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Digital Library Deposit Consultation

The point of this page is to draft a response to the consultation with this snappy title: "Proposal on the Collection and Preservation of UK Offline and Microform Publications and UK Online Publications (Available free of charge and without access restrictions)".[1]

The summary on the DCMS website is as follows: "The Department for Culture Media and Sport has launched a consultation on the legal deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications which are available free of charge and without access restrictions."

The consultation is guided by the Government's Code of Practice on Consultation which is available at: http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/bre/code/page46954.html

Q1

What are your views on the options considered for this content?

Q2

Are there any other options that should have been considered? If so what are they?

Q3

Do you agree with the analysis of these options? Explain why.

Q4

Do you agree that harvesting provides the most efficient and timely solution for deposit of publications in this category? Explain why.

Q5

Do you agree regulation is the most cost-efficient method of collection for the Libraries and imposes no direct financial or administrative burden upon the publishers? Explain why.

Q6

Do you agree that this is an appropriate definition for the type of publications that should be included in scope for regulations? Explain why. Is there anything else that should be included in this definition? Is there anything that should be excluded from this definition?

Q7

Do you agree with the territorial definition of the UK web? Explain why. Is there anything else that should be included in this definition? Is there anything that should be excluded from this definition?

Q8

Do you agree with this analysis of the UK Web Domain? Explain why. What do you think the impact of your analysis would be?

Q9

How do you see a Deposit Library driven system of web harvesting interfacing with a publisher driven duty to deposit under the 2003 Act?

Q10

How could Deposit Libraries most efficaciously ensure a comprehensive body of eligible content is deposited?

Q11

Do these assumptions adequately reflect the financial burden of publishers? Is there anything that needs to included or excluded?

Q12

Do these assumptions adequately reflect the financial burden of publishers? Is there anything that needs to included or excluded?

Q13

Do you agree with the analysis of these options? Explain why.

Q14

Do you agree with the analysis on making content available to the Deposit Libraries? Explain why. What else needs to be taken into consideration?

Q15

Do you agree with this costing model? Explain why. What else needs to be taken into consideration?

Q16

Do you agree with the analysis of the costs and the impacts of each option? Explain why. What else needs to be taken into consideration?

Q17

Do you agree with risks identified here? Explain why. Are there other risks that have not been considered? What would their impact be? Are some of these risks actually not really risks? Why?

Q18

Do you agree with LDAP’s recommendation to regulate for this content? If not, what should be done instead?

Q19

Do you agree with LDAP’s proposed method for depositing of content? If not how else could this be done?

Q20

Do you agree with LDAP’s analysis of access provisions? Explain why. What other options are there?

Q21

Do you agree with these cost assumptions? Explain why. What needs to be included or excluded?