Typology

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Contents 1 Typology of repositories 1.1 Content 1.2 Coverage 1.3 Function 1.4 User 1.5 Policy 1.6 Infrastructure 2 Additional resources 3 Examples 3.1 National 3.2 Institutional 3.3 Personal 3.4 Journal 3.5 Departmental 3.6 Inter-institutional 3.7 International 3.8 Commerical 3.9 Domain/subject-based 3.10 Public 3.11 Laboratory 3.12 Organisation

Typology of repositories

Extended from:

Heery, Rachel and Anderson, Sheila. Digital Repositories Review, UKOLN and AHDS, 2005 (Final version), section 3

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/digital-repositories-review-2005.pdf

with reference to

Blinko, Kerry and McLean, Neil. 'A 'Cosmic' View of the Repositories Space (Wheel of Fortune)', 2004

http://www.rubric.edu.au/extrafiles/wheel/main.swf

Margaryan, Anoush , Currier, Sarah , Littlejohn, Allison, Nicol, David. Report on Learning Communities and Repositories, Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories, 2006

http://www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR/CDLORdeliverable1_learningcommunitiesreport.doc

Content

By Content type:

• Research and/or experimental data; datasets
  • Raw research data
  • Derived research data
• E-theses
  • PhD
  • MA, MSc
  • MPhil
  • Undergraduate
• Eprints and related scholarly works (as defined by Eprints Application Profile)
  • Pre-print journal/conference papers
  • Peer-reviewed final drafts of journal/conference papers
  • Working or discussion papers
• Original publications
  • Books
  • Book chapters
  • Institutional or departmental reports, including technical reports
• Teaching materials
  • Learning objects
  • Assessment items
• Corporate records (staff and student records, licences etc)
• Multimedia
• Images
• Museum, library, archive objects

Extended,

• Digitized content
• Born digital content
• Metadata only

Coverage

By Coverage:

• Personal (author's personal archive)
• Journal (output of a single journal or group of journals)
• Departmental
• Institutional
• Inter-institutional (regional/consortial)
• National
• International
• Commerical
• Domain/subject-based
• Public
• Laboratory
• Organisation (e.g. Learned Society)

Function

By Function:

• Resource discovery and location
  • Enhanced access to resources
  • Subject access to resources
• Preservation of digital resources
• New modes of dissemination/publication
• Asset management
• Sharing and re-use of resources
• Scholarly communication
• Commerce

User

By target user group and/or contributor:

• Learners
• Teachers
• Researchers
• Administrators

Policy

By business model or policy:

• Curation
  • Curated
  • Non-curated

• Persistance
  • Persistent archival
  • Persistent dynamic
  • Ephemeral

• Access
  • Open access
  • Controlled access
  • Self-registration

• Deposit
  • Open deposit
  • Controlled deposit
  • Self-registration

• Rights enforcement
  • Public domain
  • Some rights reserved
  • Most rights reserved
  • All rights reserved

• Workflow
  • Moderated
  • Unmoderated

Infrastructure

By infrastructure:

• Federated
• Centralised
• Decentralised
• Peer-to-peer

Additional resources

This typology of repositories has been used as the basis for the following deliverable from PerX:

Macleod, Roddy and Moffat, Malcolm. Engineering Digital Repositories Landscape Analysis, and Implications for PerX Version 1.0 (10/11/05)
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/perx/analysis.htm

The CDLOR project is developing a typology of learning communities that use repositories of teaching and learning materials. Their first deliverable is a report based on desk research and initial stakeholder consultation, which outlines the problems of developing such a typology, as well as giving an early typology of dimensions of communities rather than a typology of discrete community types, similar to the Cosmic Wheel of Fortune's breakdown of dimensions or characteristics of repositories noted in the Ecology section:

McLean, Neil. 'The Ecology of Repository Services: A Cosmic View'. Presentation given at ECDL 2004, University of Bath.
http://www.ecdl2004.org/presentations/mclean/

Animated presentation of the 'wheel' in action:
http://www.rubric.edu.au/extrafiles/wheel/main.swf

Examples

National

• AHDS (http://www.ahds.ac.uk/)
• NERC Data Centres, e.g. the British Atmospheric Data Centre (http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/)
• UKDA (http://www.ukda.ac.uk)
• NDAD (National Digital Archive of Datasets)

Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/
IESR identifier: http://purl.org/poi/iesr.ac.uk/1088607373-15883

Content: Multimedia; Images; Datasets; Museum, library, archive objects;
Content (extended): Digitized; Born Digital
Coverage: National
Function: Resource discovery and location; Preservation
User: Learners; Teachers; Researchers
Policy: Curated; Moderated; Some Rights Reserved; Controlled Access; Controlled Deposit
Infrastructure: Unknown

Institutional

• Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA)
• Birkbeck ePrints
• Birmingham Eprints Service
• Bristol Repository of Scholarly Eprints (ROSE)
• Cadair, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
• Cardiff ePrints Caerdydd
• Cranfield QUEprints
• DSpace @ Cambridge
• DSpace at Bromley College
• DSpace at the London School of Economics Library
• Durham e-Prints
• e-Prints Soton
• e-space at Manchester Metropolitan University (e-space at MMU)
• Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)
• Glasgow DSpace Service
• Glasgow ePrints Service
• Imperial Eprints
• King's Eprints Archive (KCL eprints)
• L-Space - London South Bank University
• Lancaster E-Prints
• Loughborough University Institutional Repository
• LSE Research Online
• Middlesex University Digital Repository
• Newcastle University Library E-Print Pilot
• Nottingham eDissertations
• Nottingham ePrints
• Nottingham eTheses
• Oxford Eprints
• Royal Holloway Research Online
• School of Oriental and African Studies Eprints Repository
• StÆprints - St Andrews Eprints
• Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde Institutional Repository
• The Open University Library's Eprints Archive
• UniS Scholarship Online, University of Surrey
• UCL Eprints (University College London Eprints)
• University of Portsmouth Eprints Archive
• University of Stirling Digital Repository

Edinburgh Research Archive
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/

Content: Eprints and related scholarly works; Original publications; Theses
Coverage: Institutional
Function: Resource discovery and location
User: Researchers
Policy: Non-Curated; Moderated; Open Access; Controlled Deposit; Some Rights Reserved
Infrastructure: Centralised

Personal

Ted Nelson's EPrint Archive, University of Southampton (Soton)

Journal

• Papers of Surrealism (http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/papers/index.html) - Published by the AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies
• Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica (http://www.actavetscand.com/)

See the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for more open access journals.

Departmental

• DCS Publications Archive (http://publications.dcs.shef.ac.uk/)
• Faculty of Technology ePrints Service - University of Lincoln
• Modern Languages Publications Archive (MLPA) Nottingham
• University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Eprints Archive
• University of Warwick Centre for Scientific Computing
• MIMS EPrints, Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), University of Manchester
• Queen's Papers on Europeanisation & ConWEB, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast

Inter-institutional

• White Rose Consortium ePrints Repository

International

• ArXiv (http://arxiv.org/)

Commerical

• IET Digital Library (http://www.ietdl.org/)
• Elsevier Science Direct (http://www.sciencedirect.com/)

Domain/subject-based

• Agentlink Clearinghouse (http://eprints.agentlink.org/)
• Cogprints (Cognitive Sciences ePrint Archive) (http://cogprints.org/)
• ArXiv (http://arxiv.org/)
• PubMedCentral (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/)
• Teaching and Learning Research Programme TLRP Publications
• Mathematics in Industry Information Service Eprints Archive
• WWW Conferences Archive

Public

• Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/)

Laboratory

• R4L (development project)

Organisation

• PubMedCentral (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/)
• IET Digital Library (http://www.ietdl.org/)
• Elsevier Science Direct (http://www.sciencedirect.com/)
• CCLRC ePublication Archive (http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/)
• Research Findings Register, United Kingdom Department of Health