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OR2010 Madrid

Aug 02, 2010 by Louise Harrington

The 5th International Conference on Open Repositories was recently held in Madrid this year, and as part of our dissemination programme, the I-WIRE team (Scott, myself, Repository Manager Tracey and Technical Lead Jim) attended. We contributed a poster on ‘Integrating the Institutional Repository with a Portal Environment’, and Scott and Jim gave a presentation on the technical challenge of building a portlet version of the institutional repository ORCA. We were pleased with the reception of both, and the team made valuable contacts with other developers and projects. We all very much enjoyed Madrid – a beautiful city which we wished we could have explored more of (although we did make it to the Prado and to the Bernabeu stadium on the night of the World Cup semi-final!)

 

The conference was of value to us as a team, as what attending the conference, listening to the papers, and reading the posters brought home to us is that the objective of the I-WIRE Project is unprecedented and specific. Ideas and concepts that repository managers and developers are currently preoccupied with, and the most obvious buzzwords, were: impact, co-operation, collaboration, access, preservation, open access, research outputs, engagement, performance measurement, mandates (are they necessary?), research information systems, and data management systems.

 

In other I-WIRE news: we are entering a busy phase of our project, with various show and tells of the portlet scheduled for colleagues and for academic schools during August. We are starting work on our evaluation activities, and are considering attendance at the Repository Fringe event in Edinburgh.

Posted by Louise Harrington @ 03:34 PM BST [ Comments [0] ] Permalink

An Update from I-WIRE

Apr 20, 2010 by Louise Harrington

We haven't blogged for a while, so this is to give an update on where we are at the moment.

We are coming to the end of our 3rd design iteration; just one more iteration and set of User Stories to go, and then we will be asking the Project Management Group to approve our findings and design at the next board meeting in May. Then its on to WorkPackage 4, the Technical Development Phase. We have a meeting with the Research Administrator and two IT developers from one of our partner schools today, so are hoping for useful feedback on the current design.

We are also hoping to soon hear whether our poster proposal has been accepted for the Open Repositories International Conference that is taking place in Madrid in July - fingers crossed!

Posted by Louise Harrington @ 01:12 PM BST [ Comments [0] ] Permalink


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