Introducing New Services with DSpace Open Repositories Conference 2007 Susan Wells Parham Kent...

Introducing New Services with DSpace

Open Repositories Conference 2007

Susan Wells ParhamKent WoynowskiJulie Griffin

SMARTech

smartech.gatech.edu

SMARTech

August 2004 DSpace Institutional Repository Academic output of Georgia Tech Locally created material for

teaching and further research Self-submission by faculty &

researchers

Statistics

December 2006 10,400+ items Top 5 items:

• December ConneXus (library newsletter)• Intuitive Revelations (library faculty) • Belt line (Georgia Tech thesis) • Enzymatic Biobleaching … (research paper)• Structure Repairs Using … (research paper)

Digital Initiatives Working Group

Production Expectations

Collection administrator from department

Approve submitters Submit/approve new materials Submitters supply keywords Submitters supply author names

Content Expectations

Faculty Research Pre/Post Prints Technical Reports Current Theses & Dissertations

Changing Expectations

Repository as Product vs.

Repository as Service

Preservation Services

Campus Publications

Originally fell outside the scope of the collecting policy of SMARTech

Repository as Service idea led to an expansion of scope

The Technique & WREK Radio

www.nique.net www.wrek.org

The Technique

We discussed using DSpace as a point-of-entry for newspaper files, but it did not fit the Technique’s needs

The Technique focuses on newspaper operations, rather than storage needs

WREK Radio

No archiving of any radio programs, due to server space and licensing (music)

Dedicated staff were losing important original programs (campus interviews, etc.)

Archives harvests selected radio programs, adds to SMARTech

Extremely popular items in SMARTech

Aardvark – Dark Archive

Copyright constraints

Privacy issues Campus

restrictions

• Collections of digital files not suitable for the IR grew more and more rapidly

Aardvark Backbone - DSpace

GA Tech’s dedication to the software and the open-source movement

Staff familiarity Preservation focus Organizational structure MetaArchive Project

Aardvark Example Collections

Master TIFF images of scanned items Music Department recordings and videos Redacted/Removed documents from

SMARTech Copyrighted reference materials (vertical

subject files) are now full-text indexed

1,872 items (147 gigabytes) have been added in first 4 months by student employees

Aardvark Development

Administrative rights management Archival processing workflow Expanded metadata Integration with Archivists’ Toolkit Public exposure of selected

materials

Publishing Services

Design

Self-submission Library submission Submission via service layer over IR

• Involves library at the point of creation• Embeds services in existing scholarly

communication workflows on campus• Secures rights to disseminate research

epage@Tech Services

Capture• Instructional materials, multimedia

Host• Lecture series, symposia, conferences

Publish • Proceedings and journals

Preserve• … in SMARTech

Stakeholders

Researchers • Library provides a low-cost model for

hosting and maintaining conference web sites and journals

• Retain copyright GT/Library

• Georgia Tech granted non-exclusive license to distribute and preserve Ex. Conference proceedings and related

materials

Conferences and Journals

Space Systems Engineering Recycling of Fibrous Textile and

Carpet Waste Haunting Histories of the Female

Body: Gynecology, Obstetrics and Women's Health

Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L)

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID)

Haunting Histories of the Female Body

Organized by students Captured

• Presentations• Exhibition• Panel discussion

Hosted web site Preserved in SMARTech

Haunting Histories of the Female Body

ER&L Conference

Background Host content for Moodle publishing

platform Preserve proceedings in SMARTech Capture presentations

ER&L Conference

http://electroniclibrarian.org/moodle/

ITID Journal

Background Provide technical support for web-

based editorial workflow Journal published by MIT Press

ITID Journal

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/itid

ITID Journal

Repository as Service

Secures rights to disseminate research

Increases repository exposure on and off campus

Embeds repository into existing workflows

Builds content Promotes active participation in

scholarly communication process

Contact Information

Susan Wells Parhamsusan.parham@gatech.edu

Kent Woynowski woynowski@gatech.edu

Julie Griffinjulie.griffin@library.gatech.edu

Presentation available online at: http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/13171