lib-ir: Fwd: Re: institutional repository efforts

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

>Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:02:45 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
>From: Hannah Walker <hmw@library.ucla.edu>
>Subject: Re: institutional repository efforts
>To: Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
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>Hi Carol,
>
>Sorry not to return your message sooner, just catching up on email
>after finishing up a round of jury duty.
>
>I'll take a stab at answering your questions.  I'll also point you
>to the CDL eScholarship Repository web site which has more detail
>for most of the information you seek.  At that site you can also
>see the list of the UCLA sites which are posting material to the
>repository.  I'll note my reply with ** below.  Let me know if you
>have other questions.
>Hannah
>
>On Mon, 05 May 2003 15:36:45 -0700 Carol Hixson
><chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> wrote:
>
> > Hannah,
> >
> > Cindy Shelton gave me your name a few weeks ago as
> > the person at UCLA working with the CDL on institutional
> > repository issues.
> >
> > We're doing a test implementation using DSpace and
> > have identified a few pilot projects for our initial
> > implementation. We have limited resources and are trying
> > to learn as much as we can from others' efforts.
> >
> > I have a few specific questions that I'm hoping you
> > can answer for me or at least point me in the right
> > direction to getting an answer:
> >
> > 1) what content  has UCLA actually made available
> > in an institutional repository? is there a public search
> > interface to this content?
>   **The web site is:
>     http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
>     At this point you will see the sites are listed in alpha order,
>     so the UCLA sites are scattered around.
> >
> > 2) what steps were taken with UCLA faculty to
> > obtain their interest in and approval for this effort?
>   **Various efforts here, my understanding is that early contact
>with campus labs, centers, etc. was done by CDL and bepress folks;
>since then UL's have sent letters to department heads as a kind of
>mass mailing to generate interest.  Here at UCLA I mostly work with
>various collection development and subject librarians to identify
>and work with interested departments.
>
> > 3) are contributors able to submit their own content
> > without intervention by the Libraries or CDL?
>   **yes, this is done via a site administrator for each site
>
> > 4) what metadata underlies the repository and
> > is there a standard submission form that allows
> > contributors to supply metadata for their contributions?
>   ** there is a form which the site admin. completes to submit
>papers; they currently accept word docs., RTF format and PDFs
>
> > If there are answers to these questions on your Web
> > site, I'd be grateful if you could point me to the right
> > spot.
>   ** as I noted earlier, the web site I included above will provide
>more detail on your questions.  The folks at CDL would probably be
>glad to offer more info. if needed.  Terry Ryan here is actually
>the official eScholarship liaison and I'm serving as the eschol.
>librarian.
> > Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Carol Hixson
> > Co-Chair, Institutional Repository Group
> > Head, Catalog Department
> > University of Oregon Libraries
> > chixson@oregon.uoregon.edu
> > (541) 346-3064
> >