SPECTRa is an eighteen month project which will develop a set of customized software tools to enable chemists to routinely deposit experimental data, much of which is currently lost, in Open Access digital repositories.
Requirements in a number of different user disciplines (X-ray crystallography, computational chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry) will be determined by interview and survey. A customized version of the DSpace digital repository will be developed. Additional tools and context-specific metadata will facilitate the subsequent re-use of the deposited information.
SPECTRa is a joint project between Cambridge University and Imperial College and is funded under the JISC Digital Repositories Programme. The project has now completed (March 2007) and the Final Report documents are available for review. The project has provided Open Source tools : these are being made available via SourceForge.net
