boring, boring, ... but are you guys adding some accessibility
metadata automatically as well? - eg text in images, video, hard-
formatted, etc? I think this could be generated fairly easily ...
see http://dublincore.org/groups/access/
Liddy
On 16/12/2011, at 9:09 PM, John Fearns wrote:
>
> Hi Arthur,
>
> Cambridge University have won funding from JISC (DURA project) to
> explore the approach of encouraging their academics to use Mendeley
> as a starting point to institutional repository deposit, which we
> anticipate will become their official line with respect to
> repository deposit. The project is almost completed.
>
> Here at Symplectic, we have bridged the gap from Mendeley to all of
> EPrints, DSpace, Fedora and Intralibrary using our Repository Tools
> technology. The interop detects when a user adds a new file to their
> Mendeley account, and prompts them to transfer the file at the click
> of a button through to the institutional repository, together with
> all of its metadata, however that was collected at the Mendeley end.
> Using tools such as Mendeley and DSpace at what they're good at
> (collecting data and archiving/making public data respectively),
> together with research systems already embedded in the university,
> such as Symplectic Elements, has been the approach at a number of
> institutions in the UK.
>
> The transfer is not fire and forget, as Symplectic Elements provides
> a view into the repository at the files already uploaded, and can
> fully manage the repository file contents for each of their
> publications.
>
> This technology also currently works with arXiv and will be extended
> to other data sources hosting full-text, too.
>
> Best wishes,
> John
>
>
> On 15/12/2011 21:42, Arthur Sale wrote:
>>
>> My attention was taken by the good deposit interface provided by
>> Mendeley: the researcher simply deposits (drag and drop) a pdf
>> file, and hidden behind the scenes an artificial intelligence
>> program deduces the metadata (author, title, abstract, references,
>> page numbers, journal, etc) and presents these in bulk to the
>> researcher to confirm or edit. Much better than the clunky upload
>> facilities in many institutional repositories.
>>
>> What I’d like to ask this list: is: has anyone developed a similar
>> interface for institutional repositories, especially EPrints and
>> DSpace? If so, what experience have you had with it?
>>
>> Neil Jacobs pointed me to the discussion thread http://gipp.com/jabref-automatic-metadata-extraction-from-pdf-files-like-mendeley-2
>> , which I am now exploring and leads to Jabref, but there may be
>> other and better tools available which are already integrated with
>> a repository deposit interface. Making deposit trivial is clearly
>> a win-win situation for all of us in achieving open access.
>>
>> Arthur Sale
>> University of Tasmania, Australia.
>
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