Proof of concept Demonstrator

Theo and I are preparing for the Deposit Programme Meeting with JISC at the beginning of March, and I thought it would be good to show what our demonstrator actually does.

Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t seem to like animated GIFs (whever not? :chuckle: ) so look at it here: http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/images/deposit_flow.gif

The frames show the following:

1. Latest record in the Broker is 02/02/2011
2. Do a command-line import of a record (a hand-crafted demonstrator record)
3. Record appears in the Broker
4. The Broker has identified organisations for Creators, some of which are known to OA-RJ
5. We manually export the record using the “OA-RJ Sword Depositor” exporter
6. We get responses back from each of the repositories contact (ERA-test accepts the deposit, others do not)
7. We can also see that the record was transferred to OpenDepot.org-test.

(No, it’s not real-time…. the process takes more time in the demonstrator)