ANOTHER PRESERVATION CHALLENGE

MOOC and Online Learning Materials for

Posterity

ITHAKAOUR MISSIONITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.

We pursue this mission by providing three innovative services that aid in the adoption of these technologies and create lasting impact: JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R.

Portico is committed to the preservation of

scholarly literature published in electronic

form to ensure that these materials remain

accessible to future generations of scholars,

researchers, and students.

WHAT WE DO

Portico is a digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and other electronic content

It was started by JSTOR in 2005 with funding from the Library of Congress and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Portico is based on collaboration between libraries and publishers.

How It WorksWe maintain archiving agreements with publishers to collect and preserve content.

We receive content directly from the publishers. This content is held in a “dark archive”: it is stored until a specific event occurs that causes content to become accessible.

PORTICO’S SERVICES

E-JOURNALPRESERVATION SERVICE

E-BOOKPRESERVATION SERVICE

D-COLLECTIONPRESERVATION SERVICE

PUBLISHER & LIBRARY FEES PUBLISHER FEES, NO LIBRARY FEE

TRIGGERS

We make content available under certain circumstances:

Libraries don’t have to worry about whether their content exist for future generations.

• Publisher ceases operation• Publisher discontinues a title• Publisher drops a back file

CONTENTMANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Portico provides preservation at the far end of the scale.We manage the content in our care very closely. The primary preservation methodology is migration—transitioning content from one file format to another as technology evolves.

NO ACTION BACKUP BYTEREPLICATION

FULL MANAGED PRESERVATION

Digital preservation is the series of management policies and activities necessary to ensure the enduring

usabilityauthenticitydiscoverabilityaccessibility

of content over the very long-term.

MOOCS AND ONLINE LEARNING MATERIALSCHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIESQuestions for thought

» What should and shouldn’t be preserved?

» What can be preserved?

» Who is the designated user community?

» Who should be doing the preserving?

WHAT SHOULD AND SHOULDN’T BE PRESERVED?

Canonical version of the courseLecture materials

Readings

Discussion questions

Other resources

Every instance of the courseEach is unique

Capture student interactions

What about course work?

WHAT CAN BE PRESERVED?

Rights/licensing issuesContent will not all have the same owner

Licenses may not include ability to preserve

Privacy issues (student generated content)

Format challengesLarge variety of formats

Unique format types

Can’t preserve streaming

Metadata not inherent

WHO IS THE DESIGNATED USER COMMUNITY?

Hosting institution

Anyone who took the course

The world at large

Who are the beneficiaries of the preservation? (who will have the right to access the content and for what purpose)

WHO SHOULD BE DOING THE PRESERVING?

Libraries on behalf of the institution

Third-party preservation services

Platforms (Coursera, EdX, Udacity, etc.)

Collaboration among some or all of the above

www.portico.org

DIRECTOR OF PUBLISHER RELATIONSPORTICO

STEPHANIE ORPHAN

stephanie.orphan@ithaka.org

THANK YOU!