(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-10-06)
Jannik, Catherine M.; Woynowski, Kent
In the December 2, 2006 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Peter Suber predicts that in
2007, "[Institutional repositories] will soon be a new fact of life for universities, like
libraries or web sites, and the discussion will shift from their utility to the best practices
for filling them." (Issue #104, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-
06.htm, accessed 12.06.2006) Georgia Tech's DSpace based institutional repository,
SMARTech, reached 10,000 items shortly after 2 years in existence. Georgia Tech has
also instituted a dark archive, named Aardvark, also based on the DSpace software for inhouse
management of the Archives' digital materials, to serve as the basis for future
public digital exhibits. Aardvark currently houses around 1,500 records and over 240
gigabytes of materials.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-05-17)
de Catanzaro, Christine; Thompson, Jody Lloyd; Woynowski, Kent
An overview of functionality and advantages of the Archivists' Toolkit for tracking and describing special collections materials. A virtual test drive of the new Archivists' Toolkit developed by The University of California--San Diego, New York University, and the Five Colleges, Inc. and beta tested at Georgia Tech. Learn what this open source software can do to help with accessioning, description, donor tracking, name and subject authority work, and location management for archival materials.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-01-23)
Parham, Susan Wells; Woynowski, Kent; Griffin, Julie
The Georgia Tech (GT) Library and Information Center established SMARTech (http://smartech.gatech.edu/), our DSpace Institutional Repository (IR) in August 2004. We envisioned an open access (OA) system of user-submitted scholarly faculty output, but shifted to a service-oriented focus which broadened the collecting scope of our IR and expanded our use of DSpace as a tool for providing publishing and preservation services to the GT community.
Our first service was to submit faculty research ourselves, supply item level metadata, and review copyright. We decided adding more publishing services would make supplying content for SMARTech easier for faculty. We also decided it would be mutually beneficial to expand our use of DSpace to include new conference and journal publishing services (http://epage.gatech.edu) since faculty include publications, conference participation, and editorial positions in tenure and promotion packages. The new services would offer faculty a low-cost model for creating and maintaining conference web sites and OA journals, allowing them more time to focus on content rather than system support.
We further expanded the use of DSpace as a backbone for our service-oriented programs by supplementing the intellectual output of GT with archival records of the Institute. We preserve electronic versions of traditionally print archival records in SMARTech and have begun integrating our digital preservation service into the workflow of various campus publishing units.Though SMARTech was considered by the Archives for digital manuscript preservation, the idea was negated by copyright and privacy restrictions. Archives established a closed instance because the preservation and organizational abilities of DSpace make the software ideal for managing digital archival collections. These expanded services will reinforce the position of SMARTech as a valuable service to the GT community.