http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1412 Sun, 26 May 2013 00:14:02 GMT 2013-05-26T00:14:02Z http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk:80/retrieve/3376/logostore.GIF http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1412 http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2612 Title: Source-to-Output Repositories – Phase Two Summative Evaluation Final Report Authors: Poschen, Meik Abstract: This document presents the final results of the phase two summative evaluation of the UKDA-StORe project’s portal repository system. After the completion of the regular funding phase of StORe under the JISC Digital Repositories programme in 2007 the project was granted an extension until mid-2008 to further refine the portal under the name UKDA-StORe. For the regular project a phase one summative evaluation assessed “the technical structure, functionality, design and quality of the demonstrator system, and the appropriateness of the ‘common model’ approach, using workshops to test the system with representative repository users”. It was agreed to conduct a phase two summative evaluation to further assess the development of UKDA-StORe and to complement the findings of the first evaluation phase. The phase two summative evaluation is based on a series of five expert user interviews to evaluate the StORe system in use. In the phase one evaluation it is stated, that “it is probable that a second complementary evaluation phase will be conducted in the future also based on the approach introduced here”. This endeavour could be realised in general, but under other specifications: As the UKDA-StORe extension did not consist of a user base for the evaluator to draw on the approach had to be modified – from user evaluation workshops to qualitative evaluation interviews with domain experts – with the task to evaluate the system in regard to barriers and facilitators to use and usability issues unchanged. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2612 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2068 Title: Project StORe: expectations, a solution and some predicted impact from opening up the research data portfolio Authors: Pryor, Graham Abstract: A fundamental role of the university library has long been recognised as the provision of safe custody and the assurance of measured access to the wealth of published scholarship. Traditionally, the library has been synonymous with a collection of books, although an effective twenty-first century library service is more likely to be defined by the extent to which it enables access to information in non-print formats, particularly that which is accessible by electronic means. Yet, whilst the utility of the university library has extended conspicuously to the provision – and interpretation – of digital resources, including most recently the installation of repositories for the preservation and dissemination of research papers, its principal focus has remained upon items or objects that one may consider in some way to have been published, whether in printed or electronic form. Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2068 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2014 Title: Project StORe: expectations, a solution and some predicted impact from opening up the research data portfolio Authors: Pryor, Graham Abstract: Presentation slides for talk given at the 2007 Libraries without Walls conference Description: Presented at Libraries without walls 7 Lesvos, 14-18 September 2007 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2014 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2013 Title: StORe: Phase One Summative Evaluation Final Report Authors: Poschen, Meik; Slack, Roger Abstract: This document presents the final results of the phase one summative evaluation of the StORe project’s pilot demonstrator prototype system. As stated in the ‘Summative Evaluation Plan v1.3’ for WP 5 (see Appendix A), the “evaluation will assess the technical structure, functionality, design and quality of the demonstrator system, and the appropriateness of the ‘common model’ approach, using workshops to test the system with representative repository users”. In the recently completed two year StORe project a social science pilot demonstrator system has been built up and refined according to the stages of work (see http://jiscstore.jot.com/PilotMiddleware) at the UK Data Archive (UKDA). It federates a UKDA source repository and the Research Articles Online institutional output repository (ePrints) of the London School of Economics (LSE), based on the common/generic model, as outlined in the ‘WP 3: Business Analysis’ report. This business analysis report is one base document for the summative evaluation and itself based on data gathered in the ‘WP 2: Survey of Researchers’ (see http://jiscstore.jot.com/SurveyPhase). The summative evaluation consists of a workshop topic guide and a review of the WP 3 business analysis report described in the chapters 2 and 3, both part of deliverable one already presented in two separate reports end of April 2007 (for more details on deliverables see Appendix A). It turned out to be very difficult to commit users to participate in the planned two workshops. In the end one workshop could be conducted with only three users taking part, who not even had been participants in the StORe project before. Due to these circumstances this final report is called phase one, as it is probable that a second complementary evaluation phase will be conducted in the future also based on the approach introduced here. This process and its repercussions are described in detail under ‘Change Management’ in chapter 4. Chapter 5 shows how the workshop session occurred eventually (part of deliverable one) and chapter 6 finally presents the results of the evaluation (deliverables one and two). During the evaluation a close collaboration with the UK Data Archive in Essex was invaluable concerning the appropriate dates for the workshops, the technical prerequisites and demands for the user testing as well as respecting the knowledge and experience towards the pilot and its ongoing development and use. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2013 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z