NATIONAL MEMORY AND DIGITAL DELIVERY PROGRESS WITH LEGAL DEPOSIT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS IN THE...

NATIONAL MEMORY AND DIGITAL DELIVERY

PROGRESS WITH LEGAL DEPOSIT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS IN THE

UNITED KINGDOM

Graeme ForbesNational 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 2009-10, 2010-11, 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 ForbesHead of Ingest

National Library of Scotlandg.forbes@nls.uk0131 623 392007843 774 038

www.nls.uk

THANK YOU