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Making effective use of your repository
Queen’s University Belfast, 17th January 2008
Peter Cliff
UKOLN
Overview
Use vs Effective Use
Some Uses
Repositories in Global Context
Repositories in Local Context
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Take a step back and ask: What are you trying
to achieve with your repository?
Effective use of a repository is only possible if
you know what you want to use your repository
for.
Making Use vs Making Effective Use
Consider
this…
Consider this:
Making Use:
Making
Use vs Making Effective Use
• Paperweight?
• Pasta measure?
Consider this:
• Tiny Dart Board?
• Stylish Ring?
Effective Use:
Making
vs Making Effective Use
• Spoke Use
spanner
• Spoke Tightening
this:
•Consider
Wheel Truing
Repository Uses
Knowledge, information and data sharing
Facilitating research
Impact (& career development)
Data management
Preservation
Anything else?
Repository Uses
Knowledge, information and data sharing
Facilitating research
Global
Impact (& career development)
Data management
Preservation
Anything else?
Repository Uses
Knowledge, information and data sharing
Facilitating research
Global
Impact (& career development)
Data management
Local
Preservation
Anything else?
Repositories in Context: Global
Students
Search
Services
Institution
Researchers
Other
Services
OpenDOAR
ROAR
Web of Science
Expanding Usage in the Global Context
Institutional Marketing
Overlay Journals
Virtual Workbooks
Alerts & Feeds
Social Networking Applications
Bibliographic Services
Resource discovery
Global Context In Action: Discovery
Searching Google
Searching Google Scholar
Searching OAIster
Searching OAIster II
Searching OpenDOAR
Searching BASE
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use: Bibliographic Services
Effective Use in the Global Context: How?
Search Engine Optimisation/Sitemaps
• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/googlecrawling.htm
• http://www.sitemaps.org/
• http://www.oaister.org/dataproviders.html
Registration
• OpenDOAR / ROAR / ROARMAP / OpenArchives
• http://www.opendoar.org/suggest.php
• http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=add
• http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html
Machine Interfaces – OAI-PMH, RSS, etc.
Metadata
Repository Context: Local
Management
Information
Virtual Learning
Environment
Personal Information
Portal
Web pages
Content Management
System
File Store
Repository Context: Local
Management
Information
Virtual Learning
Environment
Personal Information
Portal
Web pages
Content Management
System
File Store
Don’t forget people!
Repository Context: Local
Management
Information
Virtual Learning
Environment
Personal Information
Portal
Web pages
Content Management
System
File Store
Repository Context: Local
Management
Information
Virtual Learning
Environment
Personal Information
Portal
Web pages
Content Management
System
File Store
Repository Context: Local
Management
Information
?
Personal Information
Portal
Virtual Learning
Environment
?
Content Management
System
File Store
Web pages
Effective Use: Grab Local Information
Bibliographic information
• BibApp for example
• http://code4lib.org/2007/larson
Effective Use: Integrate with the Known
What systems are in use already? How can you use
them?
• http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/493
Can you use MIS data?
• Names
• Authentication
• Collections/Communities
Campus as consumer – what will the repository give
back to the user community?
• Feeds, personal web pages and the VLE?
• RAE support
Conclusions
Be clear what you want to use your repository
for and how that benefits the Institution.
Be aware of who/what you want to expose
content to and make it easy for them.
Make use of existing data.
Consider how your repository will fit – who
knows, it might be a catalyst for changing your
Institution's data management strategy!
Questions?
Peter Cliff
[email protected]
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