Vicki Tobias [e-mail]

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Introduction to MINDS_at_UW and Institutional
Repositories
Vicki Tobias vtobias_at_library.wisc.edu 608.265.638
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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

• Contains
• 268 hours of audio
• 223,177 citations
• 1,609 finding aids
• 41,388 images
• 8,400 books and journals comprised of 1,300,000
  pages
• Serves
• 13 Four-year campuses
• 13 Two-year campuses

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University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center

• The UWDCC includes
• UW Digital Collections (digital library)--static
  projects--content selected, e.g. collection
  development--UWDCC-managed--production work
  completed by UWDCChttp//uwdc.library.wisc.edu
• MINDS_at_UW (institutional repository)
• --ongoing projects
• --content provider-managed
• --production work completed by content provider
• http//minds.wisconsin.edu

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What is an Institutional Repository?

• Institution-based
• Cumulative and perpetual
• Contains scholarly material in digital formats
• Provides faculty with long-term storage of
  research data, teaching materials, and
  publications
• Has the potential to create a new publishing
  model

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What is MINDS_at_UW?

• Captures
• Digital research material in any format
• Directly from creators (faculty/staff)
• Describes
• Descriptive, technical, rights metadata
• Persistent identifiers/handle
• Distributes
• Searchable and accessible
• Uses DSpace software as the database interface
  (open source and interoperable)
• Preserves
• Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage
• Bitstream guaranteed

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What can MINDS_at_UW do for faculty and staff?

• Alternative to self-archiving
• Time-saving administration of digital content
• Fast, efficient publication and dissemination
  of work
• Increased visibility (Googleable)
• Usage reports that track use of content
• Email notification of new content
• Permanent archiving abilities
• Sophisticated searching capabilities

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Possible Faculty Concerns

• Intellectual property rights
• What content can go into the repository?
• Text-based documents, images, data sets
• Access
• Who can use the content?
• How can they use the content?
• Creative Commons (http//creativecommons.org/)
• Policies
• Who decides what goes into the repository?
• Workload
• Who does the work?
• How much time does it take?

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MINDS_at_UW Organization

• Communities
• Research or organizational units
• Collections (within communities)
• Distinct groupings of like items
• Items (within collections)
• Logical content objects
• Receive persistent identifier

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Key Features

• Content
• Any format, e.g. .doc, .ppt, .xls, .pdf
• Associate multiple files with one item
• Description and Metadata
• Provided by content submitters
• Easy to input, Web-based form
• Accessibility
• Full-text searchable (.txt, .doc, html, and pdf)
• Retrievable through search engines

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For More Information

• Contact Vicki Tobias, vtobias_at_library.wisc.edu
• Peter Gorman, pgorman_at_library.wisc.edu
• MINDS_at_UW
• http//minds.wisconsin.edu
• e-mail
• MINDS_at_library.wisc.edu