Catalogue category: repository infrastructure

Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) provides a standard data model, best practices, and tools for Current Research Information System (CRIS) developers. To enable interoperable access to CRIS data, CERIF enables storage and interchange of information between CRIS platforms.

COnnecting REpositories (CORE) is a service (developed by Knowledge Media Institute at Open University) aiming to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across repository systems. CORE provides a full-text search facility, based on open metadata about resource relationships, by processing repository metadata and full-texts of Open Access resources.

CrossRef is a publisher-funded service (managed by Publishers International Linking Association) providing DOI link-registration for scholarly and professional publications as well as infrastructure for linking citations across publishers via its DOI resolver service. CrossRef also provides an OpenURLQuery Interface that accepts metadata, searches to find a matching DOI, and redirects to the target of the DOI.

Modus Operandi for Repository Deposits (DepositMO) is a JISC project (based at University of Southampton) creating a repository deposit workflow connecting the user’s computer desktop via popular apps such as MS Office and Windows Explorer with digital repositories based on EPrints and DSpace.

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool (developed and managed by UK National Archives) designed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. It is the first in a planned series of tools developed by The National Archives under the umbrella of its PRONOM technical registry service. DROID is used for curation in Institutional Repositories.

EPrints is an open-source, GPL-licensed software repository package (developed and managed by University of Southampton) for building open-access, OAI-PMH-compliant repositories. EPrints is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals. As of version 3.3, EPrints supports a flexible data model that can be managed through configuration files and many aspects of EPrints repositories can be modified through a centralised collection of plugins, extensions, styles.

Fedora (or Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is a modular repository platform (currently managed by not-for-profit organisation DuraSpace) for the management and dissemination of digital content in the form of digital objects. Fedora repository software is used by libraries, archives and research projects to preserve and provide specialized types of access to very large and complex aggregations of historic and cultural images, artifacts, text, media, datasets, and documents.

Information Environment Metadata Service Registry (IEMSR) was developed as a metadata schema registry (hosted by UKOLN) as a pilot shared service within the JISC Information Environment.

IRIOS -2 is a JISC-funded project (managed by University of Sunderland) developing a proof-of-concept demonstrator supporting the import and export of research management data in CERIF format, linking research grant information and publications together. Filtering allows subsets of the data to be selected and exported in CERIF for use by third party applications such as Pure. In this project university research management data was successfully adapted and extended to include basic research grant information taken directly from a Research Council dataset (Shared Service Centre).

IRStats for EPrints is a flexible statistics package (developed by University of Southampton) enabling easy processing of statistics on accesses to fulltext documents in EPrints repositories. IRStats supports tracking of publication downloads as well as tracking of who is downloading from your archive.

International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a ISO standard in development for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as articles, books, TV programmes. ISNI will provide a tool for disambiguating names, linking data about names used in all sectors of publishing and media industries.

JournalTOCs is a free, searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) developed and managed by Heriot-Watt University. JournalTOCs currently includes metadata of TOCs for more than 19,000 journals directly collected from more than 1200 publishers.

KeepIt is a JISC-funded project (managed by University of Southampton) aiming to close the gap between the digital preservation community and people responsible for live repositories. The project focussed on two key areas: 1) KeepIt course for digital preservation of repositories; 2) the development and implementation of preservation tools for repositories.

METS Document Profile for Submission Information Packages (METSDSpaceSIP) is a DSpace format designed to be compatible with both DSpace and EPrints. Typically this DSpace package format is used in implementations of the SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) interoperability standard, allowing digital repositories to accept the deposit of content from multiple sources in different formats via a standardized protocol.

Pilot National Name and Factual Authority Service 2 (Names2) is a prototype name-authority service (managed by Mimas) for UK repositories. The Names Project is working to uniquely identify individuals and institutions involved in research in the United Kingdom, making it easier to link individuals with the results of their research. The pilot Names system currently identifies over 40,000 of the UK's top researchers.

OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. Often used in aggregating metadata from repositories, OAI-PMH uses XML over HTTP to collect metadata from records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives. Whilst this protocol must support metadata in Dublin Core format, it may also support additional metadata formats. The current version of OAI-PMH is 2.0, updated in 2008.

Open Access Repository Registry (OARR) is a JISC scoping project (managed by UKOLN) to identify the requirements for a unified registry of open access repositories. Objectives are: to review existing OARR services (OpenDOAR, ROAR and RepUK) and identify the lessons in order to inform requirements; to elicit requirements from key stakeholders; to create a specification for an open access repository registry. The output of OARR includes a specification to tender for a possible service in this area.

Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) is an EU-funded project to build e-infrastructure supporting researcher compliance with the European Research Council Guidelines on Open Access and the European Commission's Open Access Pilot. In addition to developing software packages supporting the harvesting, enriching and storing metadata from Open Access publications and scientific datasets, OpenAIRE provides Orphan Repository & Search service for EU-funded projects.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a system developed and managed by the international consortium (ORCID, Inc.) dedicated to resolving the name ambiguity problem, based on collaboration amongst publishers, universities, funding bodies and other stakeholders in scholarly communications. ORCID aims to solve this name ambiguity problem by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents.

Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia and Interactive Collections (PANIC) was an Australian project (developed by Distributed Systems Technology Centre) looking at preservation of new media artworks with aim to provide an integrated preservation framework. A key objective of the PANIC project was to develop and evaluate a semi-automated preservation system based on the Semantic Web services architecture.

Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics 2 (PIRUS2) is a project (led by Mimas) demonstrating technical feasibility to create, record and consolidate usage statistics for individual research articles using data from repositories and publishers. PIRUS2 specifies standards, protocols, infrastructure and an economic model for the recording, reporting and consolidation of online usage statistics.

This is a preliminary analysis of a proposed 'Directory of RIM System Implementations' that inventories the range of Research Information Management (RIM) systems available within UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).  As the basis for planning harmonised repository services, RepNet is surveying the heterogenous landscape of RIM systems, including both Current Research Information System (CRIS) and Institutional Repository (IR) platforms.

RepUK is a prototype system (developed and managed by UKOLN) harvesting and aggregating metadata from UK institutional repositories. RepUK provides a heterogeneous metadata store regularly harvested from repository metadata records and a simple, RESTful API primarily to support third-party retrieval of harvested records. RepUK also provides feeds of some of this aggregated metadata and a prototype of a business-intelligence reporting service including visualisations.

RIO Extension is a project (led by University of Southampton) mapping repository metadata requirements, producing a final report to agree the best set of guidance for Higher Education Institutions. The aim of the work is to provide JISC and the Research Councils with sufficient information for them to agree the best set of guidance to institutional repositories with regard to exposing metadata for reporting / tracking / harvesting purposes.

Repository Junction Broker (RJ Broker) is a middleware system (in development by Edina for RepositoryNet+) designed to provide an API enabling discovery of possible target repositories into which open access research can be deposited. Previously known as Open Access Repository Junction (OARJ), it also provides a delivery tool to disseminate items to multiple repositories.

Note: RJ Broker is one of the repository infrastructure components supported in 'Wave 1' of RepositoryNet+.

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is similar to OpenDOAR but managers input their own repositories. The primary aims of ROAR are to provide support for repository growth and to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world.

RoMEO is a registry service (developed and managed by University of Nottingham) specifying publisher copyright and archiving policies. RoMEO summarises publisher copyright rules about deposit in institutional repositories and shows which publishers comply with funding agencies conditions on open access.

Note: RoMEO is one of the repository infrastructure components supported in 'Wave 1' of RepositoryNet+.

Research Outcomes System (ROS) is a web-based system (managed by Research Councils UK) collecting data on the outputs, outcomes and impacts of research including: publications; other research outputs such as new materials, exhibitions and websites; staff development; collaborations and partnerships; communication and dissemination activities; summaries of impact. ROS supports a common approach for gathering quantitative and qualitative evidence of the outcomes and impact of RCUK investments.

Simple Web-Service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) is a protocol (developed by JISC-funded projects) for data transfer into a repository. Based on the Atom-Pub protocol, SWORD enables deposit, and SWORD v2 adds the ability to retrieve, update, or delete deposits as they pass through the deposit lifecycle.

Symplectic Elements (developed by Symplectic) is an integrated Research Information Management (RIM) system designed to enable academic institutions to collect, contextualise and raise visibility of their research outputs. Symplectic Elements is used by researchers, research managers, repository managers and librarians and integrates with a range of institutional infrastructure including all major repository technologies. It supports automated generation of relevant metadata (eliminating the need to re-enter publication details) and custom reporting.

UKPMC Grant Lookup Tool is a search functionality (developed by the European Bioinformatics Institute, The University of Manchester, and the British Library) used to find out grant award numbers / PI details listed in the UK PubMed Central repository.