Conference Agenda

Research institutions, traditionally using institutional repositories to disseminate research outputs from affiliated researchers, are increasingly recognizing their value as platforms for publishing foundational research outputs, including papers, data, and methods, in line with the growing trend towards open science, thereby ensuring transparency and fairness and promoting the reuse of these outputs. In this background, we are developing the NII Research Data Cloud (NII RDC), an information infrastructure that supports open science and research fairness and promotes data-driven research. We aim to develop a method that streamlines the entire process, from generating research outputs to publishing research outputs, thereby reducing the burden on researchers. We will integrate three platforms that are key components of NII RDC to streamline the entire process. As a result of integrating the three platforms, we have confirmed that publishing and searching for research outputs produced by researchers is possible. We have outlined a policy for dividing roles between researchers and librarians in creating metadata for publishing research outputs. In the future, we aim to refine the metadata creation process further. This refinement will help reduce the research workload and advance us towards a world where research outputs can be published more rapidly.

This session focuses on how Jisc’s Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS) service has helped US institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Michigan, and University of Delaware to align and assess usage metrics across library resources, benchmark usage against peer repositories at other institutions, and invest in open infrastructure to advocate more effectively about the value of making scholarly research material openly available. We use statistics as a concrete starting point for a larger discussion of strategies for articulating the value of repositories to different stakeholders (including researchers and administrators); and look at IRUS in the context of other complementary initiatives, such as the Open Global Data Citation Corpus. By considering these different projects, we hope to make space for a wide-ranging discussion of approaches to repository assessment and consider more broadly what generalized repository statistics can and can’t accomplish.

This presentation showcases the default functionality offered by three popular open source IR software platforms; DSpace, Hyrax and InvenioRDM when ingesting and publishing typical content. Although each platform is configurable, they come with default metadata schemas and design decisions that drive the ability to personalize the application. Various aspects of these basic use cases will be discussed, as well as the effort needed to implement light thematic branding. Support for more advanced features such as PIDs, single sign-on, full-text indexing, faceted search and browsing, support for publishing workflows, integrations with external services to enhance the functionality and interoperability will be very briefly touched upon for the sake of brevity.