1	If content is king, where’s the castle? Scott Siddall siddall@denison.edu
2	King’s Castle is the Content Repository Why are we talking about repositories? Who’s in charge?
3	What’s a repository? “…a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution." (Lynch, 2003)
4	Why repositories? Our responsibility as stewards of IP Credit and recognition Showcase scholarship for recruitment Pressures of the open access movement Ensure our work products as legacies Communicate our research and creativity Publish our research and creativity Document our processes
5	All kind and manner of repositories Institutional Personal Consortial Disciplinary Research Emeriti Curricular Etc., etc., etc.
6	What’s in it? articles books and theses primary data and associated files video, music and rich media course materials Any digital content: blobs
7	Who contributes? Faculty Preprints, postprints Data Curricular materials Research reports Students Theses Eportfolios Staff Special collections Institutional data Minutes Emeriti Legacy collections And more….
8	Who’s in charge? Ownership vs leadership Control Funding
9	The ‘big’ issues Purpose of the repository Alignment with mission Uncertainty about intellectual property issues Faculty incentives to contribute; scholarly credit Selection of unique content Need for collaborative planning Commitment to archiving and preservation Costs and quality of metadata
10	The ‘big’ issues
11	Tools to build the castle DSpace Eprints Fedora Local software projects
12	Centralization, control and Web 2.0 Web ‘sites’ have become applications Information services that can be mashed Distributed content and management Interactive user interfaces Open access
13	New tools to build the castle Britannica Online --> Wikipedia Personal websites --> blogging Screen scraping, batch uploads --> web services Publishing --> participation Content management systems --> wikis Directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy") Stickiness --> syndication
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20	Beyond the repository
21	Integrating the repository
22	Integrating the repository
23	Integrating the repository
24	One big castle? Federated searches across many collections Harvesting collections (OAI) or even the desktop (P2P) Combining content from local and remote collections Integrating content into CMS
25	No one has “the sauce” Another reason to collaborate Within the institution – library, faculty, technology Beyond the institution – open source, community source DSpace and Fedora Commons following the Sakai Foundation model
26	Addendum Repository Project Planning Goals Resources Processes Challenges
27	Planning questions – goals Is there a unifying goal for the project, or multiple goals? What are the relative proportions of institutional vs faculty collections? Conservatively, what percentage of the faculty collections are unique, legally sharable? What role might student scholarship and creative work play? What other institutional records might be catalogued? How can/should the collection be shared (policies in addition to technologies)?
28	Planning questions - resources What digital collections do you have now and how complete are they? Are there capital and human resources to support an IR? What facilities (scanning, software, storage, backup and bandwidth) are available? What might be the role of outsourcing in the project (hosting, digitization)? How will you avoid vendor or technology “lock-in” Are there any donors or corporate connections on the horizon?
29	Planning questions - processes Is your academic leadership committed to supporting this effort? What are the possibilities for collaboration? What role might students in the majors have in initial metadata creation? Are there regional repositories for specialized collections? Do they share metadata schema? What are the possibilities for federated searching and OAI harvesting?
30	Planning questions - challenges What are the real and perceived barriers to the project? What are/might be the incentives for faculty to contribute? How will projects be prioritized for inclusion? What level of quality can you afford? Is there a campus policy on intellectual property that favors this project? How will the faculty (or institutional) collections be maintained?
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