Reflections on Daedalus: End of Phase 2...

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Reflections on DaedalusEnd of Phase 2...

• Chris Rusbridge, Digital Curation Centre

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Contents

• Background
• Some history
• Miscellaneous meanderings
• Next steps?
• Congratulations and thanks

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Some history

• From Chris Rusbridge
• Sent 08 November 2000 1131
• To Peter Holmes
• Cc Donald Bell 'Andrew Wale' 'Mark Denham'
• Subject Plans for a university 'e-prints'
  service
• Peter, at a meeting yesterday, we decided to go
  ahead with establishment of
• a service to hold electronic pre-prints and if
  possible electronic re-prints
• of articles published by GU staff. We would plan
  to build this service using
• emerging free software from the 'Open Archives
  Initiative', which will
• support inter-operability amongst many or all
  such servers, including for
• example the Los Alamos Physics pre-print server,
  the REPEc economics
• distributed servers and the NCSTRL computing
  science servers.
• Our hope is to be able to launch this service in
  late January 2001. We would
• like it to be sooner but realism must prevail. We
  would like to make a good
• splash at launch time, and we would like to use
  the RAE as an initial lever
• to get the service populated...

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More history (phase 1)

• William Nixon assigned
• ePrints beta installed, then version 1, version
  2, etc
• Software instability need to reload trial papers
  many times
• Pre-prints and re-prints all together
• Various structures trialled
• Daedalus funding granted late 2002

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Some prior history

• eLib Programme Pre-prints area
• CogPrints subject repository based on (what
  became) ePrints.org software (Harnad)
• WoPEc distributed subject repository based on
  harvested metadata (Krichel)
• JISC/NSF IDLi
• Open Citation Project (Harnad/Arms)
• Santa Fe meeting ? OAI

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More history

• Date Mon, 09 Oct 2000 105408 -0400
• From herbert van de sompel ltherbertv_at_CS.Cornell.E
  DUgt
• To UPS List ltups_at_vole.lanl.govgt
• Subject OAI a service provider
• hi,
• The first Santa Fe compliant service provider has
  been registered at
• http//www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_services.htm
  .
• It is a cross e-print search engine created at
  Old Dominion University.
• Some may recognize the interface
  http//arc.cs.odu.edu/ since it is
• very similar to the one used in the UPS
  prototype. Behind the scenes,
• however, things have changed quite fundamentally.

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Daedalus (phase 2?)

• From William NixonTo Chris Bailey Chris
  RusbridgeCC Deirdre KelliherDate Tue May 28
  120219 2002Subject Formal DAEDALUS letter has
  now arrived

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Some dimensions

• 1133 papers in ePrints service
• 224 working papers and theses
• 37 ERPA papers
• 213 authors on one paper!
• gt28 external presentations made by Daedalus
  team, plus 7 articles...

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Faculty distribution at GU

• Arts 12
• BLS 67
• Education 7
• Engineering 181
• IMS 19
• IS 8
• Law FS 39
• Medicine 265
• Phys Sci 525
• Soc Sci 8
• Vet Med 3

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Some other repositories

• Edinburgh 471
• CogPrints 2397
• ANU 2536
• Soton 5423
• MIT 15877
• WoPEc ? EconPapers
• WPs 156K (99K)
• Articles 165K (123K) in 413 journals
• 543 books
• 490 chapters

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Some meandering...

• Access vs preservation?
• Whats the promise?
• Its a bet, I mean a risk!
• Avoid the pathological case... Use common,
  well-documented formats
• Quality measures?
• RLG for preservation
• DINI for access repositories

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Next steps?

• JISC Repositories, Preservation and Access
  Programme
• Data
• Link to RAE
• Sustainability
• Current workflow rather than retrospective
  loading
• How we do things round here... Soton ECS
• Tipping point?
• NL Cream of Science...
• gt2000 papers per year?
• Its the culture, stupid!

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Thanks to...

• The Daedalus team
• Library and Computing Service
• Library management
• University Principal (supporting the Scottish
  Declaration)
• And congratulations to all!