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Select for Success: Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models Oya Y. Rieger Cornell University Library April 2007 Select Update Appraise Ingest Archive Digitize Store Within a lifecycle framework, digital curation involves a series

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Select for Success: Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models

Oya Y. Rieger Cornell University Library April 2007

Select

Within a lifecycle framework, digital curation involves a series of technical, intellectual, and managerial activities in support of stewardship for digitized

  • r born-digital information assets.

Appraise Ingest Process Digitize Reformat Submit Add Service Publish Deliver Store Assess Update Archive Publicize DRM

ORieger 2007

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What is a repository system?

  • Digital asset management
  • Discovery & retrieval
  • Institutional visibility
  • Academic support
  • Scholarly communication
  • Business procedures support
  • Innovation in information

management

Capture, store, index, manage, preserve, and deliver digital objects. DSpace Fedora GreenStone ContentDM Sakai DiVA ePrints Digital Commons DPubS ContentDM Open Journal System aDORe

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Factors in Choosing a Repository Model

  • Development characteristics
  • Financial sustainability
  • Digital library infrastructure
  • Interoperability and support

for standards

  • Institutional policies and

practices

  • Support of archival business

requirements

  • Content type characteristics
  • Preservation functionality
  • Usability (staff and end-user)
  • Search, browse, access

features

Factors in Choosing a Repository Model

  • Development characteristics
  • Financial sustainability
  • Digital library infrastructure
  • Interoperability and support

for standards

  • Institutional policies and

practices

  • Support of archival business

requirements

  • Content type characteristics
  • Preservation functionality
  • Usability (staff and end-user)
  • Search, browse, access

features

Art Libraries Society of North America. Digital Image Database Standards Checklist: Technical, Functional, Content, & Access Recommendations Research Libraries Group and OCLC. Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification

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Key Principles in Selecting a Repository Model

  • 1. Identify Key Stakeholders
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5 How about OAIS?

What is your business case?

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6 Let’s implement Fedora Focus on intellectual content

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7 Why would I give you my data?

  • Build awareness
  • Gather feedback
  • Build trust
  • Get support
  • Expand resources
  • Understand risks

Benefits of Stakeholder Analysis

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  • 2. Conduct Needs Assessment

Document type Condition Metadata attributes Selection criteria Usage restrictions Relation to other collections

documents users resources

Services Use type Frequency of use Use mode User support needs Staff and skills Systems, hardware, software Stakeholders Organizational guidelines and policies Master plans and strategies

  • 3. Explore Resource Requirement
  • Start-up costs to be in a range of $8,000-$1,800,000

(with a mean of $182,550)

  • An average ongoing operating cost of $113,500

Institutional Repositories. SPEC Kit 292. Association of Research Libraries, 2006 LIFE (Life Cycle Information for E-Literature) University College London (UCL), the British Library, JISC

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Case Study: arXiv

Staff= Leadership, management, support, tech development, admin support (9 staff – 4 FTE) Equipment= Servers, back-ups, amortization, storage costs, maintenance Other= Meetings, supplies, communication, software, etc.

$40,000 $25,000 Staff, $260,000 Staff Equipment Other Other Equipment

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  • 4. Understand the Existing Human Landscape
  • Equally important is taking into consideration the existing

and evolving work culture and practices.

  • Traditions and work practices of different communities

shape their acceptance and use of technologies.

– Relevant social groups (stakeholders) – Interpretive flexibility – Appropriation

CSCW & SCOT

Approaches that try to “move” faculty and their deeply embedded value systems directly toward new forms of archival systems are destined to fail.

Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2006

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Key Principles in Selecting a Repository Model

  • Identify key stakeholders
  • Conduct needs assessment analysis
  • Explore resource requirements
  • Understand the existing human landscape

Conclusions

  • Flexible and scalable repositories

At Johns Hopkins, we are promoting the idea that applications should access repositories through an abstract, repository agnostic layer, rather than through custom application to repository integrations.

Choudhury and Martino, 2005

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Conclusions

  • Flexible and scalable systems
  • Web services

Conclusions

  • Flexible,scalable
  • Web services
  • Repurposing
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Conclusions

  • Flexible and scalable
  • Web services
  • Repurposing
  • New information chain

Van de Sompel et al, D-Lib Magazine, September 2004