1. DSpace as a Preservation Platform Mark Jordan, SFU Library Vancouver Digital Archives Group 2005-09-15

2. Overview Institutional Repositories SFU’s IR DSpace as a preservation platform Demonstration

3. What are Institutional Repositories? Provide ongoing access to an institution’s scholarly output Articles, working papers, books, theses, data sets, computer programs… Contrasted with learning object repositories http://www.merlot.org/ Contrasted with disciplinary archives http://arXiv.org

4. Attributes of IRs Institution-based Open access Managed by libraries and communities within institution Interoperable, standards-based Variety of content

5. Brief history of IRs Eprints archives Example:arXiv (high energy physics archive) SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) position paper DSpace

6. Growth of Institutional Repositories Source: Institutional Archives Registry

7. The CARL project Canadian Association of Research Libraries 7 mainstreamed IRs University of Calgary Universit é Laval Universit é de Montreal Simon Fraser University University of Toronto University of Waterloo University of Winnipeg 7 pilot projects 8 more in the planning phase

8. The CARL project: content Journal articles Learning objects Theses and dissertations Journal issues Photographs Images Conference papers Music scores Data sets

9. SFU’s repository CommunityDocuments Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing4 Simon Fraser University Library16 DiGRA 2005101 Simon Fraser University Linguistics Graduate Student Association 7 Simon Fraser University Theses230 SSHRC-Funded Projects1

10. SFU: activities Every semester we will be adding more than 120 theses or graduate projects Library staff papers and Library events Conferences at SFU SFU’s 40th Anniversary

11. SFU: use (April 2005) Downloads: average of almost 80 documents/day Searches: average of just under 3.5 searches per day Browsing: not used very much

12. How Do IRs preserve scholarship? They don’t, without support from the institution They do make scholarship more accessible IR service must be accompanied by sensible preservation strategies

13. DSpace as a preservation platform Was designed to be OAIS compliant Includes preservation tools Is being used as a testbed for preservation strategies

14. DSpace and OAIS DSpace is intended to comply with OAIS Reference Model Provides SIP, AIP, and DIP functions but these are still evolving Moving to use METS as AIP container Source: Robert Tansley et al, “DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: Current Status and Future Directions”, European Digital Library Conference 2003, http://www.ecdl2003.org/presentations/papers/session11b/Tansley/dspace-ecdl2003.ppt

15. DSpace’s OAIS SIPs Tansley et al, slide 25

16. DSpace’s tools “Supported formats” Checksum generator METS output Media filters

17. Research / implementation Robert Tansley Robert Fox Developing a METS application profile as part of DSpace SIPs Jim Downing “DSpace Digitial Preservation Automation”

18. Demonstration From user’s point of view From submitter’s point of view