Plan for the preservation of digital content and archives

in THUL

Jiang Airong, Dong Li

Tsinghua University Library

EMANI Meeting

GRENOBLE – 16 Oct, 2006

Pay attention to preservation and archives

Research and application of METS

A cataloging tool for digital preservation

Local application of OAIS and DSpace

Agenda

many kinds of digital content needed to preserve and archive in THUL:• “born-digital” materials for example: e-theses & dissertations, digital pictures

• “scanned - digital” materials

for example: ancient books, scriptures• “mirror sites - electron resources

for example: Elsevier e-Journals, Springer e-Journals etc. (THU has more than 400 databases and 30 000 e-journals)

“born digital” materials should clearly be given priority.

Pay attention to preservation and archives

Since 2003

We chose METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) as our standard to encode “scanned - digital” materials for preservation of metadata and digital objects.

Research and application of METS

Since 2004 We have developed a Web-based XML

Schema-driven Cataloging Tool for METS document creation and modification.

All the descriptive metadata, administrative metadata and structural metadata can be constructed.

The cataloging tool can be applicable for collection of many kinds. e.g. the Chinese Math Digital Library

the Digital Library on the History of Machinery

A cataloging tool for digital preservation

descriptive sectiondescriptive section

administrative section

administrative section

structural section

structural section

a cataloging tool based METS

a cataloging tool based METS

A cataloging tool for digital preservation

Since 2006, we start to pay attention to preservation of e-journals and “born-digital” materials, including technical reports, working papers, teaching materials, degree dissertations, and so on.

Local application of OAIS and DSpace

We study OAIS reference model and plan to make the digital preservation workflow more standard.

Currently, we have made some testings on DSpace, because DSpace’s infrastructure conforms to OAIS in the mass.

Local application of OAIS and DSpace

For resource ingest, DSpace is not so convenient for batch resource submission, we add a new function module (tool) for batch resource submission with Excel files.

we have ingested 150 000 e-journals records to DSpace by this tool.

Local application of OAIS and DSpace

For user access module, we have integrated the user authentication module with THU Library OPAC system, so that it’s more convenient for campus users to submit and access their research materials.

Local application of OAIS and DSpace

Local application of OAIS and DSpace

Local application of OAIS and DSpace

THU Library buy one network storage equipment last month.

We plan to integrate our local storage to DSpace’s Archival Storage module, so that to provide storage support for preservation.

Next plan

Thank You !

University Hall