Nov 10, 2014
EPrints State of Na/on
In our 15th year (sw) And our 10th year (service)
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
E EPrints Timeline (1994 – 2010s)
EPrints Services HQ in Web Science research labs at the University of Southampton
EPrints Services Network Doctoral Training Centre
Web Science Ins/tute
Open Data Ins/tute
Web Science Trust ERCIM
Digital Economy Catapult
SoFWIREd
W3C
WAIS
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
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
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
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)
The EPrints Path Ahead
From JISC InnovaCon projects
To actual business requirements
What is EPrints For?
Research AcCvity
Data Collec/on
Data Analysis
Research Business Research
Management
Research Processes
Research Impact
Research Content Research
Publica/ons Educa/onal Resources
Scien/fic Data
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
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
What Is EPrints 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
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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
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
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)
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
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)
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
Bringing together key repository services to deliver a connected naConal infrastructure to support OA
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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.
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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
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
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