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    Digital Curation atDigital Curation at

    the Wellcomethe WellcomeLibrary: The Story SoLibrary: The Story So

    FarFar

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    The Wellcome Library is one of the world's major

    resources for the study of medical history, 750,000

    books, 250,000 pictures

    Archival collections date from antiquity to thepresent day

    First (known) digital accession received in

    November 2004

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    Digital Curation in

    Action

    2005-Present

    Current Library Strategyacknowledges the

    importance of digital

    material for the future of the

    Library

    Howeverfunding

    patterns do not necessarily

    reflect this!

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    Digital Preservation System

    Needed a system able to meet

    the diverse needs of Archivists,

    Systems Librarians and IT staff

    Lengthy procurement exerciseonly identified one realistic

    possibility

    Should we buy an imperfect

    system today or wait and see ifsomething better comes onto

    the market tomorrow???

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    Current Activities

    Audit of existing digital holdings

    Cataloguing Digital material

    Educating staff and depositors

    Writing and refining procedures as we go

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    Existing Digital Holdings

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    Cataloguing Digital

    MaterialTraditional archival cataloguing methods still relevant

    Necessary to adopt a broader approach

    Utilise relationships with donors they can provide

    valuable information

    Well educated donors can save you a lot of work!

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    Judith Langfields Diary

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    Judith Langfields Diary

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    Action on Smoking and

    Health Depositing material since

    1991

    Emails and other

    documents printed out

    since c.1999

    2010 hybrid accessioncontaining materials

    relating to the Smoke

    Free campaign 2003-2008

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    Wellcome Trust Sanger

    Institute November 2008, visited

    Sanger to give a

    presentation about digitalpreservation and ask for

    volunteers

    Senior Investigator Alex

    Bateman agreed to give us

    material

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    Educating Donors

    Traditionally archives have been

    transferred at the end of their

    lifecycle.

    Regular transfers of current

    material replace widows

    deposit

    Digital material not unique

    donors can continue to access

    material that has been archived

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    Future Plans

    Ultimate aim is to create a hybrid library: paper,

    born-digital and digitised material together in one

    collection

    Target key individuals working in medicine and the

    allied sciences

    Continue to work collaboratively with other

    organisations. The issue of digital preservation is to

    big to be solved by one organisation

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    Natalie Walters, Wellcome Library

    [email protected]

    Wellcome Library Digital Curation pages:

    http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node288.html

    Libraries@Cambridge, 8th January 2010

    Questions?

    mailto:[email protected]://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node288.htmlhttp://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node288.htmlmailto:[email protected]