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Contents 1 Project management 2 Quality assurance 3 Evaluation plan 4 The user perspective 5 The technical perspective 6 Desk-based research 6.1 DSpace 6.2 Musings 7 References 7.1 Projects 7.2 General documentation 7.3 Software applications 7.4 Hosted services 7.5 Interoperability specifications 8 Appendix A - Source material

Project management

The ASK project is funded from May 2005 to May 2007 by the JISC Digital Repositories Programme.

The project is a collaboration between the Oxford University Computing Services and the UHI Millenium Institute.

The project is managed by Howard Noble.

• See the ASK project team to find out more about the people involved on the project.
• Please read the Executive summary.
• Take a look at an overview of the Project plan
• A detailed description the Tasks we are currently engaged in.
• The ASK Sustainability plan outlines ideas for keeping the project goals 'alive'.
• End of project meeting: The project showdown.

Quality assurance

• Always maintain a sandpit to allow users to experiment with the tools
• Always perform user testing and log bugs and features in the tracking software
• Perform Integration testing e.g. federated search, OAI-PMH, transfer for MODS and METS files. This will be achieved through supporting the JISC IE Testbed project
• Develop to Code quality guidelines
• Release code to SVN after no longer than 3 days local development
• Optimise deployment through automatic compilation tools e.g. Luntbuild

Evaluation plan

The formative Usability evaluation of ASK is being carried out by Liz Masterman. Tasks and responsibilities are:

• Develop the ASK Usability Evaluation Plan.
• Act as user advocate during programming: work iteratively with the developers responsible for the UI to comment on, and refine, their designs and agree guidelines/conventions that follow good HCI practice.
• Keep track of accessibility issues
• Track bug/enhancement requests in Mantis.
• Lead the usability evaluation.

Other pages relating to usability:

• Thorny Problems

The user perspective

In this section we focus on documenting the system from the perspective of how it will be used by learners, researchers, teachers, librarians and administrators.

• Find out why Usability Matters.
• Documenting requirements
• Repository Expert analysis
• Focus on specific domains:
  • Permissions
  • IPR
• Developing prototype User interfaces
• Documenting Thorny Problems
• Maintaining a Requirements clarification log.

The technical perspective

In this section we use the scenarios, use cases and expert analysis to document the reference model and technical design. The interested reader should see this paper by Scott Wilson, Kerry Blinco and Daniel Rehak to gain a background to the approach we are taking.

• Design
• Reference model
• Design issues log

Desk-based research

DSpace

DSpace.

Musings

Musings

References

Below are some links to resources that are informing the desk-based research effort.

(Please use google to find web links where not provided).

Projects

(This list is in no particular order)

• IBVRE: http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/ibvre/
• opendock project: http://www.opendockproject.org/
• Image Web: http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• JISC River project.
• JISC IEWG
• OpenDOAR: http://www.opendoar.org/
• aDORe: http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/bekaert/bekaert.html
• eBank: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/
• Fez: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/; http://www.apsr.edu.au/currentprojects/fez06.htm
• ARROW: http://arrow.edu.au/
• Open Office Bibliographic projects: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Dnw
• OSSW: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/
• JISC CD-LOR: http://www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR/
• MAMS: https://mams.melcoe.mq.edu.au/zope/mams/ especially Shibboleth research
• SAKAI-VRE: http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/SakaiVre/ShibbolethWebAuthIntegration and http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/SakaiVre

General documentation

(This list is in no particular order)

• OpenId: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID and versus Shibboleth: http://lists.aarnet.edu.au/pipermail/middle-l/2007-May/000164.html
• Web2.0 study: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digital_repositories/project_web2_and_policy.aspx
• Open access resource: http://openaccess-germany.de/de/startseite/homepage/
• Web services and performance testing: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsnavigator
• Publicly funded data is locked up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI
• Identity management: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001499/149992E.pdf
• The Map of Findability: http://www.greenchameleon.com/gc/blog_detail/the_kingdom_of_taxonomy/
• Shibboleth and WebDAV: http://www.esup-portail.org/consortium/espace/Stockage_2F/serveur/serveur_V4/media/ESUPWebDAV.pdf
• Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/report.pdf
  • Data information and curation: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/data.pdf
  • Preservation and curation: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/preservation.pdf
  • Search and navigation: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/search.pdf
  • Virtual research communities: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/vrc.pdf
  • Networks, compute and data storage: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/compute.pdf
  • AAA, middleware and DRM: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/aaa.pdf
• OpenId: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
• Overview of the e-framework: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_eframework/soa/
• Wikis and reading lists: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10849-wikipedia-links-used-to-build-smart-reading-lists.html
• Report on open source OMI-PMH compliant systems: https://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/131/1062/Repository%20Evaluation%20Document.pdf and https://eduforge.org/projects/oarinz/
• JORUM reports: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/publications/
• Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/prog/prog.jsp
• The technical, organisational and business models that could underpin user-facing services to be developed over UK: repositories http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories
• Federated search, harvesting and learning objects: http://www.cancore.ca/protocols_en.html
• Talking to management about repositories: http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/model_download.shtml
• Proquest and repositories: http://il.proquest.com/products_umi/digitalcommons/
• Social bookmarking: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_dictate
• Personal digital libraries and collections: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/beagrie/06beagrie.html
• Placing Our Stuff So We Can Find It Later: A Meta-Learning Essential: http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/october2003/*4
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee webcast: http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/
• Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index.html
• Shibboleth overview: http://www.switch.ch/aai/demo/demo_live.html
• The JISC Resource Discovery Landscape: a personal reflection on the JISC Information Environment and related activities: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/resource-discovery-review/jisc-resource-discovery-landscape.pdf
• The JISC Information Environment and Google: a discussion paper: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/jisc-ie/arch/ie-google/ie-google.pdf
• Connecting Collections: An overview of approaches, Norm Friesen 2006: http://www.cancore.ca/protocols_en.html
• 'Marketing' with Metadata: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/advocacy/exposingmetadata.htm
• PerX Project: http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/
• Guide to Institutional Repository software: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_Institutional_Repository_Software_v3.pdf
• Richard Poynder: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/institutional-repositories-and-little.html
• History of repositories: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/institutional-repositories-and-little.html
• Thom Hickey: http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2006/03/repository_comp.html]
• Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: http://orweblog.oclc.org/
• CETIS and repositories: http://metadata.cetis.ac.uk/implementations/
• Building communities around repositories: http://dspace.learningnetworks.org/bitstream/1820/28/1/21-35+Koper.pdf
• Checklist for certifying digital repositories: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20769
• SRW/U and OAI: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february05/sanderson/02sanderson.html
• Publishers, institutions and authors perspectives on repositories: http://www.researchinformation.info/rioctnov05repositories.html
• Building union catalogues: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/dovey/intro.html
• A reference model for resource aggregation for learning, education and training: [http://www.ieeeltsc.org/wg11CMI/ramlet/Pub/RAMLET_project_description.pdf
• The final report of the Research Support Libraries Group: http://www.rslg.ac.uk/
• Academic Institutional Repositories: Deployment Status in 13 Nations as of Mid 2005: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/westrienen/09westrienen.html

Software applications

• Apache Forrest: http://forrest.apache.org/
• Gigatribe: http://www.gigatribe.com/tour/accueil.php
• Project pad: http://projectpad.northwestern.edu/ppad2/index.html
• Fedora: http://www.fedora.info/
• ePrints: http://www.eprints.org/
• DSpace: http://www.dspace.org/
• Open Journal System: http://pkp.sfu.ca/
• Open repository: http://www.openrepository.com/
• SLIDE: http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/
• Lenya: http://lenya.apache.org/
• VUE: http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/
• Compendium: http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/download/download.htm
• FreeMind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• Lionshare: http://lionshare.its.psu.edu/main/
• Cocoon: http://cocoon.apache.org/
• ELGG: http://elgg.net/

Hosted services

(This list is in no particular order):

• Find a journal title to publish to: http://jinfo.lub.lu.se/
• Aspire federated search: http://aspire.demo.hostedbyfdi.net/opencms/opencms/
• Intute: http://www.intute.ac.uk/
• http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• Opendock designshare: http://designshare.opendocument.net/
• ARROW Discovery service: http://search.arrow.edu.au/apps/ArrowUI/
• opendoar: http://www.opendoar.org/search.php
• TechXtra: http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/
• PerX: http://www.engineering.ac.uk/
• netVibes: http://www.netvibes.com/
• ePrints demonstration service: http://demoprints.eprints.org/
• BUFVC: http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/aboutus/index.html
• Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
• Google base: http://base.google.com/
• Google labs: http://labs.google.com/
• BASE: [http://www.base-search.net
• Moving Image Archive: http://www.archive.org/
• RDN: http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
• IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/
• Atom Films: http://www.atomfilms.com/
• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/
• BBC backstage: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
• IESR registry of repositories: http://iesr.ac.uk/registry/entitylist.html
• OpenURL demonstrations services: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/openurl/
• Registering open access repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/
• Eastern Region Public Health Observatory: http://www.erpho.org.uk/
• ArchNet: http://archnet.org/lobby.tcl
• Writenote: http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/refman/writenote/
• del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/

Interoperability specifications

High interest:

• WebDAV along with DeltaV versioning
• METS: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
• MODS: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
• OpenURL: Overview;
• OAI: tutorial
• SRW/ SRU/ Z39.50: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/
• Shibboleth: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

Medium:

• FRBR: Allen Renear; FRBR Blog
• MPEG-21
• XACML

Monitor:

• BEPL
• VDEX
• RAMLET: Project site
• ODRL; discussion paper
• DOI
• PURL
• OAIS
• JSR 170
• JSR 168
• RDF
• OKI Digital Repository OSID
• JISC Deposit API initiative: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Deposit_API

Appendix A - Source material

This section provides links to archived material.

• Mapping the users' object model to the architecture
• Authentication via Shibboleth and Guan Xi
• The repository service
• The search service
• The users' object model and its mapping to the architecture
• Prototype User Interface development
• Glossary