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Permanent access to the records of science:
The e-Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Current Status & Developments
Erik Oltmans Manager e-Depot
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands
Medical Library Association, Seize the e-Journal, Washington DC, May 26th, 2004
Overview:
Mission of the KB e-Depot
The e-Depot, what is it?
How does it work?
Short history
Archiving strategies for permanent access
Access Policy
Plans for the future, concerted actions needed
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Mission of the KB e-Depot :
Ensuring permanent availability of information and knowledge
This yields:
Long-term preservation and accessibility of electronic publications
Safeguarding authenticity and integrity (once in the archive, never deleted or changed)
Development of ever changing preservation and accessibility toolbox
The e-Depot, what is it?
Electronic version traditional depository
Developed in collaboration with IBM
Technical heart: DIAS (OAIS-compliant)
Integrated with other library modules
Ingest of online journal articles, e-books, and CD-roms (installables)
Operational since March 17, 2003
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
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End User
Metadata(Identifier)
D I A S
Catalogue
Storage
Publisher
Post office
Metadata
Content
SubmissionInformation
Package
ErrorRecovery
A short history of the e-Depot :
1994 Decision to establish e-Depot
1995-2002 Experimental systems with AT&T/Bell Laboratories and IBM
1996 Experimental deposit agreements Elsevier & Kluwer
1998-2000 NEDLIB project; emulation experiment with Rand
1999 European tender for e-Depot based on OAIS-RM
2002 e-Depot delivered by IBM;Archiving agreements with international publishers
2003 1 Million articles stored in e-Depot
2003-2004 Preservation Manager and UVC projects
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Expert Services & Collections Division
Expert Services
Information & Collections
Collection Care
User Services Division
Front Office
Stacks Management
Acquisitions and Processing Division
Acquisitions
Cataloguing & Metadata
e-Depot
R & D Division
National Programmes
Innovative Projects
Digital Preservation
Director-General
Deputy Director-General
Director of ICT& Facility Management
Controller
Executive Secretary
Building & Facilities
ICT
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Current Archiving agreements:
General agreement with Dutch Publishers Association
Individual archiving agreements with (inter)national publishers:
Elsevier Science
Kluwer Academic
BioMed Central
Exploratory talks with several other international publishers
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Conditions for archiving agreements:
Publishers deposit publications free of charge
Publishers allow:
On site access for registered users
Interlibrary loan supply in the Netherlands
Access for any licensee in case publishers cannot meet obligations (calamities, bankruptcy)
Restricted
Remote
Unknown
What do you want to
acces?
Where are you?
Who are you?LDAP
Identification
NBNs
Open Archive
On-site
Trusted
“Please visit the KB in Den Haag”
Access Policy
Implicit question
Explicit question
IP check
USER
CATALOGUEwith URL
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Some numbers:
Expected holdings end of 2004:
5 Terabytes 2600 online journals 4,000,000 articles
Loading capacity:
40,000 - 60,000 articles per day
Storage capacity up to:
500 Terabytes
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Practical aim of the KB e-Depot :
To become a dedicated institution (one of the safe places)
To become a trusted archive, providing permanent access
Why?
Natural extension of the national depository task
The KB intends to contribute to the development of a global solution for safeguarding electronic publications
Global solutions will help decreasing the costs (economies of scale)
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Requirements for permanent archives:
Permanent commitment
Substantial resources (organizational and technical)
Sustained R&D efforts (ever changing toolbox)
Exploit economies of scale:
Limited number of candidates
Cooperative efforts are called for
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Preservation Strategies used:
Hardware migration
Emulation of rendering tools
Combination of file format conversion & emulation: UVC
Preservation Manager providing file format control
Repeated actions, permanent R&D
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
Concerted efforts called for:
Development of global arrangements for permanent archiving andpermanent accessibility of digital publications
Sustained commitment to R&D of LTP-techniques
Exploring business models to recover costs of archiving
Plans for the future:
More publishers, more content
To become a certified Trusted Depository
Generic procedure for loading (configurable post office)
Integration with new LTP modules
The e-Depot Erik Oltmans
The e-Depot: Current Status and Developments
Questions..?
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands
http://www.kb.nl/e-Depot
erik.oltmans@kb.nl