'Collecting everything & the challenge of digital only publications; the case of edeposit Ireland' Christoph Schmidt-Supprian TCD. Case study presented at 'Information Innovators: Librarians evolving in the digital environment' the Academic & Special Libraries conference 2014
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1. A&SL Annual Conference 2014: “Information Innovators”
... a home for Ireland's electronic publications
Christoph Schmidt-Supprian,
Trinity College Library, Dublin
28 February 2014
3. Why?
Irish legal deposit: print only
Government information: electronic only
Future legislation versus Present demand
4. Goals (1)
Start now
• Government
sector
(demand)
• Open access
(contrast UK eLegal Deposit)
• Medium-term
preservation
Work smart
• Use existing
infrastructure
• Publisher-side
deposit and
metadata
creation
Design as service
• Archive for the
future
• Publication
listings on
departmental
websites
5. Goals (2)
Future-proofing
• Scalable to highvolume deposit
• Access control for
commercial content
• Platform migration
(e.g. for long-term
preservation)
Collaborate
• Work with other Irish
legal deposit libraries
• Build a collaborative edeposit infrastructure
for Ireland
• One-stop deposit for all
6. What have we done?
TARA (proven functionalities, customisable)
Re-branding, re-design
Website (publisher engagement)
12. “Information Innovators: Librarians
evolving in the digital environment”
Electronic deposit
• Not just change in format
• Change in relationship
with publishers
• Evolution of role of
librarian
Changing library roles
• Acquisitions librarian:
advocacy and support
• Cataloguers: collections
administrators and
content managers
• All: Managing parallel
workflows, print and edeposit
13. In Conclusion:
edepositIreland for …
Publishers
A platform to
manage and host
your publications
Researchers
An open access
repository for
your research
Librarians
De-duplication of
effort
14. Vision
National infrastructure for Irish electronic legal deposit
Publishers submit to central portal only
If you would like to become involved, get in touch!