Learning by Doing The Digital Archive for Chinese Studies Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Facts and Figures Founded in the summer of 2001 Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg Univ files = 9 GB = 1300 metadata entries Selective + harvesting approach Network of researchers: selection 2 part-time student workers: –Download –Metadata creation Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

The Chinese Web Public discourse never accessible bevor –Dissident web-sites, discussion boards Important up-to-date information –Newspapers, government sites Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

The Hole in the Structure Chinese National Library –No internet archive –Censorship Internet Archive –Arbitrary harvesting at irregular intervals –Data destruction on owner‘s request –No full text search Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Legal Position Download of everything, unless access restricted and explicitly prohibited Free access from within HD Uni‘s campus Otherwise restricted to password owners Negotiations on protest by copyright holder: –Payment –Further access restriction –Deletion of files Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Collection policy "The Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS) aims at identifying, archiving and making accessible Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies. Special emphasis is given to the social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet. [...]" (Mission statement) Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Identification of resources Human information network –Scanning of mailing-lists by specialists –Internet research by scholars Integration of external collections Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

High grade of specialisation Flexibility Use of background knowledge Small fraction of Internet Chance of selection High amount of human labour Pros and Cons Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Resource allocation Selection – unpaid researchers (?h/w) Download – paid student workers (8h/w) Metadata creation – paid students (8h/w) Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Download Metaproducts Offline Explorer – more than one page –Site structure is retained Microsoft Internet Explorer – single page –Alterations of site structure Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Metadata creation Framework: developed from OAIS information model and library‘s catologing system Entries made for single documents, E-Journals, websites or whole collections Contains information for users, as well as technichal and administrative data Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Access Project‘s homepage –Using a basic classification system Library‘s catalogue –Searching the metadata entries To come: full text search engine –diversity of file types, encodings, mass of docs Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Security issues Dedicated and climatized IT-room UPS Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Security issues Dedicated and climatized IT-room UPS Software raid level 1 Daily ADSM backup to University Computer Center Additional backup to University of Karlsruhe Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Security issues Dedicated and climatized IT-room UPS Software raid level 1 Daily ADSM backup to University Computer Center Additional backup to University of Karlsruhe Virus scan on download Daily virus scan of the complete archive Hourly update of virus definitions Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Future Improvement / fine tuning of the metadata set according to the needs of the collection Further establishment of the “information network” Testing and implementation of a metadata harvester Testing and implementation of a search engine Promoting the project Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Future Improvement / fine tuning of the metadata set according to the needs of the collection Further establishment of the “information network” Testing and implementation of a metadata harvester Testing and implementation of a search engine Promoting the project Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Future Improvement / fine tuning of the metadata set according to the needs of the collection Further establishment of the “information network” Testing and implementation of a metadata harvester Testing and implementation of a search engine Promoting the project Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Future Improvement / fine tuning of the metadata set according to the needs of the collection Further establishment of the “information network” Testing and implementation of a metadata harvester Testing and implementation of a search engine Promoting the project Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

Future Improvement / fine tuning of the metadata set according to the needs of the collection Further establishment of the “information network” Testing and implementation of a metadata harvester Testing and implementation of a search engine Promoting the project Archiving Workshop, Oxford, , Jennifer Gross

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