DAEDALUS:ePrints Overview

Web Meeting, 4th December 2004

William J NixonProject Manager (DAEDALUS)

The Glasgow Experience

• ePrints pilot service– November 2001

• DAEDALUS Project– August 2002 – July 2005

• Digital Preservation (eSPIDA)– 2004-

Defining ePrints

• Electronic versions of research articles– pre-prints (pre-referred papers)– post-prints (post-refereed papers)

• May also include:– Conference papers– Book chapters

Defining Repositories

EPrints• Published papers• Pre-prints• Conference papers

Other content• Theses• Data• Images

Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communities. These could include:

IRs are still in their infancy but maturing rapidly

Features

• Institutionally defined

• Contain scholarly content

• Cumulative and perpetual

• Open and interoperable - Reciprocity

Source: SPARC Position Paper: The case for institutional repositories

Repository Software

• Open Source

• Freely available• OAI Compliant• Range of software

– EPrints– DSpace– CDSware– Fedora

A Guide to Institutional Repository Softwarehttp://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

GNU Eprints

• Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton

• ePrints version 2.0 launched 14 Feb 02• 140+ sites now running Eprints• The latest recommended is: eprints-2.3.6• A total of 55641 records in known archives • No explicit digital preservation promise• http://software.eprints.org

eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

EPrints at Glasgow

• First installed late 2000

• Moved to version 2.0 (no upgrade path)

• Range of configuration options made – Record display – Additional fields – Subject schema

• •Currently running 2.x

• •Skill sets: Perl, MySQL

• •Staffing: Two Computing Service staff (P/T)

• Additional services: JeLit and ERPAePrints

DSpace

• Development driven by Academics at MIT• Freely available from November 2002• Digital Preservation promise• Metadata: Dublin Core “qualified”• DSpace Federation• Installation began February 2003• http://www.dspace.org

DSpace at Glasgow

• Installed May 2003• Range of early adopters

– Slavonic Studies– Scottish Centre for Research in Education

• Minimal customisation (so far)• Currently running 1.1.1• Installed on Sun Solaris – not Linux• Skill sets: Tomcat, Java, PostGreSQL

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