The IR in the Digital Library

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The IR in the Digital Library

• Theo Andrew
• Repository Manager
• University of Edinburgh

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Aims

• Defining digital repositories
• Explore the different flavours of repositories
• The repository ecosystem
• Some thoughts on the future

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A repository is.

• .a set of services that a university offers to
  the members of its community for the management
  and dissemination of digital materials created by
  the institution and its community members.
• Lynch, 2003
• http//www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html

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What factors define a repository?

• Purpose Scope
• Content
• (Text-based objects/
• Images/ source data/
• other)
• - Motivation
• (Dissemination,
• Preservation,
• Management)

• Patronage
• Institutional
• (University of X)
• Geographical
• (Funding council Y)
• Scholarship
• (Discipline Z)

Digital Repository

• Further defined by
• Collection Access policies
• Software
• Preservation storage policies
• User community

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Basic repository classification
Access Open Access Non OA Mixed
Content Mixed Specialised
Patronage Institutional Geographical Disciplinary
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Institutional mixed content
- Front door - OAI harvesting services - Web
services
Access
DSpace_at_ Cambridge
E-prints
RCS Photograph Gallery
Corporate publications
PhD theses
Datasets
Dark Archive
Heinrich Schenker Correspondence
CamRAD Rock-Art images
http//www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
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Institutional specialised content (1)
Glasgow University

• - Front door
• - OAI harvesting services
• Web services
• - Local OAI harvesting service

Access
ePrints.org
ePrints.org
ePrints.org
DSpace
Theses, pre-prints working papers and reports
http//eprints.gla.ac.uk/
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Institutional specialised content (2)
- Front door - OAI harvesting services - Web
services
University of Edinburgh
Access
Non OA
intraLibrary
DSpace
Learning Object Repository
Edinburgh Research Archive
eJournals
Exam Papers
eBooks
Institutional Access Federated Search tools
(e.g. WebFeat)
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Institutional specialised content (3)
- Front door - OAI harvesting services - Web
services
White Rose Partnership
Access
ePrints.org
Leeds
York
Full text e-prints
Full text e-prints
Sheffield
Full text e-prints
http//eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
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Geographical mixed content
ePrints
ePrints
DSpace
ePrints
AHDS Preservation Archive (pilot)
White Rose Partnership
Glasgow University
X
ePrints
DSpace
Access
Edinburgh University
London LEAP consortium
http//ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/sherpa-dp/index.h
tml
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Geographical specialised content
Restricted access to registered users
LORE
JORUM- Learning Object repository
Closed access learning object repositories
intraLibrary
UK FE institutions
Open access learning object repositories
UK HE institutions
http//www.jorum.ac.uk/
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Geo-Disciplinary mixed content

• Archaeology Data Service

Chronological collections
General Collections
ADS Catalogue
Artefact collections
Textual Collections
Environmental Archaeology Related Collections
Building Related Collections
http//ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
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Disciplinary specialised content

• arXiv e-print server

Mathematics
arXiv
Nonlinear Sciences
Physics
Quantitative Biology
Computer Science
www.arXiv.org
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Repository ecosystems

• Embryonic stage- no standard model
• Many different manifestations of IRs- confusing!
• No so much The Matrix (seamless
  interoperability), but more like The Matrices.
• Mostly overcome the technological problems, now
  we have to develop user communities.

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Questions

• How will IRs be integrated into digital
  libraries?
• How will IRs interact with other repositories?
• How do we build up a user community?

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