Welcome to the ROAD project website at Aberystwyth University
The aim of the two year
JISC funded project (start date June 2007) is to investigate the use
of current open-source digital repository software to enable the
automatic curation of robot-generated experimental data and metadata.
The intention is to demonstrate the feasibility of using current
open-source digital repository software for management of data acquired
directly from automatic integrated laboratory equipment, specifically
the Robot
Scientist created at UWA.
It is expected that the project will also contribute to research on
the sharing of experimental data as well as providing a case study for
similar scientific installations in other institutions and for other
scientific domains. The vision for data repositories in
Digital Repositories Roadmap: looking forward has an information
environment in which raw research data is made available on an open
access basis. This vision includes the idea of direct linking between
laboratory equipment and a departmental or institutional repository. The
link with the Robot Scientist constitutes a sophisticated demonstration
of this vision.
Development work and testing will focus on three open source repository
systems:
DSpace,
Fedora and
EPrints.
