User:John Cross/digital library deposit consultation: Difference between revisions
John Cross (talk | contribs) |
John Cross (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
==Q1== | ==Q1== | ||
'''What are your views on the options considered for this content?''' | '''What are your views on the options considered for this content?''' | ||
===Option 2: Legal Deposit Library regulation-based Harvesting and Archiving (Recommended)=== | |||
Revision as of 22:57, 25 January 2010
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?
Option 2: Legal Deposit Library regulation-based Harvesting and Archiving (Recommended)
Option 3: Archiving Left to the Market
Leaving archiving to the market is not a workable solution, commercial businesses involved in will focus on content that is likely to generate a profit. Investors in commercial enterprises normally expect a return within a few years of making their investment for almost all businesses it would be unthinkable to invest in something that will not generate a return within 15 years.
Archiving is about preserving content for future generations, it is about works of cultural, historical and spiritual value not just those with commercial value. Whilst people all over the world value being able to read the Magna Carta and the works of Charles Dickens it is unlikely that they would want or expect to pay a significant amount of money to do so.
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?
