Posted on January 14th, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp
We’re starting to have weekly, informal Repository team meetings. Anyone working on (or interested in) the Repository at the University of Lincoln is welcome to attend. At today’s meeting, we talked about the following:
- The University is now using the Repository to generate its Quarterly Research Output Reports. (These are lists of all the ‘substantive‘ research outputs published by Lincoln staff in a given quarter.) To make sure that items show up in the correct report, we’re introducing extra specificity over publication dates.
- Rosaline Smith reported on her attendance at the first Kultivate workshop, organised by the Kultur II Group, which took place on 11 January in central London. At the workshop, Rosaline gave a one-slide, two-minute presentation about improving support for art & design material in the Repository. You can read her blog post about it, here. We’d be very interested in talking to anyone from art & design at Lincoln about how we could develop the Repository to meet their needs.
- The University has renewed its contract with EPrints Services, who have provided us with excellent support, training and consultancy since the launch of our Repo in its current form. The cost of this support contract will be split three ways, between C.E.R.D., the University Research Office, and the Library.
- Bev Jones is attending a free EPrints training day on 19 January, all about maintaining, customising and branding our EPrints Repository: we’re keen to develop a bit more self-reliance when it comes to basic maintenance and simple technical jobs (saving the really hard problems for EPrints Services, above!)
- Finally, a round-up of events: I’m going to the RSP Winter School 2011 early in February; there’s a UKCoRR members’ meeting later in the same month; and we’ll be having our next [formal] University Repository Steering Group meeting on 2 February.
Tags: art, design, EPrints Services, events, Kultivate workshop, Kultur II Group, Lincoln Repository, London, meetings, Repository steering group, research reports, RSP, RSP Winter School, Salford, team, training, UKCoRR, unique IDs, weekly, workshops
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Posted on January 13th, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp
UKCoRR (the UK Council of Research Repositories – on whose committee I sit) are holding their annual meeting, open to all members of UKCoRR, on Friday, February 25, 2011 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (GMT), in the Conference Room of the Clifford Whitworth Library, University of Salford.
I’ve blogged about it over at: http://ukcorr.blogspot.com/
Booking is now open!
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Posted on November 15th, 2010 by Paul Stainthorp
The entire e-resources and repository team went en masse to the latest Repositories Support Project event, “Doing it differently“, which was held in Sheffield Cathedral on the 27th of October 2010: “to hear about alternative approaches to repository-like functions, open access and the general field of improving research communications“.
Some quick points from the notes I took on the day:
- [I think it was] Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN [who] made a good point in her presentation about the ‘forgotten’ people in libraries, who ought naturally to be interested in the content held in repositories, but who are rarely included in discussions: inter-library loans staff being an obvious example, with the repo. as source of material to reduce the burden on document supply.
- Our own repository was mentioned in Richard Davis (ULCC)’s examples of SNEEP plugins used ‘in the wild’ – it’s good to think that some of the features of the Lincoln Repository (crafted over in the LIROLEM project that gave it its genesis) are still worthy of being held up as examples.
- Stephanie Meece’s demo of the University of the Arts’ repository was enlightening; it gave considered and coherent explanation of some of the low-level culture-clash conversations that we’ve had with our own Art & Design academic staff. It was worth it, too, to hear about the Kultur Consortium and the potential there for mutual support and development of repositories capable of meeting the needs of the Arts.
- Joss Winn was also there, bringing the University of Lincoln contingent to five! Joss gave a talk on using RSS to grease the wheels of scholarly writing and publishing, which has an accompanying blog post.
- Also exciting to see the direction Mendeley is taking [slides], with the potential (in the new year) for new features (“Library Groups”) to support library e-journals admininstration and subscription analysis.
We also took the opportunity (as four of the five committee members were in the room) to conduct an informal, stand-up UKCoRR meeting over lunch, at which we laid the groundwork for the next UKCoRR AGM, which will hopefully take place toward the end of February 2011.
Slides and handouts from the day are on the RSP’s website.
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Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Paul Stainthorp
My face has appeared on the committee page of the UKCoRR website.
UKCoRR, the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories, is an “independent body for repository managers, administrators and staff in the UK“.
Because I manage the Library’s work in supporting our own Lincoln Repository at the University, I’ve been a member of UKCoRR for several years: and since April 2010 I’ve been sitting on the 5-person UKCoRR committee as ‘External Liaison Officer’; my purpose being to “develop the relationship between UKCoRR and other organisations working in repository management & development, publishing & OA, research support, academia and librarianship”.
The UKCoRR website, including minutes of the committee’s meetings, is at: http://www.ukcorr.org/
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We’re starting to have weekly, informal Repository team meetings. Anyone working on (or interested in) the Repository at the University of Lincoln is welcome to attend. At today’s meeting, we talked about the following:
