Durable Digital DepositoriesDurable Digital Depositories

The DSpace Project

University of Washington LibrariesBill Jordan <bjordan@u.washington.edu>

Project descriptionProject description

DSpace developed by MIT and HPCapture, distribute, and preserve

“born-digital” scholarshipOther repository projects at UMich,

UC System, CalTech, othersMellon grant to support federation of

DSpace with other universities

Why a repository ?Why a repository ?

Quantity of born-digital scholarship increasing

Questions about how to manage it over time

Some should be saved as part of the permanent scholarly record

Statutory requirement to save some: Records Mgmt/University Archives

For content creatorsFor content creators

Questions to ask:–What are you creating?–Where are you keeping it?– If it disappears, does it matter?

Over time, how will you:– Advertise availability– Provide access (and under what terms)– Preserve content

Libraries interestsLibraries interests

Extension of our historical mission to maintain the publishing record

Issues are familiar to us:– Selection– Conservation and preservation– Insuring long-term access

Cooperative effort across institutions

Architecture DiagramArchitecture Diagram

ArchitectureArchitecture

Modular– Application layer– Business rules layer– Storage layer

Defined API’s between layersExpectation that value-added

services to meet local or community needs will be developed for app layer

Next stepsNext steps

Federators workshop at MIT (Jan)Conversations with academic

departments - needs assessmentMellon-funded retreat this winterDetermining synergies/intersections

with other projects like DigitalWell

For more informationFor more information

Resources:– DSpace http://dspace.org

– Institutional repositories http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=m0

Contacts:– Bill Jordan bjordan@u.washington.edu– Joyce Ogburn jlogburn@u.washington.edu