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Institutional Repositories and geospatial data : the GRADE survey Pauline Simpson National Oceanography Centre, Southampton GRADE Project Meeting 30 Oct 2006 Overview Work Package 4 Survey Results SWOT Conclusions WP 4 : scoping the role of institutional repositories for geospatial data Predetermined views Audit SWOT Recommendations on geospatial data management within institutional repositories What is the real GRADE question? IRs and Datasets with geospatial attributes Data = numeric, imagery, graphic etc IR versus Subject IRs (project poster; feedback on SWOT analysis) Survey : Jan – Mar 2006 Survey Call: GRADE Partners; JISC Repositories; SHERPA List; American Scientist; every UK Repository listed in ROAR 35 Responses 24 x UK Uni – 7 x Overseas – 2 x data centres – 1 x Research Council + anon Low I confess I thought twice about filling in the questionnaire originally as it was so specific and sounded vaguely scary!(now Ive done it again, I remember I definitely did fill it in last time). So I guess the specificity of the topic may account for the low response… Question formulation Is your repository publicly available, if not who are your depositors and users? Survey Responses Handout – discussion Software used Majority either EPrints or DSPace Accept geospatial datasets ? Possibly answering for datasets per se IRs treatment of geospatial data Too busy with publications Discussed as future activity Not really been offered any Software not designed ***** No special metadata fields Long Term access Acknowledgement of preservation needs Repository was first step No guidance at present IR Software DSpace overtly publicises treatment of datasets EPrints does not anecdote GRADE Demonstrator Repository – DSpace Why not EPrints? 6. Generally, do you think that archiving and providing access to research data is something institutions (institutional repositories) should do or specialist data centres? Depends on the dataset Role for both, not mutually exclusiv