DPC Briefing Day
Policies for Digital Repositiories: models and approaches
Venue: British Library, London
Date: 5th July 2006
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The DPC held a Briefing day on different implementations of digital
repositories. This event was aimed at people who are in the process of
planning digital repositories and who want to find out more about available
tools and the benefits of each model. The day highlighted different approaches
to and aspects of repository models and was useful for those who wish
to take a more modular approach to repository building. The day was also
useful to people who are starting to move from strategic planning to
actual repository implementation.
Sayeed Choudhury emphasised that institutional repositories should provide
both an institutional service and long-term custodianship of digital
academic output. He also highlighted however how there was a definite
lack of discussion on the digital preservation element within repositories;
preservation is very hard indeed, and there need to be more case studies.
An important theme was that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and
institutions should focus on their needs rather than on their systems.
Sayeed Choudhury - Johns
Hopkins University: Digital Repository Models (PDF 123KB)
Dave Thompson of Wellcome Trust outlined why they chose Fedora as a
system. The outstanding reasons were that it was cheap and versatile.
He outlined the implementation of the relationship builder and the metadata
extraction tool. As a test bed Dave chose to archive an email spam collection
and the methodologies for doing this provide a good case study. The overall
message was that a good approach is to manage the information and metadata,
not the technology.
Dave Thompson - Wellcome
Trust: Fedora at the Wellcome Library, progress and work to date (PDF 150KB)
Paul Bevan continued on the Fedora theme and how they have used it at
the National Library of Wales for their digital asset management system.
Their interesting project has mapped OAIS elements into the archive.
Paul emphasised the importance of cross-organisation buy-in, and the
technical challenges of moving digital objects into a managed environment.
Paul Bevan - National Library
of Wales: Implementing an Integrated Digital Asset Management System: FEDORA
and OAIS in Context (PDF 1.1MB)
Steve Hitchcock outlined the history of institutional repositories and
how they have gradually developed out of the open archival initiative.
The highlighted the results of a survey of repositories; for example,
how only one out of the eighteen surveyed even have a preservation policy
for their repository, which is a cause for concern.
Steve Hitchcock - Southampton
University: Repository models and policies for preservation (PDF 581KB)
Andrew Wilson's talk outlined the SherpaDP project which investigates
a distributed preservation model. This comprehensive work flow is to
be the basis of a business model, not a free service; almost an exemplar
for outsourced preservation services. The project will also create a
handbook. He emphasised that there is a need for 'object mobility' within
the model, and how each of the detailed workflow modules map to the OAIS
model.
Andrew Wilson - AHDS: SHERPA-DP:
Distributed Repositories/Distributed Preservation (PDF 153KB)
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