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ORA (Oxford University Research Archive) is a powerful repository that enables the management, preservation, and open access of digital collections. With its advanced features and services, ORA supports research, teaching, and collaboration across disciplines.
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Why ORA? Why Fedora? Sally Rumsey ORA Service & Development Manager
Basic repository Repository Search Put items in Retrieve End user Author/creator Text
Services Author or Representative Repository Put items in Search & Discovery Put items in Retrieve Alerts Put items in Reports Put items in Bulk ingest
Preservation ORA: Purposes 1
Management Preservation ORA: Purposes 2
Open access & visibility Management Preservation ORA: Purposes 3
Top Ten Reasons to Choose Fedora • Free open source software • A supportive community • Maturity • Scalability, both small and large • Store whatever you want • Enables permanence • Extensibility • Easy access • Express relationships • An engine for innovation Taken from http://www.fedora-commons.org/
DAMS: Service Oriented Architecture Users Application Application ORA access Application FEDORA acts as middleware between storage and delivery applications etc FEDORA FEDORA Honeycomb
Fedora underpins multiple repositories and digital collections View View View View Other digital collections Image collection John Johnson collection FEDORA
Services, Features and Functions A selection • UUIDs • Persistent links (+ tiny URLs) • Conferences • Multimedia - Images and presentation • Bulk uploads/syndication • Embedded search • RSS • Cross- and multi-disciplinarity
ORA Tools & Services Collections Private Bookmarks Deposit methods Combine harvester Faceted search Reports Collabor- ative working Public Bookmarks Deposit Interface Share records Open search Preserv- ation events Social networks Custom views Export records Tiered access Embed search Access Statistics Alerts RSS feeds Import records Events Single Sign-on Access & view Search & Browse Reports Author profiles Import, export syndicate Events calendar Authorisation & authentication Relation- ships Web access Interface Search Web log FEDORA Honeycomb storage Dark archive
Who’s using ORA? Many dotted around the University across disciplines PG Research students: Theses
Potential Devolved services REF New content models: data, audio Collaborative working (Science) blogs eAdministration: research support Presentation Editing Ping-back Research data UUID: discovery & citations More OAI-ORE
Priorities and Development plans Agile development model The technology is not enough BUT…
Institutional priorities Research: disciplinary & interdisciplinary Research-led teaching Attracting staff & students Serving society Efficient & effective internal services Research Excellence Framework
How do we get here? 5 Years From Now …whilst the goalposts are constantly moving Increase: > Numbers of depositors > Numbers of end users Inc. teaching >Proportion of Full text >Use by research and other groups > its part of bigger Research Management infrastructure > Use by Administrators Inc central admin > Embedding in Oxford infrastructure