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Research Publishing at Swansea University

Research Publishing at Swansea University. Alexander Roberts a.l.roberts@swansea.ac.uk. The data – we want it all!. RAE 2008, Mini REF data 2011 All Research completed since 2008 – any type Details of all funded and non-funded projects Including Post Grad research

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Research Publishing at Swansea University

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  1. Research Publishing at Swansea University Alexander Roberts a.l.roberts@swansea.ac.uk

  2. The data – we want it all! • RAE 2008, Mini REF data 2011 • All Research completed since 2008 – any type • Details of all funded and non-funded projects • Including Post Grad research • Staff Ideas, notes, ‘flights of fancy’

  3. Departmental Research DBs Current Situation... XML Bespoke CMS Research Office DBs Personal Output DBs MS Excel MS Access

  4. The big idea... • Let’s build an in house content management system!

  5. What do we want it to do • Terminal 4 Web CMS integration • Cronfa – Dspace population • RSS feeds for staff research profiles • Twitter Feeds and facebook updates • Web Services, oData • Reporting Tools

  6. Consultation Phase 1 • Visiting – pick your friends • Talking • Listening • Working towards agreement

  7. Documentation • Agreed standards for recording information - schemas

  8. Discover Research Activity REF Submission Data Where we want to be... Discover Grants and Funding information Discover Research Partners SU Research Portal (Intranet) Discover Staff Research Profiles Central Research DB (SharePoint 2010) Google Scholar Cronfa - Repository (Extranet/DSpace) OAI search engines OAI Academic Repositories RSS feeds Any other web/file/feed output... corporate web pages twitter feeds t4 Content Management System (Extranet) Research Financial Data Research Project Progress MS Project Data Funding Bodies Data

  9. Built from the ground up • Talking and listening to staff and administration • Central Computing Services working together • Schools and Departments feeding into the process • Datasets: RAE 2008 data, Mini REF data 2011, plus much more

  10. Our system

  11. Simple form entry

  12. Support for MathML

  13. Automatic DOI resolution

  14. System Feature Summary • Simple form based application • Integrates with HR database • Features: DOI resolving, MathML • Ingest Formats: RSS, XML, Excel, Access, others • Provides Open Data Protocol (oData) endpoint (providing feeds to web CMS and personal RSS feeds)

  15. 2012 features • Automatic updates to DSpace via SWORD • Searchable (live) directory of research outputs and projects to encourage collaboration • Enhanced data visualisation tools for administrators

  16. Microsoft Pivot

  17. Contact me • Email: a.l.roberts@swansea.ac.uk • Twitter @karaktacus

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