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Copyright Sam Demas, Diane Graves & Eric Jansson, 2007.
This work is the intellectual property of the authors. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational
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An Initiative to Share Digital Repository Services for Liberal Arts Colleges
Sam Demas, Carleton CollegeDiane Graves, Trinity
UniversityEric Jansson, NITLE
Founding Four
• Carleton College, MN• Dickinson College, PA• Middlebury College, VT• Trinity University, TX
– All members of NITLE
– All members of the Oberlin Group
Who we are
• Small, selective liberal arts colleges• Healthy endowments• Strong programs in the sciences• Emphasis on faculty-guided
undergraduate research• Light on our feet
The opportunity
• A chance to get into IR game• Showcase student work• Introduce faculty and students to
publishing alternatives• Introduce Creative Commons license• Experiment with the concept
Our first platform
• Berkeley Electronic Press (BEPress)
• ProQuest Digital Commons– http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/
LIMITATIONS
Growing Interest from Peers
Spring 2007
• RFP– Longsight– Fedora– ContentDM
• Review• Presentations
We needed help
Accomplishments to date
• Group contract with Longsight as host
• Attend “Open Repositories” 2007• DSpace Implementation Feb. 2007• June 2007 membership meeting to
identify the work ahead • Membership growth: 27 members • Small amounts of content up• Workshops planned
LASR members todayLASR members today
Bucknell Bucknell UniversityUniversity Carleton CollegeCarleton College CUNY LibrariesCUNY Libraries Franklin and MarshallFranklin and Marshall
CollegeCollege Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College Grinnell CollegeGrinnell College Hendrix CollegeHendrix College Kalamazoo CollegeKalamazoo College Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury College Mount Holyoke CollegeMount Holyoke College SarahSarah Lawrence College Lawrence College SewaneeSewanee Simmons CollegeSimmons College
Smith CollegeSmith College St. Lawrence UniversitySt. Lawrence University Trinity UniversityTrinity University Union CollegeUnion College University of PugetUniversity of Puget
SoundSound University of RichmondUniversity of Richmond Washington and LeeWashington and Lee
UniversityUniversity Washington CollegeWashington College Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University Wheaton CollegeWheaton College Whitman CollegeWhitman College
Lessons Learned
• Schools have different purposes and visions for their IR
• Cooperation is hard!• Governance is hard!• Content recruitment is hard!
• Lots to learn and lots to do
Challenges ahead, 1 of 5
– Governance• Growth and diversity of membership• Segmentation into multiple repositories?
– How to form segments – Relationship among them?– Content searchable across segments?
• NITLE’s role and role of LASR Advisory Board• Mission statement• Effective communication
Challenges Ahead, 2 of 5
• Realizing the benefits of cooperation
– How to mobilize the LASR community to • make decisions, and• Take action on foundational issues?
• Communication– Moodle– Lists– Video-conferencing– Meetings and workshops
Challenges Ahead, 3 of 5
– Education, training, best practices development
– Workshop topics1. Scope and content definitions2. Site organization 3. Metadata standards and practices
Challenges ahead, 4 of 5
4. Access controls - granularity & uniformity?• To specific content• By specific user groups• Shibboleth implementation
5. Rights management• Local policies and practices essential• Common policies for LASR?• Many using Creative Commons, use with attribution
Challenges ahead, 5 of 5
6. Joint strategies for content recruitment– Critical mass of common content:
-->undergraduate research
– Methods: • records management program• Individual relationships and projects• Scraping content from college web site• Low hanging fruit?
7. Joint strategies for marketing and education at the campus level
Example of one campus’ approach
• Start as pilot project, not a service• Campus conversation on digital archiving• Solicit partners in pilot, e.g.
– Student senior papers/projects (honors only?)– Student publications (campus clubs,
newspaper)– Campus radio station archives– Music department performance archive– Department records, publications (library)– Prize papers
Building a bigger sandbox locally…. the education
challenge-- what is the relationship of Institutional Repository
to:
• OnBase-->Admin archive systems?
• ContentDM?• Other content delivery
systems?• Course management
system?• web content
management system)?
• ARTstor?• E-reserves?• E-portfolios?• Collab (disk spaces for
works in progress)?• Department servers?• Etc., etc., etc.
About NITLE…
• Not-for-profit serving small, independent, undergraduate-centered colleges and universities, in US and abroad
• Over 100 campus participating• Three main services:
1. Networks of peer and topic-centered communities
2. Professional development and training programs
3. Managed technology services
• http://www.nitle.org
NITLE Information Services
Managed Services
Managed Services
TrainingTraining
Community of practice / Peer network
Community of practice / Peer network
COMMUNITY EXPERTISE
PROFDEVELOP-MENT
PEER SUPPORT & FEEDBACK
EFFICIENT ACCESS
JUST-IN-TIME KNOWLEDE
SHARED CONTEXT
NITLE Information Services
• Current Areas of Activity:– DSpace and Institutional Repositories (IRs)– Open-source Learning Management Systems– Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing– NITLE is open to investigating other areas with
its participants
• Collaboration – NITLE provides programs and services in
support of collaborative projects– community member organize and lead
collaborative initiatives, making use of NITLE services
NITLE DSpace Services
• Through services around DSpace and IRs, NITLE intends to– help meet campus needs for IRs – help meet the needs of collaborative
projects, like LASR– help other projects and campuses learn
from each other, as they explore a common concern
NITLE Information Services
• Exploring with the community new ways of working together for the common good
• Examples:– Enabling easy and cost-effective ramp-up via
shared resources (NITLE’s segmented DSpace repository)
– Working with technology developers (DSpace Foundation) to contribute while allowing the small college community to participate in needs assessment
– Allowing the community to develop and distribute expertise (NITLE DSpace Technology Fellowships)
Thank you!
We’re glad to take your questions
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