Conference Program and Welcome: Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries 2023 (MIRL 2023)

Program for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL 2023) Symposium that took place on Thursday, November 16, 2023

Conference Program: Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries 2021 (MIRL 2021)

Program for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL 2021) Symposium that took place on Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Embracing the future: embedding digital repositories in the University of London

Digital repositories can help Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to develop coherent and coordinated approaches to capture, identify, store and retrieve intellectual assets such as datasets, course material and research papers. With the advances of technology, an increasing number of Higher Education Institutions are implementing digital repositories. The leadership of these institutions, however, has been concerned about the awareness of and commitment to repositories, and their sustainability in the future. This study informs a consortium of thirteen London institutions with an assessment of current awareness and attitudes of stakeholders regarding digital repositories in three case study institutions. The report identifies drivers for, and barriers to, the embedding of digital repositories in institutional strategy. The findings therefore should be of use to decision-makers involved in the development of digital repositories. Our approach was entirely based on consultations with specific groups of stakeholders in three institutions through interviews with specific individuals. The research in this report was prepared for the SHERPA-LEAP Consortium and conducted by RAND Europe

Experimental DML over digital repositories in Japan

In this paper the authors show an overview of Virtual Digital Mathematics Library in Japan (DML-JP), contents of which consist of metadata harvested from institutional repositories in Japan and digital repositories in the world. DML-JP is, in a sense, a subject specific repository which collaborate with various digital repositories. Beyond portal website, DML-JP provides subject-specific metadata through OAI-ORE. By the schema it is enabled that digital repositories can load the rich metadata which were added by mathematicians

Conference Program: Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries 2022 (MIRL 2022)

Program for the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL 2022) Symposium that took place on Thursday, November 17, 2022

Eprints and the Open Archives Initiative

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was created as a practical way to promote interoperability between eprint repositories. Although the scope of the OAI has been broadened, eprint repositories still represent a significant fraction of OAI data providers. In this article I present a brief survey of OAI eprint repositories, and of services using metadata harvested from eprint repositories using the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). I then discuss several situations where metadata harvesting may be used to further improve the utility of eprint archives as a component of the scholarly communication infrastructure.Comment: 13 page

Open Repositories 2012

THE Open Repositories conference (OR) took place in Edinburgh in July, and showcased five days of the best the repository world has to offer. This year’s conference attracted 460 delegates from more than 40 countries, and once again showed the passion and enthusiasm of the repository community

The preservation and sustainability of research data

This talk is based in part on a survey carried out for APSR and APAC in 2006, which led to the AERES report (http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/projects.htm) The survey looked at the issues surrounding the management and preservation of a large range of research data collections, at a broad range of institutions (universities, CSIRO, government bodies). Some of the issues are technical and have some interesting problems and opportunities. Some of the issues are policy related and deeply interwoven. Many of them can be solved with some collaborative development efforts, and strategic guidance of our organisations and our users

OAIS as a reference model for repositories : an evaluation

The purpose of this document is to evaluate "whether OAIS is an appropriate reference model for use across the variety of repositories being developed within the JISC community" (Campbell 2005, p. 11). It follows on from discussions at the repositories strand of the JISC-CETIS Conference 2005 and the CETIS Metadata and Repositories SIG meeting held subsequently in March 2006. The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) has proved an extremely useful model in relation to 'archival systems’. This evaluation will consider the benefits and drawbacks of applying the OAIS across repositories in a more generic way, with reference to longterm preservation as outlined in the model, and, in addition, considering the model with reference to the other business requirements that a repository might fulfil. This evaluation is being carried out in the context of the JISC Digital Repositories Programme and will focus largely on repositories that serve the communities and domains covered by that Programme, although its conclusions should have wider relevance. It is not the intention of this evaluation to provide a detailed introduction to OAIS, but to draw on previous work in this area