©2015 mblwhoi library build an institutional repository on a shoestring: sure, we can do that! ann...
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©2015 MBLWHOI Library www.mblwhoilibrary.org
Build an institutional repository on a shoestring:
Sure, we can do that!
Ann Devenish
WHOAS Project Manager
15 June 2015
SLA Boston
About us• Community: MBL, SEA, USGS, WHOI, WHRC
• <850 year-round researchers• 600-800 summer researchers & course attendees @ MBL• 140 MIT/WHOI Joint Program (graduate) students• n post-docs, guest investigators, visiting students, Summer
Fellows
• Staff: 10 librarians (MBL or WHOI employees)– Handful of volunteers (scanning photos & processing herbarium
samples)– Occasional intern from a nearby library program (archives
processing)– No additional support staff– No student workers– Minimal staff overlap
Core library services• 24/7 access to Lillie print collections• Circulation services• Off-site storage retrieval • On- and Off-campus access to e-journals and databases• Interlibrary loan• Comprehensive reference assistance and on-demand training• Data management (planning and data citation)• Repository services• MBL and WHOI institution archives ~ administrative,
manuscript, and data• MBL Rare Book collection• Monthly lunchtime programs (ORCID, Copyright, Data
Management, etc.)• Library orientations, tours, etc.• Special projects
Repository services
Budget outflows
51%
41%
6%2%
Publications & DatabasesSalaries & BenefitsMaintenance Fees & MembershipsMisc & Other
September 2002
We’re going to build an e-print server ….
Cathy Norton, Director, MBLWHOI Library
… a what?
Ann Devenish
2004 pilot project outcomes/conclusions
• Existing constraints:– No new staff – No new budget dollars
• Beg and borrow IT support & equipment– No institutional mandates for author deposit
• Open source platform our best (only?) option– DSpace
• Dublin Core metadata scheme• OAI PMH• Multiple file formats
“Should we build an IR?” was never a question we asked/answered
Fire, ready, aim
11 years later, not much has changed …
Let’s deposit DOIs for locally published content (theses, technical reports, etc.)
Let’s deposit DOIs for data sets in support of publication
Let’s accept content via SWORD
Let’s support item versioning
Let’s support linked open data
…except , now we have a smaller staff
How we do it
• Collaborate ~ play nicely with others
• Leverage ~ build on our successes
• Outsource ~ when necessary
• Grants ~ when available
Collaborate
Examples:– CrossRef: DOIs– Digital-TAGs: Data sets– Biological Chemical Oceanography Data
Management Office (BCO-DMO): SWORD deposit
– Elsevier: Linking to data
Elsevier linking
Leverage
• Examples:– CrossRef DOIs for “books” > DOIs for data
sets– DTAG wav files > support for more robust
hardware– BCO-DMO > item versioning & linked open
data
Outsource
Examples:– New Wave Printing
• Scanning (older theses and technical reports)
– Longsight • IT support • Elsevier linking• SWORD (in part)
– @mire • Item versioning• Linked open data (under development)
Grants
Examples:– Jewett Foundation
• Item versioning (in part)
– National Science Foundation• GeoLink Linked open data
WHOAS rendered as RDF
Action items• Involve library and IT colleagues, early
and often– Identify local skill sets and any organizational
deficiencies– Identify potential partners, internal and
external• Look forward
– Positive attitudes • Don’t over think it!
