1. Intute Repository Search Project An iterative approach to developing a national search service to support scholarly communication, teaching and learning www.intute.ac.uk/irs Sophia Jones Linda Kerr September 2008

2. Introduction Background: - Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) - www.jisc.ac.ukwww.jisc.ac.uk - A Mimas project (www.mimas.ac.uk), in partnership with UKOLN and SHERPA.UKOLNSHERPA Objectives: - Develop a UK repository search service to support academic activity - To serve as a showcase for UK research and education

3. Aims Discovery, harvesting and aggregation of repositories of academic and research papers from HE and other relevant open access sources across the UK Creation and maintenance of a store of metadata Provide improved services to individuals – automatic profiling based on individual enquiry or learning characteristics

4. Aims To provide a richer and more meaningful contextual search facility including full-text search, text-mining and automatic subject classification Investigate opportunities to include other relevant information sources eg non-UK resources Help develop meaningful synergies between research repositories and learning repositories

5. Scope Scope in first instance includes repositories of Open Access academic and research papers held in UK HEI Repositories; Now harvesting and searching 87 UK Repositories with approx 360,000 artefacts; http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/ Planned Scope exploration: –Other OA Repositories e.g., Learning Objects (JORUM) (Moodle) –Proprietary LO Repositories (Blackboard / WebCT) –Global research and academic papers –Optimisation via other JISC Shared Services (IESR, HILT)

6. Progress Phase I – developing and deploying simple search functionality across UK university repositories; new web interface Phase II – identified and agreed approaches to developing further search and discovery features

7. http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/

10. The Challenge & Complexities Knowledge Management Context for Researchers, Teachers and Students Knowledge Context Where can I find…? What can help me? Who can help me? What do we know? What do I / we dont know? Simple SearchFull-text SearchSubject ClassificationAutomated aggregationConcept matchingPersonalisation Search paradigmDiscovery ParadigmMeaning-based computing ContentContext

11. Search and discovery context Moving beyond the Google Search Box scenario: What do I want to know? What do I not know? Where can I find it? How can I access it? Who can help me in my enquiry or offer new knowledge / perspectives? What have other people like me been looking for in similar or connected areas? Why do I need this information? When do I need to be notified that things may have changed?

12. Broad range of Requirements Ongoing requirements focussing on: Researcher (PI, Assistant, Post Grad) Teaching & Learning Community Higher Education Academy - LSCAcademic & Research Deans Knowledge / Info specialists (HE/FE) Cross-sector shared service developments Other National Repository Aggregators Common Repository Interface WG - JISC Research Support Departments Developers JISC UK Research Councils JISC Repositories & PreservationInstitutional Repository Managers JISC IE & IEMSR Librarians Commercial Technology Stakeholders Standards Communities

14. Development paths Development of machine to machine interfaces – SRU/SRW, Z39.50 Version Control Achievable synergies between research and learning object repositories Cross-searching of repositories – presentation of results

15. Advanced discovery and retrieval Parallel approaches: –NaCTEM (National Centre for Text Mining) - www.nactem.ac.uk –Autonomy IDOL software Advanced browsing and searching – –Automated document clustering and classification based on terminology –Personalisation of searching –Concept visualisation from automated clustering

16. Summary Serve as a showcase for UK research and education Discover, harvest and aggregate repositories of academic and research papers from HE and other relevant open access sources across the UK Provide a richer and more meaningful contextual search facility including full-text search, text-mining and automatic subject classification Further expansion based on user requirements/JISC review

17. http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/ sophia.jones@nottingham.ac.uksophia.jones@nottingham.ac.uk l.kerr@hw.ac.ukl.kerr@hw.ac.uk