Digital Preservation Tools for
Repository Managers
A practical course in five parts
Concluding the course
Module 5
University of Northampton, 30 March 2010
Twitter hashtag #dprc (digital preservation repository course)
Concluding the course
By Steve Hitchcock
• Evaluation: with reference to original aims
and objectives
• Some final thoughts: where does
preservation fit in the mission and priorities
of digital repositories?
• Course timings: time spent on each
module vs group participation
Evaluating the course
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Did the course serve its purpose?
Did the course serve your purpose?
Did we achieve our goals?
Which tools introduced by the course will
prove most useful?
• What next?
Who was the course was aimed at?
• The course is aimed at institutional repository
managers and other members of repository
management teams, and does not require prior
knowledge of digital preservation or specific technical
expertise. Only a working knowledge of repository
content management is assumed.
• The course is structured to place repositories and their
preservation needs within an organisational and
financial framework, culminating in hands-on work
with a ground-breaking series of tools to manage a
repository preservation workflow.
KeepIt blog, 18 Dec. 2009
http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/keepit/2009/12/18/digitalpreservation-training-for-repository-managers/
What did we want to achieve, and
how were we going to achieve it?
From the original blog announcement:
• Digital preservation is well served with training courses that
are strong on the foundations of the topic, and are aimed at a
general audience. This KeepIt course, designed to create
repository preservation exemplars in the UK, makes more
specific assumptions about the working environment – digital
institutional repositories – and will specialise in working with
tools optimised for this environment.
• Each module will give extensive coverage of chosen topics and
tools through presentation, practical exercises, group work
and feedback.
What next?
More from the blog announcement:
• Following the course there will be optional follow-up
sessions to assist and evaluate uptake of the tools
within the repositories and to brief other members of
repository teams.
Please let us know what you want to
happen next by completing your
course evaluation forms
What is EPrints For?
• EPrints offers a safe, open and useful place to
store, share and manage material in the pursuit
of research and educational agendas.
administrative reporting, collaboration,
enhancement ,
data sharing, digital profile
e-learning, e-publishing, e-research, marketing,
open access, preservation, publicity, research
assessment, research management, scholarly collections
What are digital repositories for?
Digital repositories of an institution’s research output are
important for two complementary reasons, as noted by SPARC.
These are:
1. As a natural extension of the academic institution’s
responsibility as a generator of primary research, seeking to
preserve and leverage its constituents’ intellectual assets
2. As one major component in the evolving structure of scholarly
communication
JISC Digital Repositories briefing paper, August 2005
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISC-BP-Repository(HE)-v1-final.pdf
What are institutional repositories
for?
An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting,
preserving, and disseminating -- in digital form -- the intellectual
output of an institution, particularly a research institution.
Wikipedia, Institutional repository
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository
Welcome to Loughborough University's Institutional Repository!
This service, being maintained by the University Library, increases the
visibility of Loughborough's research; can help with time-consuming
research reporting exercises and begins the process of digitally
preserving the University's intellectual output.
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/
What is the mission of an
institutional repository?
Scholarly Commons: Repository
Project Mission and Background
An Institutional Repository ("IR") is a digital collection that
captures and preserves a university’s intellectual output. A
tangible indicator of a university’s quality and social impact,
an IR demonstrates the scientific, social, and economic
relevance of a university’s research activities. By making their
results easily accessible, an IR increases the institution’s
visibility, status, and public value.
Penn Libraries http://repository.upenn.edu/mission.html
A final thought
• The preceding statements were found by Googling the questions
posed, but not including the term ‘preservation’ in the search, and
then looking for highly ranked examples of repository statements
that make reference to preservation.
• These selective results give an indication of the role and priority of
preservation for repositories.
• Conclusion: preservation is important for repositories, but needs to
be connected with the other roles and activities of a repository if it
is to find clear articulation and obtain proper resources
KeepIt course time
Module 1 5h 20 mins
Module 2 5h 05 mins
Module 3 5h 20 mins
Module 4 day 1 5h 15 mins
Module 4 day 2 4h 30 mins
Module 5 (projected) 5h 15 mins
group work 3h (56%)
group 2h 30 mins (49%)
group 3h (56%)
group 3h (57%)
group 3h 30 mins (inc. panel) (78%)
group 2h (38%)
Total
group 17h (55%)
30h 45 mins
by Loren Javier
KeepIt course – The End
by llimllib
by zawtowers