ICE-Theorem - End to end semantically aware eResearch infrastructure for theses
Acknowledgements & Credits
ICE-Theorem was a joint project between the University of Cambridge (UC) and the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) funded by the JISC.
At USQ, there was a team involved in this work: Oliver Lucido, Ron Ward, Linda Octalina, Bronwyn Chandler and Duncan Dickinson all assisted in programming and project management.
At Cambridge, Nick Day was the main man, with support from Joe Townsend.
Motivations: Put ORE through its paces
Is it applicable? Is it useful?
What are the different ways of using ORE?
How do SWORD and ORE combine?
SWORD + ORE options
ORE as a manifest (with resource included)
ORE as a shopping list (target orders all the resources)
this is what we implemented
ORE as a recipe (tells you how, but you don't have to get the resources)
Motivations: Design a thesis workflow based around web architecture
Motivations: Work out whether disaggregation of theses could promote open access
Promoting embargo of sensitive chapters might accelerate publication of the remainder of the thesis.
How can embargo metadata be passed between systems? When should it be created? Where and how should it be stored? How can candidates be tracked once they've graduated.
Overall thesis workflow with thesis repository and Board of Graduate Studies (BoGS)
Project outcomes
Open source code – available from USQ.
Extensions to the ICE content management system for OAI-ORE and Chemistry Markup Language.
ePrints and Fedora 3 modules for submitting HTML documents and packages via SWORD/OAI-ORE – now in use at USQ.
Extensions to the The Fascinator repository front-end for thesis embargo.
A demonstration virtual machine with the project's outcomes on it for download (7GB) In VirtualBox VDI format (can be converted to use with VmWare)
Openly available record of the development at the Cambridge Trac Wiki and at the Trac system at USQ.
The Tait thesis
Editing a document
Interactive data-aware documents
Annotation
Initial thesis submission - schematic
Embargo metadata is encoded in a style:
And ICE can extract the metadata:
<oai_dc:dc>
<dc:title>Acknowledgements</dc:title>
<dc:relation>date-embargoMonths::6</dc:relation>
</oai_dc:dc>
SWORD deposit
SWORD deposit uses an ORE Resource Map
ORE for a thesis
Importance of ORE
Allows description of aggregate objects like theses.
Can specify the relationship between two renditions of the same thing, such as HTML and PDF for a chapter.
Can include external things like data files as part of an object.
(Currently repositories such as ePrints and DSpace do not do this at all well, content models for repository items are usually implicit.)
Default view of thesis - no acknowledgements
Acknowledgements are visible when an administrator is logged in
The final stage – automated IR deposit
Further work starting now
More work needed on thesis repository
Finish daily 'pull' of non-embargoed material from thesis repository to IR (work was started but not finished).
ATOM or ORE to show changes to embargo status
Dynamic building of Thesis PDF files omitting embargoed chapters.
SWORD + ORE as manifest with resources included.
Work on managing thesis examination process with possible online submission of reports (at USQ OJS has been used for this in the Maths and computing department).
Help wanted!
OAI-ORE + SWORD gives us part of the puzzle but agreed content models for theses, journals etc are still needed.
Investment is required in the Graduate Studies repository and its workflows.
Solutions needed for allowing repositories to optionally provide added-value services (like 3d molecules) while degrading gracefully.