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Institutional Repository Workshop - Next steps


During April and May Knowledge Exchange has had expert reviewers from the partner organisations go though the workshop strand reports and make their recommendations about the best way to move forward, to set priorities, and find possibilities for furthering the institutional repository cause. The KE partner representatives have now reviewed the reviews and consulted with their partner organisation management to get an indication of support and funding for the latest ideas and proposals.

 

Pragmatic interoperability
During a review meeting at JISC offices in London on 31 May, the expert reviewers and the KE partner representatives agreed that ‘pragmatic interoperability’ is the primary area of interest. It was also agreed that the most relevant and beneficial choice for a Knowledge Exchange approach would be to aim for CRIS-OAR interoperability as a step towards integrated services. Within this context, interlinked joint projects could be undertaken by the partner organisations regarding the areas that most interested them.

 

Interlinked projects

The proposed Knowledge Exchange activities involve interlinked joint projects on metadata, persistent author identifiers, and eTheses which are intended to connect to and build on projects such as ISPI, JISC NAMES and the Digital Author Identifier (DAI) developed by SURFfoundation. It is important to stress that the projects are not intended to overlap, but rather to supplement the DRIVER 2 (EU project) approaches.

 

Focus on CRIS and OAR

It is believed that the focus on practical interoperability between Current Research Information Systems and Open Access Repository systems will be of genuine benefit to research scientists, research administrators and librarian communities in the Knowledge Exchange countries; accommodating the specific needs of each group.

 

Timing

  • June 2007: Write the draft proposal by KE Working Group members
  • July 2007: Final proposal to be sent to partner organisations by KE Group 
  • August 2007: Decision by Knowledge Exchange partner organisations.

For more information

Contact Hanne Marie Kværndrup, DEFF partner representative or Bas Cordewener, SURFfoundation partner representative, the Knowledge Exchange leads for issues regarding institutional repositories.