creating a special collections repository (dera) by bernard scaife
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Creating a special collections repository (DERA) by Bernard Scaife, Technical Services Librarian from the Institute of Education. Presented at IRMW12.TRANSCRIPT
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Official Publications (print)
•Official Publications Collection•200 metres shelving hard copy•Dates from1850 onwards•Reference-only access
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Official Publications (e)
•856 field in catalogue record pointing to 3rd party item•1990 ish - 2008•Printout of the item for store (preservation copy)•2009: 16,000 links; estimated 2,000 not working
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EPrints?
•IOE EPrints since 2007 (ULCC hosted) – familiarity with software•Could we use an EPrints instance to do the job once and for all?
Advantages
Full text searchability
Exposure in search engines
No more link rot fixing
Some level of digital preservation
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Setup
•New EPrints instance (ULCC)
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Setup
•Export Official publication records from Sirsidynix Symphony LMS which have 856 links
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Setup
•Imported 6000 records via the EPrints Admin interface
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A name
•Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
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But what about the docs?
•6000 metadata records (10 minutes)•~10000 documents (estimate) to find and attach = a long time!
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©
•Coalition government•Organisations approaching us•Open Government Licence
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JISC 12/11
•Preserving Official Publications in Education (POPE)•£15k to employ someone to locate and preserve the documents and attach them to the metadata
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POPE
•Nov 11 – Feb 12•6331 EPrint records•5715 preserved (10,500 files)•343 (copyright issues)•204 (format issues)•69 documents scanned from backups
http://ioepope.wordpress.com
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Techniques for locating
•Try the National Archives UK Government Web Archive first•Internet Archive Wayback machine•British Library’s UK Web Archive
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Impact
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Institute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk
Impact (CORE)
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Apache redirect for www
JISC – silos of off pub collections ?
IPR attention up-front
Community based minimum standard for redigitisation
formats
Institute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk
Lessons / Recommendations
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No more links to fix in LMS
Improve search experience (full text)
Different animal to National Archives portal
Treat the e as a fully fledged part of the collection to be preserved
Cost up front less than ongoing link-fixing
Eprints = low barrier tech solutionInstitute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk
Business case
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Finish off those with IPR issues
Institute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk
Next steps
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Release the data under JISC OEM-UK project
Institute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk
Next steps
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London Education Thesaurus (LET) integration
Institute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk
Next steps
Source: London Institute of Technology : review for educational oversight by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/14648/
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Idea!
Institute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk
Next steps
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Any questions?
Institute of EducationUniversity of London20 Bedford WayLondon WC1H 0AL
Tel +44 (0)20 7612 6000Fax +44 (0)20 7612 6126Email [email protected] www.ioe.ac.uk