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Interview
Digital Repositories: A Global Work Effort
A brief interview with Michael Keller
10/10/2007
At an initial meeting of the preservation and archive SIG, this past June, we had a dozen institutions—such as the British Library, Oxford University, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Johns Hopkins, and the Swedish National Library. And what we decided as the focus for this group was to set it up as a kind of an instant peer review group. That meeting was focused on business drivers and architecture… The [meeting in November] is going to be larger in terms of numbers of institutions and people, and its concerns will be expanded to workflows, policy, and use cases—we will still spend time on the architecture specifications, design specifications, and software and hardware choices, but we intend to broaden the conversation… [There are] very serious issues for what will be very, very large digital archives…
And previous developments—things like DSpace and Fedora—are providing us with evidence that if we work hard in the initiating institutions and produce some experiences that we will talk about in our professional publications and meetings, we may end up in the next generation in a place where institutions without the same kind of IT prowess, without the kind of great IT support in the form of programmers, database analysts, systems administrators, and managers may be able to have equally large digital archives running without having to have that initial big investment.
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