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Directions for Digital Repositories (Keynote)
No full textThe Internet provided a platform for global digital communication; the Web added document browsing and repositories have added persistence and curation. What have we achieved with this multilayered platform in the last decade? And what scope have we for achieving new things? The newly emerging discipline of Web Science tells us that Web isn't a thing but an activity: the creation of a network of information by a network of individuals. The Web wasn't invented by Tim Berners-Lee, it is being invented by all of us as we gradually adapt our tools and change our practice. In this presentation I will discuss some of the changes that have occurred in the UK and European experience, the changes that we have embodied in the EPrints repository platform, and some of our hopes for changes yet to occur
Web Science Big Wins: Information Big Bang & Fundamental Constants
No full textWe take for granted a Web that provides free and unrestricted information exchange, but the Web is under pressure to change in order to respond to issues of security, commerce, criminality, privacy. Web Science needs to explain how the Web impacts society and predict the outcomes of proposed changes to Web infrastructure on business and society. Using the analogy of the Big Bang, this presentation describes how the Web spread the conditions of its initial creation throughout the whole of society as it underwent an initial inflationary phase. Consequently, the assumption of the open exchange of information (found in an academic physics research laboratory) is now being imposed on the rest of society. Do open access, open data, the Scientific and Creative commons offer a beneficial opportunity, or a dangerous cul-de-sac
Citation Services (Overview)
No full textThe aim of the Citation Services project is to improve the ways in which citation data relating to open access research documents are identified and shared
Mind the Gap! Moving From Aspiration to Experience in UK Institutional Research Data Management
No full textThe aim of the Institutional Data Management Blueprint (IDMB) project, funded by JISC in the UK, has been to create a practical and attainable institutional framework for managing research data that facilitates ambitious e-research practice. A candidate tool to support this responsibility is the institutional repository – an information storage and management tool conjoined with extensive social support and advice structures from the library. In order to acknowledge and manage their data management responsibilities, IDMB provides an overall framework within which to plan and develop institutional data management strategy. This paper describes the main practical developments being made to an institutional repository platform as a result of the IDMB data management survey and audit. The University of Southampton Institutional Repository is based on the EPrints platform (v. 3.2), configured for some rudimentary data support that makes research data discoverable, but not easily interpretable or reusable. A table of data points may be provided as a spreadsheet, a database or a PDF, but guidance as to the interpretation of those figures is not easy to come by. Nor is it easy to understand the relationship between multiple data files (components of complex data objects.) The paper describes some simple amendments to the repository’s document model to facilitate human and software interpretation of the document contents and the role of individual data components
Workshop Summary
No full textAn audit and analysis of Norwegian national Open Data resources, and development of a marketing strategy for promoting Open Source. Outcomes of the Open Source Workshop undertaken as part of the DTC Group visit to Norway 2012
Open Platforms
No full textAre open platforms necessary for generative phenomena? Is the Internet threatened by Apple? What does it mean to claim that the Open Web is under threat? What does it actually mean to claim that a system is Open
Repositories, Plugins & the REF
No full textA CRIS (Current Research Information System) pulls together information from all the research-relevant databases. Repositories should support the CERIF standard to co-operate as components of a CRIS environment
Building Social Networks from Institutional Repositories
No full textAn Institutional Repository may offer .a set of services. to its local users, supporting the publication of research. More importantly, the repository also forms a key component in the global scholarly communications environment. In this presentation we investigate the role of the repository on a global scale by witnessing the effects on a changing economy and also show how worldwide collaboration networks can be predicted using the strong social links found in repository metadata
Organizing and integrating knowledge on the desktop with repositories
No full textThe institutional repository, as a collection of research knowledge, is being encouraged to integrate with the researcher's desktop environment. However, the desktop metaphor used on personal computer systems provides only limited abilities to organize an individual's information; the same is true for the digital library metaphor adopted by repositories. Neither environment provides many tools for relating its contents to external information sources. The need for automatically organizing information on the desktop to meet a user's various needs to accomplish knowledge tasks has been identified by researchers but there is still no widely-adopted solution to tackle it. Semantic web concepts are being used to organize web data into structures that enable machines to interpret and combine it easily with other information to build knowledge. In this paper we discuss the need for an organization mechanism for the desktop that will help integrate desktop data with other data from repositories and from the web, or vice versa
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