Institutional Repository

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Background

Western State College's ITC committee meeting on 11-20-2007, discussed the issues surrounding better management of the college's digital photo resources.

Requirements

• Support archive of multiple electronic formats including graphics (JPG, GIF), productivity suites (DOC,PPT), text (HTML,XML), and numeric data sets.
• Support obsolete formats, current formats, and process for adding future formats
• Allows for multiple work-flows (faculty, student, staff)
• Support for both ad-hoc and formalized categorization schemes
• Open and protected methods for accessing resources; i.e. access restricted for copyright or sensitive resources
• Easy to harvest meta-data
• Harvest WSC website for archival
• Authenticate users using WSC ActiveDirectory and LDAP

Time-line

1. February and March 2008 - DSpace installed on pilot project server. Implementation begins on Archivist work-flow, Faculty work-flow, Webmaster use work-flow, and Default access. Initial Western State College web design completed, approved, and implemented.
2. April 2008 - Archivist and Faculty work-flows completed. Default access completed. Sample electronic resources archived in IR. Prepare requirements and budget for full Western State College Institutional Repository.
3. May 2008 - Begin implementation for Student and Administration work-flows. Prepare and Present Digital Poster session for Colorado Academic Summit in Denver. Finish paper on DSpace and Heritrix.

Planning

• Software
• Installation
• User Stories
• Screenshots
• Requirements and Budget

Project Log

• 2008-01-10 Meeting
• Week of March 10, 2008
• Week of March 17, 2008

Documentation

• OSI Guide to IR Software 2004 Guide to open-source IR software.
• Perceived Values and Benefits of Institutional Repositories: A Perspective of Digital Curation Rieh, S. Y., Markey, K., Yakel, E., St. Jean, B., & Kim, J. (2007). Perceived Values and Benefits of Institutional Repositories: A Perspective of Digital Curation. An International Symposium on Digital Curation (DigCCurr 2007), Chapel Hill, NC, April 18-20, 2007. http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/rieh_paper_6-2.pdf

Potential Collections in IR

• Mt. Emmons microfiche collection.
• Scanned Syllabi of past WSC courses

Links

• SAA Glossary of Archives and Records Terminology: Institutional Repository [1]
• SAA Technology Task Force Best Practices. Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography [2]
  • Chapter 7: Institutional Repositories [3]
• ARL SPEC Kit: Survey on Institutional Repositories
  • Executive Summary [4]
  • Summary of Survey Findings [5]
• Paul Royster. UNL Digital Commons – An Introduction [6]
• Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources