Our practice, as we are beginning to develop a departmental repository
for our administration records, faculty materials, and student
portfolios, is to consider the material, the law (especially for student
materials), and the will of the creator: one size does not usually fit
all, even for the same creator, and as we are using DSpace we are able
to license every item separately if necessary, and if the creator is
depositing directly they can make that decision separately themselves.
We are working on recommendations for generic sources and genres, but
anticipate that the landscape will be somewhat complex. This has
actually always been potentially true for paper archives, but the
difficulty of access made the problem less visible than it should have been.
Pat Galloway
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
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