daedalus: eprints overview web meeting, 4th december 2004 william j nixon project manager (daedalus)
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DAEDALUS:ePrints Overview
Web Meeting, 4th December 2004
William J NixonProject Manager (DAEDALUS)
The Glasgow Experience
• ePrints pilot service– November 2001
• DAEDALUS Project– August 2002 – July 2005
• Digital Preservation (eSPIDA)– 2004-
Defining ePrints
• Electronic versions of research articles– pre-prints (pre-referred papers)– post-prints (post-refereed papers)
• May also include:– Conference papers– Book chapters
Defining Repositories
EPrints• Published papers• Pre-prints• Conference papers
Other content• Theses• Data• Images
Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities. These could include:
IRs are still in their infancy but maturing rapidly
Features
• Institutionally defined
• Contain scholarly content
• Cumulative and perpetual
• Open and interoperable - Reciprocity
Source: SPARC Position Paper: The case for institutional repositories
Repository Software
• Open Source
• Freely available• OAI Compliant• Range of software
– EPrints– DSpace– CDSware– Fedora
A Guide to Institutional Repository Softwarehttp://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/
GNU Eprints
• Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton
• ePrints version 2.0 launched 14 Feb 02• 140+ sites now running Eprints• The latest recommended is: eprints-2.3.6• A total of 55641 records in known archives • No explicit digital preservation promise• http://software.eprints.org
eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.
EPrints at Glasgow
• First installed late 2000
• Moved to version 2.0 (no upgrade path)
• Range of configuration options made – Record display – Additional fields – Subject schema
• •Currently running 2.x
• •Skill sets: Perl, MySQL
• •Staffing: Two Computing Service staff (P/T)
• Additional services: JeLit and ERPAePrints
DSpace
• Development driven by Academics at MIT• Freely available from November 2002• Digital Preservation promise• Metadata: Dublin Core “qualified”• DSpace Federation• Installation began February 2003• http://www.dspace.org
DSpace at Glasgow
• Installed May 2003• Range of early adopters
– Slavonic Studies– Scottish Centre for Research in Education
• Minimal customisation (so far)• Currently running 1.1.1• Installed on Sun Solaris – not Linux• Skill sets: Tomcat, Java, PostGreSQL
DAEDALUS – Freeing Research at the University of Glasgow
http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus
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