Monday 6 December 2010

Repository and Publications Q&A

Post your comments and questions below concerning QMRO, PubLists and the Staff Publications website.

10 comments:

  1. Q&A from today's meeting:

    Q Are metadata records being automatically updated in QMRO when changes are made to PubLists?

    A They should be, but there have been problems with this, SM to check with IT Services whether this has now been fixed

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  2. Q Should non-displaying data be added even though it is being copied across?

    A No, once the DSpace/Repository Tools configurations have been fixed the data should display properly

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  3. Q Should DOIs be added to records?

    A DOIs are useful for finding published versions so yes, if the DOI is easily sourced then please add to PubLists

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  4. Q Will email notification templates be available soon?

    A Yes, thanks for the reminder, I'll sort these out asap

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  5. Q Sherpa RoMeo data in PubLists seem to differ from the RoMeo database?

    A I believe the software developers generate the RoMeo colours based on their own algorithm, this may explain the discrepancy. I'll check though and let you know the outcome

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  6. Q Could we make a case for just uploading whatever we are given by academics and letting them deal with any problems around copyright?

    A We could, and some institutions do this already. There is increased risk to the institution as well as the academic though

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  7. Q Is there an agreed convention for naming of files in QMRO?

    A No, but we should agree one, suggested convention:

    SURNAMEWordWordWordYearVersion.filetype

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  8. Q Should we perhaps try to encourage deposit of one specific version that we know will be acceptable on most cases? E.G. Postprint?

    A Yes, we could, and this would help to speed up approval to QMRO. Will investigate

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  9. Q To ease workload with regard to verification, is there an easy way to identify records that have been created manually?

    A Might be possible to identify those that have been collected automatically if the original source of the data is identified in the QMRO record. Will investigate

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  10. Q Is the priority PubLists verification or QMRO approval?

    A Essentially it's both, but we need to get a suitable corpus of content into QMRO so focus on this initially.

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