VIVOandScholarlyRepositories:SynergisticOpportunities

WhatisanInstitutionalRepository?

AnInstitutionalRepositoryisansoftwareplatformforcollecting,managing,preserving,andsharingtheintellectualoutputofaresearchinstitutionindigitalformats

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WhatisanInstitutionalRepository?   Supportsallformats(text,media,data,etc.)

  Providesdiscoveryanddeliveryservicesforcontent,ontheWebandviaGoogleandothersearchengines

  Supportspersistentlinkingandcitationtoresearchmaterial

  Includesaservicemodel,e.g.forOpenAccessand/ordigitalarchiving,and

  setofpoliciesforgoverningdigitalresearchasset 3

InstitutionalRepositorySnapshot   Manyplatformsavailable

  OpenSource(DSpace,Eprints,Fedora,Greenstone,Archimede,Invenio,IR+)

  Commercial(DigitalCommons,DigiTool,CONTENTdm)

  ~2000registeredrepositoriesworld‐wide(moreinreality)

  Containing>2mresearch“items”

  CollectivelyrivalPubMed,arXivandotherlargecentralizedarchives

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WhatDoesDSpaceSupport?   DSpace(andmostscholarlyInstitutionalRepositories)is

focusedonthemanagement,long‐termarchivingandOpenAccesssharingofresearchandteachingoutputofthelocalinstitution

  It’snotjustmetadataoranindexofcontent,it’sthecontentitself

  Commoncontenttypesinclude:

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Preprints,eprints Publishedarticles,booksandchapters Technicalreportsandworkingpapers Conferencepapers Databases Datasets(statistical,geospatial,scientific)

E‐theses Images(visual,scientific,etc.) Audio/Videofiles Websites LearningObjects Digitizedlibrarycollections

RepositoryProblem

•  Repositoriesmanagemanydatatypes

•  metadatahasdiversemodels,representations

•  currentXML/RDBMSsupportdoesn’tscale

ExhibitUI

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VIVOandDSpaceTogether   LinkpublicationslistedinVIVOtoDSpacePIDsforfull‐textitems

  LinkDSpaceitemsofalltypestoappropriateVIVOentities(e.g.,people,organizations,researchprojects,etc.)

 UsingDSpaceasalong‐termarchivingplatformforrelevantVIVOentities

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VIVOandDSpaceTogether  Mineresearchtopics/keywordsfromDSpace

itemstolinkthemtoappropriateVIVOentities(i.e.,people,organizations,'concepts')

  IncorporateDSpacefull‐textintoVIVOsearch DSpacesupportsOpenSearch(e.g.link keywordstoanOpenSearchqueryacross federatedrepositoriesforsyndicatedresults)

  Streamlined,multi‐systemdeposit/update,UI(Exhibit?)

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VISION

 Registryof(active)researchersincludingminimalprofileinfo

 Assignsunique,persistentIDs  NamedisambiguationtoidentifycorrectID

 Mayincludebibliographicinformation,otheractivities

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STATUS

 Non‐profitcorporation,jointlygovernedbypublishers,universities,libraries,researchers

 PrinciplesincludeOpenAccesstoregistrydata

  Scheduledtolaunchlate2011–early2012 12

AScholarlyDataEcosystem

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Full‐textDBs

Centralized MITResearchProfiles

(VIVO)

ExternalBibliographies

(Local)

InstitutionalRepository

DOI

BibliographicAcquisition&Management

OtherLocal Data

HRdata

VIVO+DSpace+Exhibit+ORCID

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Full‐textDBs

Centralized MITResearchProfiles

(VIVO)

ExternalBibliographies(Local)

[DOI,DspaceURI,ORCID]

InstitutionalRepository

DOI

BibliographicAcquisition&Management

OtherLocal Data

Exhibit

Webbrowser

DataWarehouse(HRand

ORCIDdata)

Harvesters(ORCID)

KeyInfrastructure

 Repositoriesandtools(VIVO,DSpace,Exhibit)

 Standardidentifiers(URIs)forentitiesofinterest:people,institutions,documents,datasets,etc.

 Commoncontentmodelsandontologiesformetadata/content–sharedregistry?

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