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LIFE Lifecycle Information for E-Literature

LIFE Lifecycle Information for E-Literature. James Watson – LIFE Project Manager eSPIDA event Glasgow 11 th February 2005. LIFE. What is (the meaning of) LIFE? Collaborative Project between: JISC Circular 4/04 UCL Library Services The BL. LIFE. Aims

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LIFE Lifecycle Information for E-Literature

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  1. LIFELifecycle Information for E-Literature James Watson – LIFE Project Manager eSPIDA event Glasgow 11th February 2005

  2. LIFE • What is (the meaning of) LIFE? • Collaborative Project between: • JISC • Circular 4/04 • UCL Library Services • The BL

  3. LIFE • Aims • To apply the Life Cycle approach to digital material • Emphasis on long term preservation • Application to HE/FE and partnership institutions

  4. LIFE • Life Cycle • Long term view of stewardship of collections • Defines the relationship (interdependencies) between the stages of an item’s existence over time • Identification of costs of each stage

  5. LIFE

  6. LIFE • Life cycle • Selection • Acquisition • Cataloguing • Pressmarking and labelling • Stamping • Placing • Preventative Conservation • Storing • Interventive Conservation • Moving • Surrogacy • Deaccessioning duplicates

  7. LIFE • E-literature?? • Generic phrase because it has to cover both • HE/FE (UCL in this case) • Other institutions (BL in this case) • Acquisition of different types of material • E-journals • Digitization projects • Digital preservation in context

  8. LIFE • Stages of the project (1) • Literature search • Digital context, library context, broader context • Selection of digital materials • UCL • BL • Selection/adaptation of life cycle methodology • Application of methodology to materials

  9. LIFE • Stages of the project (2) • Input of management information • HE context • BL context • Obtain ratios between the stages of the process • 1, 10, 100 years? • Evaluation/dissemination…

  10. LIFE • Institutional contexts • UCL Library Services (1) • Desirables • Information on long term access to e-collections • Financial and institutional issues • At UCL or at the BL • Teaching and research • (More space) • Digital preservation

  11. LIFE • Institutional contexts • UCL Library Services (2) • E-collections • C7500 e-journals • STM/Medical/ • Institutional support • Eprints repository • Books/databases • Commitment to digital material • Life cycle work • Comparison of print and e-journals over the course of a year (2002/3)

  12. LIFE • Institutional contexts • The British Library (1) • Desirables • Isolation of life cycle model for digital collections • Financial information • Interface of digital collections with HE/FE • E-collections • Vdep • Digital masters • E-journals

  13. LIFE • Institutional contexts • The British Library (2) • E-collections (cont.) • Web archiving • Etheses • Eprints • Wider digitization projects • Legal deposit libraries act 2003 (in force 2006) • Forecast of about 300TB over the next 5 years

  14. LIFE • Institutional contexts • The British Library (3) • DOM • Digital Object Management Project • Will take all of the BL’s digital collections • Preserving archiving • Making materials accessible • Developing infrastructure to support the digital library

  15. LIFE • Institutional contexts • The British Library (4) • Life Cycle collection management project (1) • Focussed on print • Came up with costings for monographs and serials over a 100 life cycle • E-life cycle was examined, but it was “early days” • Identified collaboration as a potential new strand

  16. LIFE • Institutional contexts • The British Library (5) • Life Cycle collection management project (2) • e.g.: • Monographs: • K(t)=s+a+c+pl+hl+p(t)+cs(t)+r(t) • Serials • K(t)=s+at+c+plt+hlt+p(t?)+cst?+rt?

  17. LIFE • Background • UK • CEDARS • www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/ • JISC/NPO • AHDS

  18. LIFE • Background • JSTOR (ithaka) • Harvard digital archive • e-Depot

  19. LIFE • Questions/outcomes for HE/FE: • Long term costs? • Who? • Partnership costs? • Sufficient confidence in digital preservation to switch? • Relative risks of digital vs. paper.

  20. LIFE • Important to HE because: • Moving to e-only • Teaching, learning research strategies underpinned by content • Need to model long term costs • Cessation of purchase of parallel formats…

  21. LIFE • Material • Comparable material • E-journals • E-prints • Web archiving

  22. LIFE • Questions?

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