User stories and Front Ends for a Research and Cultural Heritage Data Repository

This poster presents the Royal Danish Library Open Access Repository (LOAR) [1] based on DSpace [4] along with the MeLOAR dedicated front end for specific LOAR collections. MeLOAR offers keyword search and location search, shows the search results with facets, maps and highlights, and shows the highlights inside the pdfs as well. The repository was from the idea stage a two purpose repository for both FAIR[3] research data from Danish universities and cultural heritage data from the Royal Library. It was from the start also an open data repository to advocate the open data agenda. An important lesson was that different users mean different user stories, both when users are national library curators vs. university researchers and when users are researchers from different disciplines with different types of data. Sometimes the solution is a dedicated front end which gives a better user experience.