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Latest news
Latest news from DigiRep - the wiki for the JISC Digital Repositories Programme
March 2013
February 2006
JISC Digital Repositories Programme in DLIB
Febrauary's DLIB magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) includes a number of 'in-brief' articles about projects from the Digital Repositories Programme. Catherine Jones and Bryan Lawrence from CLADDIER, David White from SPIRE and Dr. Stephen Charles from MIDESS have all contributed, plus there is also a piece about Programme support team and this wiki.
See http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february06/02inbrief.html for the full-text, or find links to each item from the Articles and papers pages on DigiRep.
Look out for next month's DLIB which will feature the PERX project.
Julie Allinson 2006-02-15
GRADE survey on geospatial content in Institutional Repositories
The JISC Digital Repositories project 'GRADE : Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction' is undertaking a survey to understand the extent to which existing Institutional Repositories currently manage geospatial content.
Following this baseline audit of institutional repositories GRADE can provide a firm evidence base for assertions on how institutional repositories deal with geospatial data in actuality and expose current practices, benefits and limitations. This will assist in weighing the merits of an institutional vs. media-centric repository approach and shed light on whether technology can assist to blur these distinctions and remove the repository choice dilemma. It will also help delineate best practices for other repositories to adhere to.
The survey is at http://edina.ac.uk/projects/grade/status4.html.
PLEASE take a few minutes and help GRADE by completing the survey.
There is an Amazon book token prize as an added incentive
Julie Allinson 2006-02-08
Use of copyright material in learning support
Of potential interest to projects looking at copyright issues and e-learning is the following project:
LISU (Library and Information and Statistics Unit), based in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, are carrying out a survey on the use of copyright material for learning support in Higher Education. It looks at use of teaching materials, the ways in which these are made available to students, how third party material is made available to students, it also looks at trends in use and how this might develop over the next three years, copyright clearance and finally online learning environments.
Additional details are available from LISU project page: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dils/lisu/pages/projects/projects.html
The survey is available at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/forms/ucmls.html
Projects may want to encourage responses to the survey, or to raise awareness of it.
Sue Manuel 2006-02-02
Call for papers: Internet Librarian International 2006 (ILI)
The Call for Papers for Internet Librarian International 2006, 16-17 October 2006 Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, has been announced. See:
http://www.internet-librarian.com/CallForSpeakers.shtml
Deadline for proposals is 30th March 2006.
Roddy McLeod 2006-02-02
Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges
Forthcoming in the February issue of Freepint, is an article entitled 'Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges' by the Digital Repositories Programme Manager, Neil Jacobs.
The full text of the article will be available on DigiRep soon.
Julie Allinson 2006-02-01
January 2006
Engineering: the changing information landscape
An article, 'Engineering: the changing information landscape' by PerX Project Manager, Roddy MacLeod, appeared in issue 158 of the 'Freepint Newsletter'.
http://www.freepint.com/issues/190106.htm#tips
It looks at the changes in engineering information and mentions talks about PerX and the Digital Repositories Programme. A reference to the PerX-produced 'Listing of Engineering Repository Sources' (http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/sourceslisting.htm), "a goldmine of repositories", is also provided.
Julie Allinson 2006-01-19
Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories - Academic Survey released
One of the aims of this project is to addresses the motivational issues facing depositors of material to repositories. What 'Rights' need to be protected and what 'Rewards' would encourage contribution. A survey has been undertaken to gather views on these two issues, the results are now available on the project website in the Documents section.
http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk/
Although the project will look at both teaching and research outputs (hence the term 'Blended') the survey focused attention on the contribution of materials relating to teaching.
Julie Allinson 2006-01-18
Universal Modelling Language (UML) - Training Course for the Digital Repositories Programme 5th and 6th January 2006, Edinburgh
This two day course (fully booked) is a follow-on from the November 2005, Bath workshop 'Writing Effective Scenarios and Use Cases'.
The course aims for delegates to gain an appreciation of the how UML can be used for:
- Modelling
- Documenting Use Cases to capture requirements
- Business Processes
- Computing systems
- Communication between developers and clients
- Making informed decisions as to whether to employ UML diagrams within a project
For more information, please visit: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/drp/uml/
Mahendra Mahey 2006-01-03
December 2005
Digital Repositories Programme wiki (DigiRep) launched to projects
DigiRep (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/), the collaborative wiki for the Digital Repositories Programme, has been made available to Repositories Programme projects. Projects will be assigned usernames to edit and contribute to DigiRep.
Julie Allinson 2005-12-12
November 2005
PerX Listing of Engineering Repository Sources and Landscape Analysis available
The PERX project has released two documents:
These documents will inform the production of a Engineering Repository cross search pilot service.
Julie Allinson 2005-11-10
October 2005
JISC ITT: Linking UK Repositories Scoping Study
Deadline for proposals: 24 Oct 2005 The JISC is inviting proposals to undertake a scoping study to identify sustainable technical and organisational models to support user-oriented services across digital repositories. In particular, open access repositories of interest to UK further and higher education are relevant.
Mahendra Mahey 2005-10-24
Repositories at OAI4
Representatives from two projects within the Digital Repositories Programme presented at the CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4), 20-22 October 2005. Frances Shipsey spoke about the Versions project and Bill Hubbard introduced the Sherpa OpenDOAR project. Both presentations can be viewed online at the OAI4 web site: http://oai4.web.cern.ch/OAI4/. For an informal report from the event, see OAI4 informal report
Julie Allinson 2005-10-25
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