An overview of STARGATE

STARGATE has been a series of investigations into the actual and possible use of the "Specification for an OAI Static Repository and an OAI Static Repository Gateway"
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm

Thus far, three projects make up the strand of work:

• STARGATE - Static Repository Gateway and Toolkit: Enabling small publishers to participate in OAI-based services
• The STARGATE extension (which examined the Static Repository Gateway software)
• STARGATE: SCoPE - Selecting Collections for Possible Exposure

The STARGATE Project

The STARGATE project explored the use of static repositories as a means of exposing publisher metadata to OAI-based disclosure, discovery and alerting services within the JISC Information Environment and beyond.

The project's primary aim was to lower the technical barriers to the implementation of OAI-compliant repositories, thereby enabling small publishers of electronic resources to participate more readily in OAI-based disclosure and delivery services.

The project worked with four publishers in the Library and Information Science domain to explore the use of OAI static repositories

• Journal of Digital Information http://jodi.tamu.edu/
• Information Research http://informationr.net/ir/
• Library and Information Research http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/lir.htm
• Information Scotland http://www.slainte.org.uk/publications/serials/infoscot/contents.html

The STARGATE extension

The project received a short extension to examine and document in detail the set up and use of Static Repository Gateways. For more information see the Static Repository Gateways tab

The STARGATE static repository gateway; a branded gateway for the publishing community is available at: http://stargate.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/gateway/

STARGATE: SCoPE

STARGATE SCoPE (Selecting Collections for Possible Exposure ) is a brief investigation into the demand for and practicalities of running a Gateway within the context of the JISC Information Environment

SCoPE’s primary aims are:

• to build on the STARGATE project (including the technical specification)
• to develop a business case for a SRG service by:
  • investigating the market for a SRG service (what collections can be exposed)
  • assessing the cost and benefits of such as service (why such collections would use such a service)
  • making suggestions about how to promote the uptake of a SRG service.
    

The STARGATE strand of work has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and was undertaken by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde.