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Preserving Your Institutional Repository in a Distributed Environment
Diane ButlerRice University
SAA/CSA Joint Annual Meeting, August 12, 2009
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Preservation and the Institutional Repository Why Preserve? Methods of Preserving What We Selected and Why A Newcomers Perspective
Areas of Discussion
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How many people do some type of preservation at your institute?
How many do some type of digital preservation?
How many have an institutional repository?
Preservation and the Institutional Repository
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For those who have an IR, what are some reasons for having one?
Share your work with researchers around the world without having to manage a server yourself
Links live in perpetuity so cited work never has broken links
Archive is secure, organized, and regularly backed-up
Archived work is migrated over time
Why Have an Institutional Repository?
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Why Preserve?
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Tropical Storm Allison 5 days (June 5-9, 2001) 37 inches of rain
Just a Storm
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Just a Tropical Storm
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Houston’s Downtown UndergroundTunnel System
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Rice University Campus
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10 million gallons of water in basement UTHSC
5,000 research animals and cadavers lost Basement walls and doors crushed in $2 billion in damage
Houston’s Medical Center
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But I Don’t Live Along the Coast…
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Earthquakes Hurricanes/Storms Wildfires Tornadoes Blizzards/Avalanches Tsunamis Volcanic eruption Mine subsidence
Natural Disasters
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Stored to servers and backed up Stored in IR and backed up LOCKSS CLOCKSS GPO LOCKSS MetaArchive Cooperative
Current Methods of Preserving
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MetaArchive Cooperative Existing relationship w/Program Director Already member of LOCKSS Sounded intriguing, realistic, and cost
effective Distributed
Preserving Our IR: What We Selected and Why
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Definitely NOT plug and play Been very slow (1 yr and counting) with a
learning curve Legal issues Small community of users to date but
growing
A Newcomers Perspective
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Issues harvesting other’s data because of security features at their institution
Dspace site (Georgia Tech other Dspace user)
Issues with LOCKSS software
Newcomers Perspective (cont.)
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Weekly phone calls give sense of community
MetaArchive very responsive and helpful The community is growing and the concept
is scalable Worth the growing pains to be in at the
beginning and molding the cooperative
Newcomers Perspective (cont.)
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We Believe In It!!!
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In Case You Need Reminders
Right: Galveston before & afterAbove: I-45 leading to Galveston
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Gilchrist, TX
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Downtown Houston
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Thank you!