Strategic intent
Enhance the impact of New Zealand research
To achieve this, the New Zealand institutional repositories programme has set the following objectives:
- Develop a national research repository infrastructure by setting up, populating and linking individual repositories
- Stimulate development of services that draw on research information made available through the repository infrastructure
- Promote submission of research outputs to, and use of content from, the repositories
- Grow a community of practice to sustain ongoing development of the repository infrastructure and services
- Provide a window that gives open access to New Zealand’s digital research outputs
Goals
The initial goal is to establish by the end of 2006 a demonstration national digital research repository network, consisting of:
- OAI-compliant digital research repositories in universities and other research institutions, and for independent scholars
- a research portal that enables discovery of and access to research outputs held in these repositories
The intent is that early demonstrators will be shown at the National Digital Forum in November 2005.
Principles
Participants in the repositories network are committed to the following principles.
- Digital content
- Support and promote creation and preservation of digital research outputs.
- Discovery
- Support and promote discovery of related digital research outputs across content collections and disciplines.
- Collaboration
- Support and promote national and international collaboration to enhance management and interoperability of digital content.
- Connection
- Support and promote connections between digital research, learning and administration services.
- Standards
- Support and promote use of relevant open standards, such as the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
- Software
- Support and promote use of existing systems as proven tools for creating OAI-compliant repositories.
- Diversity
- Support and promote software diversity within an OAI-compliant framework — one solution does not fit all.
- Evolution
- Support and promote “learn by doing” and use of demonstrators to build shared experience.
- Authors
- Support and promote processes that make it easy and desirable for authors to submit their research outputs.
- Cost
- Support and promote approaches that minimise the costs to institutions of participation and compliance.
- Sustainability
- Support and promote solutions which can be readily looked after, such as the ability to scale up as usage grows.
- Preservation
- Support and promote choices for digital object formats that enable long term preservation of and access to content.
