School of something FACULTY OF OTHER University Library The Library’s Digital Repository or Whatever happened to MIDESS? Michael Emly Jonathan Ainsworth Bo Middleton 11 th April 2008

Summary of the MIDESS Project Demonstration of LUDOS Plans for developing LUDOS Outline of today’s session

MIDESS Project funded by JISC and CURL Project partners were Birmingham, LSE, UCL & Leeds – led by Leeds Ran June 2005 – August 2007 Focused on repositories for storing digital images and other multimedia files MIDESS Project: summary

“…a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.” i.e. “A place to keep stuff and make it available to users” But what is a repository?

Provides a platform to support research-led learning and teaching across a wide range of disciplines Allows focused delivery of images, audio and video to students Permits students to browse a rich “library” of material to support their learning needs Enables files to be restricted to particular groups of students and/or staff if required e.g. for reasons of copyright or confidentiality Safeguards investment of time and effort by ensuring material is kept secure Provides a framework for managing long-term data preservation And why do we need one?

To create demonstrator repositories at each partner site and put in some sample content Explore how we might share and re-use content between institutions Investigate the main IPR issues for this type of content Establish appropriate metadata standards to describe this content Explore the role of the repository within the institutional information architecture i.e. how does the repository fit in with the OPAC, the VLE, the Portal, etc. Project Objectives

User requirements specification based on an extensive survey of potential users Investigation and comparison of 3 alternative software platforms Major reports on Data preservation issues Enterprise integration Metadata standards IPR Investigation of technical standards for exchanging data between repositories See for more detailswww.leeds.ac.uk/library/midess Project Achievements

In support of learning Digital Objects Search Student Catalogue Search Library collections Digital objects Online books, journals, etc. Learning objects Web resources VLE Web Search Recommended reading Reading lists Directed learning Independent learning Recommended web-sites

The project identified academics in many different disciplines who wanted to use this service to support their students. Examples include: Medicine – clinical photographs, pathology slides, etc. Sociology – videos + transcripts of interviews about personal relationships Fine Art – to replace existing slide collections and make them more accessible for students English – audio files of “dialect” speakers to support teaching and research Dance Studies – videos demonstrating dance techniques History – digitised broadcasts of TV programmes about the Cold War Physics – digitised photographs of historic laboratory equipment Medieval Studies – images from medieval illuminated manuscripts Some example applications

MIDESS is ‘dead’ – Long Live LUDOS Jonathan Ainsworth LUDOS Demonstration

Medicine – clinical photographs, pathology slides, etc. Sociology – videos + transcripts of interviews about personal relationships Fine Art – to replace existing slide collections and make them more accessible for students English – audio files of “dialect” speakers to support teaching and research Dance Studies – videos demonstrating dance techniques History – digitised broadcasts of TV programmes about the Cold War Physics – digitised photographs of historic laboratory equipment Medieval Studies – images from medieval illuminated manuscripts Who wants to use LUDOS?

ALPS – videos to support learning in the workplace Timescapes – outputs from a programme of research projects (videos, images, audio files) – collected in LUDOS for reuse/secondary analysis Media Services – an image library to support marketing and website creators across the University Digitisation projects – Election Broadcast recordings, Leeds Student, Dentistry slides Other digital content – music sound archive, geospatial maps, the Disability Archive

Creating a LUDOS service Created a stable platform Started to add content – more on the way Need to consider: Copyright/IPR/confidentiality Access Searching/browsing – metadata creation How to get it in there How to fund it? Secure funds to create better platform Integrate with the VLE/Portal Sort out authentication Engage with staff across the Uni – to add collections Establish a service collection checklist policy for prioritisation of potential collections ‘digital vision’ for our own collections

Questions?