Mr Chris Keene

Post:	Technical Development Manager (Library)
Location:	Library
Email:	C.J.Keene@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	7950
UK:	(01273) 877950
International:	+44 1273 877950
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About
Selected publications

Role

As the Library Technical Development Manager I'm responsible for the Electronic Library, web based services & initatives and Sussex Research Online. This includes:

Develop and provide the best Resources Discovery and Resource Delivery service in an online environment for academic content.
Electronic Library : including services, authentication, support.
Sussex Research Online (Institutional Repository) : Oversee and develop the service which provides publication information on research outputs and Open Access full text to some work, including PHD theses. Current work includes complying with and reporting on OA compliance for RCUK.
Promote Open Access to academic content, and also Open Data.
Maintain the Library website and web services : recent developments include new Subject Guides using LibGuides, CalmView for Special Collections catalogue, Talis Aspire for Reading Lists, Capita Prism for our Catalogue and Primo as our Discovery service.
Provide technical advice to other Library initiatives and help implement technology to improve work flows and user services.
Using web standards (and especially those for metadata and academic content) such as OpenURL, CoINS, z39.50, Atom, OAI-PMH, etc.
Promote web based tools and services to aid research (such as bibliographic management applications, e.g. Zotero, CiteULike, Mendeley)

Selected Current Projects

Leading on a new major Resource Discovery project to replace our Electronic Library and Catalogue systems ready for the start of the 2013-14 session.
Supporting the integration of Reading lists with StudyDirect, and other Reading list improvements
Developing SRO, our research repository, including developments in OA and new requirements for research funder reporting and compliance.

Recent work includes:

Working as the Sussex Technical lead for the SALDA project, which has used the metadata for the Mass Observation Project, stored in Calm, and converted to Linked Open Data. We worked with Eduserv (Pete Johnston) for this project who provided much of core technical expertise to convert EAD/XML from Calm in to XML/RDF and n-triples.
E-theses : New DPhil Thesis submissions will be held electronically in the Institutional Repository (Sussex Research Online) and made publicly available.
Working with others to re-develop the Institutional Repository (Sussex Research Online) to make it the primary location for the University's research outputs.
Improve Library Communications using social media such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
Managing the JISC CReDUAL project. To develop a joint resource discovery service covering the library collections or the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton. The final service is called sabre and can be accessed from http://sabre.sussex.ac.uk/

Working with ITS to provide Shibboleth (UK Federation) authentication for e-resources and more.
Introduce Metalib cross-search for journal articles and other online resources (Electronic Library 'QuickSearch').
Introduce a new Resource Discovery interface called Aquabrowser for the Library Catalogue.
Presenting at UKSG and other conferences, and a recent article in the journal Serials.

I sit on the COPAC Steering group and have evaluated bids for a number of JISC calls for funding.

Do get in touch

I'm interested in how web technologies can be used to help discover and use information, including search tools and bibliographic management. My work includes metadata, storing research outputs and digitalisation. If you work or study at Sussex and want to chat regarding any of these things then do get in touch.

I'm on twitter (and other social media sites) as @chriskeene.

Keene, Chris (2011) Discovery services: next generation of searching scholarly information. Serials, 24 (2). pp. 193-196. ISSN 0953-0460