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Research Publishing at Swansea UniversityAlexander Roberts

a.l.roberts@swansea.ac.uk

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The data

• RAE 2008 - 1865 items – subset of research

output - Currently unpublished by the university

• Research completed since 2008

• Details of all funded and non-funded projects

• Staff and Research Student Output

• Other...

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Current Situation...

Departmental Research DBs

Personal Output DBs

Research Office DBs

MS AccessMS Excel

XMLBespoke CMS

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The big idea

• ‘One big warehouse’ – SharePoint 2010

• Microsoft Research Information Centre

(RIC)

• Terminal 4 Web CMS

• Syndication, RSS, Twitter, Web Services

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Consultation Phase 1

• Visiting – pick your friends

• Talking

• Listening

• Working towards agreement

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Documentation

Agreed standards for recording information - schemas

Label Value/Formatting NotesID Leave blank Automatically populatedSchool Text NameDepartment Text NameEmail TextStaffIdentifier Number (8 digits)Outputid Leave blank we will populate laterYear NumberOutputType Controlled vocabulary CamelCase

See: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#h7 LongTitle Full title of item Preferably Sentence Case

ShortTitle Short title of item Can be Left blank if applicablePagination E.g. 363-373 without ppPublisher Text Unabbreviated without city

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Where we want to be...

Central Research DB

(SharePoint 2010)

REF Submission Data

SU Research Portal (Intranet)

Discover Research Activity

Discover Grants and Funding information

Discover Research Partners

Discover Staff Research Profiles

Cronfa - Repository (Extranet/DSpace)

Google Scholar

OAI search engines

OAI Academic Repositories

t4 Content Management

System (Extranet)

RSS feeds

corporate web pages

twitter feeds

Any other web/file/feed

output...

MS Project Data

Research Financial Data

Research Project Progress

Funding Bodies Data

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Microsoft Pivot

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Progress

• Central Computing Services working together

• Schools and Departments feeding into the

process

• Central DB operational with RAE 2008 data