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A repository in publishing, and especially in academic publishing, is a real or virtual facility for the deposit of academic publications, such as academic journal articles. Deposit of material in such a site may be mandatory for a certain group, such as a particular university's doctoral graduates in a thesis repository, or published papers from those holding grants from a particular government agency in a subject repository, or, sometimes, in their own institutional repository. Or it may be voluntary, as usually the case for technical reports at a university. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Repository)

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Microservices in (and beyond) Research Information Management

25 May 2012 - 3:37pm — Talat Chaudhri

Microservices: are they all that new?

Recently there has been something of a revival of interest in a small-scale development approach towards software design for repositories: microservices. This is far from an entirely new idea but seems to have been somewhat slow to develop in practice, even to date; a useful summary of the approach was given by Neil Jacobs back in 2010.

The business of unique identification

23 February 2012 - 11:58pm — Talat Chaudhri

What need is there for unique identifiers?

Put in relatively non-technical language, there is an increasing concern in information science in general to uniquely identify different things, organisations or people that could otherwise be confused, whether on the Internet or in the physical world. In technical terms, these are all referred to as resources (even if people might find it vaguely demeaning in normal language to be considered as such).

Confidence, and the business of persistent identification

28 October 2010 - 12:48pm — Paul Walk

The persistent identification of resources is a foundational element of the JISC Information Environment. There are several schemes and technologies available to support this, with one of the most prominently used in the JISC IE being the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Built on the Handle technology, the DOI, under the stewardship of the not-for-profit International DOI Foundation (IDF), adds the important element of collective commitment and management, based on straightforward business interests.

Aggregation and the Resource Discovery Taskforce vision

19 August 2010 - 12:43pm — Paul Walk

On Tuesday of this week, UKOLN convened a group of invited experts to discuss aggregation in the context of the Resource Discovery Taskforce's vision. The Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF), a joint JISC / RLUK venture, has summed up its vision:

DuraSpace

15 May 2009 - 12:03pm — Talat Chaudhri

The recent announcement of the merger of DSpace and Fedora Commons as

The collaborative research environment: publications management, CRIS systems and repositories

2 April 2009 - 4:41pm — Talat Chaudhri

Some months ago, I intended to write a post inspired by this post by Chris Rusbridge on CRIS systems.

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