Transcript Proposed Grant Project, 20082010 GOLD/GALILEO Conference August 1, 2008 Tyler Walters, Georgia Tech Toby Graham, University of Georgia.

Proposed Grant Project, 20082010
GOLD/GALILEO Conference
August 1, 2008
Tyler Walters, Georgia Tech
Toby Graham, University of Georgia
The Problem
• Much of USG’s intellectual product never appears in a permanent
printed form
• Exists as disorganized pockets of digitally born objects & media
scattered among individual hard drives, departmental servers, and
removable storage media across an institution
• While USG’s digital scholarly output reflects substantial
investment of resources, assets and effort, it;
 Lacks curatorial stewardship;
 May be inaccessible;
 Exists on unsustainable hardware, software, or individual support;
 Needs future-proofing migration strategies.
Crisis in Scholarly Communication
• Cost of print and electronic journals increasing at rate that greatly
outpaces the general rate of inflation putting enormous pressure
on university budgets
• Publishers charge exorbitant subscription fees for research
conducted with public funds
• Proponents of open access argue for Web-based models that are
free to users, particularly for research conducted at public
expense
Types of Content
• Electronic theses and
dissertations
• Research and technical reports
• Pre-print research
• Post-print research
• Working papers
• Conference papers
• Open access journals
• Service publications
• Research proposals
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Research data sets
Organizational documents
College and university archives
Organizational reports
Institutional planning and
evaluation documents
• Learning objects
• Other resources that reflect the
quality and diversity of the USG .
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Institutional Repositories
• Enhance access to institution’s intellectual output
• Provide stewardship for digital scholarship
• Advance open access approaches to scholarly communication
Institutional Repositories
As a trend
- 210 registered IRs in the U.S. - 949 worldwide
Demonstration of an IR:
Georgia Tech’s SMARTech Repository
http://SMARTech.gatech.edu
GALILEO Knowledge Repository
• Proposing a system-wide approach to Institutional Repositories
• Concept developed by Regents Advisory Committee on Libraries
(RACL) in August 2004
Demonstration of GKR test site
http://gkr.gatech.edu
GKR: The Project Basics
2-yr project to finalize several components toward establishing a
comprehensive statewide repository
• $1,664,650 with $830,703/IMLS, $833,946 inst. Share
Institutions / Libraries involved:
• Leads: Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Georgia
• Participants: Georgia State Univ., Georgia Southern University,
Medical College of Georgia, Valdosta State Univ., Albany State
Univ., Coastal Georgia Community College
• North Georgia College and State University (SC survey)
GKR Project Components
• Build a repository of standardized metadata harvested from IRs
within the USG (GT and GKR Technical Committee):
 Existing: GT, UGA, GSU, GA Southern (coming)
 Hosting service for discreet IRs at four USG institutions (GT)
• Establish other IR-related services: copyright research (UGA);
digitization (UGA); content submission (GT/VSU); and preservation
(GT)
• Collaborate with UGA Press to provide open access delivery of 100
out-of-print books
• Partner with NGCSU to conduct an assessment survey of the USG
faculty’s usage and perceptions of IRs
• Document and make available the GKR organization model to
others interested in establishing statewide IRs
GKR Searchable Metadata Repository
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Searching – Lucene
User interface creation – Manakin (in DSpace 1.5)
Repository application – DSpace
Database – postgreSQL
Harvesting protocol – OAI-PMH
Metadata scheme – Dublin Core
GKR’s collections mapping software to support searching and
browsing across IRs
 Brings together scholarly works of similar academic units at different
institutions into one searchable, browsable DSpace academic community in
metadata repository. Will be made available as open source software.
GKR’s IR Hosting Service (DSpace)
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Service maintained by GT Library technology staff
Host sites for: MCG, VSU, ASU, CGCC
Storage server with 3.5 TB of space
Some local control for each hosted institution:
Assisted by Web Developer and GRA at GT (IMLS-funded)
Will collaborate with hosted sites’ staff:
 “front-end” design and technical development, including user interfaces,
style sheets, branding graphics, and the community/collections structure
• GKR approach to hosting IRs is rare among statewide repositories
• Overcome problems w/ consortial implementations using single IR
• Supports unique interface designs with distinctive branding and
local institutional community and collection structures
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• Figure 1: Metadata is harvested from repositories using OAIPMH, then a user searches across the metadata
• Figure 2: Once a user receives results, viewing an item will take
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IR-related Services
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Digitization
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Preservation
*Services resulted from the USG-wide GKR stakeholder meeting of
November 30, 2007, in Athens, GA, with web and phone access across the
state
Copyright Research Services
• Copyright services identified as a need during GKR stakeholder
session
• Partnership with the UGA Press
• Provide guidance and assistance in resolving intellectual property
concerns regarding IR submissions
Digitization Services
• GKR stakeholder session identified need for conversion services
• For potential IR contents currently in print-only form
• The Digital Library of Georgia will selectively digitize materials for
GKR participants
UGA Press Initiative
• University presses are currently in a period of uncertainty and
transition
• Future of university publishing is the subject of national dialog
• GKR will pilot an approach for digitizing and providing open
Web-based access to back listed titles from the UGA Press
Content Submission Services
*GKR sites responsible for collecting and submitting their IR content,
however, many do not have staff to do so*
•Services will include:
 Interpreting/Applying GKR Metadata Guidelines (modified DC)
 Resolving content submission issues in DSpace
 Submitting content and metadata when needed
•GT and UGA libraries’ cataloging/metadata staffs
 provide these services to other GKR sites needing assistance
•Valdosta MLIS: 2-4 student interns as content submitters
 Students earn 3 credit hours, gain valuable work experience
 GKR / VSU MLIS relationship unique in statewide repositories
Digital Preservation Services
MetaArchive Preservation Network
http://metaarchive.org
– Decentralized Approach (question “one copy,
one institution” approach)
– Built on LOCKSS (supports “distributed digital
replication” approach).
– Closed Archive (No direct public access. High
accessibility = high costs)
– Automated format emulation tools
– Low Cost (Planned minimal expense, low
barriers to adoption for mid-size insts.)
– Flexible, adaptable multi-inst. model
– LC / NDIIPP partnership (1 of 8 initial)
USG Faculty IR Interest Survey
Leveraging an Existing Initiative:
• GKR sponsoring a USG-wide faculty survey to assess perceptions,
experiences w/ IR use, author’s rights issues, OA publishing activity
• Survey by Jennifer Campbell-Meier (NGCSU Library).
 Ph.D. work, Communication & Information Sci., Univ. of Hawaii
• Results analyzed with GKR Outreach and Evaluation Committee
 Used to improve GKR the technologies, services, marketing
• Learn about perceptions held by academicians about IRs and Open
Access models and build business strategies to address them
• No surveys of IR use at statewide level
 Will inform GKR’s development / Serve as model survey
The GKR Model
• Last deliverable…
1. Document the GKR organizational model
2. Document the GKR technical model:
o guidelines for searching, harvesting repository metadata
o technical specifications for GKR technologies
• Communicate, disseminate to statewide and consortial
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GKR web site
Presentations at meetings and professional conferences
Articles and announcements through library publications
IMPACT: GKR
• Increase USG visibility, prestige through global exposure to its digital
scholarship and research
• Promote information sharing and discovery of research among the 35 USG
institutions from a single web site
• Improve access to learning for the citizens of Georgia at large
• Create outlet for new forms of instructional media and scholarship, including
open access scholarship
• Provide stewardship for the least permanent (i.e. non-published) elements of
the USG’s intellectual works
• Demonstrate effectiveness of USG insts. and their faculty for assessment and
accreditation purposes through enhanced access to their scholarly works
• Advance scholarly communication by expanding use of IRs to more collections
and univs, and explore open access for univ. press content
Thank You!
Contacts:
• Tyler Walters, Georgia Tech Library & Info Center
– [email protected] / 404-385-4489
• Toby Graham, Digital Library of Georgia,
University of Georgia
– [email protected] / 706-583-0213