The research data spring project "Streamlining deposit: an OJS to repository plugin" slides for the third sandpit workshop. Project led by Ernesto Priego of City University London.

1. Research Data SpringTowards Phase 3
#Dataspring: Streamlining Deposit10 December 2015

2. #dataspring: Streamlining Deposit
Streamlining Deposit @StreamDepo
»City University London and Ubiquity Press Collaboration
»Within City, collaboration between the Centre for
Information Science and the Centre for Human
Computer Interaction Design
»Over the past 3 months, the Open Library of Humanities
got involved as Ubiquity Press partners, as well as the Giving
researchers credit for their data #dataspring project
»Figshare, the Public Knowledge Project and the Open
Library of Humanities volunteered to help
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3. @StreamDepo Team
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» Dr Ernesto Priego, PI and Project Management, Centre for
Information Science, City University London
» Dr Stephann Makri, UX Research and Evaluation, Centre for
Human Computer Interaction Design, City University
London
» Andy Byers, Lead Developer, and Mauro Sanchez, trainee
developer, Ubiquity Press
» Support from Figshare, PKP and Open Library of Humanities
The Team

4. #dataspring: Streamlining Deposit
Valuation
»Depositing in Open Access repositories is expensive,
complicated and time-consuming
»We proposed an open source, shared solution to
streamline the deposit of accepted outputs in OJS-based
journals directly to repositories from the journal interface
itself.
»Open source and extensive, international base of OJS/PKP
journal community would ensure its sustainability.
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5. #dataspring: Streamlining Deposit
Progress
»What we achieved
»Conducted a UX study of OJS users to understand better
OJS user behaviour re: submission & depositing and how to
improve journal management systems.
»Developed a plug-in to allow authors to deposit
accepted Open Access articles and supplementary data in
Figshare directly from OJS-based Journals.
»Produced a UX evaluation of the plug-in and the
submission interface.
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6. Challenges and Progress
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Although we’ve continued to have problems on the administrative side (now resolved, yay!),
we’ve started pushing on and make some progress on the technology side including:
- Updating underlying tech to handle multiple repositories
- Adding an Editor interface so that the editor can view and select which files should be
published alongside the paper
- Completed the upload and response process for the Figshare API
- and started this process for the dryad plugin
- Undertaken an expert UX review
- Started implementing recommended changes to the interface
- Started adding interfaces for displaying published data alongside galleys

7. From Journal to Figshare
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8. More Time Needed…
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9. #dataspring: Streamlining Deposit
Next phase
» We’d like to request funding for next phase merging with the
objectives of the Giving researchers credit for their data
project (PI & Project Manager - Lucie Burgess/Neil Jefferies
(Bodleian)
– Implement expert UX review of interface
– Fix issues with Figshare API with assistance from Figshare team
– Demonstrate real paper(s) published using the workflow
– Align metadata requirements
– Expanding reach/integration according to Giving researchers credit for their data
objectives, including enabling workflow with SWORD modules for EPrints, Dspace, OSP.
– Research Paper with findings and evaluation, qualitative data and project documents in
Figshare, open source code in github.
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10. #dataspring: Streamlining Deposit
Funding
»Next phase is 4 months
»Realistic funding required to cover for our side of the
development work and project management and research
related incidentals £12,000.00
»Cost of InvestigatorTime (FEC, Makri and Priego), L7.41
and L7.43, 10% of time.
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11. #dataspring: Streamlining Deposit
Not for the pitch, but please fill in
»Contact
»Dr Ernesto Priego
»@ernestopriego, Ernesto.Priego.1@city.ac.uk
»ProjectTwitter profile: @StreamRepo
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