Kiwi Research Information Service

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Kiwi Research Information Service

• Chelsea Hughes
• KRIS Product Manager
• Friday 26 June

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What is KRIS?

• A collaborative service that connects research
  users from around the world to research documents
  produced in New Zealand institutions.

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Vision

• The Kiwi Research Information Service (KRIS)
  will open up
• and promote publicly funded research at
  universities,
• polytechnics and other research providers in New
  Zealand
• and make publications easy to find.

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Mission

• acceptance of KRIS as adding value to New Zealand
  open access institutional research repositories
  through
• Establishment and operation of http//nzresearch.o
  rg.nz/ website as a single point of discovery
• Harvesting of metadata from NZ research
  repositories which contain research outputs that
  meet the definition of research adopted by KRIS
• Encouragement of high quality metadata
• Enhancement of aggregated metadata
• Aiming to provide complete coverage of high
  quality NZ research outputs
• Promotion of open access to publicly funded
  research
• Support of an active community

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Whos in KRIS?

• 16 members made up of universities and
  polytechnics

Auckland University of Technology Christchurch
Polytechnic Institute of Technology Lincoln
University Manukau Institute of Technology Massey
University Northtec Open Polytechnic of New
Zealand The University of Auckland
Unitec New Zealand Universal College of
Learning University of Canterbury University of
Otago University of Waikato Victoria University
of Wellington Waikato Institute of
Technology Whitireia Community Polytechnic
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Whos in the KRIS Governance Group?
Janet Copsey (Chair) CONZUL representative
(University of Auckland) Theresa Sawicka NZVCC
Standing Committee on Research (VUW) George Slim
Ministry of Research, Science
Technology Kevin Adamson NZVCC Standing
Committee on IT (University of Waikato) Nicki
Page Polytechnic representative (CPIT) Barbara
Garriock Polytechnic representative (MIT) Mark
Horgan Ministry of Education ICT
Committee Penny Carnaby National Library of New
Zealand
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The year in review

• Governance group developed vision, mission and
  operational plan
• Governance group developed communications plan
• Repositories briefing paper
• New member Wintec
• Surpassed 10,000 records (growth of 7,000 in
  last year)
• Presentations CRI Librarians, Government
  Information Group, conferences

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The year ahead

• More partners
• More promotion
• Facilitate more knowledge sharing between
  institutional repository staff

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Metadata Quality

• KRIS validates the metadata it harvests and makes
  metadata quality reports available to the
  repositories
• Three sets of metadata are stored for each record
• The harvested (oai_dc) metadata is stored
  unchanged
• New nzir_admin metadata is generated that lists
• Metadata errors Violations of the Metadata
  Guidelines (e.g. No URL)
• Metadata warnings Bad practice
• Informational messages For the administrator to
  consider
• New nzir_internal metadata is generated and used
  internally

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Why nzir_internal metadata is cool

• The New nzir_internal metadata includes
• Primary Link - URL of document in the source
  repository
• Author metadata - Transformed to "Lastname,
  Firstnames" format
• Subject metadata - Crosswalked into Marsden
  Fields
• Type metadata - Crosswalked into ePrints Type
  Vocabulary
• Year metadata - Calculated from Date metadata
• And other fields (See the Metadata Guidelines,
  section 4)
• This gives us consistent metadata to perform
  operations across all the contributing
  repositories.
• Browse by Marsden code (based on merged subject
  metadata)
• Filter searches by ePrints Type (based on merged
  Type metadata)

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Why nzir_admin metadata is even cooler

• We can calculate the "State of the Nation's
  Metadata" at any time
• Or calculate the state of a particular
  repositorys metadata
• We can measure whether metadata quality is
  improving (or otherwise) over time
• Metadata errors and warning messages are
  available to administrators
• They can search for errors, or request the full
  error set via OAI-PMH
• It is there when they need it, without pesky
  reminder emails
• They can even subscribe to an RSS feed
• KRIS doesnt need a full harvest to get a full
  metadata quality report
• We only need to do incremental harvests
• Updated (fixed) records will be re-harvested
  overnight,and the nzir_admin metadata
  automatically updated

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State of the Nations Metadata 24 June 2009
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Website Statistics

• Unique visitors per month 4000

Most popular pages Browse recent records Author
browse SRU pages
Most popular subjects Information, Computing,
and Communication Sciences Social Sciences,
Humanities and Arts-General
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Keep in touch

• Nzir-l mailing list
• http//lists.natlib.govt.nz/mailman/listinfo/nzir-
  l