Last updated

14 Oct 2009

Current projects

DiSCmap (Digitisation in Special Collections: mapping, assessment, prioritisation)

DiSCmap aims to map, assess and prioritise the holdings of Special Collections within UKHE for future digitisation by JISC. While the digitisation of cultural/scientific heritage material has perhaps been historically led by supply rather than demand, DiSCmap aims to redress this by closely examining both the collections themselves and the measures by which demand can be gauged. Thus, via an innovative mixture of investigative methods, the project shall seek to cash out ephemeral ideas such as value and impact in digitisation, and practically apply the results to create a framework of criteria by which to quantifiably prioritise collections for digitisation.

ERIS: Enhancing Repository Infrastructure in Scotland

The ERIS project aims to develop a set of user-led and user-centric solutions (operational and technical) that will motivate researchers to deposit their work in repositories, facilitate the integration of repositories in research and institutional processes, develop the outputs of the IRIScotland project into a set of trusted cross-repository services which are capable of providing access to a critical mass of Scottish research output.

Future of Libraries Horizon Scan

Two-year project funded by JISC, SCONUL, RIN, BL and RLUK to develop a view of how higher education libraries should develop their buildings, content and services both individually and collectively to meet the challenges of a digital environment and rapidly changing user requirements.

Glasgow Digital Library

Creation of a collaborative, cross-sectoral, digital collection for and about the City of Glasgow.

Gold Dust

Gold Dust will investigate and develop innovatory solutions to the problem of information overload within the academic environment. CDLR's role involves the use of SRW-based terminology web services from the JISC I.E. shared services project HILT in order to improve retrieval.

HILT (High Level Thesaurus) - phase IV: Transition to Service Testbed and Future Requirements Study

HILT phase IV will continue the work of phase III and explore using SRW (SRU over SOAP), SOAP, and SKOS to build a M2M terminology server. This work and research will include evaluation of retrieval effectiveness and user interface effectiveness (once embedded with SRW compliant client services), helpfulness, ergonomics and for performance levels. HILT phase IV will also explore issues pertaining to terminology mapping, the feasibility of alternative switching spines, portlets, and other related research questions.

JISC Services

Steering the introduction of a new company which will unite JISC's advisory services in a single grouping.

Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study

The OCRIS project will survey the extent to which repository content is in scope for HEI library OPACs, and the extent to which it is already recorded there, examining in depth the issues surrounding interoperability of OPACS and IRs. It will consider the potential development of new and useful services for a range of stakeholders both internal and external to HE including: researchers, funding bodies and library staff.

SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg)

CDLR is one of 18 partners in SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg), a project funded through the European Commission's FP7 programme. CDLR's role in SHAMAN is concerned primarily with the design and specification of the SHAMAN digital preservation framework, associated metadata and metadata standards issues, and evaluation, but it has various other roles over most of the rest of the 4 year project, which also has involvement from the Computer and Information Sciences Department. The aim of the SHAMAN Integrated Project is to develop a next generation digital preservation (DP) framework. It is furthermore developing corresponding preservation tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives. Three prototypical applications will support trialling and validating of the result in scientific publishing, parliamentary archival, industrial design and engineering and finally experimentally also in scientific application domains. To achieve these goals SHAMAN is applying grid-based multivalent, linguistic, semantic, and peer-to-peer methods for supporting DP within its core infrastructure.

Strathprints

Development and implementation of an institutional eprint repository for the University of Strathclyde. Updated in partnership with the University Library.