Non-Commercial Digital Repositories and Archives Project

Start date: 2nd July 2007

End date: 31st October 2007

Description

This project will aim to identify every repository of digital content that is free to UK HE institutions and hosted within the UK, whether it is presented as an archive, Content Management System, repository, or Web-based collection. This will be achieved through a detailed review of previous research done in this area and by aggregating resources referenced by online portals and reports and reviews. The classification model and cataloguing activity will also include information to facilitate understanding of the preservation environment of these repositories and the project will produce a strategic preservation and curation map for the resources identified as a secondary output. The entire project will be fully documented.

Overview

HE institutions, education and research organisations, and research groups in the UK have created and provide access to a wide range of electronic content for use in learning, teaching and research.  Access to this content is provided through a number of different routes including web accessible digital archives, open access repositories, and web-based collections. These repositories and archives are hosted by departments, institutions, consortia, and national bodies such as research councils, learned societies and other publicly funded organisations. Some registries and services aggregate these sources of content, but there is currently no single place where these sources are listed.

Aims and objectives 

The project will aim to identify every repository of digital content that is free to UK HE institutions and hosted within the UK. This will include archives and repositories that require registration, but not those requiring subscription. The inventory will also exclude institutional VLEs that are not open access, personal Websites, Websites with little or no structured classification of content. The project will endeavour to provide additional information on individually catalogued collections within repositories in a 'parent/child' relationship. The classification model and cataloguing activity will include information to facilitate understanding of the preservation environment of the repositories.

For further information contact:

Daisy Abbott, Services and Outreach Manager, AHDS Performing Arts

HATII
Office: 101
George Service House
11 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Tel: +44 (0)141 330 2758
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3788
Email: D.Abbott@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

http://performingarts.ahds.ac.uk