Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

David GewirtzDigital Preservation Architect

Yale University LibraryYale University AM&T

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository an Overview

A Best Practice for a SuccessfulRespository Implementation Organizational Preparedness Technical Assessment - Requirements

The Library as a service provider The End-User as a consumer of services A Framework for implementation

Promotion of the benefits (added value) toend-users or your local community

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository an Overview

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Organizational Preparedness for an IR Garner Organizational Support for Project

University Provost and Librarian in higher education Board of a public Library or local politician Bottom up approach sometimes works best!

Define the vision, mission and goals of the IR Service provider goals and objectives must align with

goals and objectives of consumers i.e. campus academiccommunities or the community library.

Integration with the emerging cyber-infrastructure thatsupports e-learning and research in high education

Make public library collections more accessible to supportdistance learning for a community college.

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Organizational Preparedness for an IR Develop Rules Guidelines and Policies for the IR

For submissions of scholarly communications or publiccontributions - Ingest

Types of Collections, formats and metadata Copyright IP Rights Access management Archive/Preservation capabilities

Secure Funding for IR Demonstrate added value to the mission and core values

of the institution or community. Secure grants from private and public foundations such

as IMLS

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Technical Assessment – Service Provider View Common Services possible with an IR

Integrate Analog and e-resource for enhanceddiscovery and access to collections

Interoperability and data exchange between librarysystems, collaboration and e-learning systems includingpublic libraries.

Expose to broaden access and impact of collectionsdata and metadata to external Information providers likeGoogle and social networking communities like Facebook

Preserve digital data that now encapsulates the humanrecord be the resources from publishers or communitymembers.

Digital curation services

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Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Technical Assessment – Consumer View Tools for Cyber-scholarships

Serendipitous discovery of valuable resources acrossacademic domains/resources.

Ability to exchange import/export library andnetwork resources into distance learning andcollaboration systems

Ability to re-use, re-purpose and expressrelationships between digital resources

A protected space for University outputs from facultystudents, staff and administration

Access and Preservation of the cultural record of acommunity

Linking Services and metadata creation tools

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Technical Assessment: Framework for Implementation

Express users requirements through use cases Distill end-user functional requirements from

use case analysis and discussions with endusers

Match end-user functional requirements torepository functionality

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open Source Repository

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Technical Assessment: Framework for Implementation

Align Interface requirements to functionalrequirements of the repository (add standardsand protocols)

Graph the gaps select an open source product that best fills in

the gaps i.e. Dspace or Fedora

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open Source Repository

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Dspace and Fedora as Different Options Monolithic Application with connections to

external services An application based open a Service

Oriented Architecture of loosely couplednetwork services/modules

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Dspace Functional Description Library Centric

Reflects structure of the organization thatimplements that application

Instantiated through communities that havecollections and items that can be aggregatedinto bundles

Ingest workflow collection centric

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Dspace Architectural View

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Fedora Service Framework

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open Source RepositoryDSpace- Fedora Architectures

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Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Promotion of the IR: An IR can enhance the exposure of an Institution’s

intellectual treasury or brand An IR complements Cyber-Scholarship and promotes

changes in the scholarly communication process An IR contributes to the preservation of our cultural

memory that is now recorded in diverse digital formats. An IR contributes to the integration of analog, digital and

network resources offered by your library.

Mid-Winter ALA January 2008

Implementing an Open SourceRepository

Important Repository References Dspace: http://www.dspace.org/ Fedora: http://www.fedora.info/ Digital Commons http://www.bepress.com/ir/ E-Prints http://www.eprints.org/ Mailing List: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-

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