Paola, all

At St Andrews and Aberdeen we are doing it this way found too ie  
collecting metadata on publications and other research activities in  
our CERIF-CRIS and pushing it through to our IR if we have the full  
text and having handle passed back to the CRIS.
We are presenting this data as both an Institution-wide portal and  
feeding to web pages for individual departments.
The CRIS has the added benefit that the full text is seen in context  
eg linked to people, projects, activities, events, organisations eg  
research groups etc
We've had this infrastructure for some time -first an in house CRIS  
and now using the Pure product from atira.dk - but have little full  
text content - since driver hasn't been OA.
However that is changing with the increasing prevalence of funder  
mandates.

Anna

Anna Clements
Business Improvements
University of St Andrews
At Andrews, Fife,KY16 9AL

On 1 Jun 2010, at 21:11, "Paolo Mangiafico"  
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> On 6/1/10 2:12 PM Dorothea Salo wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Paolo Mangiafico
>> <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>> Has anyone had success with embedding feeds from their IR directly  
>>> into
>>> researcher profile pages or relevant department or institute web  
>>> sites?
>>
>> We're looking to go the other way around: build the profile, use it  
>> to
>> help get materials into the IR. This is the goal behind BibApp:
>> <http://bibapp.org/>.
>>
>> A common problem with going IR-first is that many (American?) IRs
>> don't allow (or at least don't *want*) metadata-only records. Since
>> the chances that all of a given faculty member's materials are
>> archivable are essentially zero, a different approach becomes  
>> likelier
>> to succeed.
>>
>> Another common problem with going IR-first is that few IR software
>> platforms have embedding APIs other than rudimentary RSS.
>>
>> Dorothea
>
> Thanks Dorothea. We're working on it from that direction too - I'm  
> involved in planning for deployment of a new profile system /  
> experts database for Duke researchers, and repository integration is  
> a key component of that. We're looking at BibApp, and also Vivo,  
> Catalyst Profiles, OpenScholar, and some others. In our case, the  
> number of archivable publications should be larger going forward,  
> since we recently passed an open access policy that sets the default  
> to allow open access and archiving. We'd like to tie deposit/ 
> collection of the publications with the annual reporting process,  
> which will also be part of the profiles system. At the same time,  
> though, every department/institute already has a web site that  
> they've invested in and identify with (as do many faculty), and the  
> idea of embedding their repository items in these spaces that feel  
> more personal to them is one that is appealing to most of the  
> faculty and administrators we've talked with, even if it's just a  
> simple RSS feed. So we're planning to try both approaches.
>
> Thanks also to others who have responded to this thread with  
> examples from your institutions! We will look to those as models.  
> Nick Sheppard sent me this link off list http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/ORO/?p=37 
>  which describes what they've done at the Open University, and why.  
> The longer term plans described at the end of the OU post are what  
> we've been talking about doing here too, though we haven't started  
> down this road yet.
>
> -- Paolo