Use cases

As major project outcomes, these pages document our three primary use-cases in more detail:

Use-case 1

Populating repositories is a chore and it would be beneficial to automate the retrieval of high quality metadata from the Web of Science citation database. Thomson Reuters have made available an API that allows institutions with an appropriate subscription to submit a variety of queries and return a range of data.

The broad aim of UC_1 is to manually trigger a catch-all query to:

i.) Retrospectively download all Leeds Met records from WoS
ii.) Run the query on a regular basis to retrieve new Leeds met records in WoS

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Use-case 2

Targeted communications regarding their outputs would encourage researchers to deposit an appropriate author produced version of a recently published / cited article in the Leeds Met repository.

The broad aim of UC_2 is to generate email correspondence to researchers requesting an appropriate version of a paper in line with publishers’ copyright restrictions.

* Many of the elements of UC_2 are necessarily speculative at this stage of development and fall outside the scope of the Bibliosight project; they have been included to inform ongoing development of the overall repository infrastructure at Leeds Met (ongoing documentation at:  http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/)

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Use-case 3

Utilise the data in Web of Science to incorporate citation linking into search results returned by the repository Open Search interface and/or easily retrieve this data for research administration purposes; the Research Excellence Framework (REF) that will replace the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2010 is likely to make greater use of quantitative measures of assessment, such as bibliometrics. The need exists, therefore, to implement technologies that facilitate the extraction and collation of relevant data for use by institutions, individual academics and HEFCE.

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