lib-ir: discussion with UCSD person

[Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

I spoke this afternoon with Dawn Talbot, the person at
UCSD tasked to work with the CDL on the institutional
repository. They are relying entirely at this point on the
CDL's eScholarship effort http://escholarship.cdlib.org/
for infrastructure, although each campus has a liaison
designated to help faculty on their campus connect
with the CDL. The software for this effort was originally
developed at Berkeley by faculty to handle peer-reviewed
publications. The CDL stripped the peer review part from
the general software before going live but they now
provide the peer-review components
as a supplemental toolkit. Each department that signs on
to the effort must select a gatekeeper who takes responsibility
for uploading files and reviewing content. All work regarding
preservation is being handled at the CDL level. They are
currently accepting any format that can delivered across the
Web.

The CDL hopes that individual campuses will eventually set
up institutional repositories for instructional materials, which it
is excluding from its site. In typical CDL fashion, CDL started
this all up without even telling the individual campus libraries
and the libraries found out about it when some of their faculty started
asking them questions about it. CDL is also apparently looking at
other models, including ePrints and DSpace.

UCSD is also looking into using BPress software (what underlies
eScholarship) to provide their own repository for UCSD dissertations,
rather than using the Proquest service.

Dawn also gave me the names and phone numbers of a couple of
people within the CDL who can give some more information.
I will probably call them to talk about some of the metadata and
preservation issues.

Carol