Month: July 2012

The main idea of this blog post is to provide a summary of the CORE outputs produced over the last 9 months and report the lessons learned.

Outputs

The outputs can be divided into (a) technical, (b) content and service and (c) dissemination outputs.

(a) Technical outputs

According to our project management software, to this day, we have resolved 214 issues. Each issue corresponds to a new function or a fixed bug. In this section we will describe the new features and improvements we have developed. The technology on which the system is built has been decribed in our previous blog post. read more...

In the last six months, CORE has made a huge step forward in terms of the technology solution. According to our project management software, to this day, we have resolved 214 issues. Each issue corresponds to a new function or a fixed bug.

The idea of this blog post is to provide an overview of the technologies and standards CORE is using and to report on the experience we had with them during the development of CORE in the last months. We will provide more information about the new features and enhancements in the following blog posts. read more...

The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR 2012) has seen last week close to 500 participants, the highest number in its history. The theme and title of OR 2012 in Edinburgh – Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out – reflects the current move towards open content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems and data delivery infrastructures. A very good fit with what CORE (core.kmi.open.ac.uk) offers.

The CORE system developed in KMi had a very active presence. Petr Knoth has presented different aspects of the CORE system in a presentation, at a poster session (with Owen Stephens) and also during the developers challenge. CORE has been also discussed in a number of presentations by other participants not directly linked to the Open University. Perhaps the most important case being the UK RepositoryNet+ project presentation. UK RepositoryNet+ is a socio-technical infrastructure funded by JISC supporting deposit, curation & exposure of Open Access research literature. UK RepositoryNet+ aims to provide a stable socio-technical infrastructure at the network-level to maximize value to UK HE of that investment by supporting a mix of distributed and centrally delivered service components within pro-active management, operation, support and outcome. While this infrastructure will be designed to meet the needs of UK research, it is set and must operate effectively within a global context. UK RepositoryNet+ considers the CORE system as an important component in this infrastructure. read more...

The last 10 years have seen a massive increase in the amounts of Open Access publications available in journals and institutional repositories. The open presence of large volumes of state-of-the-art knowledge online has the potential to provide huge savings and benefits in many fields. However, in order to fully leverage this knowledge, it is necessary to develop systems that (a) make it easy for users to discover, explore and access this knowledge at the level of individual resources, (b) explore and analyse this knowledge at the level of collections of resources and (c) provide infrastructure and access to raw data in order to lower the barriers to the research and development of systems and services on top of this knowledge. The CORE system is trying to address these issues by providing the necessary infrastructure. read more...