rj broker, ori, & opendepot.org

RJ Broker, ORI & OpenDepot.org

& others (the Depot, Prospero, OA-RJ, UK Repository Net+)

21 May 2012 Muriel Mewissen - EDINA-DEFF meeting 1

Outline


Past Projects

JISC RepositoryNet, Prospero, The Depot, OpenDepot.org

EM Loader, OA-RJ

UK repository Net+, ORI, RJ Broker

ORI

RJ Broker

Outline


Past Projects


EM Loader, OA-RJ


ORI

RJ Broker

The Depot


2006, JISC Repository Net to support the UK HE digital

repositories and preservation activity

Repository

Support

Search

Research

EDINA:

Jan 06 – Jul 06: scooping – Prospero

Providing a Repository for Open-access Subject-Presented Eprints

online

Aug 06 – Nov 09: repository – The Depot

“Put it in the Depot”

OpenDepot.org


The Depot:

Keep copy safe

Widen the audience

Increase exposure and impact

Support OA

Complies to publishers policies

Help research outcome reporting

Compliance with funders policy

OpenDepot.org

Funded by EDINA since Dec 09

The Depot

Author/PI

EM-Loader


Mar 08 – Mar 09: EM-Loader

Extracting Metadata to Load for OA deposit

Batch processing

Metadata

Multiple deposits

The Depot

Author/PI

OA-RJ


Aug 09 – Jun 11: OA-RJ

Open Access Repository Junction

Support existing IRs

Junction:

Identification

IR recommendation

Re-direct service

The Depot

OpenDepot.org

Author/PI

IR IR

OA-RJ

ORI & RJ Broker


OA-RJ:

Discovery

Identification of organisations and repositories

Delivery

Brokering service between OA-RJ and IRs

Apr 12 – Sep 12: discovery - ORI

Organisations and repositories identification

Apr 12 – Mar 13: delivery - RJ Broker

Repository Junction Broker

To be included in the UK Repository Net+ infrastructure

Past Projects


Prospero

(Jan 06 –

Jul 06)

The Depot

(Aug 06 –

Nov 09)

OpenDepot.org

(Dec 09 – …)

OA-RJ

(Aug 09 –

Jun 2011)

ORI

(Apr 12 – Sep 12)

RJ Broker

(Apr 12 – Mar 13)

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

UK Repository Net+

Scoping Repository Maintain repository

Broker

Discovery

Delivery

EM-Loader

(Mar 08 –

Mar 09)

Batch

Outline


Past Projects


EM Loader, OA-RJ


ORI

RJ Broker

ORI - Organisations and Repositories

Identification


Independent middleware tool

Harvest identification data

Store the information

Allow query of the information

Store

UK Organisation Info

International

Organisation Info

UK Repo Info

International Repo

Info

Application API

ORI

Network Info Geo Info

ORI - Technology


Postgres 9

UKAMF

ROAR

OpenDOAR

Webometrics repos

UCAS

Webometrics orgs

perl

perl

perl

perl

perl

perl

ORI

Manual

Curation

Application API

Application API

xml

json

http

Linked data

WhoIs

Unlock

perl

perl

ORI – Facts & Challenges


Harvesting:

23,000 organisations & 3,000 repositories

No universal Org ID or Repo ID

Names Projects ORCID, VIAF, ISNI,…

Data accuracy: sources (find, validate, merge, de-duplicate,

coverage, missing data), updates,…

Worldwide scope: languages, internationalisation,…

Automation v manual curation

ORI – Facts & Challenges


Storing:

Not authoritative source

Constraints on data source

Improve value through aggregation

Improve quality through data curation

Complexity, normalisation

Query:

Suitability of APIs

Ease

Performance

Potential users:

EDINA, HE, funders, publishers, mobile deposit clients,…

Outline


Past Projects


EM Loader, OA-RJ


ORI

RJ Broker

RJ Broker – Repository Junction Broker


Independent middleware tool

Accept deposit of research articles

Identify target repositories from metadata

Handle deposition to registered repositories

RJ Broker

ORI

UK Repo

International Repo

Institutional Repo

Subject repo

Author/PI

Publishers

Librarian/Data manager

RJ Broker – Technology


RJ Broker

ORI

Registered Repo

Registered Repo

Registered Repo

.xml .pdf, .jpg,

.doc, .xls

.zip

NLM DTD

SWORD EPrints

SWORD

SWORD

SWORD

CERIF? RIO X?

URI

xml

OpenDepot.org

RJ Broker – Facts & Challenges


Accepting Deposits:

Additional Stakeholders:

Authors / PIs / Librarians / Repository Managers

Funding bodies (RCUK, Wellcome Trust)

Publishers (NPG, Elsevier, eLife)

OA and what it means for each stakeholder

Green v gold, embargo period, metadata v data

Legal agreements: standard v bespoke

Technical

Data format & type

• Metadata: XML

• Content : Anything (research output publication now & data in future )

Standards (version, compliance)

RJ Broker – Facts & Challenges


Processing:

Scalability & performance (speed & storage)

OA & other access level

Post deposition storage

Deposition:

Registration of repositories

APIs, Credentials

OA & legal agreements

Return tracking ID for each deposit

status of deposit, reporting, monitoring embargo period

No large scale funding

Encourage interaction existing infrastructure

RJ Broker – Key Factor


Automated process

RJ Broker

ORI

UK Repo

International Repo

Institutional Repo

Subject repo Librarian/Data manager

Author/PI

Publishers

Collecting

Deposits Processing Deposits Delivering Deposits

Reporting

RJ Broker – Key Factor


Human interaction

RJ Broker

ORI

UK Repo

International Repo

Institutional Repo

Subject repo Librarian/Data manager

Author/PI

Publishers

Collecting

Deposits Processing Deposits Delivering Deposits

Reporting

Thanks!


Muriel Mewissen – Project Manager

Ian Stuart – Software Engineer

Christine Rees – Head of Biblio & Multimedia Group

Peter Burnhill – Director of EDINA

Theo Andrews – Previous Project Manger

David Flanders – Former JISC Champion

Any questions?