Cornells Institutional Repository Initiative

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Cornells Institutional Repository Initiative

• Marcy E. Rosenkrantz
• Director, Library Systems
• Cornell University Library

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Outline

• Institutional Repositories at CU
• How IRs are currently being used
• Use by archivists
• Relationship to digital archiving at CUL
• Archivists roles

Caveat IANAA
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CUL Repositories

• Digital Publishing System (DPubS)
  http//techreports.library.cornell.edu
• DSpace
• http//dspace.library.cornell.edu
• arXiv (disciplinary repository)
• http//www.arxiv.org
• ENCompass
• http//www.library.cornell.edu/mayantislavery/
• Insight
• http//insight.library.cornell.edu

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techreports.library.cornell.edu

• Uses
• Computer Science Department Technical Reports
• Computing and Information Science Technical
  Reports
• Cornell Theory Center Technical Reports
• History and Theory of Machines and Mechanisms
  Technical Reports
• Library Papers and Preprints
• Watershed Management Papers
• Over 2000 articles (majority in Computer Science)
• Self selected, self managed, self contributed,
  sys admin and development by CUL

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dspace.library.cornell.edu

• Uses
• Bio and Environmental Engineering Student
  Projects
• Cornell University East Asia Papers
• Cornell University Graduate School
• Cornell University Library
• Cornell University Professional Degree Programs
• Internet-First University Press
• Archival value in several objects
• Self selected, self managed, sys admin by CUL

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www.ar?iv.org

• Uses
• Preprints of Physics
• Preprints in Computer Science
• Preprints in Mathematics
• Over 250,000 objects (increasing by 150
  objects/day)
• Self selected, self contributed, administered and
  developed by CUL
• 70 of articles ultimately appear in peer
  reviewed journals

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www.library.cornell.edu/mayantislavery
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insight.library.cornell.edu

• 27,000 images
• Johnson Museum
• Rare and Manuscript Collection
• Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
• Collaborative effort -- archivists, scholars,
  digitization service, preservation, library
  systems, metadata service

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Some Observations and Questions

• Techreports, dspace, arxiv are close to what
  archivists would be obtaining from faculty
  collections
• But with little interaction/intervention by
  archivists
• In the future, these might not appear in faculty
  collections unless archivists receive hard
  drives, disk drives, floppies, etc.
• Not organized according to author
• But can be browsed by author
• If libraries received these in paper, where would
  they go, who would be responsible?
• Significant involvement of archivists for
  preservation of and maintaining access to rare
  material

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Use of Institutional Repositories by Archivists

• electronically created university records
• building plans and architectural drawings
  (functionality of repository a concern)
• finding aids
• departmental and individual e-mailarchive
  listservs?
• data sets (census, astronomy, materials science)
• web sites, blogs
• course curricula and learning objects
• electronic correspondence of the university
  administration
• correspondence not created electronically (scan
  and deposit?)
• otherdigital collections,

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Where our IR initiative fits

• Three year effort to develop a digital archive
  based on OAIS
• Policies and procedures
• Functional specs
• RFI/RFP
• Development
• DPubS, DSpace, arXiv envisioned as multiple
  repositories in our OAIS implementation
• Additional repositories will be needed.

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Archivists have an integral role

• policy development
• preservation planning
• selection
• acquisition criteria and procedures
• agreements with donors and creators
• metadata requirements
• archival requirements
• access
• finding aids
• repository organization

Can search and browse capabilities obviate the
need for finding aids?
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e-mail mr41_at_cornell.edu
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• The History of Computing at Cornell (in progress)
  by John Rudan
• Quantum Physics Made (Relatively) Simple
  Personal and Historical Perspectives of Hans
  Bethe by Hans Bethe (video)
• "I Can Do That!" Hans Bethe's First 60 Years at
  Cornell (video)

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