The Sustaining Digital Scholarship Project

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The Sustaining Digital ScholarshipProject

• ETD 2005
• Thornton Staples
• Digital Library Research and Development
• University of Virginia Library

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Sustaining Digital Scholarship

• Collecting scholarly projects into a curated
  collection
• Creating large-scale scholarly projects since
  1992
• Graduate students have been heavily involved
• Dissertations and theses will become much more
  complex

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Digital Scholarly Projects

• These are not articles nor illustrated monographs
• They generally represent the scale of effort of
  writing a book
• These projects are more like virtual exhibitions
  than like books
• Scholarly commentary is interwoven with elaborate
  linking among resources

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The Rossetti Project

• Started in 1992 by Jerome McGann
• Intended to be a model for digital critical
  archives that combine critical and facsimile
  editions
• An edition of all of Rossettis written and
  graphic works
• 5,000 XML files, 12,000 image files
• Involves many different rights agreements

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Assumptions

• The primary assumption is that we are bringing
  the projects into the Librarys management stream
• They often include large numbers of digital
  surrogates of traditional resources
• Increasingly, they will include born digital
  primary resources

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Some policy implications

• The collection of digital projects should go
  through the selection process
• The Library must be prepared to enforce
  appropriate access control policies
• We must make explicit promises to authors
• The Library will probably have to define these
  promises as levels of effort

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Fedora Object Content Models
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Text Collections three models
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Related Content Models
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Levels of Collecting
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The Future

• Collecting project that are created in the wild
  is not scalable
• An authoring environment that supports the
  creation of very complex projects
• Projects created into an institutional repository
  directly
• Move to digital library upon selection

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UVA Library Digital Initiatives Web
Sitehttp//www.lib.virginia.edu/digitalInstit
ute for Advanced Technology in the
Humaniteshttpwww.iath.virginia.eduThe
Fedora Projecthttpwww.fedora.info