projects: scoping digital repository services for research data management - events
Digital Repositories Workshop: Tools and Infrastructure - Thursday 23rd April 2009
This internal workshop organised under the auspices of the Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group aimed to provide an overall view of best practice in the deployment and use of digital repositories to manage digital content in Oxford. The objectives include:
- Showcase the range of digital repository projects in Oxford currently being undertaken or recently completed as well as established services;
- Encourage communication and collaboration amongst repository activities in Oxford;
- Foster technical, semantic and organizational interoperability between services.
For a full report on the presentations and the final discussion read the Report on the Digital Repositories Workshop.
| The Beazley Archive: The University's Classical Arts Research Centre - Prof. Donna Kurtz, Beazley Archivist and Professor of Classical Art (PDF 3.4MB) |
| ORA for publicising and preserving Oxford research - Sally Rumsey, ORA Service and Development Manager
ORA (Oxford University Research Archive) is being designed and created to fulfil its core requirements: to provide a service for the preservation and high visibility of Oxford digital research outputs. It is a flexible and robust system being built to serve its users and to interoperate easily with other systems. (PDF 2.4MB) |
| An introduction to the Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts (BEAM) project - Pete Cliff and Renhart Gittens, Software Engineers
The futureArch project (2008-11) is the first phase in the establishment of Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts (BEAM), which is being created to provide a trusted digital repository service for the management of born-digital archives and manuscripts acquired by the Library. The talk introduced the project and discussed some of the challenges in collecting, curating and providing access to these collections for researchers. (PDF 6.9MB) |
| Oxford Digital Library - Michael Popham, Head of Oxford Digital Library
The Oxford Digital Library is responsible for the creation, management, preservation, and dissemination of digitized collections derived from the holdings of Oxford University Library Services. Recent mass digitization projects include "Electronic Ephemera: Selections from the John Johnson Collection" and the Oxford-Google Digitization Project. This presentation outlined the challenges of building a digital repository capable of handling such a wealth of material. (PDF 33.2MB) |
| Building the Research Information Infrastructure (BRII) - Ben O'Steen, ORA Software Engineer
This presentation gave details of the technologies involved in describing research management information (such as people, projects, funding agency, publications) and their interrelationships in a semantic way.(PDF 108KB) |
| Persistent IT Architectures: Building Digital Archives That Last - Neil Jefferies
Neil discussed why conventional approaches to IT are a poor fit for long term archival solutions and discussed how these limitations are overcome. (PDF 132KB) |
| CLARIN: Building Oxford into the European Research Infrastructure - Martin Wynne
The Oxford Text Archive will be one of the pillars of the emerging pan-European research infrastructure for language resources and technologies. (PDF 140KB) |
| OpenFlyData.org: Integration of heterogeneous research data resources - Alistair Miles
This presentation reports practical experience of the use of Semantic Web standards, in particular the SPARQL protocol and query language, to develop a distributed data publication infrastructure for fruit fly functional genomics.(PDF 2.6MB) |