Edeposit Ireland christoph schmidt supprian #asl2014

... a home for Ireland's electronic publications

A&SL Annual Conference 2014: “Information Innovators”

Christoph Schmidt-Supprian, Trinity College Library, Dublin

28 February 2014

New at TCD Library

Collecting electronic publications

Self-archiving model

What is edepositIreland?

Irish legal deposit: print only

Government information: electronic only

Future legislation versus Present demand

Why?

Start now

• Government sector (demand)

• Open access (contrast UK e-Legal 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

Goals (1)

Future-proofing

• Scalable to high-volume 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 e-deposit infrastructure for Ireland

• One-stop deposit for all

Goals (2)

TARA (proven functionalities, customisable)

Re-branding, re-design

Website (publisher engagement)

What have we done?

How does it work?

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 e-deposit

“Information Innovators: Librarians evolving in the digital environment”

Publishers

A platform to manage and host your publications

In Conclusion:edepositIreland for …

National infrastructure for Irish electronic legal deposit

Publishers submit to central portal only

If you would like to become involved, get in touch!

Vision

Contact Information:

edepositIreland Manager –Niamh Harte [email protected]

Christoph Schmidt-Supprian [email protected]

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/edepositireland/

Questions?