Providing Discourse Services for Researchers in a Repository Setting

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"

Abstract Developing and useful repository for research requires us to provide many services. These services traditionally include storage, preservation, and access. It is imperative that repositories continue to grow and adapt to researchers needs as their methodologies and communication patterns evolve. Several years ago RUcore, the Rutgers Community Repository, introduced a web-base resource analysis tool. The RUanalytic tool allows researchers to discover and analyze video, creating annotations, while collaborating during the creation process with other researchers. After an initial implementation period with the RUanalytic tool it was obvious an integrated discrete discourse element was needed. During the analysis process researchers communicated through email, shared documents or the re-purposing of elements of the video annotation tool. The discourse element needed to be simple to use, provide threaded discourse, while being adaptable and transferable throughout the repository infrastructure. If accepted this proposal will provide a technical explanation and demonstration of the discourse element that was developed for the RUanalytic tool and how it was integrated as part of the repository framework of services.