JISC has released JISC Final Report—CTREP, Cambridge TETRA Repositories Enhancement Project .
Here's an excerpt:
CTREP created a connector between an Institutional VRE and an Institutional Repository. It is designed to be reusable in a number of different institutions where policy on deposit varies by means of a flexible deposit configuration system. In the process of executing the project:
- the various stakeholders came to understand institutional cultural differences and address them in such a way that recent projects with a strong Repository and research dissemination/visualisation aspect have been more joined up than would previously have been possible
- we developed an approach to policy expression designed both to avoid creating unnecessary tension within the institution during its development, and also to be authorable by a wide range of individuals
- we have sought to record and capture lessons learnt (based, in part on case studies) for future institutionalisation projects
- we developed a number of techniques which allowed apparent barriers to integration to be overcome by technical-architectural tools
- we open-sourced the integration
- we modified our approach to metadata/data binding in light of community feedback and developed a spreadsheet-based automated approach with which contributors felt comfortable, but which required a number of technical obstacles to be overcome through the use of creative programming techniques.
