The Great Divide

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Sustainable access to Oxfords research data?
Sally Rumsey ORA Service Development
Manager University of Oxford DCC Conference
December 2007
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Oxford Digital Repositories Group Chair PVC
Research
Image collections
Other digital collections
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ePrints (Pre- Post-prints)
eTheses (Oxford research)
Economics working papers
Conference materials
Conference events
Young Lives Project
Other grey literature
Books book sections
COLLECTIONS Not hierarchical
Generic items
Department
College
Reference other collections
Res Group
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Shotton, David M. and Attaran, Amir (1998). 
Variant antigenic peptide promotes cytotoxic T
lymphocyte adhesion to target cells without
cytotoxicity.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95
15571-15576.  
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Reproduced with kind permission of the Boethius
Commentary Project, Funded by The Leverhulme
Trust, 2007-12, and based at the Faculty of
English, University of Oxford
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Kinds of electronic data produced by respondents
BURTON, G. (2006) The Source to Output Repository
Project Social Science. Available from
http//jiscstore.jot.com/WikiHome/SocialScienceFin
alReport.doc
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OeRC Oxford eResearch Centre
OxGrid Registered users have seamless access to
computational and data storage resources around
the university. Access to Oxford Supercomputing
Centre and UK National Grid Service resources for
registered users
Data as well as Computational Resources Arts and
humanities need for a common data grid for
information sharing
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BID Bridging the Interoperability Divide 1JISC
funded project (April 07 March 09)
How the federation of repository services might
be joined by implementing interoperability
specifications and web services. 1 2
harvestable interface and authenticated access to
the SRB system 3, 4 5 harvestable
interface, federated search and ingest to the ASK
repository system 6, 7, 8 9 metadata
ingest, indexing, federated search/OAI-PMH
interfaces authenticated access to the fedora
system
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BID Bridging the Interoperability Divide 2Some
examples of use cases

• Integration of OeRC SRB system into a wider
  repository framework
• Publishing datasets to institutional repository
• Access control
• Academic Publications
• Resource discovery through metadata records
• Linking to data/objects from within
  papers/theses
• Provide a consistent metadata interface

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Digital Repositories Co-ordinator 1

• A range and variety of digital repositories exist
  in Oxford, but there is a lack of overall
  coherence and coordination. It is essential that
  structures are in place which ensure
• focused research is undertaken to develop a
  coherent framework for Digital Repositories in
  Oxford
• requirements for research data within such a
  framework are scoped
• communication takes place between the activities
• national and international standards are adhered
  to
• skills and knowledge are shared

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Digital Repositories Co-ordinator 2 Key
responsibilities

• include
• scope the research data requirements to ensure
  that the federated digital repositories framework
  will meet the prioritised needs of researchers
  across disciplines
• develop an interoperability plan which ensures
  the framework interfaces with the OULS Fedora
  system
• establish communications and collaboration with
  existing digital repositories and digital
  resources in place across the collegiate
  University
• audit the existing digital resources in the
  collegiate University
• document and disseminate recognised best practice
  information on repository standards, metadata
  standards, and discovery

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http//www.loc.gov/standards/mix/
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DISC-UK DataShare Project JISC funded project
(March 2007 - March 2009)
Repository Repository Manager
Repository Repository Manager
Repository Repository Manager
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FlyWeb project
FlyWeb A Data Web between Repositories and other
Data Sources, linking Drosophila Research Image
Data with Publications Liaising with Dr David
Shotton and his team Image Bioinformatics
Research Group
Purpose To implement a proof-of-concept data web
to integrate research image data from the FlyTED
project with related data from publication
repositories and others.
imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk
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Oxford Digital Repositories Steering
Group Chair PVC (Research)
Oxford University Library Service Bodleys
Librarian Director of OULS and OULS Cabinet
ORA Steering Group Chair Head of Medical Science
Division
ORA Service Development Group Chair Keeper of
Special Collections (Associate Director) OULS
ORA Reporting Line
ORA Team ORA Service Development
Manager Software Engineer Research Archive
Assistant
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ORA Steering Group Membership
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Contact Details
Sally Rumsey ORA Service Development
Manager Oxford University Library Services Osney
One Building Osney Mead Oxford, OX2 0EW Tel 44
(0) 1865 283860 sally.rumsey_at_ouls.ox.ac.uk