NATIONAL MEMORY AND DIGITAL DELIVERY

PROGRESS WITH LEGAL DEPOSIT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS IN THE

UNITED KINGDOM

Graeme ForbesNational Library of Scotland

LIBER Conference, Friday 29 June 2012

• Legal Deposit in the United Kingdom– Legal right agreed by Parliament– Copyright Act 1911 – Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003

• British Library– Right to receive– Copyright Office

LEGAL DEPOSIT IN UK

• National Library of Scotland– Law materials to Faculty of Advocates

• National Library of Wales• Bodleian Library, Oxford • Cambridge University Library• Trinity College, Dublin

– By reciprocal arrangement• Agency for Legal Deposit Libraries (ALDL)

– Based in Edinburgh since March 2009

AGENCY FOR LEGAL DEPOSIT

• Shared Cataloguing Programme (SCP)– Printed monographs– Allocations from United Kingdom imprint:

• 70% British Library• 30% other libraries

– British National Bibliography– Review

• Shared service

SHARED CATALOGUING

• Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003– Reaffirmed provisions for print from 1911 Act– Secondary legislation for electronic publications

• Consultations– Legal Deposit Advisory Panel– Recommendations to DCMS 2009– Draft Regulations– Consultations 2009-10, 2010-11, Feb-May 2012– In force April 2013?

CURRENT LEGISLATION

• In scope– UK web sites– Web-based publications– E-Books– E-Journals

• Out of scope– Publications outside UK– Audio– Video

• Consultation– Newspapers in PDF

SCOPE OF LEGISLATION

• Joint Committee on Legal Deposit– Forum for publishers’ groups and libraries– Guidelines on implementation, e.g. definitions,

territoriality– Dispute arbitration mechanism

• Legal Deposit Libraries Implementation Group– Representatives from the 6 libraries

ESTABLISHING E-LEGAL DEPOSIT

• British Library non-print Legal Deposit Programme– 10 projects / pilots: ingest, storage, access– Digital Library system

• Shared infrastructure– Four nodes: St Pancras, Boston Spa, Aberystwyth,

Edinburgh– Preservation & continuity

SYSTEMS FOR E-LEGAL DEPOSIT

• Selective archiving since 2004 (UKWA)• UK Domain Crawl pilot

– Annual – Seed lists– Frequency & depth

• Document Harvesting pilot– Techniques & systems for downloading individual

publications– Security issues– Focused harvesting

WEB SITES & PUBLICATIONS

• Publisher deposit facilities• Via Portico: XML journals• Portal: PDF

– For direct submission by publisher– Or via NLS or NLW– Tested with voluntary submissions

• Metadata

E-JOURNALS

• Project to determine strategy• Pilot acquisition, processing, ingest

– Single title publications– Generic eBook formats e.g. ePub

• Future developments• Proprietory formats

– Specific e-book technologies, e.g. Kindle

E-BOOKS

• From Legal Deposit Library Reading Rooms only– Via local nodes (NLS and NLW)– ‘Locked down’ terminals– HTML client solution– Concurrent use control– Read only– No downloading, printing

ACCESS TO E-CONTENT

Graeme ForbesHead of Ingest

National Library of Scotlandg.forbes@nls.uk0131 623 392007843 774 038

www.nls.uk

THANK YOU