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How to run a repository: Open documentation of 15 years’ experience
Journal of Digital Media Management,
8
(2),
145-152
(2019)
Abstract
To better coordinate a repository ecosystem of over 20 individual systems and synthesise decades of staff knowledge and expertise, a team at the Cornell University Library created an open manual of repository principles and strategies to support both new and existing repository managers. This case study will document the process of creating this manual, describing the identification of strategic areas of repository management; the composition and revision of manual sections in conjunction with experts throughout the library system; the development of both best practices and action steps for implementing them; and the publication of the manual in both an open wiki and an open access repository under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence to facilitate use, feedback and further revision. As the manual itself is intended to fill a gap in the existing repository manual toolset and engender a larger conversation about repository management practices, this case study can serve as the basis for a similar conversation about the openly shared documentation of those practices.
Keywords: institutional repository management; digital library management; digital collections management; open access; documentation; service management
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Author's Biography
Erin Faulder is an associate archivist and the Digital Archivist at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. She provides oversight and management of the division’s born-digital and digitised collections, and develops and documents workflows for accessioning, arranging and describing, and providing access to born-digital archival collections. Erin also teaches four courses for the Society of American Archivists’ Digital Archives Specialist Certificate.
Jim Delrosso is an associate librarian and the Digital Projects Coordinator for Cornell University’s Martin P. Catherwood Library. He manages two open access digital repositories and provides scholarly communication support to various academic communities at Cornell. Jim is chair of Cornell University Library’s Scholarly Communications Working Group and the Discovery & Access User Representatives Group, and was the founding chair of the Repository Executive Group. He is a member of the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and on the board of the Library and Information Science Scholarship Archive.
