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Throughout the world, academic libraries have come to the conclusion that the development of institutional repositories must be one of their major goals. Institutional repositories are the means for libraries to provide access to the research product of the academic community and also to promote open access. The publication of the research results in open access journals assists in the global diffusion of this information. The open access movement is becoming very popular among the academic institutions. Today more than 320 organizations have signed the Berlin declaration on Open Access. The Library and Information Services at the Cyprus University of Technology is one of these organizations. By signing this declaration the University commits to promote and support Open Access encouraging the researchers to publish their work based on the Open Access policies. The Library has developed the first institutional repository in Cyprus, Ktisis. This paper briefly describes the implementation process of Ktisis and continues to examine the set of activities used in the strategic plan of Ktisis, including the definition of open access policies.
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Αναμφίβολα, η συμβολή των ακαδημαϊκών είναι καταλυτική στη διαδικασία εκμάθησης της χρήσης και αξιοποίησης της βιβλιοθήκης από τους φοιτητές. Στη Βιβλιοθήκη του Τεχνολογικού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου η συνεργασία με τα ακαδημαϊκά τμήματα και τους διδάσκοντες επιτυγχάνεται μέσω των θεματικών βιβλιοθηκονόμων (liaison librarians).
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Ktisis: Building an Open Access Institutional and Cultural Repository
1. Ktisis: Building an Open Access
Institutional and Cultural Repository
Alexia Kounoudes, Petros Artemi, Marios Zervas
Library and Information Services, Cyprus University of Technology
EUROMED 2010, November 8-13, 2010
2. Ktisis:Building an open access institutional and cultural repository2
Why do libraries undertake digitization projects?
Preservation of original content
Wide access to researchers and the public
Access to various material types: text, photographs, manuscripts, audio, etc
Preservation of fragile, rare, unique material
Institution profile is raised as worldwide users access its collections
Cyprus University of Technology Library decision based on:
1. Library’s major goal to contribute to the cultural evolution of Cyprus
2. The directions of the European University Association:
“all European Universities should create institutional repositories and should mandate that all
research publications must be deposited in them immediately upon publication (and made Open
access as soon as possible thereafter)”
3. Ktisis:Building an open access institutional and cultural repository3
The Ktisis project
• Ktisis is an open access institutional repository
• http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy
• Goals:
1. To locate and archive cultural heritage material
2. To guarantee long term preservation and access to data
3. To promote interest and involvement in the digitization process
4. To promote open access at the Cyprus University of Technology
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Software selection
•Directions of DRIVER for the selection of software platform
•Driver Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
•Objective is to establish a cohesive pan-European infrastructure of Digital Repositories
•More information on http://www.driver-repository.eu/
•The Library decided to use the open source software DSpace for the development of
Ktisis
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Software selection - DSpace
•Open source software platform
•Developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard
•Enables open sharing of content
•Compatible with the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting
•Enables capturing the data in any format – text, audio, video, etc.
•Digital content is indexed so users can search and retrieve the material
•It distributes the digital content over the WWW
•It preserves the material over the long term
•Can be downloaded and used free of charge
•DSpace repositories gain exposure through search engines such as Google
•DSpace website: http://www.dspace.org/
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Data processing
•Images are scanned and stored in JPEG
•Watermarking procedure
•Creation of the metadata
•The Dublin Core metadata element set is used
•DSpace uses Dublin Core by default
•DSpace provides the functionality to create different DC metadata schemas for different types of material
•DSpace provides capability to define copyright
•Ktisis provides the option to choose and apply one of the available Creative Commons licenses
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Creative Commons Licenses
• CC licenses allow the creators to define the rights of their work
• Creative Commons is a non-profit organization
• Dedicated to making it easier for creators to share and build upon the work of others,
consistent with the rules of copyright
• They apply to all works protected by copyright such as books, photos, movies, etc.
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Example of a Creative Commons license as shown in Ktisis records
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Statistics of use for the year 2009
• 20000 users visited Ktisis
• Average number of visitors per month = 1750
• 24% bouncing rate
• Traffic visitors
• 1300 visitors accessed Ktisis directly
• 5000 visitors accessed Ktisis through referring sites
• The rest of the visitors accessed Ktisis through search engines
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Statistics of use for the year 2009
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Conclusions
1. Building an institutional repository requires gathering people with different skills and
knowledge
2. Development requires a lot of time
3. Libraries with limited resources need to be creative and persistent
4. Careful planning is necessary
5. Good planning pays off
6. Repository storage needs to be planned in advance
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Future Work
1. Contribute to the KYPRIANA program
• KYPRIANA is a collaboration between Cyprus organizations
• Aim is to contribute in a coordinated way in the growth of European
• Library plans to actively participate and promote open access through Kypriana
2. Make Ktisis data compatible to Europeana requirements
• Europeana does not support Dublin Core but the Europeana Semantics elements schema
• Application of plug-in developed on the basis of EuropeanaLocal
3. Acquire and digitize new material
• Library staff are volunteers on the Patticheion Historical Archive-Museum and Centre of Studies
• Library provides the technical know-how in order to help the Centre elevate its collections
• Encourage owners of cultural heritage material to donate their collections
• Library willing to digitize these items and make them accessible to the public
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Thank you!
Alexia Dini Kounoudes
Library and Information Services
Cyprus University of Technology
Email: alexia.kounoudes@cut.ac.cy
Tel: 00357 - 25002568