DSpace as a Preservation Platform Mark Jordan SFU
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DSpace as a Preservation Platform Mark Jordan, SFU Library Vancouver Digital Archives Group 2005 -09 -15
Overview Institutional Repositories ¢ SFU’s IR ¢ DSpace as a preservation platform ¢ Demonstration ¢
What are Institutional Repositories? ¢ Provide ongoing access to an institution’s scholarly output l ¢ Contrasted with learning object repositories l ¢ Articles, working papers, books, theses, data sets, computer programs… http: //www. merlot. org/ Contrasted with disciplinary archives l http: //ar. Xiv. org
Attributes of IRs Institution-based ¢ Open access ¢ Managed by libraries and communities within institution ¢ Interoperable, standards-based ¢ Variety of content ¢
Brief history of IRs ¢ Eprints archives l Example: ar. Xiv (high energy physics archive) SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) position paper ¢ DSpace ¢
Growth of Institutional Repositories Source: Institutional Archives Registry
The CARL project ¢ ¢ Canadian Association of Research Libraries 7 mainstreamed IRs l l l l ¢ ¢ University of Calgary Université Laval Université de Montreal Simon Fraser University of Toronto University of Waterloo University of Winnipeg 7 pilot projects 8 more in the planning phase
The CARL project: content ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ Journal articles Learning objects Theses and dissertations Journal issues Photographs Images Conference papers Music scores Data sets
SFU’s repository Community Documents Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing 4 Simon Fraser University Library 16 Di. GRA 2005 101 Simon Fraser University Linguistics Graduate Student Association 7 Simon Fraser University Theses 230 SSHRC-Funded Projects 1
SFU: activities Every semester we will be adding more than 120 theses or graduate projects ¢ Library staff papers and Library events ¢ Conferences at SFU ¢ SFU’s 40 th Anniversary ¢
SFU: use (April 2005) Downloads: average of almost 80 documents/day ¢ Searches: average of just under 3. 5 searches per day ¢ Browsing: not used very much ¢
How Do IRs preserve scholarship? They don’t, without support from the institution ¢ They do make scholarship more accessible ¢ IR service must be accompanied by sensible preservation strategies ¢
DSpace as a preservation platform Was designed to be OAIS compliant ¢ Includes preservation tools ¢ Is being used as a testbed for preservation strategies ¢
DSpace and OAIS DSpace is intended to comply with OAIS Reference Model ¢ Provides SIP, AIP, and DIP functions but these are still evolving ¢ Moving to use METS as AIP container ¢ Source: Robert Tansley et al, “DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: Current Status and Future Directions”, European Digital Library Conference 2003, http: //www. ecdl 2003. org/presentations/papers/session 11 b/Tansley/dspace-ecdl 2003. ppt
DSpace’s OAIS SIPs Tansley et al, slide 25
DSpace’s tools “Supported formats” ¢ Checksum generator ¢ METS output ¢ Media filters ¢
Research / implementation Robert Tansley ¢ Robert Fox ¢ l ¢ Developing a METS application profile as part of DSpace SIPs Jim Downing l “DSpace Digitial Preservation Automation”
Demonstration From user’s point of view ¢ From submitter’s point of view ¢
