Hydra's and 3D brains - the wonderful world of embedding repositories to institutional services and processes

Authors: 
Williamson, Laurian, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Abstract: 

The extensive network of Institutional repositories (IRs) in the United Kingdom (UK) have received substantial investment from JISC, the UK’s expert on information and digital technologies for education and research.

This portfolio of six projects, JISC Repositories: Take-Up and Embedding (JISCrte) aim to improve institutional services that rely on the repository by enabling take-up of the lessons and benefits from the most successful repository applications, tools and good practice; and contribute to the progress of embedding repositories within academic life in the UK Higher Education (HE) environment.

The JISCrte project is part of the JISC Information Environment Programme 2009-11 and JISCrte will be completed in December 2011. Project findings and outcomes will be made available in Spring 2012.

The six projects involved include:

  • eNova (Visual Arts Data Service),
  • Hydra in Hull (University of Hull),
  • NECTAR (University of Northampton),
  • RADAR (Glasgow School of Art),
  • MIRAGE (Middlesex University), 
  • EXPLORER (De Montfort University).

In this paper we will explore the value of project outputs to the health and life science repository community and in particular MIRAGE, a subject repository of more than 100,000 medical images.

We will consider the challenges of content-based retrieval of 3D medical images (especially visualisation of 3D images) and providing repository users with the facility to upload their own query images (either by URL or from browsing their own image collection on their desktop).

Keywords: 
Access to Information, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Brain, Archives, Databases, Factual
Session: 
Session E. New technologies
Ref: 
E4
Category: 
Digital libraries
Type of presentation: 
Oral presentation