiple points of access to a single body of content in a repository

–Now have a flexible repository infrastructure - can handle emerging research data

–Ahead in preparing the ground for data with a single repository solution.


University for the Creative Arts

–Developed solutions for creative arts repositories (ePrints)• Kulture – ePrints plugin for arts based repositories• Kultivate (increase deposit and updating Kulture plugin)• eNova project - mePrints enhancements – to researcher

profiles – more visual researcher profile page.

–Creative arts repositories have enabled not only contextual researchers, but importantly practitioner based researchers, to develop and make public portfolios of their work

–Supported REF submission processes.

Pioneering Examples


Pioneering Examples

Middlesex University (MIRAGE 2011 Project)

–Researcher based solution (MSc students - Biomedical Modelling and Informatics)

–Repository of MRI scans

–Allowed 3D visualisations of 2D scans

–Tailored open source visualisation software (ParaView) over repository

–Tailored query interface using open Source software to allow content based image retrieval (GIFT)

–Researchers able to query and retrieve data faster, increased understanding and productivity


MIRAGE 2011

1. Viewing of 3D images in 2D way – brain images

Computed Tomography Magnetic Resonance Positron Emission tomography (CT) (MR) (PET)


MIRAGE 2011

• Embedding Visualization Toolkit – An Example


Mirage2011

Sir Muir Gray, (Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS)

the “application of what we know already will have a greater

impact on health and disease than any drug or technology likely to be introduced in the

next decade”. Repositories are a typical example collecting large

amount of information waiting to be exploited.


“the sharing economy is rapidly disrupting conventional trade models

so that power is moving from the centre to the edges”

Rachel Botsman

Speaking at the WIRED money financial event


Future Watch – some pointers


Political

• Openness/transparency

• Communication

• Re-use

• Mixed political messages and environment

• Well-managed digital materials, of all sorts. What is ‘managed’?

Economic

• Immediate, direct, revenue (through selling access & …)

• Prospective, indirect, revenue (through openness)

• Shared services

• Service development over repositories

• Repository paying its keep• Directly through exploitation• Indirectly through lowering of costs elsewhere

Social

• Disciplinary differences

• Generational differences

• Current trends• Open learning• RDM• Academic shifts in need/innovation• Identifying future trends?

Technological

• System integration

• Data-centric development

• Repository as infrastructure

• Usability

• Analytics

Legal

• Licensing

• IPR/copyright policy shifts

Environmental

• Organisational shifts

• Relationship to other systems, e.g., VLE, CRIS

• Sectoral collaboration

• Public engagement

• Cyber security

• Preservation

• Parallel vs. single repository activity

Breakouts

• Questions as prompts

• Please raise your own points as well

• Horizon view – 2, 5, and 10 years

Repository content

Repository content

Repository organisationRepository

organisationRepository

functionalityRepository

functionality

What do we need to do now to enable the developments we’d like to see?

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