Embedding the repository in the researchers workflow Martin van Luijt Head of Innovation and Development Our ebony tower... Journals Omega integrated search Subjectrepository Institutional repository Digitization Were moving......into the process of knowledge creation while maintaining traditional services Virtual Knowledge centers Keywords VKC outline Embedding the repository: first attempt Our agenda: stimulate submission of content Identify and view VKC members repository content (publications, theses) Tag repository content Using VKC membership lists And Digital Author Identifiers Intermission: repository contents Documents (theses, articles, reports, monographs, etc.) produced by scientists at Utrecht University The majority of the documents are available in full text and are freely accessible (automatic) submission through our research information system (METIS, primarily a management-info system) Self-service submission Embedding the repository: first attempt DSpace Metadata Indexer Webservice Search/ retrieve UI Splash pages Existing repository infrastructure METIS Manual Submission Results Not complete enough: Route through METIS takes a long time (red tape) Repository holds only open access materials with available fulltext No preprints or other community-only documents VKC search and repository search not integrated Improving search Let the VKC indexer crawl the relevant repository metadata and documents. Faceted search lets users narrow down the search results Integrated search DSpace Metadata Indexer Search/ retrieve UI Splash pages Existing repository infrastructure METIS Manual Submission Metadata Crawlers Improving content Pull all METIS data Give the users a place in DSpace for everything else Feed all of this into the VKC Collaboration across system boundaries The ususal issues... User names/ids Authornames (DAI) Ownership of systems All relevant publications DSpace Metadata Indexer Search/ retrieve UI Splash pages METIS Metadata Crawlers other Metis data Manual Submission working papers etc. Thank you... Contact: Martin van Luijt See it yourself: vkc.library.uu.nl