Presented at the RSP workshop at Sheffield Cathedral, 2010, "Beyond SNEEP: Ideas for Creative Repository Management" is an expanded and updated version of a presentation given to the SHERPA-LEAP consortium of University of London repository managers in 2009. The presentation gives examples of a range of user-oriented tools and techniques available to repository managers to enhance the user experience of the repository interface. Approaches we will look at include: using dynamic news feeds from repositories to integrate with other web applications; adding personalisation features such as profile pages, commenting and tagging; using statistics packages; exploting embedded semantic metadata; enhancing abstract pages; and using a newly-developed text-mining plugin.

1. Beyond SNEEP
Ideas for Creative Repository Management
Richard M. Davis
University of London Computer Centre
Repositories Support Project
Sheffield Cathedral, 27th October 2010

2. Once upon a time ...

3. “A useful pot to put things in.”

4. “It goes in and it comes out.”

5. Enhancing the user experience
Keeping up with the zeitgeist
Social interaction and discourse
Personalisation and customisation
Integrating with other intra- and extra-
institutional web applications
Promoting use and familiarity
New download and delivery options
Doing more with repositories

6. SNEEP (Social Networking Extensions for
EPrints)
JISC Rapid Innovation (2007 - ULCC)
Comments and tags for items in EPrints
AllAboutMePrints (aka MePrints)
JISC Rapid Innovation (2009 - Southampton)
User / author profile pages
Customisable with widgets
Doing more with repositories (1)

7. SNEEP: Comments and tags

8. SNEEP@eprints.lincoln.ac.uk

9. SNEEP@languagebox.ac.uk

10. SNEEP@sprouts.aisnet.org

11. AllAboutMePrints

12. MePrints@humbox.ac.uk

13. “Use the feeds...”

14. Newsfeeds provide links to data sets in the
repository
Browse views (subject, division)
Individual authors
Search results
Dynamically updated
Encourage use of repository as a single place of
deposit
Doing more with repositories (2)

15. Feeds from Browse views

16. Feeds from Searches

17. Feeds in ePortfolios

18. Feeds in blogs

19. Statistics ...
... demonstrate the repository’s effectiveness
and reach as an information resource
... for individual items highlight areas of
interest
... for individual authors promote healthy
competition
... support institutional assessment exercises
Doing more with repositories (3)

20. Statistics up-front: eprints.ucl.ac.uk

21. IRStats: files.eprints.org/590

22. Using Google Analytics at MMU e-space

23. Add links in item abstract pages for ...
... cross-searching other selected information resources
... easy bookmarking and sharing
... semantic metadata linking and retrieval
... emerging trends in delivery formats and methods
Enhanced searching with text-mining tools
From the Cathedral to the Bazaar...
Doing more with repositories (4)

24. Linking inline semantic metadata

25. Linking inline semantic metadata

26. Linking inline semantic metadata

27. Linked data: ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk

28. More delivery options

29. An idea I just had
Download to
my Kindle?

31. MERLIN: Text-mining enhanced searching

32. MERLIN: Text-mining enhanced searching

33. EPrints Bazaar in EPrints 3.3

34. Links & credits
SNEEP <http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Sneep>
Lincoln EPrints <http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/>
Language Box <http://languagebox.ac.uk/>
MePrints <http://wiki.eprints.org/w/MePrints>
Hum Box <http://humbox.ac.uk/>
ULCC Publications Archive <http://pubs.ulcc.ac.uk/>
IRStats <http://wiki.eprints.org/w/IRStats>
Repository Stats using Google Analytics (presentation by Graham Triggs at OR10) <http://goo.gl/Bp1N>
E-Space at Manchester Metropolitan University <http://e-space.openrepository.com/>
Framework for Linking Inline Semantic Metadata <http://code.google.com/p/flism/>
Oxford University Research Archive <http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/>
MERLIN <http://lasso.ucl.ac.uk/merlin-ui/>
EPrints Bazaar <http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Bazaar_Southampton_2010>
Obi Wan Kenobi by Christop on Flickr (CC:BY-NC-SA) <http://www.flickr.com/christop/134550576/>
Stills from Vinni Pukh, Soyuzmultfilm 1971