2. What we will cover
Repository Structure
Intro to metadata
Item submissions
Workflows
Copyright issues and embargos
RSS, Statistics
Information Management
3. What is an Institutional Repository
(IR)?
An IR is a digital collection capturing,
preserving and disseminating the intellectual
output of a single university community
4. Institutional repository
A university-based institutional repository is a set
of services that a university offers to the members
of its community for the management and
dissemination of digital materials created by the
institution and its community members. It is most
essentially an organisational commitment to the
stewardship of these digital materials, including
long-term preservation where appropriate, as well
as organisation and access or distribution.”
Clifford A. Lynch. Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for
Scholarship in the Digital Age ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7.
5. What content?
Research output from faculty
Research output from students
Contents are…..
Academic research papers
Journal articles
Research data sets
Conference papers
Exam Papers etc. Theses and dissertations
6. Why Repository?
Easy to find resources
Make University’s intellectual (research) output
visible
Facilitate global access
University rankings
Best IM practices
7. Important elements of IRs
Institutionally defined
Scholarly and research purposes
Cumulative and perpetual
Open and interoperable
8. Many levels of repositories
Institutional repository
- Vidyanidhi etc
National repository
- National Digital Library-IIT
International repository
9. Implementation
Develop policies
Metadata for storage/presentation
Author permissions and license agreements
Submission guidelines (staff and students)
Submission software training
Marketing concept to depositors – advocacy
efforts
14. Roles, skills required?
Repository Manager
Policy development, advocacy, liaison with
stakeholders, team leadership
Technical services
Customization, software upgrades
General support
Data entry and general tasks
15. Metadata
Metadata is "data [information] that provides
information about other data".[1] Three distinct
types of metadata exist: descriptive
metadata, structural metadata,
and administrative metadata.[2]
16. Dublin Core Metadata
Title, Creator, Subject, Publisher, Description,
Contributor, Language, Rights, Source, Date
Relation, Format ,Coverage, Identifier, Type
17. Openness
Open source
software where the source code is available for
modification
Open standards
Specifications De facto standards
Open access
access to resources made available without fees
of cost