PRDLA

The Hong Kong Memory Project (HKMP) was initiated by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government in 2002. The goal is to establish a web-based digital repository for the collection, preservation, presentation and dissemination of Hong Kong’s unique historical and cultural heritage. In 2006, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) donated US$10 million to fund the project for 5 years. At the same time, HKJC also asked the Centre of Asian Studies (CAS) and Libraries of The University of Hong Kong (HKUL) to participate in the project, responsible for content development and system setup of the repository.

CAS and HKUL have been working closely together with HKJC, HKSAR Government and other stakeholders to create the digital repository since November 2006. Much has been achieved over the past two and a half years, including putting together a team of dedicated staff, drawing up copyright guidelines and contracts, seeking support from contributors and recently, issuing the tender document for procuring hardware and software of the HKMP system. A prototype website has also been created to gauge comments from target groups through running a series of usability tests. It is expected that the HKMP website would be available to the general public by 2011, before the repository is handed over to the HKSAR Government for continual maintenance and development.

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This presentation discusses data management within the context of the University of Otago. It follows up on the Library’s Biodiversity Data Management Project that ended in mid 2009 and was the theme of a presentation at PRDLA 2008. “One year after” will report the final outcomes of the project and provide a profile on other digital and e-research initiatives at the University of Otago in which the Library is participating.

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Institutional repositories (IR) were initiated in recent years in recognition of the need for an alternative method of publishing and knowledge dissemination. The debate continues on whether articles in open access (OA) actually create more discovery, and citations on those articles. However in the discussion that follows, this appears to be yesterday’s battlefield. Proponents of IRs now find that by aligning the goals of the IR with those of the underlying institution, there is no more battle to be fought. At HKU, the Senior Management Team has recently re-articulated the institution’s mission and vision statements, to focus on three themes; 1) Teaching & Learning, 2) Research, and 3) Knowledge Exchange (KE). The HKU definition of KE includes the act of making HKU generated knowledge and skill sets accessible to business, government and the community.

The IR at HKU, the HKU Scholars Hub, is now well positioned to support these three areas, as well as measure quantitatively and qualitatively, how much work is done in these areas. The Hub collects and provides OA on teaching & learning objects, and the published & grey literature. It provides metrics on downloads, and imports citation counts from Scopus and Web of Science. It provides these metrics by article or object, and cumulates for each author. The Hub was recently enhanced to show “HKU Author Pages” with these metrics for each author, as well as fields to show in which areas an author can undertake contract research, in which areas an author can act as a spokesperson to the media, etc. With these re-articulated three themes, and the recent enhancements to the Hub, it has now become a star player, indeed “mission-critical”, in the University’s strategy for research distribution, or, KE. Increased funding and policy mandates for research deposit are correspondingly imminent.

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