{"id":12,"date":"2007-08-21T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/2007\/08\/21\/lockss-on-our-bagels\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T00:22:38","slug":"lockss-on-our-bagels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/2007\/08\/21\/lockss-on-our-bagels\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCKSS on our bagels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Random question #2:<\/strong> Why do we need to pay an organization an annual fee to give us temporary access on a remote server to the content we already bought? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portico.org\/\">Portico<\/a>, one of two major competing preservation methods for e-journals; the other is <a href=\"http:\/\/lockss.org\">LOCKSS<\/a>, for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. I know &#8212; because I do, just trust me &#8212; that I&#8217;m now going to get email and phone calls from Portico people explaining to me why Portico works that way. That&#8217;s fine. Portico is a model, and it has its arguments; you can read pros and cons in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6466645.html\">Library Journal article<\/a>, written, in the ultimate form of nepotism, by me. <\/p>\n<p>Portico isn&#8217;t heinous the way that Google Book Project is heinous. In fact, Portico isn&#8217;t heinous at all. There are even good arguments for hedging your bets and doing both Portico and LOCKSS. But it still bugs me that I&#8217;ve watched librarians wave Portico agreements as if they were sprinkling powder on a baby&#8217;s bottom. We need to put more thought into our decisions and not assume that the decision that involves writing a check and moving on to whatever we think is really important equals practicing strong professionalism. <\/p>\n<p>But back to LOCKSS. This preservation method is a librarian-grown innovation designed to protect the interests of librarianship. Like OCA, LOCKSS is community-built and operated. Its sliding scale is very affordable, and it&#8217;s extremely easy to set up a LOCKSS box. <\/p>\n<p>CLOCKSS &#8212; or Controlled LOCKSS &#8212; is a version of LOCKSS for copyright-controlled content. <\/p>\n<p>The technical design of LOCKSS assumes strength in numbers and the need to repair content from time to time. A LOCKSS network has at least six nodes. The LOCKSS network audits its content and fixes it when it breaks. <\/p>\n<p>The philosophical design of LOCKSS as an organization places content in the stewardship of the common librarian trust &#8212; or firmly back in the jurisdiction of collection management. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random question #2: Why do we need to pay an organization an annual fee to give us temporary access on a remote server to the content we already bought? I&#8217;m speaking of Portico, one of two major competing preservation methods for e-journals; the other is LOCKSS, for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/nasig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}