Vicki Tobias Introduction to and Institutional Repositories

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center  Contains: 268 hours of audio 223,177 citations 1,609 finding aids 41,388 images 8,400 books and journals comprised of 1,300,000 pages  Serves: 13 Four-year campuses 13 Two-year campuses

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center  The UWDCC includes: UW Digital Collections (digital library) --static projects --content “selected”, e.g. collection development --UWDCC-managed --production work completed by UWDCC (institutional repository) --ongoing projects --content provider-managed --production work completed by content provider

What is an Institutional Repository?  Institution-based  Cumulative and perpetual  Contains scholarly material in digital formats  Provides faculty with long-term storage of research data, teaching materials, and publications  Has the potential to create a new publishing model

What is  Captures Digital research material in any format Directly from creators (faculty/staff)  Describes Descriptive, technical, rights metadata Persistent identifiers/handle  Distributes Searchable and accessible Uses DSpace software as the database interface (open source and interoperable)  Preserves Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage Bitstream guaranteed

What can do for faculty and staff?  Alternative to self-archiving  Time-saving administration of digital content  Fast, efficient “publication” and dissemination of work  Increased visibility (“Googleable”)  Usage reports that track use of content  notification of new content  Permanent archiving abilities  Sophisticated searching capabilities

Possible Faculty Concerns  Intellectual property rights What content can go into the repository? Text-based documents, images, data sets  Access Who can use the content? How can they use the content? Creative Commons (  Policies Who decides what goes into the repository?  Workload Who does the work? How much time does it take?

Organization  Communities Research or organizational units  Collections (within communities) Distinct groupings of like items  Items (within collections) Logical content objects Receive persistent identifier

Key Features  Content Any format, e.g..doc,.ppt,.xls,.pdf Associate multiple files with one item  Description and Metadata Provided by content submitters Easy to input, Web-based form  Accessibility Full-text searchable (.txt,.doc, html, and pdf) Retrievable through search engines

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