Usage category: used by local institution

CERIF

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

CONVERIS

admin — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:06:58 +0000

CONVERIS (developed by Avedas) is a Current Research Information System (CRIS) that manages information on research projects, grants, publications, awards, patents, technology offers, and integration in international networks. CONVERIS also supports grant application and project management, including information on cash flows retrieved from finance systems, and it offers tailor made, quality-assured analyses (on research performance, scientific potential, networking and competences) and supports external reporting, marketing and public relations.

CRIS

admin — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:13:49 +0000

A Current Research Information System (CRIS) is a database or other information system storing data on current research supported by a funding programme and produced by designated organisations and researchers. CRIS solutions (such as PURE developed by Atira or CONVERIS developed by Avedas) record contracts, projects, publications, study plans and patents related to funded research. Benefits of CRIS solutions include easy access to relevant information and functionality to collect more data to overcome incomplete or inconsistent information. One particular type of CRIS standard for information systems is the CERIF standard, proposed by the EU and developed and maintained by euroCRIS.

DROID

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

DSpace

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:51:17 +0000

DSpace is an open source repository software package (currently managed by not-for-profit organisation DuraSpace) typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly digital content. DSpace serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focusing on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content including text, multimedia and data sets.

EPrints

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:28:19 +0000

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 Commons

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:18:09 +0000

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.

GDFR

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR) is an initiative (developed by Harvard University Library, with Mellon Foundation funding) to provide a distributed and replicated registry of format information populated and vetted by experts and enthusiasts world-wide. In 2009 the GDFR initiative joined forces with the UK National Archives' PRONOM registry initiative under a new name: the Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR).

IEMSR

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:21:44 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:57:05 +0000

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.

IRUS-UK

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:45:55 +0000

Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS-UK) is a JISC-funded usage-reporting service (managed by Mimas) designed to enable UK institutional repositories to share and expose statistics based on the COUNTER standard. IRUS-UK aims to provide a nation-wide view of UK repository usage by providing comparable, authoritative, standards-base data.

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

JHOVE

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment (JHOVE) is a Java software library (developed by Harvard University Library and JSTOR) for detecting file formats, used for curation in institutional repositories. JHOVE provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects.

KeepIT

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:14:34 +0000

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.

MePrints

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

MePrints is a plug-in software module (managed by University of Southampton) providing a user-profile system for EPrints. MePrints was developed in a JISC rapid innovation project aiming to help all repository users have profile pages promoting their work and identity within the repository and beyond.

METSDSpaceSIP

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

Names2

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

NLNZ Metadata Extractor

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor (NLNZ Metadata Extractor) is a Java-based tool to extract preservation metadata from within the headers of a range of file formats (including PDF documents, image files, sound files and Microsoft Word documents). NLNZ Metadata Extractor saves this preservation metadata in XML format.

OARR

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

ORCID

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

PANIC

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

PEER

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) is an EU-funded scoping project investigating the effects of large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer-reviewed manuscripts. PEER monitored the effects of systematic archiving over time, with participating publishers collectively contributing approximately 240 journals to assess factors such as: how large-scale archiving affects journal viability; whether it increases access; models to illustrate how traditional publishing systems can coexist with self-archiving.

PIRUS2

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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.

PRONOM

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

PRONOM is the online registry (managed by UK National Archives) of technical information about public file formats, software products, and other technical components required to support long-term access to electronic records and other digital objects of cultural, historical, or business value.

Pure

admin — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:45:42 +0000

PURE (developed by Atira) is a Current Research Information System (CRIS) that manages information on grant applications, research income, projects, research outputs, research staff, organisational units, and external collaborations. Pure integrates with local systems while also capturing data by work processes that ensure quality and completeness. Pure supports the monitoring of research performance by a broad range of indicators, making forecasts, and benchmarking against world citation averages. Pure can collect, evaluate, and return data to national assessment exercises such as UK's Research Excellence Framework.

RePosit

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

RePosit is a project (managed by University of Leeds) aiming to increase uptake of a web-based repository deposit tool embedded in a researcher-facing publications management system. This project is a collaboration between 5 Higher Education Institutions in the process of migrating to a publications management system as a primary deposit interface to their digital repositories.

RepUK

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:40:54 +0000

Repository Interoperability Opportunities (RIO) is JISC-funded work to collect, analyse, review and present information about the options faced by open access research repositories with respect to the systems and services with which they might interoperate.

RIO Extension

admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:46:56 +0000

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.

RIOXX

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:45:47 +0000

RIOXX is a JISC-funded project (managed by UKOLN) to develop a simple DC application profile for bibliographic metadata to be exposed by UK open access repositories. The RIOXX profile should enable UK repositories to be as compliant as possible to the OpenAIRE guidelines and to satisfy the simplest possible requirements as set out in the final report of the RIO extension project: including unambiguous fields for project identifier, funder identifier, DOI, identifier for related dataset, embargo type, embargo end date, access level semantics.