Digital Content Delivery Platforms Forum April 7, 2006

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• Digital Content Delivery Platforms Forum April
  7, 2006
• David Demello, Director of Web Development, ILR
  Technology ServicesMary Newhart, Web Digital
  Projects Manger, Catherwood Library

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Mission Goals
Promoting excellence in education, research, and
service to the workplace Mission of Catherwood
To serve as a comprehensive information center
in support of the research, instruction, and
service commitments of the Industrial and Labor
Relations School and Cornell community.
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DigitalCommons_at_ILR
As an Institutional Repository
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.
Clifford Lynch Meeting the IR definition
DigitalCommons_at_ILR includes ILR
Faculty Articles Chapters Book
Reviews Conference Proceedings Presentations
and Speeches Monographs Policy and Issue
Briefs Research Studies and Reports Working
Papers
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Moves beyond the traditional IR
To meet the Schools goals and mission DigitalCom
mons_at_ILR also includes The journal Industrial
and Labor Relations Review ILR Impact
Briefs Government publications Union
documents Partnerships Gladnet, CU/ILR
Press Archival Collections School publications,
Emeritus Faculty papers, Triangle Fire Transcript
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Platform Selection
Focusing on the needs of the School and goals of
IR, we Evaluated available platforms, including
Dspace, Digital Commons (BePress/Proquest),
Fedora, Eprints, Greenstone, Zope Considered
building our own Consulted with CIT CUL
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Why bepress/Proquest?
Efficiency/Scarce Resources the hosted service
provided cost savings on technology investment
and support servicesStable/proven track record
bepress California Digital Library. Proquest
databases/resources- http//researchnow.bepress.c
om/ Google factor / OAI compliant Multiple
backup/safety protocols Ability to migrate - we
own content and domain name. Annual renewable
contract avoid vendor lock-in Ability to
brand IR - http//digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/i
lrreview/

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Implementation

• Launched December 2004
• Formed Advisory and Working Group
• Assigned Staff
• Developed Strategy Goals
• Collection Development Policy
• Faculty Participation Plan
• Representative Collection

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Implementation

• Faculty Participation Plan
• Met with administrative assistants
• Brochure designed for faculty
• Presentation at faculty meeting
• Encourage all faculty to retain control of
  their intellectual property

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Implementation

Representative collection, including
the Industrial and Labor Relations Review New
home with in DigitalCommons_at_ILR offers the full
text of articles and book reviews dating from
April 2003. All visitors can view and download
(a) any book review archived in this site and (b)
any archived article that is 1-1/2 years old or
older. Subscribers can, view and download
recent and current articles.
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Management
Created workflow for uploading of faculty
documents Access database and tables for each
faculty member Use Project management approach
for material outside of traditional IR Work
closely with the School to set priorities
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Where we are today
1500 documents 5000 downloads weekly Variety of
documents and collections Defining management
process Growing faculty recognition and
participation
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Where we going
Moving away from hierarchical structure -creating
series based on document type Can include
communities and cross post documents for
presentation layer. Thinking of IR as holder
not for presentation. Building web interface
between web pages and DigitalCommons.
Presentation moves to web pages.
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Where we going
Examples Employment and Disability
Institute Global Portal Tour of
DigitalCommons_at_ILR http//digitalcommons.ilr.corne
ll.edu/
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Storing Metadata within the Repository
Remote Repository http//digitalcommons.ilr.cornel
l.edu
Custom, context-specific metadata management tool
Metadata stored in dc.subject field
OAI-PMH Harvest of metadata
Departmental web page
Context-specific SQL query
Local database of item-level Dublin Core records
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Attaching Metadata to Repository Referents
Using the Content Creation API, register
repository item identifiers as external links in
CommonSpot
Local database of item-level Dublin Core records
Describe registered external links using
CommonSpot-native metadata. Doing so allows their
seamless inclusion in Page Indexes alongside
links from other sources.
OAI-PMH Harvest of metadata
Departmental web page
Remote Repository http//digitalcommons.ilr.cornel
l.edu
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http//digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/oai2.cgi
?verbListRecordsmetadataPrefixoai_dc
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