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