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@article{citeulike:4649587, abstract = {Home > Browse > Article Request E-mail this page Article Request: Selective archiving of web resources: a study of processing costs Add to the marked list: Article Information: Title: Selective archiving of web resources: a study of processing costs Author(s): Mirna Willer, Tanja Buzina, Karolina Holub, Jasenka Zajec, Miroslav Milinovic, Nebojsa Topolscak Journal: Program: electronic library and information systems Year: 2008 Volume: 42 Issue: 4 Page: 341 - 364 DOI: 10.1108/00330330810912043 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank the colleagues who took part in this assessment exercise: Hrvoje Brozovic (IT Department), Danijela Getliher and Renata Petru\v{s}ic (ISSN), Sofija Klarin (Croatian Institute for Librarianship, Project member), Tatjana Mihalic (Music collection), Robert Ravnic (Authority Control Department), Ingeborg Rudomino (UPWR), Tomica Vrbanc (CIP Unit) and Mirjana Vujic (Subject and Classification Department) from the National and University Library, and Mijo \r{A}erek from the University of Zagreb Computing Centre (SRCE). Document Access: Please select from the following options: View HTML | View PDF (362 KB) Reprints \& permissions: Image: Rightslink Request Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess costs in the National and University Library of Croatia for processing Croatian web resources and the maintenance and development of the service, and to analyse the present organisation and workflow of their processing, and to propose improvements. Design/methodology/approach – The assessment period was two months, during which the members of staff involved minutely monitored their tasks. The results were compared to the same exercise reported by the National Library of Australia and processing costs of cataloguing Croatian print publications. Findings – The bottom-up analysis of processing web resources shows that a balanced description of tasks and their distribution over staff members was established, and that the present workflow meets the requirements of efficient processing of web resources. As a general finding, approximately the same time was spent on archiving new items, as on the control and maintenance of the already archived ones due to the change of web resource properties, URL instability and the changes of technology. The comparative analysis showed: less time is spent on identification and selection and publishers' contacts on the part of the Croatian National Library compared to the Australian one; almost twice as much time was spent on gathering, quality assurance, and archiving instances in the Australian case than in the Croatian one; practically the same time was spent on cataloguing in both cases; and compared to cataloguing of print publications, significantly less time was spent on the print ones. Originality/value – The paper is one of the two published articles on the in depth analysis of the workflow and processing costs of managing and selectively archiving legal deposit copies of web resources in a national library. Its potential value is in drawing attention of library managers of those institutions that deal with selective web archiving to assess costs and services in view of the legal obligations of libraries for preserving national cultural web heritage and meeting present and future users' needs.}, author = {Willer, Mirna and Buzina, Tanja and Holub, Karolina and Zajec, Jasenka and Milinovic, Miroslav and Topolscak, Nebojsa}, citeulike-article-id = {4649587}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1748052}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=CB3D3B22C4A487839AD2F270D12CB997?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1748052&dType=FREE&history=false}, journal = {Program: electronic library and information systems}, keywords = {archivepress, archiving, web}, number = {4}, pages = {341--364}, posted-at = {2009-05-27 23:41:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Selective archiving of web resources: a study of processing costs}, url = {http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1748052}, volume = {42}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4649587 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4649587 N2 - Home > Browse > Article Request E-mail this page Article Request: Selective archiving of web resources: a study of processing costs Add to the marked list: Article Information: Title: Selective archiving of web resources: a study of processing costs Author(s): Mirna Willer, Tanja Buzina, Karolina Holub, Jasenka Zajec, Miroslav Milinovic, Nebojsa Topolscak Journal: Program: electronic library and information systems Year: 2008 Volume: 42 Issue: 4 Page: 341 - 364 DOI: 10.1108/00330330810912043 Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank the colleagues who took part in this assessment exercise: Hrvoje Brozovic (IT Department), Danijela Getliher and Renata Petrušic (ISSN), Sofija Klarin (Croatian Institute for Librarianship, Project member), Tatjana Mihalic (Music collection), Robert Ravnic (Authority Control Department), Ingeborg Rudomino (UPWR), Tomica Vrbanc (CIP Unit) and Mirjana Vujic (Subject and Classification Department) from the National and University Library, and Mijo Åerek from the University of Zagreb Computing Centre (SRCE). Document Access: Please select from the following options: View HTML | View PDF (362 KB) Reprints & permissions: Image: Rightslink Request Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess costs in the National and University Library of Croatia for processing Croatian web resources and the maintenance and development of the service, and to analyse the present organisation and workflow of their processing, and to propose improvements. Design/methodology/approach – The assessment period was two months, during which the members of staff involved minutely monitored their tasks. The results were compared to the same exercise reported by the National Library of Australia and processing costs of cataloguing Croatian print publications. Findings – The bottom-up analysis of processing web resources shows that a balanced description of tasks and their distribution over staff members was established, and that the present workflow meets the requirements of efficient processing of web resources. As a general finding, approximately the same time was spent on archiving new items, as on the control and maintenance of the already archived ones due to the change of web resource properties, URL instability and the changes of technology. The comparative analysis showed: less time is spent on identification and selection and publishers' contacts on the part of the Croatian National Library compared to the Australian one; almost twice as much time was spent on gathering, quality assurance, and archiving instances in the Australian case than in the Croatian one; practically the same time was spent on cataloguing in both cases; and compared to cataloguing of print publications, significantly less time was spent on the print ones. Originality/value – The paper is one of the two published articles on the in depth analysis of the workflow and processing costs of managing and selectively archiving legal deposit copies of web resources in a national library. Its potential value is in drawing attention of library managers of those institutions that deal with selective web archiving to assess costs and services in view of the legal obligations of libraries for preserving national cultural web heritage and meeting present and future users' needs. IS - 4 JF - Program: electronic library and information systems EP - 364 TI - Selective archiving of web resources: a study of processing costs VL - 42 SP - 341 KW - archivepress KW - archiving KW - web AU - Willer, Mirna AU - Buzina, Tanja AU - Holub, Karolina AU - Zajec, Jasenka AU - Milinovic, Miroslav AU - Topolscak, Nebojsa PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1748052 ER -