1. Digital | Curation | Centre Reflections on Daedalus:etc End of Phase 2... Chris Rusbridge, Digital Curation Centre Funded by:

2. Digital | Curation | Centre 2 Contents Background Some history Miscellaneous meanderings Next steps? Congratulations and thanks

3. Digital | Curation | Centre 3 Some history From: Chris Rusbridge Sent: 08 November 2000 11:31 To: Peter Holmes Cc: Donald Bell; 'Andrew Wale'; 'Mark Denham' Subject: Plans for a university 'e-prints' service Peter, at a meeting yesterday, we decided to go ahead with establishment of a service to hold electronic pre-prints and if possible electronic re-prints of articles published by GU staff. We would plan to build this service using emerging free software from the 'Open Archives Initiative', which will support inter-operability amongst many or all such servers, including for example the Los Alamos Physics pre-print server, the REPEc economics distributed servers and the NCSTRL computing science servers. Our hope is to be able to launch this service in late January 2001. We would like it to be sooner but realism must prevail. We would like to make a good splash at launch time, and we would like to use the RAE as an initial lever to get the service populated...

4. Digital | Curation | Centre 4 More history (phase 1) William Nixon assigned ePrints beta installed, then version 1, version 2, etc –Software instability; need to reload trial papers many times Pre-prints and re-prints all together Various structures trialled Daedalus funding granted late 2002

5. Digital | Curation | Centre 5 Some prior history eLib Programme Pre-prints area –CogPrints: subject repository based on (what became) ePrints.org software (Harnad) –WoPEc: distributed subject repository based on harvested metadata (Krichel) JISC/NSF IDLi –Open Citation Project (Harnad/Arms) Santa Fe meeting  OAI

6. Digital | Curation | Centre 6 More history Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 10:54:08 -0400 From: herbert van de sompel To: UPS List Subject: [OAI] a service provider hi, The first Santa Fe compliant service provider has been registered at http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_services.htm. It is a cross e-print search engine created at Old Dominion University. Some may recognize the interface [http://arc.cs.odu.edu/] since it is very similar to the one used in the UPS prototype. Behind the scenes, however, things have changed quite fundamentally.

7. Digital | Curation | Centre 7 Daedalus (phase 2?) From: William Nixon To: Chris Bailey; Chris Rusbridge CC: Deirdre Kelliher Date: Tue May 28 12:02:19 2002 Subject: Formal DAEDALUS letter has now arrived

8. Digital | Curation | Centre 8 Some dimensions 1133 papers in ePrints service 224 working papers and theses 37 ERPA papers ~213 authors on one paper! >28 external presentations made by Daedalus team, plus 7 articles...

9. Digital | Curation | Centre 9 Faculty distribution at GU Arts12 BLS67 Education7 Engineering181 IMS19 IS8 Law & FS39 Medicine265 Phys Sci525 Soc Sci8 Vet Med3

10. Digital | Curation | Centre 10 Some other repositories Edinburgh471 CogPrints2397 ANU2536 So’ton5423 MIT15877 WoPEc  EconPapers –WPs 156K (99K) –Articles 165K (123K) in 413 journals –543 books –490 chapters

11. Digital | Curation | Centre 11 Some meandering... Access vs preservation? –What’s the promise? –It’s a bet, I mean a risk! –Avoid the pathological case... Use common, well-documented formats Quality measures? –RLG for preservation –DINI for access repositories

12. Digital | Curation | Centre 12 Next steps? JISC Repositories, Preservation and Access Programme –Data –Link to RAE –etc Sustainability –Current workflow rather than retrospective loading –How we do things round here... So’ton ECS –Tipping point? NL Cream of Science... >2000 papers per year? –It’s the culture, stupid!

13. Digital | Curation | Centre 13 Thanks to... The Daedalus team –Library and Computing Service Library management University Principal (supporting the Scottish Declaration) And congratulations to all!