Eprints AP progress update 2007-01
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Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works, 5th February 2007
Work on the Application Profile was formally funded to run between May and July 2006 and agreed to deliver the following documents:
- Functional Requirements
- Entity-Relationship Model
- Application Profile, with Cataloguing/Usage Guidelines
- Community Acceptance Plan
The listed deliverables are all now complete and freely available on the Repositories Research Team wiki: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_Application_Profile
In addition, an XML serialisation, W3C XML Schema and Relax NG Schema were produced in the latter part of 2006. These enable the creation of Eprints DC XML records and subsequently their exposure over OAI-PMH.
Implementation of the Community Acceptance Plan continues to fall within the remit of the Repositories Research Team (Julie Allinson) and is ongoing. The Eduserv Foundation continue to support the community acceptance activities, and have provided input into presentations and articles. Eprints.org have agreed to include full support in Eprints v 3.1 (due for release Easter 2007) with some support already in Eprints 3.0 (released January 2007) and the possibility of export plug-ins being developed between January and April. Representation on the DSpace technical committees comes from Jim Downing, with additional development support within the RSP project from Stuart Lewis. The proposed technical restructuring of DSpace for version 2.0 will fit more closely with the Application Profile yet short term gains may be made with the development of a plug-in. Discussion with Fedora developers are imminent with a meeting arranged with Richard Green at the University of Hull. Various dissemination activities have generated considerable support and interest; these have included presentations to Scottish librarians, the KE workshop in Utrecht and the Open Repositories 2007 conference in Texas. In addition, an article has recently appeared in Ariadne with one to follow in the ALISS quarterly. International interest seems sufficient to support the establishment of a DC task group for scholarly works. This idea will be further scoped and investigated over the next three months.
