1. DAEDALUS: ePrints Overview Web Meeting, 4th December 2004 William J Nixon Project Manager (DAEDALUS)

2. The Glasgow Experience ePrints pilot service –November 2001 DAEDALUS Project –August 2002 – July 2005 Digital Preservation (eSPIDA) –2004-

3. Defining ePrints Electronic versions of research articles –pre-prints (pre-referred papers) –post-prints (post-refereed papers) May also include: –Conference papers –Book chapters

4. Defining Repositories EPrints Published papers Pre-prints Conference papers Other content Theses Data Images Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities. These could include: IRs are still in their infancy but maturing rapidly

5. Features Institutionally defined Contain scholarly content Cumulative and perpetual Open and interoperable - Reciprocity Source: SPARC Position Paper: The case for institutional repositories

6. Repository Software Open Source Freely available OAI Compliant Range of software –EPrints –DSpace –CDSware –Fedora A Guide to Institutional Repository Software http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

7. GNU Eprints Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton ePrints version 2.0 launched 14 Feb 02 140+ sites now running Eprints The latest recommended is: eprints-2.3.6 A total of 55641 records in known archives No explicit digital preservation promise http://software.eprints.org eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

9. EPrints at Glasgow First installed late 2000 Moved to version 2.0 (no upgrade path) Range of configuration options made –Record display –Additional fields –Subject schema Currently running 2.x Skill sets: Perl, MySQL Staffing: Two Computing Service staff (P/T) Additional services: JeLit and ERPAePrints

12. DSpace Development driven by Academics at MIT Freely available from November 2002 Digital Preservation promise Metadata: Dublin Core “qualified” DSpace Federation Installation began February 2003 http://www.dspace.org

13. DSpace at Glasgow Installed May 2003 Range of early adopters –Slavonic Studies –Scottish Centre for Research in Education Minimal customisation (so far) Currently running 1.1.1 Installed on Sun Solaris – not Linux Skill sets: Tomcat, Java, PostGreSQL

17. DAEDALUS – Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus DAEDALUS