Digital Archiving in an international context: a UK/JISC perspective
| presentation to Mellon eJournal Archiving workshop | |
| February 2001 | |
| Neil Beagrie | |
| Assistant Director (Preservation) DNER | |
| JISC Digital Preservation Focus | |
| Why JISC ? Common purpose; eLib programme, AHDS, Cedars; collaboration: BL, PA, US(CNI,NSF,RLG) | ||
| Top sliced for investment in common infrastructure and services | ||
| Historically: | ||
| digital library developments have focussed on access | ||
| relatively few projects engaged in preservation per se | ||
| few co-ordinated programmes and synergies | ||
| Looking forward | ||
| sea-change - substantial and increasing scholarly and financial investment in digital content | ||
| e-science | ||
| projects to services | ||
| collaboration: shared learning and preservation | ||
| Journals licensing and archiving | ||
| National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative (NESLI) | ||
| Current and future preservation programmes in the UK | ||
| Cedars | ||
| Preservation Management of Digital Materials Workbook | ||
| British Library and legal deposit | ||
| the JISC programme 2001-2 | ||
| Digital Preservation Coalition | ||
| Conclusions & common ground UK/US | ||
| Further information | ||
Journal licensing and archiving 1
| National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative | ||
| http://www.nesli.ac.uk | ||
| established 1999 to address issues limiting take-up and use of e-journals in UK HE | ||
| managing agent for UK HE consortium dealing with wide range of publishers | ||
| developed model licence - incorporated clause for perpetual access and archiving of back issues | ||
| http: //www.nesli.ac.uk/nesli8a.html | ||
Journal licensing and archiving
| issues | ||
| agreements with institutions- now modified for collaborative archiving | ||
| access - archiving rights each year for institutions and versions of licences | ||
| first test - Academic Press 200 gigabytes of ejournals hosted by the BIDS data centre for two years | ||
| limitations of licensing with publishers - interpretation of rights - 3rd party software and content e.g. images | ||
| no statutory right to archive digital content- importance of draft EU Copyright Directive | ||
| Curl Exemplars in Digital ARchiveS | |
| http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/ | |
| Funded by JISC through the CURL Libraries from April 1998 for 3 yrs - extension year from April 2001 | |
| Consortium of University Research Libraries | |
| Lead Sites: Oxford, Cambridge & Leeds |
| Cedars Metadata For Digital Preservation http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/OutlineSpec.htm | |
| Archive demonstrator system -A blueprint for Representation Information in the OAIS model | |
| http://gps0.leeds.ac.uk/~ecldh/cedars/nasa2000/nasa2000.html | |
| CAMILEON emulation project (JISC/NSF funding) | |
| http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/ |
Preservation Management of Digital Materials
| research study to produce digital preservation workbook | |
| series of overviews, tools (checklists, decision tree), and selective further reading | |
| Consultation draft September 2000 -final summer 2001 -http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/workbook/ | |
| Oct 2000 -March 2001 -BL Partnership & Collaboration Programme collaboration in digital preservation between UK legal deposit libraries - BL, Cambridge, Oxford | |
| 1st workshop January 2001- collaboration on selection and best practice | |
British Library and legal deposit
| Legal Deposit Libraries | ||
| British Library and 5 other deposit libraries (Cambridge, Oxford, National libraries of Scotland , & Wales, Dublin) | ||
| “Initiatives for Access” and digitisation | ||
| legal deposit development | ||
| Pilot projects eg CD-ROM Demonstrator | ||
| Digital Library System | ||
| Voluntary legal deposit introduced in January 2000 | ||
| Bide,M. et al, Digital Preservation: an introduction to standards issues surrounding the deposit of non-print publications, Library and Information Commission Research Report 23,1999. | ||
| <http://www.bic.org.uk/digpres.doc> | ||
| Contract for Digital Library System with IBM | ||
| OAIS model, CEDARS Preservation metadata | ||
| collaboration with KB and HE research libraries | ||
| IBM preservation research | ||
Co-ordination & Collaboration1
| JISC Preservation Focus 2001-2 | |||
| Retention strategy for HE/FE in UK | |||
| preservation risk assessment for the DNER e- collections | |||
| national strategy with Digital Preservation Coalition | |||
| Infrastructure and tools | |||
| testing and development of Cedars archive demonstrator | |||
| international work on preservation metadata | |||
| Training and awareness | |||
| electronic version of preservation management workbook | |||
| workshops, integrated suite of publications and case studies | |||
| New research areas | |||
| web archiving | |||
Co-ordination & Collaboration 2
| Digital Preservation Coalition | |||
| aim of the Coalition will be to develop a UK digital preservation agenda within an international context. | |||
| national, university and public libraries, archives, data archiving services, publishers, research councils, museums and government bodies. | |||
| Suggestions for core activities and first programmes included: | |||
| awareness raising amongst key funders and stakeholders; | |||
| policy of open disclosure and international collaboration by members; | |||
| establishing a dialogue with software and hardware manufacturers; | |||
| developing standards to support digital preservation; | |||
| training and addressing the skills and competencies needed | |||
| applied practical research and development in member institutions and sharing experience; | |||
| archiving of commercial e journals; | |||
| web archiving; | |||
Some conclusions & common ground
| Digital preservation as an international activity | |
| Policy of disclosure/ wide dissemination is critical | |
| Publishers - we are talking to the same people | |
| Metadata - RLG/OCLC working group | |
| Licensing | |
| Infrastructure and tools | |
| Selection | |
| Business models | |
| Collaboration ? |
| email: preservation@jisc.ac.uk | |
| url:www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/ | |
| email list: | |
| www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digital-preservation/ |