Archiving Scottish government on the web

Jan UsherPaul Cunnea

National Library of Scotland

Government Information in the Google Age II2nd November 2009

Archiving Scottish government on the web

Paul CunneaGill Hamilton

Summary

• Background

• Web archiving

• Electronic deposit

• Scottish Government MoU

• Digital Repository development

• Future developments

• Founded in 1689 – (as Advocates Library)

• UK Legal Deposit Library since 1710– One of 5 in the UK

• 14 million items

National Library of Scotland

Images courtesy of Visit Scotland

Legal Deposit Act 2003

• Regulation for legal deposit of– Offline content– Free web– Commercial content– Databases

• 2011 regulation for free web …?– DCMS consultation

Digital Content

Preserve

Access

Collect

Archiving Scottish Government

on the web

Websites Web publications

Web archiving Online deposit

Web Archiving

DPC

Scottish GovernmentMemorandum of Understanding

• Shared interest in preservation & access

• Establish a set of protocols

• Regular harvesting of government web site(s)

• Comprehensive collection of individual government publications

SG e-deposit 2007

• Good relationship with publisher

• Solution– RR Donnelly monthly lists– Archive content from SG website– Store

• Job Done!

• But …

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And now …..

http://www.nls.uk/scotgov/2009/0076555.pdf At NLS

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/258124/0076555.pdfAt scotland.gov

http://main-cat.nls.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4306233

http://main-cat.nls.uk/

http://discover.nls.uk/default.ashx?hreciid=|library/marc/voyager|4306233

http://discover.nls.uk/

http://copac.ac.uk/search?rn=1&any=scots+audit&sort-order=ti%2C%2Ddate

http://www.worldcat.org/title/audit-of-current-scots-language-provision-in-scotland/oclc/301506586&referer=brief_results

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Next year …..

How do we do that?

http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/2008/09/10/the-system-50/

Preservation ain’t rocket science

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems

Digital repository

A group of services that

follow the OAIS reference model

ensuring the long-term storage

and

preservation of

digital objects

in a repository.

Reference model for an open archival information systemaka

OAIS reference model

Archive(AIP)

Disseminate(DIP)

Submit(SIP)

Collect

Metadata

Encoding

and

Transmission

Standard

METSdocument

access

administration

preservation

location

structure

description

Now and into the future

• Long haul

• Long term preservation + access key

• Integration with wider digital and print collections

• Legal Deposit regulation 2011

• Continued collaboration with partners and wider community

Reproduced with acknowledgement to Mark Fellows.

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Thank you

Paul CunneaDigital Collections Manager

p.cunnea@nls.uk

Gill HamiltonSystems Librarian

g.hamilton@nls.uk

National Library of Scotland