Project Plan and Progress
Project Plan
PIRUS2 is divided into 6 Workpackages, covering the time periods indicated by shaded areas in the Table below:
Workpackage (WP) (Lead organization in parentheses) |
2009 | 2010 | ||||
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Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan-Mar | Apr-Jun | Jul-Dec | |
WP1 Consortium Administration (Mimas) | ||||||
WP2 Project Management (Cranfield) | ||||||
WP3 Dissemination and advocacy (COUNTER) | ||||||
WP4 Software, standards, protocols (Cranfield) | ||||||
WP5 Prototype Service (COUNTER) | ||||||
WP6 Evaluation and exit strategy (COUNTER) |
WP4: Software, standards and Protocols
Article Report 1 (AR1)
Apr 2010. We are developing a new COUNTER report for the 'Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month and DOI'. It is currently at version 0.4 and available, in MS Excel and XML formats - for comment from interested parties:
Dec 2009. Version 0.3 and available, in MS Excel and XML formats:
Repository software plugins/extensions
Jun 2010. Initial versions of repository software plugins/extensions are available for:
DSpace 1.6.2
- Tracker Patch for DSpace v1.6.2 (ZIP file including patch and installation instructions) enables DSpace v1.6.2 to transmit full-text article download usage data to the PIRUS2 demonstration server
- OAI-PMH Patch for DSpace v1.6.2 (ZIP file including patch and installation instructions) enables DSpace v1.6.2 to expose full-text article download usage data via OAI-PMH for harvesting by the the PIRUS2 demonstration server
DSpace 1.6.0
- Tracker Patch (ZIP file including patch and installation instructions) enables DSpace v1.6.0 to transmit full-text article download usage data to the PIRUS2 demonstration server
- OAI-PMH Patch (ZIP file including patch and installation instructions) enables DSpace v1.6.0 expose full-text article download usage data via OAI-PMH for harvesting by the the PIRUS2 demonstration server
Eprints
- Extension enables Eprints v3.2.3 to transmit full-text article download usage data to the PIRUS2 demonstration server
Fedora
- Daemon enables Fedora to transmit full-text article download usage data to the PIRUS2 demonstration server
WP5: Prototype Service
The following publishers have agreed to provide usage data as part of the tests for the prototype central clearing house for article level usage statistics:
- ACS Publications
- Emerald
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Nature Publishing Group
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Oxford University Press
- Springer
- Wiley
The following repositories are participating in tests to provide usage data:
- Bournemouth University Research Online (BURO)
- Cranfield CERES
- Harvard DASH
- University of Edinburgh ERA
- University of Huddersfield Repository
- Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)
- University of Salford Institutional Repository
- Southampton ECS EPrints Repository