"Good preservation metadata is informed by the real needs of the digital repository."
Please join the Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group at the ALA Annual Meeting on Sunday, July 12th, at 10:30 a.m., in the Northwest 1 Room of the Chicago Hilton for its program "Saying What We Do and Doing What We Say: Preservation Issues (Metadata and Otherwise) in Institutional Repositories"
Sarah Shreeves, the Coordinator for IDEALS--the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship--will discuss her real world experience in trying to meet the preservation needs of an institutional repository. The challenges facing a repository responsible for the distribution and preservation of the wide variety of resources and formats contributed by faculty, students, and staff are formidable. Sarah's reflections will be embedded in an overview of the current preservation environment for institutional repositories.
The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) is a set of services and collections supporting scholarly communication (including the institutional repository) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Shreeves is active on the MODS/MADS Editorial Committee for the Library of Congress, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee, and co-leads the Dublin Core Collections Application Profile Task Force with Muriel Foulonneau.
Shreeves' presentation will be followed by reports, a business meeting and an election.