Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Building Collaborative networks Organizations and infrastructure DRIVER Conference Jan 2008

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Three case studies Open Content Alliance International Internet Preservation Consortium DSpace Foundation All with similar purpose to work collaboratively and globally to preserve and provide access to digital materials

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, OCA: Building a Digital Archive of Global Content for Universal Access The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. The OCA was conceived by the Internet Archive, Yahoo! Microsoft And U of Toronto in early 2005 as a way to offer broad, public access to a rich panorama of world culture.Internet ArchiveYahoo! Currently over 80 contributors with 300,000 scanned texts FREE FOR UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC USE

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, The contributing organizations support the following principles: 1.The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the rights of content owners and contributors. 2.Contributors will determine the terms and conditions under which their collections are distributed and how attribution should be made. 3.The OCA need not be obligated to accept all content that is offered to it and may give preference to that which can be made widely accessible. 4.The OCA will offer collection and item-level metadata of its hosted collections in a variety of formats. 5.The OCA welcomes efforts to create and offer tools (including finding aids, catalogs, and indexes) that will enhance the usability of the materials in the archive. 6.Copies of the OCA collections will reside in multiple archives internationally to ensure their long-term preservation and accessibility to all.

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Governance and funding The OCA has no membership fees or contractual agreements; to participate one has to simply contribute materials, labor or funding to the creation of joint collections –Project funding is provided by joint grant-seeking activities, individual partners and the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation –Subscribe to the OCA listserv for news and information A Steering Committee comprised of key contributors, the Internet Archive and the Sloan Foundation addresses strategic issues for the OCA An annual meeting is held in San Francisco; mid-year regional meetings are being planned

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Key Contributors Boston Library Consortium U of Toronto European Archive Library of Alexandrina Biodiversity Heritage Library California Digital Library Adobe Systems Incorporated HP Labs Microsoft O'Reilly Media William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Sloane Foundation Yahoo!

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Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, IA data repository

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Current data repositories A networked set of digital repositories totaling –Raw storage: 3.7 petabytes –One cluster: in San Francisco (US) –Partner clusters: Egypt: Complete mirror of US archive EU: Small mirror in Amsterdam Future: Asia Bandwidth pipeline of 5 Gbps, increasing to 8 Gbps –Uses Internet & Internet 2.0 backbones

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) goals Collect and preserve a rich body of Internet content from around the world To foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international web archives To encourage and support libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions everywhere to address Internet collecting and preservation

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, IIPC membership 12 founding members (July 2003 – 2006) Opened membership in 2007 to additional libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions Members pay a graduated fee and lead or participate in a working group or projects If interested in applying for membership,

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Current & Incoming IIPC Members* (35) Europe, cont. Virtual Knowledge Studio – Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences North America California Digital Library (U.S.) Internet Archive (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Library of Congress (U.S.) Library of Virginia (U.S.) United States Government Printing Office University of North Texas Libraries (U.S.) Asia National Library Board, Singapore National Library of China National Diet Library, Japan Australia/Oceania National Library of Australia National Library of New Zealand Europe Austrian National Library British Library (U.K.) German National Library European Archive Foundation Hanzo Archives Ltd. (U.K.) Jewish National & University Library Library of Catalonia (Spain) National Library of the Czech Republic National Library of Finland National Library of France National Library of Latvia National Library of the Netherlands National Library of Norway National Library of Poland National Library of Scotland National Library of Sweden National and University Library, Croatia National and University Library of Iceland National and University Library, Slovenia National Archives (U.K.) Netarchive.dk (Denmark) Swiss National Library *as of December 2007, not final list for 2008

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Standards Working Group IIPC Structure Steering Committee (up to 15) Access Working Group Harvesting Working Group Preservation Working Group Technical Officer (BnF) Communications Officer (LC) Membership (LC) Coordinating Institution 2007: BnF / 2008: Iceland Project Technical Committee (10)

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, DSpace History Foundation formed summer 2007

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Close to 300 known installations of DSpace One hundred active developers, 14 lead developers Decentralized and distributed Mainly research/ academic institutions

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Issues faced Diverse sets of needs-lack of coordination Burden on the volunteer developer team to provide infrastructure Inability to move strategically vs. incrementally Opportunities missed as no single person/org to represent the community objectively

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, DSpace Foundation Non-profit foundation established with the purpose of leading the collaborative development of open source software that enables access and preservation of digital works with a focus on educational, scholarly and research materials

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Governance Set up independent legal entity- –Custodian of the software-true to the mission –Guide the evolution of the platform –Not biased towards any single organization –Can enter into agreements/contracts –Raise funding –Can be nimble- outside of University infrastructure 501c3 charitable organization so would have the broadest range of options for funding Board of Directors provides strategic guidance and oversees operation

Michele Kimpton DSpace Foundation, Long term sustainability Model currently being tested short term funding from key partners Mix of funding from the community, services and grants in the future

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