Roadmap Briefing Paper
Achievements to Date: For up-to-date information see the Keepers Registry Blog
April 2012
- Statistics and Reporting: display of the total number of titles with at least one volume either Preserved and/or In Progress
October 2011
- Rebranding as the Keepers Registry Beta Service with the addition of:
- Browse by title
- Browse by publisher
- Improved front page, with news and simplified access to archiving agency information
April 2011
- Initial launch of the PEPRS Beta Service with the following functionality and information
- Search by Title or ISSN (e-ISSN, p-ISSN, ISSN-L)
- Archiving Agency Information
- About
- FAQ
- Help
- Terms and Conditions of Service
- Feedback mechanism
Current Activity
Technical Developments
- Authentication to provide for a 'members area' for the provision of advanced functionality and services
- Holdings’ comparison service to compare coverage of library holdings against archiving agencies (achieved through upload of ISSN list(s))
- Statistics and reporting, including public reporting (no. of journals per agency), agency reporting (problem titles), and internal reporting (usage).
Archiving Agency Workflow
- Reporting page to provide information about problems with agency data
- Standard format for metadata ingest: ONIX for Preservation Holdings (ONIX-PH) http://www.editeur.org/127/ONIX-PH/
- Agree with agencies a standard vocabulary used to describe archival status
- Self-statements by archiving agencies - agreement on content
Future Activity
Technical Developments
- Advanced searching including flexible search and exact title searching
- Browse by agency
- Facility to sort or filter search results
- Persistent URLs to allow individual records to be referenced
- Export of e-mail search results
- Machine to machine activities
- Support linking from external services (including SUNCAT http://www.suncat.ac.uk ) to the Keepers Registry
- Graphical display of holdings’ information
- International multi-lingual interface
- Social media facilities inc. chat room
Archiving Agency Workflow
- Linking from ISSN Register to the Keepers Registry
- Reports for agencies (no. of journals etc.)
- Functionality for agency staff in the 'members' area'
- Consideration of the holdings' statement
- Conveyance of information about accreditation
Transition from Project to Service
- Discussion with JISC Services about Service Level Definitions (SLDs)
- Production of statistics for SLDs for the JISC Monitoring Unit
- Preparation of the Business Plan for the move to a full service
- Establishment of a governance structure
- Consideration of relationship to print archiving
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