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National Repository Infrastructure and Open Access Challenges: The Croatian Perspective

Authors : Ivana Matijevi, Ivona Milovanović

Repositories are one of the key infrastructure components in achieving the goals of open science. In response to legal obligations, emerging trends, and challenges in open science, several Croatian institutions jointly established a national digital repository infrastructure in 2015 – the DABAR system (Digital Academic Archives and Repositories).

Its purpose is to provide a unified space for storing, preserving, and ensuring open access to the scholarly output of scientists and institutions within the Croatian science and higher education system.

After nearly a decade of operation, it is crucial to assess the role of this infrastructure today and evaluate whether it has successfully embodied the core principles of open science – openness, transparency, and visibility of scientific and Croatian scholarly output. This paper presents the Croatian national repository infrastructure as a case study, offering insights for comparison with similar national infrastructures.

The study employs a quantitative research approach, divided into two parts to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state and future development of repositories in Croatia. The first part analyses quantitative data and repository statistics. The DABAR infrastructure currently comprises 182 repositories and hosts over 249,000 digital objects, yet only slightly more than 50% of them are openly accessible.

To investigate the reasons behind the high percentage of restricted or closed-access objects, a survey was conducted among institutions that primarily deposit such items.

The findings of this research contribute to a broader discussion on open science practices and repository management at both European and international levels. The results will serve as a foundation for further improvements to the infrastructure, the promotion of open science principles, and the development of systematic support mechanisms to encourage greater accessibility and transparency in scholarly communication.

URL : National Repository Infrastructure and Open Access Challenges: The Croatian Perspective

DOI : https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.23061

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Connecting Repositories to the Global Research Community: A Re-Curation Process

Author : Ted Habermann

Over the last decade, significant changes have affected the work that data repositories of all kinds do. First, the emergence of globally unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs) has created new opportunities for repositories to engage with the global research community by connecting existing repository resources to the global research infrastructure. Second, repository use cases have evolved from data discovery to data discovery and reuse, significantly increasing metadata requirements.

To respond to these evolving requirements, we need retrospective and on-going curation, i.e. re-curation, processes that 1) find identifiers and add them to existing metadata to connect datasets to a wider range of communities, and 2) add elements that support reuse to globally connected metadata.

The goal of this work is to introduce the concept of re-curation with representative examples that are generally applicable to many repositories: 1) increasing completeness of affiliations and identifiers for organizations and funders in the Dryad Repository and 2) measuring and increasing FAIRness of DataCite metadata beyond required fields for institutional repositories.

These re-curation efforts are a critical part of reshaping existing metadata and repository processes so they can take advantage of new connections, engage with global research communities, and facilitate data reuse.

URL : Connecting Repositories to the Global Research Community: A Re-Curation Process

DOI : https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.739

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Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects

Authors : Gema Santos-Hermosa, Núria Ferran-Ferrer, Ernest Abadal

This article provides an overview of the current state of repositories of open educational resources (ROER) in higher education at international level. It analyses a series of educational indicators to determine whether ROER can meet the specific needs of the education context, and to clarify understanding of the reuse of open educational resources (OER) provided by ROER.

The aim of the study is to assess ROER by combining these two perspectives, and to form a basis for discussion among the universities that are responsible for these repositories.

The method was based on content analysis and consisted of two phases: an exploration of international sources, and an analysis of 110 ROER using the proposed set of indicators. The results focus on data from the analysis of ROER websites and some models of good practices.

They are presented according to three core dimensions for evaluating ROER: general factors to establish types of ROER, a focus on drivers for OER reuse, and a focus on educational aspects.

It was found that most of the ROER that included one or more of the proposed reuse indicators were created exclusively for educational resources. Educational aspects are not yet firmly embedded into ROER.

The few repositories that seem to have successfully included them are those that provide other educational metadata and use educational standards.

URL : http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3063/4300

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The Simple Publishing Interface (SPI)

The Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) is a new publishing protocol, developed under the auspices of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) workshop on learning technologies. This protocol aims to facilitate the communication between content producing tools and repositories that persistently manage learning resources and metadata. The SPI work focuses on two problems: (1) facilitating the metadata and resource publication process (publication in this context refers to the ability to ingest metadata and resources); and (2) enabling interoperability between various components in a federation of repositories.

This article discusses the different contexts where a protocol for publishing resources is relevant. SPI contains an abstract domain model and presents several methods that a repository can support. An Atom Publishing Protocol binding is proposed that allows for implementing SPI with a concrete technology and enables interoperability between applications.

URL : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september10/ternier/09ternier.html

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Automated Accessibility Analysis of PDFs…

Automated Accessibility Analysis of PDFs in Repositories : http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/automated-accessibility-analysis-of-pdfs-in%C2%A0repositories/

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Comparing Repository Types – Challenges …

Comparing Repository Types – Challenges and barriers for subject-based repositories, research repositories, national repository systems and institutional repositories in serving scholarly communication :
After two decades of repository development, some conclusions may be drawn as to which type of repository and what kind of service best supports digital scholarly communication, and thus the production of new knowledge. Four types of publication repository may be distinguished, namely the subject-based repository, research repository, national repository system and institutional repository. Two important shifts in the role of repositories may be noted. With regard to content, a well-defined and high quality corpus is essential. This implies that repository services are likely to be most successful when constructed with the user and reader uppermost in mind. With regard to service, high value to specific scholarly communities is essential. This implies that repositories are likely to be most useful to scholars when they offer dedicated services supporting the production of new knowledge. Along these lines, challenges and barriers to repository development may be identified in three key dimensions: a) identification and deposit of content; b) access and use of services; and c) preservation of content and sustainability of service. An indicative comparison of challenges and barriers in some major world regions such as Europe, North America and East Asia plus Australia is offered in conclusion.
URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0839

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Transforming repositories: from reposito…

Transforming repositories: from repository managers to institutional data managers :
URL : http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/20986/