LYRASIS Leadership Forum Boston June 14, 2016 Robert Miller, Michele Kimpton, Celeste Feather, Laurie Arp, Maria Brady, Iris Andrews, Kenna Juliani, Mary Meyer and Jenn Bielewski

Licensing and Strategic Partnerships Celeste Feather Senior Director of Licensing and Strategic Partnerships

lyrasis.org Material People Contribute to the Online World Traditional Structured Unstructured Non-traditional Licensed content Scholarly Open Access content Local/archival collections and repositories TEDx Wikimedia Kudos YouTube Digital humanities Open data

lyrasis.org Evolution of Online Content, Containers, and Context

lyrasis.org Questions How is your local environment transitioning to fund local publishing and content that is openly accessible, through digitization, born digital projects, and collaborative funding efforts? How do you measure the impact of this work? What linkages do we need to create in order to increase the impact of content on society? What else can our community do to provide context for this locally created/digitized knowledge so it can thrive?

Open Source Community Supported Software Laurie Gemmill Arp Director of Collections Services & Community Supported Software Trends, pros/cons, example

lyrasis.org Open Source Software Trends Continued adoption and growth in academic and government settings Improved technical infrastructure for distributed development Few to many github, SLAC, Jira DSpace: 84/26 Agile development process Methodology, flexibility, CSS model, all? Continued evolution of sustainability models 1 to community: shared governance, admin, membership Services: doc, training, hosting and support

lyrasis.org Matrix ProsCons Designed by the community for the community Potential for orphan software “Ownership” – Voice in operation and future Potential learning curve CollaborationCollaboration – “fast or far” “Free”“Free” like kittens ControlDocumentation/Support/Training vary ProsCons StabilityCost SupportNo voice UsabilityFrequently designed for other industry Open Source Proprietary

lyrasis.org Current Example: ArchivesSpace ArchivesSpace Open source archives information management application Background Governance Membership model Organizational home Focus/Challenge Functionality Expectations Transitioning from software consumers to software community of supporters/users

lyrasis.org Questions Are you using OSS? What are the costs/benefits of open source vs proprietary for you? Internal, external fte cost, annual service fees, training and support Lost opportunity costs What has been successful, and what has been challenging? What projects/platforms are you evaluating now? Who makes decision to migrate/How? What services and support could LYRASIS put in place to remove barriers and/or improve success?

Technology making the transition to online and digital Michele Kimpton LYRASIS Technology advisor

lyrasis.org Observations Patrons want easy online access to all the content Content shifting from analog to digital materials Libraries, Archives and Museums are digitizing their unique cultural materials... Yet struggle to find funding and resources to digitize and manage the content Sustainability of these works longer term challenging and unfunded

lyrasis.org Managing digital content DigitalNZ: Steps in the lifecycle when managing digital content, each requiring software and resources stewardship/

lyrasis.org End-to-End Sequence PLANDESCRIBE MANAGE/ ACCESS PRESERVE Consulting Training Digitization ASpace CSpace DSpace Islandora Hydra Archivematica Fedora

lyrasis.org Questions Do these observations resonate with you and your organization? Is your Institution making investments in creating/managing digital content? Or have plans to? What are the challenges? Priorities? Where do you need help? How are you planning for this in the future?