Hannah Payne Repository Support Officer, WRN Welsh Repository Network: Exploration and experimentation
Centralised models catch-up ◦ Mediated Deposit Bureau ◦ Welsh e-theses Harvesting service
12 WRN institutions ◦ 2 with Rep. Mngrs.= highest item counts Deposit of items outsourced to WRN team Answering the Qs: ◦ How long does it take to deposit an item? ◦ Does outsourcing deposit increase/ encourage further deposit?
Swansea Metropolitan University ◦ RAE data (131 items) UoW Newport ◦ Publication lists (179 items) UWIC ◦ Art & Design research outputs (10 items) ◦ Ceramics Archive database (1505 items)
Total time taken= 155 hours 31 minutes 18 seconds Total cost (£14.03 ph)= £ Averages per item: Time per itemCost per item UWIC (Art items) (direct on repository; no © checks) 11 minutes 45 seconds £2.75 Newport (direct on repository; with © checks) 11 minutes 53 seconds £2.78 SMU (bulkupload with © checks) 15 minutes 9 seconds £3.54
SMU record enhancement Item typeAverage time Artefact8 minutes 27 seconds Article7 minutes 26 seconds Book8 minutes 7 seconds Book chapter11 minutes conferenceObject15 minutes 3 seconds Exhibition9 minutes 52 seconds Video15 minutes 7 seconds
Not possible to identify extra time taken for deposit checks Bulk upload deposit took longer than direct deposit Evaluation: +ve UWIC ◦ increase in the number of staff from the School of Art and Design who had a) registered to use the repository, or b) asked to deposit material
Current collection policy: All PhDs; MPhils; Master’s dissertations attaining distinction, and those in a Celtic language or relating to Celtic studies or interests Looking to extend role of NLW to central store of digital items traed mawr. ‘Llyfrygell Genedlaethol Cymru. National Library of Wales.’
Use of ‘crosswalks’ convert qualified DC to UKETD-DC using METS & MODS Attached files also harvested Metadata converted to MARC WRN repositoriesNLWEThOS
10 Participating institutions Deposit license Takedown procedure Metadata validation Metadata only records