Clusters collated

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Data repositories

Cluster: R4L, SPECTRa, CLADDIER, GRADE, StORe

Other relevant JISC activities: eBank

Relevant non-JISC activities: DART (Australia)

Themes: interactions between data and institutional (publications) repositories, support for scientific lifecycle, storage and access requirements / standards for scientific data, differences between disciplines in terms of these requirements.

Interested Advisory Group members: Sheila Anderson, Rachel Heery

Repositories Research team contact: MahendraMahey


Data Repositories Around the World

Name of Repository: CURATOR - Chiba University's Repository for Access to Outcomes from Research

Country: Japan

Organisation: Chiba University

URL: http://mitizane.ll.chiba-u.jp/curator/index_e.html

Description: CURATOR captures, preserves and makes publicly available intellectual digital materials from research activities on Chiba University campuses. CURATOR is intended to function as the portal for the outcomes from Chiba University's research activities. The University Library is responsible for building and operating CURATOR under the guidance of the Faculty Committee for Improved Scholarly Information Availability, which commissioned by the Library Board of Faculty Representatives to systematically promote and arrange disseminative activities by the University.

Subjects: Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, History and Archaeology, Biology and Life Sciences, Science General, Business and Economics, Technology and Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Social Sciences, Law and Political Science, Languages and Literatures, Arts and Architecture, Health Sciences, Agriculture and Food Sciences

Type: Research data-sets, Chapters, Learning objects, Books, Articles, Conference papers, Pre-print journal articles, Reports

Name of Repository: Demetrius

Country: Australia

Organisation: Australian National University

URL: http://dspace.anu.edu.au/

Description: Demetrius preserves and distributes digital collections including; research reports, papers, projects, data sets, image collections, and more.

Subjects: Business and Economics, Biology and Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering, Agriculture and Food Sciences, Arts and Architecture, Health Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry, Law and Political Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion

Type: Research data-sets, Conference papers, Articles, Working papers, Reports, Multimedia

Name of Repository: IAI-DIS

Country: Brazil

Organisation: Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

URL: http://mercury.ornl.gov/iai/

Description: Metadata referencing scientific data produced within the IAI (Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research) programs.

Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Type: Research data sets, Articles, Posters, Presentations, Reports

Name of Repository: Leiden University Repository

Country: Netherlands

Organisation: Leiden University

Description: Leiden University Repository collects, preserves, indexes and distributes digital scholarly output of it's researchers.

URL: http://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/

Subjects: Law and Political Science, Languages and Literatures, Chemistry, Biology and Life Sciences, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, History and Archaeology, Technology and Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Social Sciences, Health Sciences

Type: Research data-sets, Articles, Chapters, Books, Reports, Dissertations, Working papers

Name of Repository: Southampton Crystal Reports

Country: United Kingdom

Organisation: University of Southampton

URL: http://ebank.eprints.org/perl/search/simple

Subjects: Chemistry, Biology and Life Sciences

Type: Research data-sets

Description: Southampton eCrystals is the archive for Crystal Structures generated by the Southampton Chemical Crystallography Group and the EPSRC UK National Crystallography Service. The archive contains crystalography datasets, rather than research papers.

Meetings

A meeting of the data repositories cluster was held during the programme meeting on the 10th October 2005:

A meeting of the data repositories cluster was held during the programme meeting on the 27th and 28th of March 2006:

The following DigiRep pages are relevant to the Data repositories cluster:


E-learning repositories

Cluster: ASK, PROWE, SPIRE, UKCDR, CDLOR, TrustDR, RepoMMan, SHERPA Plus, Rights and Rewards

Other relevant JISC activities: DeL regional pilots, JORUM, some Reference Model projects, Digital Libraries in the Classroom projects.

Relevant non-JISC activities: CETL RLOs (DfES), some Higher Education Academy Subject Centre projects (HEA), some SHEFC 'Transformation' projects (SHEFC).

Themes: Various, to be identified more clearly at elearning programme meeting December 2005.

Interested Advisory Group members: Peter Hartley, Andrew Rothery, Ian Butchart, Sarah Currier, Lorna Campbell

DRP support officer contact: Sarah Currier (to August 2006)

DRP Repositories Research Team contact: JohnRobertson (from September 2006)

SharingeLearningMaterialsSynthesis

Further information


The following DigiRep pages are relevant to the E-learning cluster.


Repositories and preservation cluster

Digital Repository projects: SHERPA Plus, MIDESS, Repository Bridge, SPECTRa, Paradigm

Other relevant JISC activities: Digital Preservation and Asset Management Programme projects funded under the JISC Circular 4/04, including Preserv, Sherpa DP, Paradigm, the Digital Curation Centre, and the DCC LOCKSS Technical Support Service

Relevant non-JISC activities: Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories, elements of DPC

Themes: OAIS model, risk assessment, formalising OAIS ingest function, preservation in a distributed environment and preservation services.

Interested Advisory Group members: Martha Anderson, Sheila Anderson, Steve Hitchcock, Chris Pressler

Repositories Research team contact: Julie Allinson

Join: Restricted to relevant JISC projects, special cases considered. Contact Steve Hitchcock or Gareth Knight

Meetings


The following DigiRep pages are related to the Repositories and preservation cluster:


Legal and policy issues cluster

Cluster: TrustDR, Rights and Rewards, GRADE, VERSIONS, OpenDOAR, EThOS, SHERPA/RoMEO

Other relevant JISC activities: JISC-SURF Partnering on Copyright; IPR consultant (JISC); JISC-Legal; JORUM; PALS Metadata and Interoperability Projects 2 (JISC/PALS); SCG Scoping Study on Repository Version Identification (proposal) and other SCG work, e.g. Open Access Citation Information Report.

Non-JISC activities involved:

Themes: Using legal mechanisms to enable/support good practice, Copyright / IPR, liability, DRM, rights expression, Shibboleth(?)

Interested Advisory Group members: Fred Friend, Sarah Currier, Charles Oppenheim

Repositories Research team contact: Mahendra Mahey; Julie Allinson

Further information

The following DigiRep pages are related to the Legal and policy cluster:


Machine services cluster

Cluster: OpenDOAR, IRS, User Needs and Potential Users, RepoMMan

Other relevant JISC activities: JISC-SURF Copyright KnowledgeBank; Linking UK Repositories Scoping Study; Shared Services Programme (including IESR and IEMSR); Portals programme (Connect, etc); Shibboleth activities?

Relevant non-JISC activities: MAMS (Australia)

Themes: Technical and organisational sustainability models, collection description standards, exchange protocols.

Interested Advisory Group members:

Repositories Research team contact: Mahendra Mahey

Further information


The following DigiRep pages are related to the Machine services cluster:


Integrating infrastructure cluster

Cluster: SHERPA Plus; IRIScotland; PERX; EThOS; MIDESS; Repository Bridge; Community Eprints; Linking UK Repositories study (final report and appendix)

Other relevant JISC activities: Shared Services programme; CRIG

Relevant non-JISC activities: UK PubMedCentral

Themes: Building and supporting national infrastructure and services

Interested Advisory Group members:

Repositories Research team contact: Julie Allinson; Mahendra Mahey

Further information

The Linking UK Repositories final report and appendix are available from the JISC Digital Repositories Programme page.

Meetings

The following DigiRep pages are related to the Integrating infrastructure cluster:


Images cluster

Cluster: MIDESS

Other relevant JISC activities: Community Image Collections - the CLiC study; Visual and Sound Materials Portal Scoping Study and Demonstrator Project; Images Working Group activities; Medical Images wiki; Defining Image Access

Relevant non-JISC activities:

Themes: Legal constraints and opportunities, preservation, infrastructure requirements, business models

Interested Advisory Group members: Richard Ovenden

Repositories Research team contact: Julie Allinson

Further information


The following DigiRep pages are related to the Images cluster:


E-theses cluster

Cluster: EThOS, Repository Bridge

Other relevant JISC activities:

Relevant non-JISC activities: NDLTD; DART-Europe; ADT (Australia), European e-theses wiki Themes: Organisational, technical, legal opportunities and barriers to making etheses open access, services, business models for sustainability, retrospective digitisation

Interested Advisory Group members: Paul Ayris

Repositories Research team contact: Mahendra Mahey; Julie Allinson

Further information


The following DigiRep pages are relevant to the E-theses cluster:

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