Post on 25-Feb-2016
description
Digitising Special Collections @ Queen’s- the JSTOR Project
• Preservation
• Teaching
• Research
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The usual challenges
• Rare material
• Fragility
• Range of titles
• Cataloguing/metadata
• Poor quality of text
• Finance 2
The core resource
• Irish Studies Collection in JSTOR
• Digital Library of core e-resources on Ireland
• Journals - full-text, interdisciplinary
• Monographs - full-text, interdisciplinary
• Manuscript images – music, travel writing
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Library Imperatives
• Preservation
• Access – enhanced, wider and remote
• Collaboration
• Integration of related materials elsewhere
• Exploiting IT
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Scholarly Imperatives
• Access to rare resources
• Resource discovery
• New, complex searching
• Serendipity
• Collaboration
• Enhanced research potential
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Project Background
Initial plans included• Creating an index• Digitisation of Hayes bibliographies
Manuscript sources for the history of Irish civilisationandSources for the history of Irish civilisation: articles in Irish periodicals
Hayes presented some problems – limited range of titles, complex structure, outdated, quality of print
• Improved technology and user expectations – full-text archive now necessary
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Audience Analysis
•Consultation patterns
•Statistical evidence
•Academic recommendation
•International researchers
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Content Selection - JSTOR
• JSTOR selection criteria
• Peer reviewed and others by academic recommendation
• Licence agreements signed
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Pressure Points
• Delays – licence preparation
• Delays – licence signing
• Delays - staffing
• Review
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Collaboration model
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JSTOR Project challenges
• In excess of 600,000 pages to be digitised
• High image quality required - post-printing annotations removed
• Detailed indexing & metadata requirements e.g. Journals require issue, article, editorial, book reviews, notices and announcements to be tagged, plus details relating to front and back matter
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Digitisation Challenges
• Quantity of research material available and research range in Humanities
• Future proofing (scan once) to create archival & working sets
• Old & rare materials, variable physical condition
• Faithful replica of originals – JSTOR strength12
Reliable, Successful, Sustainable
• Diaspora of Irish Studies
• Good business model with JSTOR
• Sustainable technical solution in place with JSTOR
• Significant body of material continuously updated
• Content chosen by academics
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The future
• Linking Queen’s Digital Collections and other e-resources
• Ireland Collection is infinitely extensible, Ireland Collection 2?
• Advancement of an Irish Studies research agenda throughinternational collaborations, providing access to researchresources and resource discovery tools
• Only our imaginations limit the possibilities for future development – collaboration is our strength 14
Projects – a few considerations
• IPR• Administration• Staffing• Content• Finance• Experience• Flexibility• Synergy
• TRUST
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Ireland Collection in JSTOR
JSTOR Ireland Collection
• Developed in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast• Interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials• 75 journal titles, with previous titles included
Includes• Journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years• Ceased journals from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries• Over 200 monographs• 2,500 manuscript pages
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Contact details for further information:
Deirdre Wildy
Head of Special Collections & Archives
Queen’s University Belfast
Email d.wildy@qub.ac.uk
Tel 00 44 - 28 9097 6218
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