A Framework for Reuse of contents in Institutional Repository

Abstract

Institutional repositories (IR) collects, manages, and disseminates many research articles, thesises and university journals. Metadata attributes of these contents mainly consist of bibliographic information. This information is also made public at research databases or bibliography sites in other institutional websites. Ordinarily, this redundant information has been duplicated by individual users. The reusable metadata in IR helps the users to reduce the maintaining cost. Moreover, if a metadata attribute of a site can be customized, a flexibility of the site will become increased. We propose a new framework for managing metadata attribute of a repository system. The repository system manages only the basic bibliographic information as metadata; the user site manages the extended attributes outside of the repository, and publishes the contents, which are selected from the repository, with the expanded extra metadata. We also implement the framework as the system named SarabiWEKO. The system enables researchers to construct a private repository which manages specific metadata attribute at the outside the IR.