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Functional Requirements Eprints Application Profile Working Group Meeting 5th June, King’s Fund, London Julie Allinson Digital Repositories Support Officer UKOLN, University of Bath. UKOLN is supported by:. www.bath.ac.uk. Overview. Scope Stakeholders / designated community
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Functional Requirements Eprints Application Profile Working Group Meeting 5th June, King’s Fund, London Julie Allinson Digital Repositories Support Officer UKOLN, University of Bath UKOLN is supported by: www.bath.ac.uk
Overview • Scope • Stakeholders / designated community • Requirements gathering • Requirements
Scope • In scope • DC elements plus any additional elements necessary • Identifiers for metadata records, data, related resources etc. • Hospitable to the use of a variety of subject access solutions e.g. classification schemes, controlled vocabularies, name authority lists • Establishing an understanding of complex objects and prioritising requirements • Inclusion of properties required to fulfil other search requirements such as institution of origin, research funder, national and regional views, as provided by the RDN • Out of scope • Other metadata formats • Other uses of identifiers. • Decisions on terminology solutions • Decisions on how to model complex objects
Stakeholders • Who is this for? • Designated (user) Community • UK repositories search service [CONSUMER] • UK eprint repository managers/administrators [PRODUCER] • Stakeholder Community • Search service users • JISC Programmes • JISC • Eprint repositories community • Software developers • Repository staff • Repository users • Out of scope? • DCMI community • Other search services • Other funding bodies
Requirements gathering • Why? • To find out what already exists, and • what the community wants • To engage the community in uptake • How? • Existing practice / application profiles / standards • Scenarios and use cases • Eprints UK project conclusions • Working group, feedback group, wider community engagement
Existing practice • Local practices can be seen by searching repositories, examples: • eprints.org, e.g. ePrints Soton • DSpace, e.g. Edinburgh Research Archive • DSpace metadata is qDC: http://www.dspace.org/technology/metadata.html • Fedora, e.g. Queensland QUT • Other, e.g. CCLRC ePubs • More?
Possible scenarios • Consistent metadata for aggregator search service • Search or browse by journal, conference or publication title • The versions question • The latest version • Added-value services • More real-life scenarios needed …
Use case • Primary use case • Application profile for eprints used by UK repositories search service • Use case is … • A step towards identifying requirements • A sequence of events to fulfil the primary use case • Other use cases • For wider uptake and use
Requirements (1) • provide a richer set of metadata than allowed by simple DC, tackling the metadata issues identified here: Issues with current use of simple DC • implement an unambiguous method of identifying the full-text(s) of an eprint • offer a preliminary solution to version identification issues, relating to revisions, status, translations and multiple formats • support search of any, or all, fields, particularly of title, author, description, keyword • support browse by any field, as required (not including description or identifier fields). This may include browse by: • keyword • author • date • publisher • journal, publication, conference, book, series name • originating repository / institution • support subject browse based on knowledge of controlled vocabulary • support filtering of search results and browse tree by type, publisher, date range, status and version
Requirements (2) • enable movement from search results and browse tree to available copies, optionally filtered by format • enable movement from search results and browse tree to OpenURL 'link server' • support citation analysis (between expressions) • support navigation between different 'versions' of the same eprint • be suitable for use in the context of OpenURLs and OpenURL resolvers i.e. support navigation/discovery of particular version of an eprint (e.g. most recent version of the "Author's Original") and navigation/discovery of most appropriate copy of discovered 'version' • be compatible with dc-citation WG recommendations • be compatible with preservation metadata approaches • be compatible with library cataloguing approaches
Questions • Are we happy with the scope? • Are there more methods for gathering requirements? • Do we need more scenarios • More to do? • Agree the scope of ‘eprints’ • Assess usage of resource types for ‘eprints’ • Mappings of local practices