Themes
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Introduction
'Themes' are an important concept across the Digital Repositories Programme, having a role in internal and external Synthesis, allowing us to gather together much of what is going on across projects, within the support team and further afield, in one easy to navigate place. Projects have already been clustered around particular overarching themes and from discussions within these Clusters, further key themes are surfacing. As the Programme continues, these thematic areas will act as a snapshot of cross-Programme activity and as the Programme draws to its close next year these themes will are offer a step towards a final synthesis. Themes also have other functions, acting as informational resources on particular topics (e.g. Identifiers), allowing us to identify connections across different areas, e.g. between elements of the Typology and different Stakeholders and communities and enabling us to see where reference models might be used across the repositories landscape.
This thematic analysis is based loosely on the OAIS model, using the concepts of functions, information, consumer/producer, management and the Designated Community therein. Additional reference has been made to the Repositories Review [1], the e-Framework [2] and individual project visits and documentation.
The themes are structured around 3 over-arching contexts: Human for the non-technical activities; Machine for the technical; and the External context where technical and service frameworks provide external infrastructure and references.
Human Context
Includes the following sub-themes, covering the repository landscape, its stakeholders, functions and entities.
Ecology and typology
Stakeholders and communities
- See the Stakeholders and communities page
Management and strategy
- See the Management and strategy page
- This theme contains the following sub-theme pages:
Personal resource management strategies
Functional model
- See the Functional model page
Information model
- See the Information model page
- This theme contains the following sub-theme pages:
eBank UK Dublin Core Application Profile
Eprints Application Profile
Practices, processes and workflows
- See the Practices processes workflows page
- This theme contains the following sub-theme pages:
User requirements
- See the User requirements page
- This theme contains the following sub-theme pages:
Scenarios and use cases
Workflows
Machine Context
Includes the following sub-themes, relating to the technical aspects of repositories.
Technology and technical infrastructure
- See the Technology and technical infrastructure page
- This theme contains the following sub-theme pages:
Identifiers
Deposit
Specs and standards used by projects
Repository and related software
External Context
Includes external activities, frameworks and infrastructures affecting repositories.
Frameworks
- See the Frameworks page
Reference models
- See the Reference models page
- This theme contains the following sub-theme pages:
