Re: diglib: NEED A TIMELY RESPONSE: XML archival copies

[Sara Brownmiller <snb@uoregon.edu>]

Because of the time constraints, I would suggest that Systems be given the
access information to download the files.  We can identify a server for
temporary storage while we work through the issues of permanent storage
and access.

Sara

Sara Brownmiller			University of Oregon Libraries
Director, Library Systems 		1299 University of Oregon
Women's Studies Librarian		Eugene, OR  97403-1299
					541/346-2368 (voice)
snb@uoregon.edu				541/346-3485 (fax)

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Faye Chadwell wrote:

> Dear DCC folks:
>
> The Library has acquired access to 35 e-books (all reference titles) from
> Thomson Gale.  We are paying an annual hosting fee but Gale also is
> providing us with zipped xml compliant copies of each book.  We received
> four such archival copies on CD back in the summer.  For our most recent
> order of 31 titles, Gale is sending us to a site where we can download our
> archival copies.  CDA will take care of downloading our archival
> copies.  However, I need to know:
>
> What server should we be downloading these copies to?
> How do we get access to this server?
> If we aren't supposed to have such access, what steps should we take to be
> sure that aren't left in some folder among CDA's poison files.
>
> Right now, there are 25 separate files to download. Here is the time
> concern:  Gale is giving us 7 days to download (well, make that 6 days
> now).  Otherwise they are sending us 31 CDs.  I really really don't want
> more damn CDs hanging around for us to lose.
> These 25 files amount to 140.26 MB.  Gale needs to provide the downloadable
> files for seven more titles.
>
> The other four titles we have on two separate CDs (not the best storage
> medium, mind you) weigh in at:
> 26, 786 KB
> 7600 kb (approx)
> 2220 kb
> 3438 kb
>
> Bob has been looking at these four files and it appears that Gale might
> have missed sending us a fairly important document.  I am trying to get
> that document.    With it, Bob is pretty sure we can strip out Gale's xml
> tags and strip out the Gale tags and read the files.  He could comment more
> about what he found if necessary.
>
> I am sure you have questions.  Please note that we have current access to
> these titles.  We are not talking about hosting these ourselves at this
> time.  These are just archival copies--but they are our only archival copies.
>
> Faye A. Chadwell
>
> Head of Collection Development and Acquisitions
> 1299 University of Oregon
> Eugene, OR 97403-1299
> phone: 541-346-1819
> fax: 541-346-3485
> email: chadwelf@uoregon.edu
> http://libweb.uoregon.edu/colldev/cda.html
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