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Lucie Burgess (twitter @LucieCBurgess)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
OCLC Regional Council Meeting, 02/15
Reinventing the future to save the past:
The digital legacy of Sir Thomas Bodley
Hale, S., Yasseri, T., Cowls, J., Meyer, E.T., Schroeder, R. and Margetts, H.,
‘Mapping the UK Webspace: Fifteen Years of British Universities on the Web’, WebSci'14.
The Bodleian Libraries
Founded in 1598, opened 1602
Largest academic library system in Europe, and one of the largest in the world
70,000 current registered users (University or Library card)
Over 11 million printed items (increasing by 350,000 items pa)
560 FTE staff
Consistently ranked highest in the UK in the national student satisfaction survey
30ish libraries
Integral part of Oxford University
Oldest University in English-speaking world with 800 year old tradition of discovery & invention
Supporting excellence in research, teaching and learning, public engagement (Oxford came top in 2014 REF based on quality)
Multi disciplinary: Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematical, Physical & Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Continuing Education
First University Library founded 1320 in Church of St Mary the Virgin
A year in the life of the Bodleian Libraries
The digital legacy of Sir Thomas Bodley
506,146 e-books
455,000 digitised books
75,634 full text e-journals
11.8 million items catalogued on SOLO
1339 databases
14,072 full text items in ORA
152,836 items of metadata in ORA
70 archives containing digital material
2.1 million digital images from digitisation
£5.3m per year spent on digital resources
= One enormous digital challenge
Two potential visions of the future
https://archive-it.org/home/bodleian
Legal deposit web archiving in the UK
Domain CrawlBroad sweep of UK web; annual snapshot
31TB for 2013 crawl
57.3TB for Jun-Dec 2014 crawl – 2.5million non .uk new hosts identified
Special
Collection
s
(themes/events)
Key sites
(news; high
impact/value)
Rapid
response
(current events)
The archive is not comprehensive!
Collection, access, scholarship
Balance between the public
and private interest
Protections against copyright
infringement, defamation etc
Access on library premises
only
Only specific non-commercial
use permitted
No digital copying
Full text index but not online
Challenges to scholarship!
Facilitating research using web archives
Internet Archive:
Search by URL/ address
UK web archive
Search by keyword/ full text
New advanced search interfaces
With thanks to Eric Meyer, Josh Cowls, Ralph Schroeder, OII
Collecting the UK scholarly record
Wellcome Trust APCs since 2006 + deposit mandate in
PubMed Central
Royal Society Report, Science as an Open Enterprise,
2012
Government’s Open Data white paper, 2012
Finch Review, 2012
UK government (BIS) allocates £10m pump-priming
RCUK policy, 2013
HEFCE policy, 2013 for post-2016 Research Excellence
Framework
EPSRC data policy, 2012, comes into effect 1 May 2015
Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and ORA-Data
Countering the ‘repository chaos’
Collaborative working between multiple institutions
Repository integration with CRIS systems e.g. Symplectic
Jisc Monitor, Jisc Pathinder, Jisc Publications Router,
RIOXX, CASRAI pilot
Oxford pilot of ORCID and potential for UK membership
DMP Online (Digital Curation Centre)
Jisc Research Data Spring
ODIN (ORCID/ DataCite interoperability network)
FundRef
Research papers and data are not enough
Dave de Roure @dder
Born-digital archives at the Bodleian
Making progress, but many challenges remain
Paradigm project (2007)
FutureArch (2012)
BEAM developed (2012) – web deposit for e-
transfers, transfer mechanisms, use of FTK tool
BEAM researcher user interface (not in reading
rooms)
Heritage Lottery Funding for 6 next generation
archivists 2014 – 2019
2015: BEAM already ageing; looking at replacement
services (BitCurator, Archivematica, Preservica,
home-grown solutions?)
Centre for Digital Scholarship in the Weston Library
Refurbishment of 1930s ‘New Bodleian
Library’ building holding special
collections
To include Centre for Digital Scholarship
Opening March 2015
The future of the future?
Are we RUNNING to STAND STILL?
Can we (and do we need) to save EVERYTHING?
Where and how can we make a STEP CHANGE?
What can we do to convince our leaders and policy
makers that this is IMPORTANT?
How can we engage more fully with the changing
face of SCHOLARSHIP, beyond research papers
and data?
A final word from Sir Thomas Bodley
Quod feliciter vortat academici
Oxoniens bibliothecam hanc
vobis reipublicaeque literatorum
T.B.P.
Thomas Bodley has built this
library for you and for the
Republic of the Learned. May
the gift turn out well.
Twitter @LucieCBurgess
Thank you for listening and let’s continue
the conversation!
