CONNECTED: Connecting trusted Arts and Humanities data repositories

艺术和人文研究理事会继续投资于新的和现有的研究数据基础设施。从考古数据服务和牛津文本档案等专业资源，到大英图书馆共享研究库等更一般的资源，这些投资继续增长，并支持英国艺术和人文学者。我们的项目，'连接：连接可信的艺术和人文数据仓库“，将开始工作，提供”粘合剂“，将分布式数据仓库集合在一起。一组分布式数据仓库提供的好处是，允许专家和专家管理更广泛的研究和高度可变的研究成果。但这样的环境面临着挑战和效率低下，从而降低了其影响力。这些问题包括发现和获取方面的困难，以及围绕专业服务与一般服务之间关系的问题。随着越来越多的知识库不断发展，以适应更多的数字研究方法，从（再）出版商/作者/存放者的角度来看，重复工作的可能性也随之增加。CONNECTED将探索如何建立更大的一致性和互操作性，这将增加AHRC投资的影响，并为用户提供好处。我们将寻求了解如何构建和资源一个统一的框架，积极实现有效的管理和发现的内容。这将带来一个计划，将不同的可信存储库连接成一个分布式服务，随着时间的推移，随着新的个人服务的添加，这种服务可以不断增长。在项目的5个月期间，我们将：使用一系列半结构化的访谈，与各种利益相关者，包括研究人员，图书馆员，策展人和信息技术专家，以了解他们的需求，提供的差距，以及允许最广泛的内容和用例被解决的方法。这将包括探索如何在适当的情况下将AHRC基础设施中的当前和计划投资连接起来。这些见解将被纳入战略和服务模型，以提供全国规模的数据服务的连接组件，可以充分确定范围和成本。最后，该项目将探索全国规模的交换机服务的可行性，以将数据和输出路由到最合适的存储库。将制定一种方法，然后将与社区研讨会探讨，以了解存款路由服务的胃口。

The Arts and Humanities Research Council continues to invest in new and existing data infrastructure for research. From specialist resources such as the Archaeology Data Service and Oxford Text Archive, to more general resources such as the British Library's shared research repository, these investments continue to grow and support the UKs arts and humanities scholars. Our project, 'CONNECTED: Connecting trusted Arts and Humanities data repositories', will begin work to provide 'the glue' to bring together a distributed repository landscape.A distributed set of repositories provides benefits in terms of allowing specialist and expert management of a wider range of research and highly variable research outputs. But such an environment faces challenges and inefficiencies that reduce its impact. These include difficulties in discovery and access, but also questions around the relationships between specialised vs general services. As more repositories evolve to suit more digital approaches to research, so increases the potential for duplication of effort from a (re)searcher/author/depositor perspective. CONNECTED will explore how to build greater coherence and interoperability that will increase the impact of AHRC investment and provide benefits for users. We will seek to understand how to build and resource a unified framework that actively enables efficient management and discovery of content. This will bring a plan to link different trusted repositories as a distributed service that can grow over time as new individual services are added.Over the 5-month period of the project we will:Use a series of semi-structured interviews with a variety of stakeholders including researchers, librarians, curators and information technologists to understand their needs, gaps in provision, and approaches that allow for the widest set of content and use cases to be addressed. This will include an exploration of how to connect current and planned investments across AHRC infrastructure, where appropriate.These insights will be fed into strategic and service models for delivering the connecting components of a national-scale data service, that can be fully scoped and costed.Finally, the project will explore the feasibility of a national scale switchboard service for routing data and outputs to the most appropriate repository. An approach will be developed that will then be explored with a community workshop to understand the appetite for a deposit-routing service.