Development of self-archiving tools to support archiving, analysis and re-use of qualitative data

The potential to share and re-use qualitative archived data has garnered much interest in recent years. This increased attention can be attributed mainly to advances in both data documentation standards and digital archiving technologies, which provide users with the ability to archive, share and disseminate qualitative research materials. However, there remain theoretical and epistemological barriers to and implications for the sharing and re-use of qualitative study data. One way to address these issues is by studying research practices (with practitioners’ active involvement), in combination with developing software tools that support digital archiving of qualitative studies. Semantic technologies, combined with metadata standards and documentation schemas have the potential to enhance qualitative data documentation, archiving and analysis. In fact, it has been established that data documentation is one of the key elements that enables data archiving. The use of appropriate standard documentation frameworks is crucial to data archives’ exposure and has a direct impact on the discoverability, search and retrieval of archived data. The technological aspect of this study has been the development of a self-archiving toolkit that makes use of such technologies. The purpose of this work was to allow users, with varying levels of research experience (e.g. from undergraduate student researchers up to more experienced senior researchers) to avail of the benefits offered by qualitative digital archiving. To complement the technological developments undertaken, the present study also explored the practices of different researchers: undergraduate student researchers, researchers involved in teaching research-oriented modules, as well as senior researchers. This exploration focused on the collection, organisation, analysis and presentation of qualitative data and how these relate to and can be supported by digital archiving to enable researchers to organise, disseminate, and visualise research collections

Open Research Infrastructure: Supporting open research practices at Cambridge

Presented as part of Open Research Cambridge Conference, 22-26 November 2021

Apollo – Cambridge IR Upgrade experiences

Sharing Cambridge's DSpace upgrade experiences and latest developments at the DSpace UK & Ireland Users Group

Ontology-based e-assessment for accounting: Outcomes of a pilot study and future prospects

This article reports on a pilot of a novel ontology-based e-assessment system in accounting that draws on the potential of emerging semantic technologies to produce an online assessment environment capable of marking students' free-text answers to questions of a conceptual nature. It does this by matching their response with a "concept map" or "ontology" of domain knowledge expressed by subject specialists. The system used, OeLe, allows not only for marking, but also for feedback to individual students and teachers about student strengths and weaknesses, as well as to whole cohorts, thus providing both a formative and a summative assessment function. This article reports on the results of a "proof of concept" trial of OeLe, in which the system was implemented and evaluated outside its original development environment (an online course in education being used instead in an undergraduate course in financial accounting. It describes the potential affordances and demands of implementing ontology-based assessment in accounting, together with suggestions of what needs to be done if such approaches are to be more widely implemented. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd

Apollo, Cambridge’s Institutional Repository, and the University’s CRIS system

In this presentation we will describe the work we have recently conducted on the integration between Cambridge’s Institutional Repository, Apollo, and the University’s CRIS system. The integration work aimed to streamline and enhance the existing workflows for managing Open Access (OA) submissions by both reducing the number of systems in use and improving the experiences of our researchers when dealing with OA-related matters. We would also like to discuss issues arising from the integration work and suggest potential features for future development

Enhancing Open Access at Cambridge: Apollo repository and CRIS integrations

Following from the integration of Cambridge’s Institutional Repository, Apollo, with the University’s CRIS system (Symplectic Elements), Cambridge University Library has developed two web-based systems to further streamline and enhance the workflows for managing Open Access (OA) publication submissions, and to collect key missing publication metadata in ways that improve researchers’ interaction with the relevant systems. The first system, Fasttrack, aims to drastically reduce the time needed to process repository submissions. It provides a user-friendly interface to review and approve submissions in Apollo via the DSpace API. The second web-based application, LastMinute.CAM, is a simple web form to collect missing publications metadata required for calculating open access compliance. Collected publications metadata is automatically pushed into the CRIS’ associated publication records and is then available to the CRIS’ reporting services. We will also present preliminary results from the Jisc Publications Router – Symplectic Elements integration pilot in which we are participating. The Publications Router is a JISC-led project to create a system that automatically sends notifications about research articles to an institutions’ repository, together with full-text copies of those articles where available. This has the potential to both streamline open access deposit workflows and enrich metadata records in the CRIS system

Cambridge use case: Integrating RSpace and Apollo repository

Presentation at the "Digital Notebooks - how to provide solutions for researchers", organised by TU Delft Library. Topic: Integrations between research data repositories and electronic lab notebooks

Apollo, Cambridge’s Institutional Repository – ORCID integration

Short talk at "Unlocking the power of ORCID integrations" webinar showcasing repository - ORCID integrations. The talk focuses on describing Cambridge's current integration with ORCID, via Apollo repository, and DataCite's "auto-update" feature

Experiencias de incorporación de aplicaciones semánticas a la educación

La Web 3.0 (Web Semántica) es una realidad en la red y proporciona numerosas oportunidades para mejorar y apoyar la enseñanza y el aprendizaje. La mayoría de sus aplicaciones actuales se centran en áreas como la construcción de conocimiento y entornos personales de aprendizaje, habiendo muy pocos ejemplos de aplicación en areas en dónde la adquisición de conocimiento es un proceso complejo y cambia rápidamente, como por ejemplo en entornos de aprendizaje basado en casos. Este articulo recopila algunas de las experiencias más relevantes de incorporación de tecnologías semánticas en este tipo de entornos educativos, llevadas a cabo por los grupos de investigación GITE y el proyecto Ensemble. Incorporating semantic applications in education, the story so far Abstract Web 3.0 and its associated technologies have the potential to support and enhance teaching and learning environments. Whilst there are some applications of the Semantic Web in Education, highlighting areas such as resource discovery or personal networking or educational administration, there is a lack of applications in areas where knowledge is complex, changing or contested, as in case-based learning environments. This article describes some of the experiences of introducing semantic technologies into these types of learning environments that have been carried out by the GITE Research Group and the Ensemble Project team in collaboration with teachers and students across various educational settings

Comparison of seven prognostic tools to identify low-risk pulmonary embolism in patients aged <50 years

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