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Scoping the relationship between Prospero, institutional and subject-based repositories, data-centres and other archives will form an integral part of the Preparatory Phase. The intention is to develop mutually-beneficial and supportive working that facilitates policy development, increases exposure for UK research and constitutes part of a national response to open access developments and recommendations. This scoping will be supported by implementation of a repository that will help generate feedback and fully determine requirements.

The principal functionalities of the Prospero repository, subject to scoping activity, will include search/browse/retrieval of metadata; retrieval/download of the full text (object) for the found reference; facilities for deposit/ingest of metadata and object (for standard formats, such as pdf and xml); support OAI-PMH harvesting; facilities to export metadata and objects to authorised third party repositories; secure hosting and archiving of metadata and objects.

There are a number of technical and policy decisions that need to be considered as part of a complete scoping study before rolling out a national service.

Deliverables of the preparatory phase:

a website and FAQ facility as part of project dissemination
contact and liaison with stakeholders to ensure appropriate service definition
a report of the scoping study, including the role of Prospero in academic work-flow, funding council processes and national repository environment
selection of initial repository software and a first-cut implementation; helpdesk to support use; identification of field-testers in community
investigation of user authentication/authorisation to support deposit
proposal and planning for the Main Phase of the project
development of a Deposit Licence to reflect Prospero requirements (which are likely to be different than IR requirements)

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