About UKDA-store

The Project - Phase I

StORe stands for: Source-to-Output Repositories.

StORe is a customisation and rewrite of the ELATED open source software. ELATED is an application that was designed to operate on top of the Fedora repository system (see http://www.fedora-commons.org). ELATED provides a simple user interface and set of functionality that allows Fedora to be used as the back-end to a general-purpose digital assets management system.

ELATED allows all users to browse collections with public visibility. Once logged in, users have the ability to create and manage their own public or private collections. ELATED also allows for shared - or collaborative - collections to which multiple users my contribute. Collaborative collections contain a simple workflow system that allows editors to monitor and approve of submissions. Access the Elated site for more information.

StORe enhances ELATED by providing each user with a set of pre-defined source and output collaborations. For illustration, a source collection is represented by the UKDA institution and an output collection by the LSE institution. A researcher may contribute their work to both collections, wherein a link is maintained between a publication within the output collection and any data it may produce within the source collection. StORe is based on Fedora 2.1.1.

Access the StORe Project site for more information.

The Case Study - Phase II

UKDA-store is a modification and improvement of StORe which tightly integrates the source repository with the UKDA online Acquisition and Deposit Systems and dynamically harvests DC elements from the ESRC Awards and Outputs repository. As such it provides an entrance for the self-depositing of data for either approval into the UKDA Preservation System or merely for safe keeping into a Self Archive. Linking is now performed centrally within a single multi-purpose collaboration. With this approach shared collections become Projects containing items describing either source (deposit) or output (publication) data with open access to data and publications approved for self-archiving. Access to private (UKDA preserved and unapproved) items is via email request points. It has a much improved user interface which is both Athens and Shibboleth enabled, has context sensitive help, email notification and includes two new user roles providing the aforementioned access: item level reader and project level contributor. UKDA-store is based on Fedora 2.2.2.

The Store Team

Ken Miller, UK Data Archive (associate director - head of information development, programming and e-social science)
Louise Corti, UK Data Archive (associate director & head esds qualidata, acquisitions and outreach & promotion/ research director (relu) data support services (dss))
Matthew Woollard, UK Data Archive (associate director, head of digital preservation and systems)
Vasuda Peddi, UK Data Archive (systems and applications developer)
Anne Etheridge, UK Data Archive (senior outreach and promotion officer)

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