3.1. Purpose
The Standards Working Group brought together experts from the range of digital repository
activities within Oxford. The primary purpose of the group was to develop an interoperable services framework for a
federated institutional repository. The Group defined the discrete repository services required to support research,
education and administration; and maintained a registry of standards for interoperability. The group was also
intended as a forum for sharing information and expertise between the different activities. The group reported to
the Digital Repositories Steering Group and was chaired by a member of the Steering Group.
3.2. Remit
The remit of the Standards Working Group was to:
- Consolidate and, where appropriate, develop user scenarios for repository services within the education,
research and administration domains;
- Define the broad set of repository services required to support specific processes within the above domains;
- Undertake a gap analysis with reference to the current repository activities and recommend to the Digital Repositories Steering Group priorities for development;
- Identify the key standards for interoperability between repository services (technical, semantic and organisational);
- Raise awareness about, and make recommendations concerning, technical innovations, training and support requirements, sustainability, policy and other issues relating to repository development and deployment.
3.3. Membership
- Member appointed by the Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group (Chair)
- Digital Repositories Research Coordinator
- Up to 8 members were drawn from existing digital repository projects within Oxford (see the list at http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/repositories/index.xml?ID=body.1_div.4).
It was proposed that the group meets six times per academic year and makes use of an email list and dedicated website at other times.
April 2007. Michael Fraser.
