diff --git a/OCLC.tex b/OCLC.tex index bec084e..ac97a24 100755 --- a/OCLC.tex +++ b/OCLC.tex @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ \section{The second repository: EPrints Te Tumu} -The success of the pilot excited considerable interest throughout the University community. In early 2006, Te Tumu, Otago's School of Maori, Pacific \& Indigenous Studies, expressed an interest in implementing a repository for their specific needs. They were particularly interested in the use of a digital repository as a means of disseminating their research and other work, as there are relatively few ``official'' outlets for their discipline. In addition to the usual articles and papers that are found in most typical IRs, Te Tumu also wished to store multimedia items such as images of traditional crafts and artwork, and video clips of songs and dances. This was simply a matter of adding appropriate item types to the EPrints metadata configuration and creating corresponding templates. +The success of the pilot excited considerable interest throughout the University community. In early 2006, Te Tumu, Otago's School of M\={a}ori, Pacific \& Indigenous Studies, expressed an interest in implementing a repository for their specific needs. They were particularly interested in the use of a digital repository as a means of disseminating their research and other work, as there are relatively few ``official'' outlets for their discipline. In addition to the usual articles and papers that are found in most typical IRs, Te Tumu also wished to store multimedia items such as images of traditional crafts and artwork, and video clips of songs and dances. This was simply a matter of adding appropriate item types to the EPrints metadata configuration and creating corresponding templates. Drawing on experience from the pilot, the Te Tumu repository\footnote{\url{http://eprintstetumu.otago.ac.nz/}} was implemented by a single person in about a month, and was officially launched on May 3 2006, making it the first repository for indigenous studies in New Zealand (and possibly the world). Response to the repository has been very positive, with over 2,600 downloads from 49 different countries during its first five months. The repository currently contains 30 items, including articles, theses, images and video clips. @@ -191,8 +191,7 @@ The Otago team is also playing a major role in the Open Access Repositories in New Zealand (OARiNZ) project\footnote{\url{http://www.oarinz.ac.nz/}}. This is a new government-funded project to develop a national infrastructure that will connect all of New Zealand's digital research repositories. Work is currently underway at Otago on an easy-to-use installer and configurator for setting up EPrints repositories, in order to encourage wider adoption of these technologies. - -\section{Conclusions etc.} +\section{Conclusion} The experience at Otago has shown that it is relatively easy to implement a digital institutional repository. The technology has now matured to the point where a basic repository can be set up within a couple of days by a person with a moderate level of technical knowledge. Even setting up a heavily customized repository can be achieved in a matter of days rather than weeks, if a dedicated and knowledgeable team is created and given focused, achievable and bounded goals. Software costs are essentially nil and hardware costs are minimal.