NATIONAL MEMORY AND DIGITAL DELIVERY PROGRESS WITH LEGAL DEPOSIT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Graeme Forbes National Library of Scotland LIBER Conference, Friday 29 June 2012
Legal Deposit in the United Kingdom –Legal right agreed by Parliament –Copyright Act 1911 –Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 British Library –Right to receive –Copyright Office LEGAL DEPOSIT IN UK
National Library of Scotland –Law materials to Faculty of Advocates National Library of Wales Bodleian Library, Oxford Cambridge University Library Trinity College, Dublin –By reciprocal arrangement Agency for Legal Deposit Libraries (ALDL) –Based in Edinburgh since March 2009 AGENCY FOR LEGAL DEPOSIT
Shared Cataloguing Programme (SCP) –Printed monographs –Allocations from United Kingdom imprint: 70% British Library 30% other libraries –British National Bibliography –Review Shared service SHARED CATALOGUING
Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 –Reaffirmed provisions for print from 1911 Act –Secondary legislation for electronic publications Consultations –Legal Deposit Advisory Panel –Recommendations to DCMS 2009 –Draft Regulations –Consultations , , Feb-May 2012 –In force April 2013? CURRENT LEGISLATION
In scope –UK web sites –Web-based publications –E-Books –E-Journals Out of scope –Publications outside UK –Audio –Video Consultation –Newspapers in PDF SCOPE OF LEGISLATION
Joint Committee on Legal Deposit –Forum for publishers’ groups and libraries –Guidelines on implementation, e.g. definitions, territoriality –Dispute arbitration mechanism Legal Deposit Libraries Implementation Group –Representatives from the 6 libraries ESTABLISHING E-LEGAL DEPOSIT
British Library non-print Legal Deposit Programme –10 projects / pilots: ingest, storage, access –Digital Library system Shared infrastructure –Four nodes: St Pancras, Boston Spa, Aberystwyth, Edinburgh –Preservation & continuity SYSTEMS FOR E-LEGAL DEPOSIT
Selective archiving since 2004 (UKWA) UK Domain Crawl pilot –Annual –Seed lists –Frequency & depth Document Harvesting pilot –Techniques & systems for downloading individual publications –Security issues –Focused harvesting WEB SITES & PUBLICATIONS
Publisher deposit facilities Via Portico: XML journals Portal: PDF –For direct submission by publisher –Or via NLS or NLW –Tested with voluntary submissions Metadata E-JOURNALS
Project to determine strategy Pilot acquisition, processing, ingest –Single title publications –Generic eBook formats e.g. ePub Future developments Proprietory formats –Specific e-book technologies, e.g. Kindle E-BOOKS
From Legal Deposit Library Reading Rooms only –Via local nodes (NLS and NLW) –‘Locked down’ terminals –HTML client solution –Concurrent use control –Read only –No downloading, printing ACCESS TO E-CONTENT
Graeme Forbes Head of Ingest National Library of Scotland THANK YOU