Alan Cope (De Montfort University) – EXPLORER (create workflows and processes to enable the embedding of the DMU repository within the DMU research systems and processes)

EXPLORER EMBEDDING EXISTING & PROPRIETARY LEARNING IN AN OPEN-SOURCE REPOSITORY TO EVOLVE NEW RESOURCES

DORA DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ARCHIVE
Dspace
2004 - Established
2007 - Fully operational service
2008 - Full time Repository Officer
Contains 4,500 records (mostly metadata only)

ISSUES
Low self depositing level
Least number of submissions by Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities
Limited integration with other DMU research processes and systems

EXPLORER
EXPLORER strand one:
Development and implementation of workflows and processes to enhance and embed DORA within the DMU research environment
Focus groups and questionnaires
Embed and Enrich projects

EXPLORER
EXPLORER strand two:
Adaptation and integration of tools to enlarge DORA and enable the deposit of a wider variety of outputs in line with REF2014.
Kultur, AIR, MePrints and IRRA

SURVEY AND FOCUS GROUPS
Conducted three focus groups
Carried out an online survey
81 respondents (nearly twice as many as expected)
Useful and imformative results

SURVEY RESULTS
Most respondents knew about DORA
The majority of output types produced by researchers were text based as expected
Non-text outputs types were very varied
Key services that would encourage usage would be statistics and the reuse of data held in DORA
Most respondents would be happy to submit a full text version
Suggested improvements including the look of DORA, search processes and the ability to amend records

ACTIONS
Use the results of the survey and focus groups along with the findings of the Enrich and Embed projects.
Creation of an updated process map
New single submission process
Improved advocacy plan including training going beyond the project period
Technical work has been reviewed in light of the survey results

TECHNICAL WORK
Key need identified: improved display of non-text items
Kultur plug-in provides ideal functionality but cannot be directly imported into Dspace
Currently using existing code from the Dspace community to enable Kultur like functionality within DORA.
Video is now working – currently looking at other (simpler) media types

NEW UNIVERSITY WEBSITE
DORA is to be integrated further with the new university website – a requirement confirmed by the survey results
It is intended that DORA will feed outputs to new individual researcher profiles
Currently looking at the functionality from the AIR, IRRA and Meprints projects which may be appropriate to facilitate this.

DORA AND THE REF
Testing has shown the CERIF4REF plugin works with DORA.
Need to review what is pulled out using this tool – this may require some inputs from IRRA.
Further testing and modification of metadata may be required.

SUMMARY
Survey was very successful and has provided much useful information
Technical work has proved to be more complicated than expected but will provide useful functionality to all Dspace users on completion
Integration work is underway with the development of new process and documentation

CONTACT
Alan Cope (Repository Officer) [email_address]
Elizabeth Lunt (Project Manager) [email_address]
www.dora.dmu.ac.uk
http://explorer.our.dmu.ac.uk/ project blog

Alan Cope (De Montfort University) – EXPLORER (create workflows and processes to enable the embedding of the DMU repository within the DMU research systems and processes)

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