Digital Repositories for Scholarly Output

Marcy E. RosenkrantzDirector of Library Systems

What is an Institutional Repository?

• A place for the storage and retrieval of informal publications, datasets, technical reports, course materials, etc.

• Material in the repository can be searched, browsed and retrieved by others.

• An electronic archive, if so designed • Cornell has 2 institutional repositories:

Techreports and DSpace

Techreports and DSpace

• Techreports: http://techreports.library.cornell.edu– Supporting software developed at Cornell,

initially at CS with further development at the Library for a variety of purposes. DPubS

• DSpace software developed at MIT library– New functionality contributed by DSpace

Federation members – Open source code

DSpace’s Organizational Structure

Communit y X

b it s r eam pdf b it s t r eam vid eo ...b it s t r eam d at aset

D igit al O b j ec t 1 D igit al O b j ec t 2 ...D igit al O b j ec t n

Collect ion A Collect ion B ...Collec t ion M

Communit y Y ... Communit y Q

May be open or closed

CUL DSpace Server

• http://dspace.library.cornell.edu• Sun Fire V480 Server @ 900 MHz, 4 GB

memory, 2-36GB internal disks, 2 power supplies

• Dual Fibre Channel network adapter communicating with a SAN (‘tier 3’ storage)

• Backup and Recovery system in place

Current Communities and Collections

• CU East Asia Papers– Dance in the No Theater

• Dance in the No Theater, Volume 3, Dance Patterns

• Cornell Theses– Communities for Physics and Bio and Environmental

Engineering• Open and closed collections for Masters Theses and PhD

Dissertations• Open collections for Professional Degree Reports in BEE

– More planned for Jan. 2004

Let’s Take a Look

• Search and Browse– http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/

• Now lets add a file– http://dspace-test.library.cornell.edu– It may look complicated, but it’s not.

Want to start a Community in DSpace?

• Things to think about– Name, customization (content, logo, etc.)

– Collection names and customization

– Groups—who do you want to be able to add Digital Objects to each collection—names and e-mail addresses

– Workflow steps—approval process?

• Faculty, Staff and Researchers can send e-mail to: – dspace-admin-L@cornell.edu

Upcoming Features

• Full text searching

• Sub-communities—finer grained organization

• Possibly Metadata for bitsreams

• Local administration of communities

Born digital or not…

• If you or your center or department has material like annual reports, course material, conference proceedings that are not in an electronic format contact dcaps@cornell.edu or visit the DCAPS booth for information about services available to convert your content to a suitable electronic format.