RIOXX: Developing Repository Metadata Guidelines : JISC

"Requirements from research funders, users and those seeking to exploit repository content in various ways have led to a conclusion that there would be tangible benefits if UK repositories were to expose a more consistent set of metadata.  Building on the RIO Extension Report, there were clear use cases from stakeholders to develop an application profile for interoperability; to allow consistency and quality  in the sharing of metadata between institutions, funders, and publishers: 1)Funders want to track outputs associated with their grants 2)Institutions want to track outputs associated with their researchers 3)Researchers want to have their admin burden reduced, and to track their own outputs 4)Publishers, data archives, repositories, funders and others (ie, places where researchers put things/information) want to provide services based on good quality data 5)Support stated central government policy for transparency and accountability in public finances ...  Aim... The aim of the work is to enable open access repositories in the UK to more consistently expose the common metadata fields about outputs from research-funding and, in particular, to expose metadata relating to funding and access-levels..."