Innovation Zone

JISC has funded the Innovation Zone (managed by the ISC at UKOLN) to support technical developments related to national infrastructure for research repositories.

Working closely with the JISC-funded RepositoryNet+ project (managed by Edina), the Innovation Zone aims to:

• facilitate knowledge exchange across groups involved with repository technologies
• support rapid innovation projects working with repository technologies
• support early and on-going feedback from developer communities regarding key components of repository infrastructure
• provide common reference points for key information (see  Repository Infrastructure Component Catalogue in iPlus)

Since funding started in May 2012, initial activities of the Innovation Zone include:

• presentation on Innovation Zone at Open Repositories 2012 (as part of this OR2012 UKRN workshop)
• experts meeting on preservation infrastructure for research repositories (October 2012)
• feedback on use cases, APIs and key data flows (from November 2012)
• planning for outreach events engaging stakeholders and developers (including DevCSI ‘hackday’ and other developer engagement channels)