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Zuccala, A., Oppenheim, C. & Dhiensa, R. (2008). "Managing and evaluating digital repositories" Information Research, 13(1) paper 333. Résumé: Introduction. We examine the role of the digital repository manager, discuss the future of repository management and evaluation and suggest that library and information science schools develop new repository management curricula. Method. Face-to-face interviews were carried out with managers of five different types of repositories and a Web-based survey was carried out with users. The LexiURL Web link evaluation software provided a 'webometric' basis for investigating potential users online. Results. Few managers had received any formal training. The repositories were relatively new and web statistics had been used by the managers to monitor their success. The LexiURL analysis indicated that the networks associated with the repository sites were predictable and made sense to managers because expected co-links and known links appeared in the network diagrams. Users of the repositories discovered them through friends and colleagues. Conclusion. Digital repositories require ongoing evaluation to determine their quality and new directions for growth. A LexiURL analysis could be carried out by managers every four to six months and used as a complement to transaction log file analyses. Repository managers will need formal training in the future and we suggest a set of modules that would be suitable for a specialist programme. Via Maxime

Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos) a annoncé ce 2 avril, à l'occasion de l'Open Repositories 2008, la mise en production du projet aDORe Federation Architecture: The need to federate repositories emerges in two distinctive scenarios. In one scenario, scalability-related problems in the operation of a repository reach a point beyond which continued service requires parallelization and hence federation of the repository infrastructure. In the other scenario, multiple distributed repositories manage collections of interest to certain communities or applications, and federation is an approach to present a unified perspective across these repositories. The high-level, 3-Tier aDORe federation architecture can be used as a guideline to federate repositories in both cases. This paper describes the architecture, consisting of core interfaces for federated repositories in Tier-1, two shared infrastructure components in Tier-2, and a single-point of access to the federation in Tier-3. The paper also illustrates two large-scale deployments of the aDORe federation architecture: the aDORe Archive repository (over 100,000,000 digital objects) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Ghent University Image Repository federation (multiple terabytes of image files). Voir le pre-print du document sur arXiv (01/04/08).

L'American University of Rome a lancé son dépôt institutionnel, composé de: - AUR Working Paper Series - AUR Student Working Paper Series Via OAN

Les principales recommandations adoptées le 25 janvier dernier par la European University Association (EUA - qui regroupe près de 800 universités européennes) en matière de libre accès: 1. Mettre en place des dépôts institutionnels compatibles OAI 2. Adopter des mandats mentionnant clairement le libre accès aux résultats de recherche 3. Former les académiques au maniement des droits d'auteur/copyright et les encourager à revoir les restrictions d'accès (au moins pour les utilisateurs de leur institution) 4. Envisager de prendre en charge les coûts de publication des auteurs qui publient dans des revues en libre accès dont le modèle est authors pay/users don't pay 5. Collaborer avec les instances publiques de financement qui adhèrent aux principes du libre accès en vue de faciliter/encourager le dépôt institutionnel des documents 6. Convaincre les recteurs d'université de l'importance du libre accès 7. Soutenir les initiatives en faveur du libre accès aux résultats de la recherche européenne financée sur fonds publics Trad. maison du digest réalisé par P. Suber Voir ici le texte complet ... Màj (06/04/08): voir également (pdf)

Kasja Weenink, Leo Waaijers, Karen van Godtsenhoven (éd.), A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories: Five Studies of Important Digital Repository Related Issues and Good Practices. La version pdf est en libre accès. La version imprimée est publiée par Amsterdam University Press. "This DRIVER’s Guide to Repositories aims to motivate and promote the creation, development and networking of digital repositories. The guide does not provide strict directions on how to construct a repository, or network of repositories. It contains comprehensive and current information on digital repository-related issues in the research community and is particularly relevant to repository managers, decision makers, funding agencies and infrastructure services as stakeholders. This guide not only supports the institutions that already participate in the current U-funded DRIVER network, it also reaches out to institutions that are about to get started with repositories or aim to further extend their current services or impact." Via OAN

Les présentations de Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository: Gathering Content and Building Use (une conférence NISO) sont disponibles ici. Au programme, notamment: - The Third Wave of Library's Information Stewardship: Managing Local, Digital Material - Wanted: The Right Content and the Right Content Rights (pas de prés.) - OAI Object Re-Use & Exchange (ORE) - Distilling Strategic Directions for Repositories from Faculty and Librarian Attitudes Via DLTJ

Un billet intéressant sur le blog d'Arrow à propos de la clusterisation, de la granularité des propriétés de certains champs de métadonnées (dans les dépôts institutionnels). Voir dans le billet un exemple avec le champ Creator (auteur).

Ah les statistiques d'usage... On en est très friands dans nos institutions. Normal, me direz-vous, quand de plus en plus, les décisions budgétaires se basent en grande partie sur ces chiffres. L'équipe d'EPrint propose IRStats (Interoperable Repository Statistics), un outil qui permet de monitorer ces données essentielles (par sujet, par auteur, etc.). [ exemple ] Via liste JISC (S. Harnard)

OAN signale que l'université du Queensland en Australie a récemment mis à jour son Guide to Developing Open Access Through Your Digital Repository.

Fernando, Bernadine, Gibson, Daina (2007), All Change : the Ever Evolving Institutional Repository at the University of Melbourne. In Proceedings ALIA National Library and Technicians Conference, Melbourne (Australia). (déposé sur E-LIS) "Institutional repositories are becoming prevalent in academic libraries as the location for storing theses, research publications, learning objects and other grey literature. This paper will provide brief background information on the history, the role and growth of open access Institutional Repositories and, in particular, will concentrate on the University of Melbourne's repository. The paper will touch upon the origin and changes that it has gone through and its links to the Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) Program. It will also discuss issues for academic involvement, copyright, the Research Quality Framework (RQF) and the benefits of depositing, such as increased citation rates and linking with the University's Themis Enterprise Management tool. In order to raise the profile and the citation rate of the Univerity of Melbourne's research community, the Vice-Chancellor has strongly encouraged researchers to deposit research output into the University of Melbourne ePrint Repository (UMER). This has resulted in new skills development and a change in workflows for institutional repository staff. We shall mainly speak about the role of the members of the institutional repository staff, the workflow implications, and how workflow is managed day to day. To meet the University's priorities and timelines, flexibility and time management are essential. We shall also discuss the interaction needed outside our own team, and the positive feedback and conversations with authors and colleagues. As this is an ever evolving and fast moving field, the paper will reflect on where we are now; however, because of the impact of the RQF, the University of Melbourne's strategic plan, and the implementation of new repository software, changes are to be expected."