Repositories – Practice & Vision

1. Repositories – Practice & Vision Overview 2010 << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

2. This Talk • Objective • Repositories on the Menu 2010 • Overview of a highly diversified field as compared to 2005 • Coverage • selective, subjective, observational, cursory, data-centric • Audience addressed • Repository Managers, Information Managers, Funders … • Approach wisdom of crowds • Open Repositories 2010 Conf. assumed as representative • General session themes taken as starting points << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

3. Open Access Policy • Vision: Open Access objectsascommodity • Not an ethicalissue but mostefficientmodeofscholarlyandscientificcommunication • Practice: Considerablegrowth but tedious • More policies (publisher;institutional; funders: EC) • More repositories & documents (cf. BASE/Sherpa) • But systematicinputofdatalacksautomation • Forecast: Further incrementalprogress << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

4. Bibliography & Citation • Vision: R‘sforauthors‘ publicationmanagement • Personal publicationlists & referencemanagement • Practice: Pleasefull-texts – but contextualized • Completionishandwork, augmentedby Web2tools • Citations not in R‘s: GS, WoS, Scopus, PMC, Inspire • Forecast: Completenessisclue • Authorsonlytakeseriousifreallygood << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

5. UsageStatistics • Vision: Scholarlymetric alternative tocitations • Higher precisionandresolution • Also importantfor service optimization„Research Intelligence“ • Practice: Still measured non-standardized • Comparisonandintegrationimpossible • Pilotsunderway: (Cross-)National, EU, Publisher • Forecast: Needs a fewyears but will fly << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

6. Administrative Systems • Vision: Authorsuserepositoriesforreporting • Institionalbibliography, policycompliance • Whyreporttwice? Double-input a „no-go“! • Practice: Cautiousopeningof „official“ systems • Re-use – e.g. alerting – requiresdisambiguation • Reporting needsauthoritativedatapersons, departments… • But: closedshopsand IT-integrationproblemse.g. IDM • Forecast: SuccessforR‘swith CRIS interfaces << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

7. Data Integration & Disambiguation • Vision: Automated exchangeofpublicationdata • Bibliographicdataisalready out there: so re-use! • Practice: Examples? Yes, but few! • FetchofdatafromWoS, ArXiV, PMC: Who doesit? • E.g. Authordisambiguation: „Is Meyer Meyer?“ • Also departments, institutions, classifications • Forecast: (Inter-)National authorityfiles /IDs • Terminologyservicesusedtodisambiguate << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

8. National Approaches • Vision: Institutional>national>global structure • Geographic regime builds on reliable institutions • Practice: Europe strong, but all is still stringy • Some functional chains of comm. OpenAIRE, Japan, China • Disciplinary worlds (and US) work differently • Forecast: Mixed geographic and subject system • Invisible automatic exchange will blur boundaries << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

9. Research Data • Vision: Researchers can easily submit data • Higher transparency, cost-efficiency • But please provide differential access • Practice: Highly heterogeneous over disciplines • E.g. Bioinformatics (~open) & engineering (~closed) • Funders require data management plan • Forecast: Subject based practice dominates • No generic basis as in text-based documents • Only basic archiving may be common denominator << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

10. Digital Preservation & Archiving • Vision: Researchers havetrustedarchives • Particularlyimportantforresearchdata, wherenoest. publishingsystemcan catch thetrust • Practice: Documentsfeasible, Data in question • Manyimportantinsights, but tooambitious • National librariesanddataarchives on themove • Forecast: hot-service ifapproachedpractically • 3-5-10 yearspragmaticpreservation: thenlet‘ssee! • „Whatcanyoupromise?“ vs. „Whatcan‘tbepromised“ << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

11. Repository Platforms • Vision: Solid andsustained multi-purposeR‘s • Research Data and administrative functionality • Developer communitiesgobusiness • Practice: Extension ofexisting, still newcomers • Dspace, Eprints, Fedora, Opus extended • PubMan/eSciDoc, Invenio etc. maturing • „Competition“ from VCSs and Web-CMS? • Forecast: Further consolidation << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

12. Repository Interoperability • Vision: R‘swithmanytentaclesandglands • Bidirectionalinterfacesfordataandprotocols • „Repositoriesaspipelines“ • Practice: OAI-PMH still dominates, otherscome • REST/SOAP, XMLHttpRequest, SWORD, SRU, Feeds, OAI-ORE, Linked Data / RDF: whathaveyougot!? • Forecast: Technology savvystaffrequired • Customizing interfaces not out-of-the-box << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

13. Academic Workflows • Vision: R‘sembedded in researchprocess • Virtual Research Environments: Service mash-ups • Specificityrequirescustomization • Practice: Again, docsfeasible – data in question • Generic: Office, calendar, web-sites, documentation • Specific: Research toolsandworkflows • Forecast: Self-maintainedrepositoryplatforms • Research cultures vs. institutional service dev. • Localtekkiesandcentral service collaboration << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

14. Sustainability & Business Operations • Vision: Balancedpublicand private businesses • Institutionalservicesasbackbonethatsources out • Practice: Libraries dominate – Cloudcomingup • Separation betweenR‘sandpublishersblursslightly • Research dataarchivingpressescomputingcentresfornovelvirtualizationstrategies • Forecast: Mixed institutional & outsourcedop‘s • Goodreasonsforkeepingdataathome will levelwithpriceconsiderationsforcomm. cloudservices << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

15. Repository Infrastructures • Vision: R‘sdatafromthe socket outlet • Researchers andtekkies just havetoplug-in • Practice: R‘s & infrastructuralsystemsconverge • Cautiousattemptstogobeyond OAI-PMH • Links to CRISs anddisciplinarysystems • Infrastructuresallowdataand service mash-ups • Forecast: The contentnetworktightens • R‘swithoutuserinterfaces; R‘sasdataproviders << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop

16. Take Home Message(s) • R‘s 2010 • Are not onlyabout Open Access anymore • Sucsessivepublicationstagesoftexts & researchdata • Extendtowardsadministrationandresearchdata • Bibliographicre-use, Disambiguation/IDs • Are embeddedandembedthemselves • Academic workflows / VREs, Frameworks, Infrastructures • Become an assettvesseloftheinstitution << Repositories – Practice & Vision >> Helmholtz/DINI-Workshop