EPrints Update, Les Carr, University of Southampton. Presented as part of Repository Fringe 2014, 30-31st July 2014, Edinburgh

2. EPrints
State
of
Na/on
In
our
15th
year
(sw)
And
our
10th
year
(service)

3. Where
Are
We
Now?
and
where
are
we
going?
• EPrints
Services
– In
University
of
Southampton
• Repository
ac/vity
in
a
state
of
flux
– Mandate
compliance!
– Research
repor/ng!
– Big
Data!
– CRIS!
– Innova/on
vs
business

4. E
EPrints
Timeline
(1994
–
2010s)

5. EPrints
Services
HQ
in
Web
Science
research
labs
at
the
University
of
Southampton

6. EPrints
Services
Network
Doctoral
Training
Centre
Web
Science
Ins/tute
Open
Data
Ins/tute
Web
Science
SoFWIREd
ERCIM
Trust
Digital
Economy
Catapult
W3C
WAIS

7. Who
Are
We
Now?
• Les
Carr
academic
lead
• John
Darlington
University
business
manager
• Sheridan
Brown
sales
and
marke4ng
• Adam
Field
business
&
community
rela4ons
mgr
• Kelly
Terrell
project
management,
OER
lead
• Jus/n
Bradley
infrastructure
mgr,
specialist
projects
• Seb
Francois
technical
architect
• Jiadi
Yao
support
&
new
builds
• Will
Fyson
support
&
new
builds
• Nawar
Halabi
projects

8. Who
Are
EPrints
Now?
• What
are
the
team
doing?
– Hos/ng
about
70
repositories
– Suppor/ng
Open
Access
repositories
for
about
100
ins/tu/ons
• UK,
France,
Switzerland,
Austria,
Germany,
Australia,
South
Africa,
US,
Canada
– Maintaining
the
core
so_ware
– Developing
new
versions
• Why
are
they
doing
it?
– Not
for
profit
– To
support
the
Open
Access
agenda
– To
build
up
and
support
the
Repository
Community

9. Recent
&
future
developments
• IRStats2
v1.0
released
• EPrints4
developments
• Improved
search
with
Xapian
• Integra/on
with
ROS
&
capture
of
projects
and
funders
data
• Towards
Repository
’16

10. Recent
&
future
developments
• “We’ve
heard
you!”
– Scalability
issues
(browse
pages)
– Search
not
always
accurate
– Limited
UI
interac/ons
– EPrints3
built
from
many
blocks
–
/me
for
refactoring
– Rising
interests
in
complementary
domains
(funders,
projects,
data)

11. The
EPrints
Path
Ahead
To
actual
business
requirements
From
JISC
InnovaCon
projects

12. What
is
EPrints
For?
Research
AcCvity
Data
Collec/on
Data
Analysis
Research
Business
Research
Management
Research
Processes
Research
Impact
Research
Content
Research
Educa/onal
Publica/ons
Resources
Scien/fic
Data

13. What
is
EPrints
For?
• Suppor/ng
your
researchers
• Suppor/ng
your
research
data
• Suppor/ng
your
research
outputs
• Suppor/ng
your
research
outcomes
&
impact
• Suppor/ng
your
research
managers

14. What
is
EPrints
For?
• Suppor/ng
your
researchers
• Suppor/ng
your
research
data
• Suppor/ng
your
research
outputs
• Suppor/ng
your
research
outcomes
&
impact
• Suppor/ng
your
research
managers
…
• Suppor/ng
librarians

15. What
Is
EPrints
4?
4
It’s
4
open
access,
publica/ons
repositories,
research
repor/ng
It’s
4
open
scien/fic
data,
big
data,
data
science,
analysis
workflows
It’s
4
open
educa/onal
resources,
video
handling,
MOOCs
It’s
4
research
management
repor/ng
and
ins/tu/onal
marke/ng
It’s
4
informa/on
management,
project
and
funding
data
It’s
4
facili/es
informa/on
management
It’s
for
the
data
driven
university

16. EPrints
Engineering
• Stripping
EPrints
back
to
its
core
data
management
engine
• Tuning
it
for
speed,
efficiency,
scale
and
flexibility
Sébas/en
François,
EPrints4
lead
developer

17. EPrints4
• Not
a
rewrite
of
the
so_ware!
• Making
the
core
as
generic
as
possible
for
re-­‐
use
(OER,
data,
…)
• Decoupling
the
different
modules
(MVC)
• Modernizing
the
UI
elements:
– New
tools
have
emerged
– Support
for
on-­‐line
form
valida/ons

18. EPrints4
• 11,000
lines
of
code
added
to
the
source
over
the
last
9
months
• Improved
integra/on
with
Xapian
• DB
transac/ons,
memcached,
fine-­‐grain
ACL’s,
…
• Can
run
without
a
UI
at
all:
service
oriented
• But
it’s
berer
with
one:
Bootstrap
(style),
jQuery
(interac/ons)
&
Mustache
(templa/ng)

19. Towards
Repository’16
• IR’s
must
integrate
new
concepts
for
REF2020,
OA
Compliancy
&
ROS/ResearchFish
reports
• JISC
Repository
Shared
Services
• Capture
of
Projects,
Funders
data
from
various
sources
• Integra/on
with
new
external
services

20. Towards
Repository
’16
• OA
Compliancy,
capture
of
Projects/Funders
data:
project
started
with
Uni’s
of
Southampton
&
Reading
• First
submission
to
ROS
completed
for
UoS
earlier
this
year
• IR
can
import
from
ROS,
Gateway
to
Research,
internal
systems
and
link
data:
– Publica/ons
are
linked
to
Projects
and
Funders
– Users
are
linked
to
Projects
and
Funders
(PI,
CoI,
…)
• Development
of
a
Generic
Repor/ng
Framework
for
ROS
&
for
easily
add
new
reports
to
EPrints
(based
on
the
REF2014
plug-­‐in)

21. Towards
Repository
’16
• Other
services/systems:
– IRUS-­‐UK:
released
on
Bazaar
– Publica/ons
Router:
protocol
na/ve
to
EPrints
(SWORD)
+
importers
on
Bazaar
– ORCID:
proof
of
concept
released
on
Bazaar
– RIOXX:
v1
implemented
–
awai/ng
new
specs
for
v2
– WoK/Scopus
imports:
in
EPrints
core
– OA
end-­‐to-­‐end
project:
EPrints
Services
are
partners
• These
features
push
EPrints
towards
being
a
de-­‐facto
CRIS-­‐
light
system

22. Bringing
together
key
repository
services
to
deliver
a
connected
naConal
infrastructure
to
support
OA
22

23. Support
for
Integra/on
• Repositories
to
implement
-­‐
patches,
scripts
and
plug-­‐ins
produced
by
repository
shared
services.
Support
is
being
planned
via:
• Repository
Support
Project
(RSP)
• Planning
co-­‐ordina/on
with
plauorm-­‐specific
support
through
EPrints
Services,
the
DSpace
community
and
Fedora.
Title
of
presenta/on
00/00/2013
23

24. Repositories
=
Science
+
Web
+
Praxis
• Repositories
aren’t
a
thing
but
a
performance
– the
crea/on
of
a
network
of
informa/on
by
networks
of
research
professionals
• Repositories
aren’t
invented
by
developers,
– they
are
being
invented
by
all
of
us
as
we
gradually
adapt
our
tools
and
change
our
prac/ce.
The
web
both
shapes
and
is
shaped
by
society.
There
is
a
gap
between
the
‘script’
proposed
by
a
technology
and
what
it
actually
becomes
in
prac/ce.
Co-­‐consCtuCon

25. Librarians
MediaCng
New
PracCce
Not
just
enforcing
historic
norms,
but
s/mula/ng
new
prac/ce
to
emerge
• Copyright
• Openness
• Intellectual
Property
• Privacy
• Crea/vity
• Science
2.0

26. EPrints
Futures
• Capacity
to
handle
current
and
emerging
open
informa/on
agendas,
policies
and
mandates
• Support
for
current
and
emerging
research
prac/ces
and
management
– open
access
–
data
cita/on
–
open
educa/on
– CRIS
–
open
science
–
MOOCs
• Modern
responsive
user
experience
• Easy
upgrade
path
with
EPrints
3
so_ware