Close encounters of the digital kind: challenges

and opportunities of UCA Research Online

Staff Research Conference 4th May 2012

Anne Spalding

Overview

• What is UCA Research Online?

• What it does

• Why it is important

• Challenges and opportunities

UCA Research Online (UCARO)

Kaptur

eNova

Kultivate

kultur

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

• Context and Open Access

UCA Research Online (UCARO)

• What is it?– An online exhibition of

your work

• What does it do? – Shows your research to the world

Why is UCARO important?

• It provides increased visibility for our research work

• It is a marketing tool to entice staff, students and funding

• It promotes public understanding of research activities

Cloud Computing

Circa 2007

Punch CardCirca 1725

Vinyl RecordCirca 1886

Floppy DiscsCirca 1971

VHSCirca 1973

Flash DriveCirca 1998

BluerayCirca 2006

Punch TapeCirca 1846

Hard Disc DrivesCirca 1956

Cassette Tapes

Circa 1962

CD/DVDsCirca 1982

MP3 PlayersCirca 1987

HVDCirca 2009

Storage Devices Timeline

For image credits see slide 12

Challenges

• Technical

• IPR – copyright

• Terminology

Opportunities

• Linking internal and external • Library catalogue• Working with the Research Office• Working with the Digitisation Unit• Social media• Statistics evidence of viewing figures

March 27 – April 26 2011 = 308 (20 countries)March 27 – April 26 2012 = 1156 (59 countries)

UK878

Google Analytics Statistics

USA 63

Netherlands19

Australia 18

Germany17

Number of visits to UCARO per country (top 10 countries) in 2012

Canada13

France11

Portugal8

South Africa8

Taiwan7

Show your research to the world

• It is vitally important to researchers, institutions, funders and the wider community that we continue to develop and enhance engagement with repositories and to ensure that the University remains at the forefront of developments across the sector.  However, to achieve this, we need your

help!  Leigh Garrett, Director, VADS (2012)

Selected references/bibliography Mossink, Wilma and Estelle, Lorraine (2010) Who owns the content

in the digital environment? In: Digital Information order or anarchy p189 London: Facet Publishing

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/kultur.aspx(accessed 18.04.2012)

http://www.vads.ac.uk/kultur2group/projects/kultivate/ (accessed 18.04.2012)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/reptakeup/enova.aspx

(accessed 18.04.2012)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/di_researchmanagement/managingresearchdata/infrastructure/kaptur.aspx

(accessed 18.04.2012)

http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/ (accessed 26.04.2012)

http://www.wikipedia.org/ (accessed 13.04.2010)

Hargreaves, Ian. (2011) Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-finalreport.pdf (accessed 26.04.2012)

Elmes, John (2012) The Scholarly Web. In: Times Higher Education, 26 April p22

http://www.google.com/analytics/ (accessed 26.04.2012)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/ (accessed 20.03.2012)

Punch Card – Gwern. (2009) This is the front of a blue IBM-style punch card At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue-punch-card-front-horiz.png (Accessed 13.04.2012)Punch Tape – Coles, Ted (2010) Five hole and eight hole perforated paper tape as used in telegraph and computer applications At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PaperTapes-5and8Hole.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Vinyl Record – Drumecho. (2006) Greensleeves VinylWar by Wailing Souls & Rankin Trevor At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:281136167_4bf33696b5_o.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Hard Disc Drives – Potts, Paul R. (2008) Six hard disk drives with cases opened showing platters and heads; 8, 5-25, 3-5, 2-5, 1-8 and 1 inch disk diameters are represented At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SixHardDriveFormFactors.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Cassette Tapes – Tyrrell, Malcolm (2009) A photograph showing three types of compact audio cassette At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CassetteTypes1.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Floppy discs – Chernilevsky, George (2009) 8-inch, 5,25-inch, and 3,5-inch floppy disks At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)VHS - Senor k. (2006) A blank Betamax casette next to a blank VHS cassette for size comparison At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Betavhs2.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)CD/DVDs - Tempest, Gemma (2005) DVD-RMP3 Players – Harrison, Chris (2006) A stack of iPods At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Various_iPods.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)Flash Drive – Amos, Evan (2011) A Sandisk-brand USB thumb drive, SanDisk Cruzer Micro, 4GBi At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SanDisk_Cruzer_Micro.png (Accessed 13.04.2012)BluRay – Cdnomad. (2007) Back of a Blu-ray Disc At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BluRayDiscBack.png (Accessed 13.04.2012)HVD – Caspertheghost. (2011) Holographic Versatile Disc At: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HVD_Disk.jpg (Accessed 13.04.2012)

Image Credits slide 6