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DSpace as a Preservation Platform

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?.

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DSpace as a Preservation Platform

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  1. DSpace as a Preservation Platform Mark Jordan, SFU Library Vancouver Digital Archives Group 2005-09-15

  2. Overview • Institutional Repositories • SFU’s IR • DSpace as a preservation platform • Demonstration

  3. What are Institutional Repositories? • Provide ongoing access to an institution’s scholarly output • Articles, working papers, books, theses, data sets, computer programs… • Contrasted with learning object repositories • http://www.merlot.org/ • Contrasted with disciplinary archives • http://arXiv.org

  4. Attributes of IRs • Institution-based • Open access • Managed by libraries and communities within institution • Interoperable, standards-based • Variety of content

  5. Brief history of IRs • Eprints archives • Example:arXiv (high energy physics archive) • SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) position paper • DSpace

  6. Growth of Institutional Repositories Source: Institutional Archives Registry

  7. The CARL project • Canadian Association of Research Libraries • 7 mainstreamed IRs • University of Calgary • Université Laval • Université de Montreal • Simon Fraser University • University of Toronto • University of Waterloo • University of Winnipeg • 7 pilot projects • 8 more in the planning phase

  8. The CARL project: content • Journal articles • Learning objects • Theses and dissertations • Journal issues • Photographs • Images • Conference papers • Music scores • Data sets

  9. SFU’s repository

  10. 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 40th Anniversary

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. DSpace as a preservation platform • Was designed to be OAIS compliant • Includes preservation tools • Is being used as a testbed for preservation strategies

  14. 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.ecdl2003.org/presentations/papers/session11b/Tansley/dspace-ecdl2003.ppt

  15. DSpace’s OAIS SIPs Tansley et al, slide 25

  16. DSpace’s tools • “Supported formats” • Checksum generator • METS output • Media filters

  17. Research / implementation • Robert Tansley • Robert Fox • Developing a METS application profile as part of DSpace SIPs • Jim Downing • “DSpace Digitial Preservation Automation”

  18. Demonstration • From user’s point of view • From submitter’s point of view

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