| uk-aggregation |
Description |
UK Aggregation will provide technology for aggregating metadata and content from UK
institutional repositories to be used as a component of the Jisc Repository Shared
Services Infrastructure. The resulting aggregation will be used as a building block
to satisfy various use cases, such as (a) the provision of a centrally managed cache
of metadata and content for search engine optimisation, (b) the delivery of source
data
for text-mining from open access papers, (c) the monitoring of metadata (OpenAire,
RIOXX) or open access policy compliance (HEFCE. RCUK) or (d) the analysis of growth
and usage of repository data. In technical terms, the project will build on the existing
CORE aggregator, which is already largely in a service ready state. Therefore, the
project will largely focus on integration and interoperability of the aggregation
service with relevant services maintained by different stakeholders. It will consult
these stakeholders and propose an integration plan that will be realised in the next
stage (after the end of this project). Finally, the project team will, based on consultations
with Jisc, decide on the economical and governance structure under
which the service will operate in the future. |
