group 1 – session 3 key points. experiences in digital archiving who is involved? –partnerships...
TRANSCRIPT
Group 1 – Session 3
Key Points
Experiences in digital archiving
• Who is involved?– Partnerships with library and computer centre– Who should be responsible?– Who pays for it? No money to be found within libraries
• What is being archived?– Digitisation is often project-based (externally funded)– Yes: Academic papers, Student theses– No: scientific data
• Technology issues – having to redo work due to new technologies.– smaller libraries: availability of technology
• eBooks on demand (for out of copyright texts) – take-up is an issue– who pays – student?
Problems with Project-based approach
• No overall strategy
• What happens after digitisation?– Long-term preservation
• Limited both in timeframe and geographically– Very little collaboration with other institutes– Collaboration planned for future
Policies
• Policies– Information Policy Plan– Collection policy – Preservation plans
• Role of the national library– (e.g. e-Depot in the Netherlands)
Feeds into a digitisation plan
Group 1 – Session 4
Key Points
Public/private partnerships
• British Library / Microsoft Digitisation example – would this work in other countries?
Public/public partnerships:• Paris Universitas
– Confederation – only recently co-ordinated approach– Learning Centre– Access to teaching materials
• Netherlands – Planned 3TU (Technical Universities) Data Centre
Open Access• Need to make it very easy to add content• Reasons for not depositing material:
– Time to deposit material – Creating metadata
• Who should be responsible for the work? • Where should the work be done?
• Unique Author identifier • Download statistics might be useful• Flexibility needed with what/how research is made available• Role of an overall Research Information System – a researcher fills out
metadata only once. • e.g. for theses – making records creation as part of the research process.
• Recognition / impact factor / ranking system is important – it will take a long period for open access to gain the same level of recognition as other journals.
• Alternatives – Mesur Project in US measures actual usage