DSpaceCambridge

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DSpace_at_Cambridge
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• Under D-construction
• (with acknowledgement to University of Cambridge
  Newsletter)

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Peter Morgan Project Director,
DSpace_at_Cambridge Cambridge University Library
Julie Harford Walker Senior Business Strategist,
The DSpace Project MIT Libraries
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DSpace_at_Cambridge project

• Objective
• to develop a digital institutional repository
• for the University of Cambridge

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Outline

• digital information
• DSpace
• CMI
• DSpace_at_Cambridge
• the bigger picture

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Digital information

• fundamental shift from printed to digital
  information
• estimates (1999)
• (source How Much Information?, University of
  California at Berkeley, 2000)
• annual recorded information 635,480 TB
• proportion in printed form
• 23 TB (

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Digital information

• texts (articles, books, theses, reports, etc.)
• images
• video and audio
• multimedia clips
• interactive teaching programs
• data sets (bibliographic, scientific)
• web pages
• email
• etc.

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Digital information

• characteristics
• rapid growth
• many hardware and software formats
• obsolete hardware and software formats
• distributed creation, storage, access, ownership
• uneven application of standards for
  identification, retrieval, preservation

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Digital preservation

• philosophy
• lots of digital material is already lost
• many digital assets are at risk
• better to have it and preserve the bitstream than
  to lose it completely
• need to capture as much information as possible
  to support functional preservation
• cost/benefit trade-offs

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Digital repositories

• repository (not archive)
• institution-based or subject-based
• scholarly material in digital formats
• born-digital
• digitised
• cumulative, perpetual, and secure
• open and interoperable

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DSpace - 'a durable digital depository'

• MIT Libraries - Hewlett Packard Labs
  collaborative development project
• institutional repository for MIT staff's digital
  research and learning materials
• Open Source software (released Nov 2002)
• federated system
• preservation function

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DSpace- functions

• captures
• digital research material in various formats
• directly from creators (e.g. academics)
• describes
• descriptive, technical, and rights metadata
• distributes
• via WWW, with necessary access control
• preserves

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DSpace- standards

• modular architecture, well-defined APIs
• 100 open source
• Qualified Dublin Core metadata
• OAI-PMH for exposing metadata
• CNRI handles for persistent identifiers
• OpenURL linking

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DSpace- digital preservation

• MITs format commitment levels
• known/supported
• e.g. TIFF, SGML/XML, AIFF, PDF
• known/unsupported
• e.g. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint (common)
• e.g. Lotus 1-2-3, Visicalc, WordPerfect (less
  common)
• unknown/unsupported
• one-of-a-kind software program
• digital file format registry

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DSpace - virtues

• large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage
• support for range of digital formats
• easy-to-use submission process
• persistent network identifiers
• access control
• search and delivery interface
• digital preservation services

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DSpace

• DSpace home http//www.dspace.org/
• DSpace at MIT https//hpds1.mit.edu/

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Cambridge-MIT Institute

• CMI
• funded by UK Government (DTI)
• 68 million over 5 years (2000-2005)
• mission 'to improve the competitiveness,
  productivity and entrepreneurship of the UK by
  educating leaders, discovering knowledge and
  developing technologies, and creating programs
  for change using a partnership of MIT and
  Cambridge'

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CUL MIT Libraries- convergence of interests

• Cambridge University experience
• CEDARS
• CAMiLEON
• CARET
• MIT experience
• operational repository (DSpace)
• cost models
• organizational change

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CMI library projects

• 3 projects approved by CMI
• preliminary study, in Cambridge and UK, of the
  case for digital institutional repositories
  (2002)
• implementation and development of DSpace in
  Cambridge (2002-5)
• UK seminar series to develop digital
  institutional repositories (2003-5)

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DSpace_at_Cambridge

• joint project between Cambridge University
  Library and MIT Libraries in partnership with
  Cambridge University Computing Service
• objective to establish and develop a digital
  institutional repository for Cambridge
• 3 year duration (2002-2005)
• 1.7 million grant from CMI
• Advisory Board with UK and US members

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DSpace_at_Cambridge- project personnel

• in Cambridge
• Principal Investigator (Peter Fox)
• Project Advisor (Anne Murray)
• Project Director (Peter Morgan)
• UNIX System Programmer/Administrator (Tom De
  Mulder)
• DSpace Programmer (vacant)
• Business Analyst (vacant)
• Administrative Assistant (vacant)

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DSpace_at_Cambridge- project personnel

• in Boston
• Principal Investigator (Ann Wolpert)
• Project Advisor (MacKenzie Smith)
• Project Liaison (Julie Walker)
• Technical Support (Greg McClellan)
• DSpace Programmer (vacant)
• Administrative Assistant (Leigh Curley)

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DSpace_at_Cambridge - short term

• DSpace 1.0 to be implemented immediately
• 'early adopters' to provide test content
• further development and customization
• digital preservation (UL-led)
• learning management system interoperability
  (MIT-led)
• business plan to sustain DSpace_at_Cambridge as a
  service

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DSpace_at_Cambridge- technical tasks

• install and customize hardware and software
• develop local system interfaces
• networks, user authentication, security, back-up
• provide ongoing systems administration
• test scalability
• develop digital preservation functionality
• migration/emulation processes, metadata
  requirements

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DSpace_at_Cambridge- organizational issues

• local policy decisions
• community definitions, acceptable formats, levels
  of access, metadata quality, IPR, etc. etc.
• early adopters and fast followers
• business modelling
• evaluation criteria and processes
• communication
• advisory groups, seminars, website, discussion
  lists
• content, content, content

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DSpace_at_Cambridge- possible content

• preprints
• refereed research papers
• technical reports
• working papers
• conference papers
• e-theses
• administrative records
• legal deposit of e-publications
• published books
• overlay journals

• bibliographic datasets
• research datasets
• images
• audio files
• video files
• learning objects
• reformatted digital library collections
• learning materials
• web pages

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DSpace _at_ Cambridge - longer term

• further development of digital preservation
  standards and capabilities
• develop records life-cycle management
  capabilities
• extend functionality to host digital learning
  objects
• interoperability with other OAI-compliant digital
  repositories
• develop publishing capabilities
• other applications?

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DSpace_at_Cambridge- potential benefits to users

• visibility of academic work
• 'community' (departmental) identity
• Cambridge University 'badge'
• ownership of material is retained by user/CU
• digital preservation
• UL repository offers long-term guarantees
• data security

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The Bigger Picture- DSpace Federation

• Federation development
• 3 DSpace projects involving 8 universities
• funding from CMI and Mellon
• broad Open Source adoption
• goals
• drive DSpace development
• critical mass of content
• utilize distributed expertise

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The Bigger Picture- DSpace Federation

• DSpace Federation partners
• MIT (US)
• Cambridge (UK)
• Cornell (US)
• Columbia (US)
• Ohio State (US)
• Rochester (US)
• Toronto (Canada)
• Washington State (US)

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The Bigger Picture- CMI

• National Competitiveness Network
• dissemination of CMI project experience
• DSpace_at_Cambridge lessons available to UK HE
  beyond
• Seminar Series on Digital Institutional
  Repositories
• 8 seminars in the UK (beginning September 2003)
• institutional strategies for digital repositories
• not DSpace-specific
• Mary Barton (MIT) Rohan Holley (CUL)

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The Bigger Picture- JISC and others

• Project FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional
  Resources)
• SHERPA (Nottingham et al)
• DAEDALUS (Glasgow)
• ePrints UK (UKOLN)
• Digital Curation Centre
• JISC e-Science Core Programme
• Digital Preservation Coalition
• Scholarly Communication Campaign
• CURL, SPARC, Budapest Open Access Initiative

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Links - DSpace_at_Cambridge

• DSpace (www.dspace.org/)
• DSpace_at_Cambridge (www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/)
• Cambridge University Library (www.lib.cam.ac.uk/)
• MIT Libraries (libraries.mit.edu/)
• CMI (www.cambridge-mit.org/
• CEDARS (www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/)
• CAMiLEON (www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/)
• OAI (www.oai.org/)
• SIMILE (web.mit.edu/simile/www/)

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Links- the bigger picture

• JISC (www.jisc.ac.uk/)
• SHERPA (www.sherpa.ac.uk/)
• DAEDALUS (www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus/)
• ePrints UK (www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/)
• e-Science (www.research-councils.ac.uk/escience/)
• Digital Preservation Coalition (www.dpconline.org/
  )
• CURL (www.curl.ac.uk/)
• SPARC Europe (www.sparceurope.org/)
• BOAI (www.soros.org/openaccess/)

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DSpace_at_Cambridge - team contacts

• MIT Libraries
• Julie Harford Walker
• Senior Business Strategist, The DSpace Project
• 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14S-M52
• Cambridge
• MA 02139
• 617-258-8303
• jhwalker_at_mit.edu

• Cambridge UL
• Peter Morgan
• Project Director, DSpace_at_Cambridge
• Cambridge University Library
• West Road
• Cambridge
• CB3 9DR
• 01223 333130
• pbm2_at_cam.ac.uk

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DSpace_at_Cambridge

• http//www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/