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Preservation for Institutional Repositories: practical and invisible

Explore the methods and collaborations necessary to ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of scientific and technical data in institutional repositories. Learn about key initiatives, including the use of EPrints software and collaborations with organizations like The National Archives. Discover how preservation efforts can be seamlessly integrated into repository services for sustained impact.

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Preservation for Institutional Repositories: practical and invisible

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  1. Preservation for Institutional Repositories: practical and invisible Jessie M.N. Hey1, Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody, Leslie A. Carr Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, 1 also University of Southampton Libraries, University of Southampton http://preserv.eprints.org/ Ensuring Long-term Preservation and adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data (PV2005) Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 21-23 Nov 2005

  2. Institutional Repositories – the next stage • Institutional Repositories – early development but growing fast globally • Access leading to preservation • Academic author deposit/mediator – must be low barrier/low maintenance • Fundamental is collaboration on services but what practical choice for our environment? • First practical steps e.g. EPrints software/The National Archives/British Library (PRESERV project)

  3. What is an Institutional Research Repository?Southampton Press Release 15 Dec 2004 'We see our Institutional Repository as a key tool for the stewardship of the University's digital research assets,' said Professor Paul Curran, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University. 'It will provide greater access to our research, as well as offering a valuable mechanism for reporting and recording it. Our vision includes all research output as part of a broad institutional repository in a landscape of interconnecting repositories

  4. A national and international development of IRs • The JISC vision reflecting the individual repositories (JISC Inform no. 8)

  5. In an ideal world of scholarly communication – all research is freely available • June 27th 2005 11th anniversary of Stevan Harnad’s ‘Subversive Proposal’ leading to the open access vision for scholarly material • See also Harnad, S. and Hey, J. M. N. (1995) Esoteric Knowledge: the Scholar and Scholarly Publishing on the Net. In Proceedings of Networking and the Future of Libraries 2: Managing the Intellectual Record, Proceedings of an International Conference, Bath, 19-21 April 1995,  110-16. Dempsey, L., Law, D. and Mowlat, I., Eds. • And journals still become more and more expensive Even the work of researchers in our own institution is still often unavailable to us ………… but we’re making progress

  6. Include reports and new journal articles asyesterday but watch out also for art exhibitions andmusic and data: full text/objects or links if possible otherwise metadata only

  7. We heard earlier from Peter Murray-Rust on 100,000 chemical objects and CCLRC have a poster about their 5000 technical reports

  8. IRs: UK growth…..

  9. IRs: Global expansion…

  10. University of Southampton Research Repository: e-Prints Soton

  11. A topical example to focus the mind: A fire at the University of Southampton 31st Oct 2005 Photo: Tom Kazmierski and John Lewis

  12. We need smart tools to provide cost effective ‘preservation of service’ to move calmly from first shock to work as normal Key ingredients: We still have the people and the pub ….and the support of the university community and the external community ….. for long term preservation Photos: Adrian Pickering Mark Furness

  13. Collaborating with The National Archives • PRONOM – one of a future family of technical registries

  14. PRONOM: the technical registry - file formats et al

  15. What is PRONOM?

  16. Exploring withUniversity of Southampton Research Repository/ Oxford Eprints • More developments forthcoming from PRONOM • Opportunity to feed in – varied IR formats • Potential: Reports to administrators etc • Explore with PRESERV test database; then Southampton and Oxford repository pilots

  17. e-Prints Soton Pronom Survey

  18. And more

  19. Collaborating with the British Library for services • Basic model OAIS but exploring which model for services • Our administrators want low cost, low overhead for a sustainable archive – utilising expert skills • Other archives will have similar needs • Partnering to share knowledge

  20. PRESERV collaborationand OAIS

  21. Identifying options: surveying stakeholders First our academics – What is important to you/your group to preserve: • Early indications from interviews: they want the ‘works’ • Their ideal: capture publications in context • Therefore web archiving will play a role • Taking one step at a time

  22. Practical and invisible • PRONOM and other preservation activities can often be hidden from view unless we need our authors to act • Just as our Institutional Repository Project TARDis has become invisible as the IR became an embedded service

  23. Preservation for Institutional Repositories: practical and invisible Thank you and for more detail see the paper and the web site Jessie Hey, Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody, Leslie Carr, University of Southampton jessie.hey@soton.ac.uk http://preserv.eprints.org/ http://www.eprints.org/

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