Jisc: Building a Cohesive Repository Shared Services Infrastructure for the UK

Panel at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014General Track Papers and PanelsThe session was recorded and is available for watchingOver the past few years, Jisc has worked with a number of partners, including the University of Nottingham (Sherpa Services), EDINA, Mimas and the Open University (Knowledge Media Institute) to develop a range of services that benefit UK research by making institutional repositories more efficient and effective in support of open access. Jisc has funded the Repository Shared Services Project (RSSP) to bring key repository shared services onto a more sustainable footing, including financial, organisational and technical aspects of their operation. In particular these shared services are focused on supporting data flows between repositories, subject repositories, publishers and also how to improve business intelligence services to support funder and management reporting. A cohesive and holistic service approach is required to support data flows and the ability to provide business intelligence. These service functions include deposit facilities, registries, aggregations, easier ways to check on compliance to policies, ways to check on reliable local and national usage of content in repositories and interventions to apply consistency to metadata and vocabularies across scholarly systems. This session will present and discuss the barriers, challenges, successes and opportunities of building a cohesive and holistic repository shared services infrastructure to support open access.Notay, Balviar (Jisc, United Kingdom

Supporting UK Repositories; a Cohesive Strategy

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"Jisc is a UK organisation that from its inception over twenty years ago has worked at the forefront of technology to network universities and research through digital systems. Most recently Jisc has turned its focus onto institutional open access repositories in the UK which provide access to research papers and digital objects created within the Higher education system. Institutional repositories (IRs) are valuable tools in the current climate of open access to help solve issues of data and information management, tracking and research reporting. Jisc is now working with a number of partners through the Repository Shared Services Project (RSSP) to develop a cohesive range of services which would improve the efficiency and effectiveness of UK IRs, in terms of data flows between institutional repositories, subject repositories, publishers, gathering business intelligence such as usage statistics and easier ways to check on compliance to policies. The poster will illustrate the connectivity between and the functions of 3 SHERPA services, Repository Junction Broker, IRUS-UK, and CORE, and how they all contribute to a cohesive and holistic strategy for supporting a national repository network.Notay, Balviar (Jisc, United Kingdom

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Use of controlled vocabularies has been shown to provide benefits for search and discovery and to enable access via browsing and navigation. In the context of repositories, the addition of controlled vocabularies to repository content might be used as basis for effective layering of a subject view (or aggregation) over institutional repositories. Vocabulary control aims to reduce the ambiguity of natural language when describing and retrieving items. The semantic relationships in structured Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS) provide pathways to connect a searcher with an indexer or author’s choice of terminology and to facilitate mapping and semantic interoperability between different information systems. The semantic structure can also provide guidance to an indexer in deciding what aspects or facets to index. However, there are costs associated with use of controlled vocabularies – manual indexing is a significant resource, especially when performed by trained indexers. Social tagging applications, such as Flick

Cultivating ORCIDs - growing a sustainable national consortium

Jisc runs the ORCID consortium in the UK. Since the start of the consortium in 2015 it was our mission to improve ORCID uptake, improve the technical infrastructure and make the consortium a sustainable concern. We currently have 86 members who have just renewed their membership for 3 years and getting to this point has been a journey which has required getting national agreement with funders/stakeholders, running pilot projects through to setting up service infrastructure and developing a business model for sustainability. To provide an attractive service which is sustainable we have had to spin a number of plates and continue to look at ways in which we can provide value for the consortium such as developing software to influencing change with third party vendors