Repositories in Context Digital repositories as components of an integrated infrastructure for educa

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Repositories in ContextDigital repositories as
components of an integrated infrastructure for
education

• Leona Carpenter
• Programme Director
• JISC Development Group

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Acknowledgements

• Neil Jacobs
• Programme Manager forthe JISC Digital
  Repositories Programme
• and other JISC colleagues
• Rachel Heery of UKOLN andSheila Anderson of the
  Arts Humanities Data Service
• Authors of the Digital Repositories Review

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A definition

• a place where a range of digital materials may
  be stored, and which does have an associated
  rationale in terms of what is being stored and
  what usage the repository is set up to serve

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Another definition

• content is deposited in a repository, whether by
  the content creator, owner or third party on
  their behalf
• the repository architecture manages content as
  well as metadata
• the repository offers minimum basic services
  (put, get, search)
• the repository must be sustainable and trusted in
  terms of being well-supported and well-managed.

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Repositories within JISC activities
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Repository-related activities
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Current issues

• Institutions need support for digital
  preservation asset management actions
• The everyday institutional benefits of
  repositories are often not visible
• Work in the repositories field is fragmented
  between different communities
• The current JISC Information Environment
  architecture needs expanding to account for
• Lifecycle approach to digital objects
• Ecology of repository interactions

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Digital preservation in institutions

• Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset
  Management in Institutions
• Initiatives to provide practical support
• Ensure future access to digital information
• 11 projects funded, at 19 institutions
• HE FE
• archives
• other bodies

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Three development themes

• Institutional Management Support
• Six projects
• Digital Preservation Assessment Tools
• One project
• Institutional Repository Development
• Three projects
• and one cross-theme project (themes 1 and 3)

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The assessment tools project

• Digital Asset Assessment Tool (DAAT)
• To develop a tool to assess preservation needs of
  digital holdings
• October 2004 September 2006
• University of London Computer Centre with the
  Arts and Humanities Data Service, National
  Preservation Office, The National Archives,
  British Library, Kings College London, School of
  Advanced Study of the University of London,
  Digital Preservation Coalition

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Institutional Repository Development

• Assessment of UK Data Archive and The National
  Archives compliance with OAIS and METS
• To map their systems and metadata to
• Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference
  Model
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
• November 2004 March 2005
• UK Data Archive at the University of Essex with
  The National Archives

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Institutional Repository Development

• Preservation Eprint Services (PRESERV)
• To implement an ingest service, based on the OAIS
  digital preservation reference model, for
  archives built using Eprints.org software
• October 2004 September 2006
• University of Southampton, with The National
  Archives, The British Library, and Oxford
  University

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Institutional Repository Development

• SHERPA Digital Preservation Creating a
  persistent environment for institutional
  repositories
• To create a collaborative preservation
  environment for the SHERPA institutional
  repositories project
• March 2005 February 2007
• Arts and Humanities Data Service with the
  University of Nottingham Consortium of
  University Research Libraries also support

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Cross-theme project

• Digital Archival Exemplars for Private Papers
• Themes 1 and 3 Jan 2005 Dec 2006
• To provide a best-practice template for
  establishing long-term access to private papers
  in digital form
• papers of contemporary politicians
• one Labour, one Conservative at least
• Oxford University with University of Manchester

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Aims of the new Digital Repositories Programme

• To embed repositories within everyday information
  landscape in FE and HE
• To enable effective communication between
  different communities
• To work toward a single JISC framework, covering
  learning, research and supporting systems

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Priority areas

• User requirements / use cases
• Metadata standards
• Metadata quality
• Persistent identifiers
• Version control
• Quality assurance
• Provenance
• Legal issues

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Objectives of the new repositories programme

• community needs
• cultural practical issues for implementation
  and use of institutional repositories
• repository specifications, software and tools
• a common distributed national repository
  service infrastructure
• repository functional components / frameworks
• guidelines and exemplars.

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Activity areas
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By the end of this programme, we hope to have

• enabled the community to build useful
  repositories easily, and to have scoped the
  services framework needed for a distributed
  national / international repositories resource.

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Current issues

• Institutions need support for digital
  preservation asset management functions
• The everyday institutional benefits of
  repositories are often not visible
• Work in the repositories field is fragmented
  between different communities
• The current JISC Information Environment
  architecture needs expanding to account for
• Lifecycle approach to digital objects
• Ecology of repository interactions