Going beyond access to curation

Allison Brown | Initiatives_lib | Digital Services Coordinator

University of Otago Library | These slides …… CC BY

2015 CAUL Research Repositories Community Event

Curation

Digital curation involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital research data throughout its lifecycle (DCC a).

Key challenge for digital curation is technological obsolescence.

Digital Asset Management System

Access

Curation

Collections

Files on the Server 4.5 TB

Archives & Manuscripts10,000 + linear metres

Pictures17,000 + works

Photographs2 million +

Published Collections1.7 million +

(monograph & serials)

Maps14,000 + items

Ephemera300 + linear metres Music & sound

16,000 + itemsPosters

17,750 items

Special Collections 32,000 + volumes

Physical Thesis14,000 +

E-Thesis2,700 + (2010- )

OUR Archive 4,600 + items (140GB)

Marsden Online Archive 4330 digital objects, 1.1 GB (books + pages) OUR Heritage 3,700 + items

Incunabula 40 + pre-1501 prints

Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model (CC BY DCC b)

Cornell University three-legged stool model for digital asset management (CC BY JISC KeepIt Project)

Building our capacity

Technology, Organisation, and Resources

Technology• OUR Archive DSpace (from ePrints) [2009]

• OUR Heritage Omeka (from Filemaker) [2012]

• Marsden Online Archive Islandora [2014]– Islandora, Fedora Commons, Drupal, Solr and FedoraGsearch.

• DAMS Islandora [2015 – ]– Islandora, Fedora Commons, Drupal, Solr and FedoraGsearch.

Organisation and Resources

Authors

Administration

Development

OURArchive

Researcher Requirements

Metadata Generation Digitisation

DevelopmentMarsdenOnline Archive

Building our understanding

Curating digital objects

Digital objectSubbarao, Srikanth. (2011). Renewable Energy Projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/612

Digital object relationshipsEasterbrook-Clarke, Luke. H. (2011). The Alpine Fault Zone Along the Waitangi-taona River, West Coast, New Zealand (Thesis, Master of Science). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1693

Digital object derivativesBarry, James. Letter to Reverend Josiah Pratt. 7 December 1820. Marsden Online Archive. Last modified October 6, 2014. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0498_103

Building our framework

Digital Asset Management / Curation Framework

Infrastructure: Open Archival Information System

Organisation: Strategy

• Collection Management– Collection Development Policies

• Protocols – Parameters, procedures and processes

• Standards– File formats– Metadata schema

Workflows: Ingest Processes

Managed Digital Objects

Building our sustainability

Document, business as usual (handover) and evaluate

Digital Asset Management System

Integrated

References• JISC KeepIt Project. (2010, January 28). AIDA and Institutional wobbliness.

Retrieved October 30, 2015, from http://blog.soton.ac.uk/keepit/2010/01/28/aida-and-institutional-wobbliness/

• DCC (n.d.) [a]. DCC Curation Lifecycle Model. Retrieved October 28, 2015, from http://web.archive.org/web/20151028221802/http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model

• DCC (n.d.) [b]. What is digital curation? Retrieved October 30, 2015, from http://web.archive.org/web/20151030001736/http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation/what-digital-curation

• Gibbs, V. (2014, November 25). Mining Marsden: The four pieces of the puzzle. Session presented at National Digital Forum in Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Access recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSkZg4Isk0M

• Poppen. (2010, March 31). OAIS modellen. Retrieved October 30, 2015, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OAIS-.gif

Thank you Development Team!

Emmanuel Delaborde, Hailing Situ, Ed Liddle, Merrin Brewster, Gillian Elliot , Michel de Lange, Shahne Rodgers

Thank you University of Otago Library!

Howard Amos, Amanda Mills, Anna Blackman, Helen Brownlie, John Hughes, Paula Hasler, Richard Munro, Sarah Snelling, Sonya Maclaurin…

Plus Richard White

…and all staff supporting the Digital Asset Management project.

Thank you network!

Special mention to:• Joseph, Amy, Moran, Jess, & Rosin, Leigh. (2015,

October 12). Digital Curation and Preservation. Pre-conference Workshop at National Digital Forum in Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.

Plus Andrea Schweer, Michael Parry, my Otago National Digital Forum (NDF) Regional community…

Going beyond access to curation

Allison Brown | Initiatives_lib | Digital Services Coordinator

University of Otago Library | These slides …… CC BY

2015 CAUL Research Repositories Community Event