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Rory McNicholl. PRIMO A case study of an institutional repository. P ractice as R esearch I n M usic O n-line. A repository to help address... ...the difficulty of exploiting and communicating the products of research as practice in many fields of musicology.
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Rory McNicholl PRIMO A case study of an institutional repository DPTP SOAS May 2009
DPTP SOAS May 2009 Practice as Research In Music On-line • A repository to help address... • ...the difficulty of exploiting and communicating the products of research as practice in many fields of musicology. • Creating an open, national resource of practice-based music research... • ...for the purposes of research, study and teaching
DPTP SOAS May 2009 Project partners • The Institute of Musical Research • Newly created within the School of Advanced Studies • The JISC capital programme's funding for repository start-ups • University of London Computer Centre
Desired properties • Handle a range of digital objects • Audio • Audio-visual • Graphics • Text • Ongoing ingest • Self archiving (Semi?) • Trusted by producing community • Provide useful access to the consumer community
DPTP SOAS May 2009 Technology • GNU EPrints institutional repository software (Developed by Southampton University) • Well established • Modular and flexible • Well known to technical staff at ULCC • Mencoder (open source video encoding software) • ABCDE (open source audio encoder) • JW FLV media player (open source flv player)
DPTP SOAS May 2009 Concerns of the project sponsors - IMR • Ingest • Workflow that was both intuitive and handled the complex licensing issues • Access • Allowed easy but safe access to the various digital objects • Administration • Provide a clear picture of access activity
DPTP SOAS May 2009 PRIMO Workflow