building collaborative networks

Michele KimptonDSpace Foundation,www.dspace.org

Building Collaborative networks

Organizations and infrastructureDRIVER Conference

Jan 2008


Three case studies

• Open Content Alliance• International Internet Preservation

Consortium• DSpace Foundation

All with similar purpose to work collaboratively and globally to preserve and

provide access to digital materials


OCA: Building a Digital Archive of Global Content for Universal Access

• The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content.

• The OCA was conceived by the Internet Archive , Yahoo! Microsoft And U of Toronto in early 2005 as a way to offer broad, public access to a rich panorama of world culture.

• Currently over 80 contributors with 300,000 scanned texts FREE FOR UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC USE

http://www.archive.org/

http://www.yahoo.com/


The contributing organizations support the following

principles:1. The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to

and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the rights of content owners and contributors.

2. Contributors will determine the terms and conditions under which their collections are distributed and how attribution should be made.

3. The OCA need not be obligated to accept all content that is offered to it and may give preference to that which can be made widely accessible.

4. The OCA will offer collection and item-level metadata of its hosted collections in a variety of formats.

5. The OCA welcomes efforts to create and offer tools (including finding aids, catalogs, and indexes) that will enhance the usability of the materials in the archive.

6. Copies of the OCA collections will reside in multiple archives internationally to ensure their long-term preservation and accessibility to all.


Governance and funding

• The OCA has no membership fees or contractual agreements; to participate one has to simply contribute materials, labor or funding to the creation of joint collections– Project funding is provided by joint grant-seeking

activities, individual partners and the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

– Subscribe to the OCA listserv for news and information

• A Steering Committee comprised of key contributors, the Internet Archive and the Sloan Foundation addresses strategic issues for the OCA

• An annual meeting is held in San Francisco; mid-year regional meetings are being planned


Key Contributors• Boston Library Consortium• U of Toronto• European Archive• Library of Alexandrina• Biodiversity Heritage Library• California Digital Library• Adobe Systems Incorporated • HP Labs• Microsoft• O'Reilly Media• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation• Sloane Foundation• Yahoo!


IA data repository


Current data repositories

A networked set of digital repositories totaling– Raw storage: 3.7 petabytes – One cluster: in San Francisco (US)– Partner clusters:

• Egypt: Complete mirror of US archive• EU: Small mirror in Amsterdam• Future: Asia

• Bandwidth pipeline of 5 Gbps, increasing to 8 Gbps– Uses Internet & Internet 2.0 backbones


International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) goals

• Collect and preserve a rich body of Internet content from around the world

• To foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international web archives

• To encourage and support libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions everywhere to address Internet collecting and preservation

http://netpreserve.org


IIPC membership

• 12 founding members (July 2003 – 2006)• Opened membership in 2007 to additional

libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions

• Members pay a graduated fee and lead or participate in a working group or projects

• If interested in applying for membership, email [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]




Current & Incoming IIPC Members* (35)

Europe, cont.• Virtual Knowledge Studio – Royal Netherlands

Academy for Arts and SciencesNorth America • California Digital Library (U.S.) • Internet Archive (U.S.) • Library and Archives Canada • Library of Congress (U.S.) • Library of Virginia (U.S.) • United States Government Printing Office• University of North Texas Libraries (U.S.)

Asia • National Library Board, Singapore • National Library of China• National Diet Library, JapanAustralia/Oceania • National Library of Australia • National Library of New Zealand Europe • Austrian National Library• British Library (U.K.) • German National Library • European Archive Foundation • Hanzo Archives Ltd. (U.K.)• Jewish National & University Library • Library of Catalonia (Spain) • National Library of the Czech Republic • National Library of Finland • National Library of France • National Library of Latvia • National Library of the Netherlands • National Library of Norway• National Library of Poland• National Library of Scotland • National Library of Sweden• National and University Library, Croatia • National and University Library of Iceland • National and University Library, Slovenia• National Archives (U.K.)• Netarchive.dk (Denmark)• Swiss National Library

*as of December 2007, not final list for 2008


Standards Working

Group

IIPC Structure

SteeringCommittee

(up to 15)

Access Working

Group

Harvesting Working

Group Preservation Working

Group

Technical Officer (BnF)

Communications Officer (LC)

Membership (LC)

Coordinating Institution 2007: BnF / 2008: Iceland

Project

ProjectProject

Project

Project

Project

Project

Project

TechnicalCommittee

(10)


DSpace History

Foundation formed summer 2007


US27%

Canada6%

Europe26%

UK11%

Australia & New Zealand5%

Africa2%

Asia 7%

Japan4%

South America5%

Central America1%

India6%

Close to 300 known installations of DSpaceOne hundred active developers, 14 lead developersDecentralized and distributed Mainly research/ academic institutions


Issues faced

• Diverse sets of needs-lack of coordination

• Burden on the volunteer developer team to provide infrastructure

• Inability to move strategically vs. incrementally

• Opportunities missed as no single person/org to represent the community objectively


DSpace Foundation

Non-profit foundation established with the purpose of leading the collaborative development of open source software that enables access and preservation of digital works with a focus on educational, scholarly and research materials


Governance• Set up independent legal entity-

– Custodian of the software-true to the mission– Guide the evolution of the platform– Not biased towards any single organization– Can enter into agreements/contracts– Raise funding– Can be nimble- outside of University infrastructure

• 501c3 charitable organization so would have the broadest range of options for funding

• Board of Directors provides strategic guidance and oversees operation


Long term sustainability

• Model currently being tested• short term funding from key

partners• Mix of funding from the

community, services and grants in the future


THANK YOU!

building collaborative networks

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oca collections

internet archive

digital materials oca

oca listserv

fundingthe oca

gbpsuses internet internet

oca welcomes efforts

rich body of internet