Storing and manipulating Enhanced publications & the discovery with OAI ORE

Abstract

As part of a SURF programme related to enhanced publications, we have prototyped the storage of real-world publications (especially theses) and their related enhancements (such as data sets and related publications) using our Dspace repositoy as the foundation.

During the presentation we will discuss the process for collecting additional data from researchers, and how to deal with the knowledge-gap between librarians and researchers that results from their different areas of expertise. A lot of time is spent on 'speaking the same language', which requires understanding the researchers "needs and restrictions" and the "vision and goals" of the repository manager.

We will discuss in detail the processes of describing, uploading, storing and maintaining the theses, the additional materials, and the relation between them (to create ORE ReM's) using DSpace.

When handling research data, many choices have to be made because the data varies from single files to directories with hundreds of files and from small files to files larger than 3 GB.

Since one of the ground-rules of OAI-ORE was that not every component is necessarily part of the same repository, we will show components living in multiple repositories which are not all hosted by our University.

For dissemination purposes, we have created the generation and publication of ReM's, which will be explained and related to the DSpace metadata.

Through live demos, we will show the behaviour of DSpace when aggregations are requested and when links from within an aggregation are followed all the way to the final publication or datasets. According to the project schedule, an end-user ReM browser will also be available around October 2009.