This is the UK Web Focus blog, written by Brian Kelly, UKOLN. UKOLN is a national centre of expertise in digital information management, based at the University of Bath. UKOLN is funded by the JISC.
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Naming Conventions For Institutional Repositories: Lessons from CORE
Posted on 21 February 2013
The CORE (COnnecting REpositories) Project Whilst preparing a follow-up post on institutional repositories I started to explore the data which has been collected by the JISC-funded CORE project. The CORE (COnnecting REpositories) project aims to “facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems“. The CORE Web site, which was developed at the Open University, provides access to […]
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Embedded Metadata in PDFs Hosted in Institutional Repositories: An Inside-Out & Outside-In View
Posted on 4 January 2013
PDF Metadata – Why Is it So Poor? PDF metadata – why so poor? asked Ross Mounce in a blog post published on New Year’s eve. In the post Ross expressed surprise that although ”with published MP3 files of audio you get rather good metadata … the results from a little preliminary survey of academic publisher PDF metadata” were poor: […]
Posted in Repositories, Web2.0 | 21 Comments »
Open Practices for Open Repositories
Posted on 29 October 2012
Background Open Access Week, which took place last week, was a busy period for me. Not only did I give talks on how social media can enhance access to research papers hosted in institutional repositories at the universities of Exeter, Salford and Bath, I also wrote accompanying posts which were published on the Networked Researcher […]
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Repositories
Posted on 29 August 2012
The following posts have been published on the UK Web Focus on areas relating to institutional repositories. Summary: In 5 posts published between June 2011 and August 2012 I have provided examples of ways in which analyses of different aspects of institutional repositories can help provide a better understanding of their use which can help […]
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MajesticSEO Analysis of Russell Group University Repositories
Posted on 29 August 2012
Investigation of SEO Rankings of Institutional Repositories There is a need “to investigate whether links [from popular social media services] are responsible for enhancing SEO rankings of resources hosted in institutional repositories” concluded the paper by myself and Jenny Delasalle which asked “Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?“. The importance of SEO rankings for […]
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Open Metrics for Open Repositories
Posted on 10 July 2012
Later today Nick Sheppard will present a paper entitled “Open Metrics for Open Repositories” at the Open Repositories 2012 conference. This paper, which was written my myself, Nick, Jenny Delasalle, Mark Dewey, Owen Stephens, Gareth Johnson and Stephanie Taylor, describes the importance of metrics for institutional repositories for a number of stakeholders, including funders at […]
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Paper Accepted for OR12: Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?
Posted on 3 July 2012
I’m pleased to say that a paper by myself and Jenny Delasalle, Academic Services Manager (Research) at the University of Warwick, which asked “Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?” has been accepted for the Open Repositories conference, OR 2012. This paper, which is available from the University of Bath institutional repository, is based […]
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Open Metrics for Open Repositories
Posted on 27 June 2012
Title: Open Metrics for Open Repositories Authors: Kelly, B., Sheppard, N., Delasalle, J., Dewey, M., Stephens, O., Johnson, G. and Taylor, S. Conference: Open Repositories 2012 Citation: Open Metrics for Open Repositories, Kelly, B., Sheppard, N., Delasalle, J., Dewey, M., Stephens, O., Johnson, G. and Taylor, S. Open Repositories 2012 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland. 9 – 13 July 2012. […]
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Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?
Posted on 27 June 2012
Title: Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? Authors: Kelly, B. and Delasalle, J. Conference: Open Repositories 2012 Citation: Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? Kelly, B. and Delasalle, J., OR12, Edinburgh, UK. 9-13 July 2012. http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30227/ Author Details The co-authors of this paper are: Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath. ORCID: 0000-0001-5875-8744 Jenny […]
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What Can We Learn From Download Statistics for Institutional Repositories?
Posted on 6 July 2011
Gathering Quantitative Evidence I am involved in work on looking at ways in evidence-based approaches can make use of metrics in order to understand best practices and demonstrate impact. A series of surveys have been carried out which have sought to gather quantitative evidence of use of a variety of services and, by publishing the findings on this […]
Posted in Evidence, Repositories | 6 Comments »
A Pilot Survey of File Formats in Institutional Repositories
Posted on 14 June 2011
Background A recent post provided A Pilot Survey of the Numbers of Full-Text Items in Institutional Repositories. The survey made use of the advanced search functionality of ePrints repository software in order to gather data on the numbers of full-text items. Unfortunately it was found that most repositories had not configured the software to provide such […]
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A Pilot Survey of the Numbers of Full-Text Items in Institutional Repositories
Posted on 6 June 2011
Background A recent post on How Do We Measure the Effectiveness of Institutional Repositories? sought to address the question of “What makes a good repository?” which was raised on the JISC-Repositories JISCMail list. The post outlined possible metrics which could be used for identifying the effectiveness of institutional repositories based on the intended purposes of a […]
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How Do We Measure the Effectiveness of Institutional Repositories?
Posted on 24 February 2011
The Need for Metrics How might one measure the effectiveness of an institutional repository? An approach which is arising from various activities I am involved in related to evidence, value and impact is based on the need to identify the underlying purpose(s) of services and to gather evidence related to how such purposes are […]
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Web Accessibility, Institutional Repositories and BS 8878
Posted on 24 January 2011
Review of Work on Accessibility and Institutional Repositories Back in December 2006 I wrote a post on Accessibility and Institutional Repositories in which I suggested that it might be “unreasonable to expect hundreds in not thousands of legacy [PDF] resources to have accessibility metadata and document structures applied to them, if this could be demonstrated to be […]
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Is It Too Late To Exploit RSS In Repositories?
Posted on 22 December 2010
A few years ago we had discussions about ways in which information about UKOLN peer-reviewed papers could be more effectively presented. We asked “Could we provide a timeline view? Or how about a Wordle display which illustrates the variety of subject areas researchers at UKOLN are engaged in?” The answer was yes we could, but […]
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EPub Format For Papers in Repositories
Posted on 4 August 2010
EPub as a Format for Use in Institutional Repositories? In a post entitled “File Formats For Papers In Your Institutional Repository” I suggested that depositing a HTML version of a paper might have various advantages over the PDF format which is the norm. But in light of the growing importance of mobile devices wouldn’t it seem appropriate […]
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Automated Accessibility Analysis of PDFs in Repositories
Posted on 30 July 2010
Back in December 2006 I wrote a post on Accessibility and Institutional Repositories in which I suggested that it might be “unreasonable to expect hundreds in not thousands of legacy [PDF] resources to have accessibility metadata and document structures applied to them, if this could be demonstrated to be an expensive exercise of only very limited potential […]
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Institutional Repositories and the Costs Of Doing It Right
Posted on 29 September 2008
There’s an interesting discussion taking place on the JISC-Repositories JISCMail list, following a post from Jenny Delasalle who asked: Do any of you know how long it takes you to process a single item, before it is available as a live record in your repository? Please can you share that information with the list? Jenny provided details of […]
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Distributed Discussions On Repositories
Posted on 19 February 2008
The Repositories Debate Andy Powell recently wrote a post on the eFoundations blog about his opening plenary talk at the VALA 2008 conference. His post generated interesting discussions and debate amongst those involved in repository activities in the UK and the wider community. Paul Miller was in agreement with Andy’s comments in his post on […]
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CRIG Teleconference Chats On ‘Repositories And Other Services’
Posted on 6 December 2007
I recently took part in one of a series of teleconference chats organised by the JISC-funded CRIG (Common Repository Interfaces Working Group) project. The project organised a day of tele-conferences on 8th November 2007. The aim of the day was to facilitate a “discussion between members on how repositories might be improved (bluesky thinking)“. A […]
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Accessibility and Institutional Repositories
Posted on 12 December 2006
There has been some discussion on the JISC-Repositories JISCMail list (under the confusing subject line of “PLoS business models, global village”) on the issue of file formats for depositing scholarly papers. Some people (including myself) feel that open formats such as XHTML should be the preferred format; others feel that the effort required in creating […]
Posted in Accessibility, Repositories | 9 Comments »
Preservation of Web Resources: The JISC PoWR Project
Posted on 20 February 2013
Title: Preservation Of Web Resources: The JISC PoWR Authors: Brian Kelly, Kevin Ashley, Marieke Guy, Ed Pinsent, Richard Davis and Jordon Hatcher Conference: iPres 2008 Citation: Preservation Of Web Resources: The JISC PoWR, Brian Kelly, Kevin Ashley, Marieke Guy, Ed Pinsent, Richard Davis and Jordon Hatcher. iPres 2008 Conference, British Library, London. 29 – 30 September 2008. <http://opus.bath.ac.uk/12110/> Author […]
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Why I’m Evaluating ResearchGate
Posted on 6 February 2013
A PDF Repository for my Research Publications In a recent post which explained Why I’m Now Embedding ORCID Metadata in PDFs I described my intentions to ensure that my research papers contains rich embedded metadata to held enhance the discoverability of the publications, ensure that authorship is asserted (by embedding the ORCID ID of the authors of the […]
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Evolving Rules of Grammar
Posted on 31 January 2013
Is “Why every researcher should sign up for their ORCID ID” Grammatically Incorrect? Yesterday a post of mine entitled “Why every researcher should sign up for their ORCID ID” was republished on the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog. The announcement made by @lseimpactblog was subsequently widely retweeted, as illustrated. It was subsequently pointed out […]
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What Could Facebook’s New Search System Offer Researchers?
Posted on 16 January 2013
Facebook’s Graph Search Beta Targets Google Yesterday my Twitter stream was full of tweets about Facebook’s announcement that they were Introducing Graph Search Beta - and this morning the headline Facebook’s Search for Supremacy featured on the front page of the Metro newspaper. The significance of this announcement can be gauged by the BBC news headline: Facebook’s […]
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Reflections on the Discussion on the Quality of Embedded Metadata in PDFs
Posted on 11 January 2013
The Quality of Metadata Embedded in PDFs The recent post on Embedded Metadata in PDFs Hosted in Institutional Repositories: An Inside-Out & Outside-In View generated a fair amount of discussion, with ~17 comments on the post itself but perhaps more significantly, a more interactive discussion on Twitter, with relevant contributions being made by @mrnick, @neilstewart, @rmounce, @carusb, @pj_webster, @emmatonkin, @MikeTaylor and @wrap_ed, […]
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Announcement: UKOLN – Looking Ahead
Posted on 21 December 2012
An official announcement was published yesterday on the UKOLN home page: Following nearly 20 years of supporting Jisc innovation activities, UKOLN is now looking ahead to new challenges. In response to the Wilson review of Jisc, the organisation has confirmed that it will only provide core funding to the UKOLN Innovation Support Centre, up to […]
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Guest Post: Reflections on Open Access Week 2012 at the University of Oxford
Posted on 4 December 2012
During Open Access Week a series of guest blog posts were published on this blog in which three repository managers shared their findings of SEO analyses of their institutional repositories. As a follow-up to those posts, which were motivated by a commitment to openness and sharing which is prevalent in the repository community, this post […]
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Understanding the Limits of Altmetrics: Slideshare Statistics
Posted on 8 November 2012
About AltMetrics Cricketers like statistics, as we know from the long-standing popularity of Wisden, the cricketing almanack which was first published in 1854. Researchers have similar interests with, in many cases, their profession reputation being strongly influenced by statistics. For researchers the importance of citation data is now being complemented by a new range of metrics […]
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