Uppsala University Library

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Uppsala University Library

• Eva Müller
• Peter Hansson
• Stefan Andersson
• Uwe Klosa
• Electronic Publishing Centre
• Krister Östlund
• Waller project

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Highlights from Digital Library Program

• Electronic publishing of digitally born documents
• Digitization - cultural heritage projects
• Preservation and access in the long term
• Harmonization of metadata
• Semantic markup

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Current projects

• Applied research and development
• Local level - within University Library/UU
  (digitization of culture heritage)
• National level (metadata harmonization, long term
  preservation SVEP)
• Nordic level (DiVA, Access and preservation i
• International level (Evaluation of GAMERA)

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Technical solutions

• Standards
• Component based system development
• Reuse of components
• Replacement of components with new versions
• cooperation
• Open source software, where possible

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Electronic publishing of digitally born documents
DiVA Project

• Started 2000 at
• Uppsala University,
• Sweden
• 2004
• ten universities
• three countries

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DiVA Publishing SystemDigitala Vetenskapliga
Arkivet/Digital Scientific Archive

• Publishing tool for electronic publishing (w/ or
  w/o print)
• Document-centric model
• Entire publishing workflow supported by XML
• Archival workflow based on XML format

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Metadata DisseminationServices
Word Processor
Web Services
DiVA Document Format
Word Processing Format (Template)
Author
Long-term Preservation
Local Repository
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DiVA Workflow

• The flow of work done by DiVA Publishing System
  and its administrators/editors.
• Input data
• Process data
• Output data

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INPUT DATADiVA Template or DiVA Web Form
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PROCESS DATADiVA Manager
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OUTPUT DATAOther Systems Collect The Records
Automatically
Indexed by Search Engines
URNNBNResolution Service
Union Catalogue
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OUTPUT DATA Simple Search at Local Archive
Search Form
Search Hits
Overview
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OUTPUT DATA Federated Searchhttp//www.diva-por
tal.org/
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OUTPUT DATA Browsing by Subject
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Digitization Waller project

• Waller database letters
• http//publications.uu.se/waller/
• 30,000 records/45,000 images
• Name authority files

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SVEP (like sweep)

• The SVEP project aims at promoting, coordinating
  and supporting electronic publishing at Swedish
  universities and university colleges.
• (September 2003 - September 2005)
• http//www.svep-projekt.se/english/

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Funded by BIBSAM
The Royal Librarys Department for National
Co-ordination and Development
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Participants and roles

• funded and coordinated by the Swedish Royal
  Librarys Department for National Co-ordination
  and Development, BIBSAM
• carried out in close collaboration between nine
  Swedish university libraries and the National
  Library
• five workpackages, lead by Lund University
  Libraries and Uppsala University Library

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WP 1 Interoperability

• Harmonisation of descriptions and description
  formats for electronically published scientific
  publications.
• Based on problems discovered in a pilot study of
  an OAI compliant portal (2002).
• Less problem today because of e.g. DiVA.
• Still to do subject categories, publication type
  definitions, and name authorities.

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WP 2 Preservation

• Workflow and technical solution for archiving
  electronic publications from Swedish
  universities.
• Persistent identifiers
• Metadata