Open Metrics for Open Repositories at OR2012

Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of academic institutions. They contain scholarly works and research in various formats and stages of academic work. The goal is typically open access to research. Major systems for developing institutional repositories include DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, and Digital Commons. Key considerations for starting an institutional repository include getting faculty buy-in, submission policies, intellectual property issues, and interoperability through standards like OAI-PMH. Ensuring ongoing contributions and use remains a challenge.

An institutional repository is a digital archive of intellectual works created by a university's faculty, researchers, and students. It provides open access to works with few barriers. Content includes pre-prints, reports, theses, audio/visual materials. Benefits include increased visibility, centralized storage, and long-term preservation of the institution's academic output. Challenges include costs, difficulties generating content, and rights management issues.

Institutional repositories play an important role in making scholarly research openly accessible and increasing its impact. They house research outputs like journal articles, theses, and other works. Repositories enhance the visibility of the hosting institution and facilitate further research by providing access to latest information. There are currently over 1,400 repositories worldwide adhering to interoperability standards so their contents can be indexed together. Repositories provide benefits like increased citations and downloads for authors, and give institutions metrics to assess their research programs. For these reasons, more Indian institutions are establishing their own open access repositories.

1) Pathways to Online Information (ePOI) is a collaborative project between Hawaii Medical Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, and John A. Burns School of Medicine to provide a single access point for biomedical resources. 2) The project faced challenges of collaboration between different organizations, creating an easy-to-use interface, and defining the scope of included resources. 3) ePOI allows users to search over 16,000 journal titles, browse an alphabetical list of titles, and link directly to resources through participating libraries' proxy servers. Initial user response has been positive.

This document summarizes a presentation on resource and metadata management from a linked data perspective. It discusses projects like Organic.Edunet that deal with heterogeneous metadata from multiple standards and stakeholders. It also outlines the conceptual overview of the EntryStore system for managing linked data, including named graphs, REST API, ACLs, harvesting, querying, and SPARQL. Some lessons learned are around ontologies being difficult for annotators to grasp, the need for clear licensing of data versus metadata, and the complexity involved in practical implementation at large scale.

Institutional repositories provide open access to scholarly works created by a university's researchers and community. They allow for increased visibility, preservation and sharing of research. Content typically includes articles, theses, reports and other materials. Repositories offer benefits like increased citations and supporting funder open access policies. Many countries now fund repository programs to encourage participation and network infrastructure.

Michael Witt presented on the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) at the DataCite summer meeting. PURR is a collaborative effort between Purdue University Libraries, Office of the Vice President for Research, and Information Technology. It provides researchers a space to store, share, and publish research data, with librarian support for data management plans and curation. PURR aims to encourage citation of datasets by assigning identifiers, displaying licenses, providing citation examples, and exposing structured citations. It is built on open source HUBzero software and has over 1,000 registered researchers sharing data across 200 projects.

This document summarizes a presentation about the Europeana Libraries project. The project aims to add over 5 million digitized objects from research libraries to Europeana. It involves 19 participating libraries coordinated by The European Library. The goals are to create a valuable research resource through standardized data, full-text search, and a dedicated research portal. It also discusses developing a sustainable business model and standards for best practices to ensure the continued success of providing library content through Europeana.

The document discusses the roles, tasks, and competencies of data librarianship. It outlines how research data management is relevant for libraries and defines key aspects like disciplinarity, organization, technology, access, and quality. International curriculum models for data librarianship are presented, covering topics such as data management, description, curation, archiving, and dissemination. The roles and competencies of data librarians, data managers, data scientists, and data creators are also compared.

The document summarizes trends observed in libraries. It discusses topics like data curation, linked (open) data, bookless libraries, makerspaces, library services platforms, and identifier issues. For linked data, it provides examples of implementations by the British Library, Europeana, and OCLC using Schema.org vocabulary. It also discusses the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) and initiatives like ORCID for uniquely identifying researchers.

The document summarizes the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium of natural history libraries working to digitize biodiversity literature. It discusses BHL's partnerships, digital collections and services including OpenURL and a names lookup API. It also describes considerations for adopting cloud storage including costs, technical skills and control issues. Lessons from a DuraCloud pilot show cloud is useful for scaling but huge files are problematic and repository management requires social infrastructure. BHL aims to make over 90,000 volumes and 34 million pages freely available online while serving the needs of a broad user community.

We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.

Presented by Peter Burnhill at the "Alexander Carmichael: Collecting, Controversy and Contexts" conference, Edinburgh, 23-24 June 2011

The document summarizes a presentation about making scientific data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). It discusses the concept of FAIR data and several of the presenter's related projects. Examples are provided of using standards like ISA-Tab to structure metadata and make datasets interoperable. The presentation outlines the presenter's roles in data capture, publication, and standards development efforts to promote FAIR data principles. Scientific Data, a new journal for peer-reviewed data descriptions, is introduced as a way to make datasets more discoverable and reusable.

The document discusses the development of UK RepositoryNet+ (RepNet), a socio-technical infrastructure that aims to increase the cost effectiveness of open access institutional repositories. RepNet will offer a suite of services like deposit tools, reporting, and registries to enable repositories to operate more cost effectively. It outlines RepNet's context, scope, and focus, and details its planned implementation in waves, with wave 1 integrating existing services and wave 2 exploring additional components like curation microservices. The goal is to transition RepNet from a project to a sustained service by March 2013.