SONEX (Scholarly Output Notification & Exchange) is an initiative supported by JISC. Its main aim was to identify and analyse deposit opportunities (use cases) for the ingest of research papers into the research space.
Comparing SONEX and DL.org approaches to interoperability
SONEX Work Group
Similarities include: international in scope; building on existing projects/systems. Main differences are: the pragmatic approach of SONEX by characterising an environment for running projects working on repository interoperability and it has a narrow scope: IR-based plus various deposit-driving stakeholders (publishers, CRIS, etc), whereas DL.org has a theoretical foundation and a wide scope in that it is characterising Digital Library Management Systems from the perspective of DL end-users, designers, administrators and developers.
Some questions on research data management
- Are IRs a proper target for research data deposit?
- Could Sword deal with data transfer?
- Available workforce for dealing with data management: is it big enough? Trained enough?
- Research data file sizes: should deposit by reference be considered instead/besides binary data transfer?
- At what point along the publication life-cycle should dataset deposit take place?
Current SONEX texts
- Widening deposit use-case analysis in cooperation with selected projects at JISC Deposit call: further use-case scenarios, more digital object types (beyond research papers – Sword v2)
- Analysis on research data management from JISC MRD environment
- Providing support to selected projects at JISC Deposit call
- Gathering information on new & ongoing deposit-related projects and initiatives
- Dissemination of initiative for potential international cooperation: OpenAIRE, DL.org
The talk is available on the dedicated web page.
