DepositMOre: new deposit tools follow the content – DepositMOre
eekilcer@gmail.com's bookmark collection 2012-12-10
Summary:
"...Where DepositMO developed new deposit tools, DepositMOre is intended to be about applying those tools to test if they can result in a measurable increase in content for real repositories – within 6 months – because that is what the JISC call for projects specified. We are learning early in this work that in the era of ‘big data’ institutions are identifying eligible content by their researchers in external sources and finding they need help to import this content to their repositories, that is, the deposit tools follow the content rather than the other way round...So the emphasis in DepositMOre is on tools for content discovery, of extant content that should have a copy in a repository, and the means of simplifying the heavy lifting - and thus saving time - of deposit "