Access Flows to a Repository from Other Services

4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : Conference PostersIn this paper, we analyze access logs of an institutional repository and show access flows to the repository. In addition to log files of the repository, we also use those of the linking system which connects the repository and the activity database of faculty members in the institution. We show that many accesses come from search engines, such as Google, and only few accesses from harvesters, such as OAIster. This fact leads us the tentative hypothesis that metadata of repositories does not work for searching items on them. In spite of that, this fact does not conclude that there does not exist other services from which many users go through to repositories. In fact, we reveal potential importance of external services with large page views. Such services play as a role of pathfinders to items on repositories

持続可能な機関リポジトリの新たなモデル: CSI プロジェクト「多様な情報資源の統合・提示」

DRF International Conference 2008 Open Access and Institutional Repository in Asia-Pacific (DRFIC 2008), 30th and 31st January, Osaka, JAPAN / デジタルリポジトリ連合国際会議2008 アジア・環太平洋地域におけるオープンアクセスと機関リポジトリ(DRFIC 2008), 平成20年1月30‐31日, 大阪大学 Session 2. Repository Sustainability -Material / セッション２. 持続可能なリポジトリの展開を目指して-資

A Sustainable Model based on the Social Network Service to Support the Research Cycle

Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United KingdomIn this paper, we analyze requirements for institutional repositories from the viewpoint of the research cycle, and find that it is critical any existing repository system has little functions managing social relations of researchers. This leads us to a general model in which an SNS platform is an interface for researchers and an institutional repository is a backyard system. The SNS platform enables researchers to work together with co-workers. In addition to the interface, the SNS platform provides authentication and authorization mechanism for other backyard systems. Due to the mechanism, we can use, for instance, a search engine with the access control. Therefore academic resources not available to the public, such as a manuscript of a paper, can be safely indexed. Managing the authentication and authorization mechanism is done in a sustainable manner, compared to other standard authentication or authorization systems, such as SSO or ACL (Access Control List)