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JISC Common Repository Interfaces Group (CRIG)
JISC set up the Common Repository Interfaces Group (CRIG) to help identify problem spaces in the repository landscape and suggest innovative solutions. The CRIG consists of a core group of technical, policy and development staff with repository expertise. It encourages anyone to join who is dedicated and passionate about surfacing scholarly content on the web. Please see below for joining details.
Motivation
The repository landscape is increasingly complex. Hiding this complex provision layer from the producer / consumer, whilst utilising federation, harvesting and other interoperability mechanisms, is a key consideration for repositories and the JISC Digital Repositories Programme. (Heery and Powell, JISC Digital Repositories Roadmap, 2006)
Institutional repositories need to interface with other applications within institutions and with the wider information landscape. Institutional repositories might usefully interact with VLEs, authoring tools, packaging tools, and research systems. Taking a wider perspective, an institutional repository might interact with other repositories outside the institution such as subject repositories, research council repositories; and with third party services such as name authority services and classification services, as well as with national and global aggregator services.
The WG will help to co-ordinate current work on repository interoperability within funded JISC projects, and will identify gaps in progression to short to medium term improvement. The JISC Repository Interfaces WG will support JISC in coordinating work on defining common service components, and will provide a focus for feeding into international activity.
The WG will build on the approach taken by the ‘Deposit API’ group coordinated by the Repository Research Team. This group brought together repository software developers to define a lightweight ‘Deposit’ service description. The group took the approach that precise prediction of requirements at the outset is unlikely, and that an incremental and initially lightweight approach to protocol specification is most productive.
It is timely to establish this WG in order to focus requirements and experience from the JISC repository programmes to input into the recently announced US Object Reuse and Exchange project. The ORE will be running in parallel to the JISC Capital programme strand over the next 2 years and the proposed WG would assist in articulating JISC requirements, and will support those members of the ORE advisory and technical committees that represent the UK HE community.
It is important that the WG recognises and addresses any service components that are important within the UK landscape but are not in scope for ORE.
For further information about ORE, see: OAI-ORE
Terms of Reference
1. To identify interfaces critical to development of an interoperable network of repositories to serve the UK HE community. The WG will identify existing funded development on interfaces, and look for critical gaps.
The WG will focus on interactions between institutional repositories and
- other components within institution e.g. VLEs, research information system
- national/international subject-based repositories (arxiv.org, PubMed Central etc)
- repositories managed by research council and major funders (e.g. CCLRC, the Wellcome Trust)
- national JISC funded repository initiatives (e.g. JORUM, Prospero, Intute Repository Search)
- national and global repositories/aggregators and global search engines and other services.
The WG will draw on work on business requirements, scenarios and use cases being developed within the JISC Digital Repositories Programme. Work on modelling a repository ecology, workflow mapping and other process modelling ongoing in the Digital Repositories Programme will also be relevant.
2. To prioritise those interfaces critical to achieving interoperability in UK context.
3. To map out work required to specify service description for those interfaces and to test implementation.
4. To liaise with eFramework activity to specify service description.
3. Inform plans for JISC funding and feed into ORE and other international work.
4. If time permits to articulate base level interoperability for priority interfaces.
Workplan
- The current CRIG workplan is here [1].
- The CRIG workplan is being supported by a the WoCRIG (Wisdom of CRIG) support team, commissioned via this invitation to tender [2].
Membership
The WG to be supported and coordinated by JISC Repositories Research Team, with members invited from the UK HE community. The following members have joined the group:
- Les Carr, University of Southampton (co-chair)
- Jim Downing, Cambridge University (co-chair)
- Julie Allinson, Digital Library Manager, University of York (SAFIR and SWORD projects)
- Cormac Connolly, Economic and Social Research Council
- Howard Noble, University of Oxford (ASK project)
- Chris Gutteridge, University of Southampton (to confirm)
- Simon Coles, University of Southampton (R4L project)
- Chris Awre, University of Hull
- Richard Green, University of Hull (RepoMMan project)
- Ross MacIntyre, MIMAS
- Philip Hunter, University of Edinburgh (IRIScotland project)
- Phil Cross, University of Bristol (Intute Repository Search project)
- David F. Flanders, The Bloomsbury Colleges consortium (WoCRIG project)
- Paul Walk, UKOLN, University of Bath
- Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS
- Richard Jones, Imperial College London
- Brian Matthews, CCLRC
- Rob Sanderson, University of Liverpool
- Martin Morrey, Intrallect Ltd.
- Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation
- Peter Millington, SHERPA, OpenDOAR
- Rachel Heery, Repositories Research Team, UKOLN, University of Bath
- Rachel Bruce, JISC
- Neil Jacobs, JISC
- Phil Barker, JISC CETIS/ ICBL, Heriot-Watt University
- R. John Robertson, Repositories Research Team, JISC CETIS, University of Strathclyde (eFramework rep)
- Peter Burnhill, EDINA
- Lorna Campbell, JISC CETIS, University of Strathclyde
Events (Chronological Order)
- Many members of the CRIG met informally at the Content Packaging/Objects event held 1st February 2007.
- The first CRIG meeting on scenario development was held via teleconference on 29th March 2007.
- A series of CRIG "chats" were held via teleconference on Nov 8th, 2007 and podcast to the JISC community
- An Unconference [3] event took place on December 6th and 7th at Birkbeck College in Bloomsbury London.
- A Barcamp on 'ReST in Repositories' took place at the George Birkbeck Bar in Bloomsbury London on February 8th, 2008.
- The first Repository Challenge took place at the Open Repositories conference (OR08) in Southampton April 2nd through the 4th, 2008.
Channels of Communication
Please tag any posts with jisc-crig or crig
- To join the JISCmail listserv (where event announcements are delivered) please email d.flanders [a+] bloomsbury.ac.uk
- CRIG Blog Planet Feed (RSS): http://feeds.feedburner.com/jisc-crig
- CRIG on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wocrig/
- CRIG on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9227306310
- CRIG on Twitter tag with: #crig http://twemes.com/crig
