Durable Digital Depositories The DSpace Project University of Washington Libraries Bill Jordan

Project description DSpace developed by MIT and HP Capture, distribute, and preserve “born-digital” scholarship Other repository projects at UMich, UC System, CalTech, others Mellon grant to support federation of DSpace with other universities

Why a repository ? Quantity of born-digital scholarship increasing Questions about how to manage it over time Some should be saved as part of the permanent scholarly record Statutory requirement to save some: Records Mgmt/University Archives

For content creators Questions to ask: –What are you creating? –Where are you keeping it? –If it disappears, does it matter? Over time, how will you: –Advertise availability –Provide access (and under what terms) –Preserve content

Libraries interests Extension of our historical mission to maintain the publishing record Issues are familiar to us: –Selection –Conservation and preservation –Insuring long-term access Cooperative effort across institutions

Architecture Diagram

Architecture Modular –Application layer –Business rules layer –Storage layer Defined API’s between layers Expectation that value-added services to meet local or community needs will be developed for app layer

Next steps Federators workshop at MIT (Jan) Conversations with academic departments - needs assessment Mellon-funded retreat this winter Determining synergies/intersections with other projects like DigitalWell

For more information Resources: –DSpace –Institutional repositories Contacts: –Bill Jordan –Joyce Ogburn