Prepared by: Deposit FRG

Last Revised: March 2018

Status: Final Draft

Approved by:

Repository Management Relationship: Has components of both Metadata Editor and Preservation Curator

Demographics / User Characteristics

• Library staff or student assistant
• May perform upstream actions such as digitization or born-digital acquisition/accession/processing to prepare materials for deposit
• May work with Campus Staff Submitter or off-campus donors to coordinate material transfer for processing prior to ingest
• Not a content creator
• Familiar with repository ingest workflows and interfaces
• Varied levels of familiarity with underlying repository architecture 

Frequency and Type of Repository Deposit Use

• Daily
• Staff Deposit 

General Motivators / Goals

• Contribute to the larger collection’s preservation and dissemination goals
• Help ensure consistent metadata and quality among objects within collections
• Provide expedient access to and preservation of material approved for repository ingest by the Digital Collections Steering Committee 

Key Deposit Tasks

• Add or import descriptive metadata to one or more objects
• Upload single or batched files to the repository
• Verify proper SIP creation, in accordance with repository standards
• Review technical metadata for objects
• Confirm successful ingest of objects
• Assign designated rights and access controls for objects 

Repository Content / Information Desired

• Guidance on local metadata entry standards
• Access to local vocabulary terms and thesauri
• Status and progress notifications for material being ingested
• Verification of successful uploads and ingests
• Audit trail / log of deposit activity in workflow 

Type of Material Deposited

• Digitized and born-digital files including books, images, audio, video
• Born-digital binary files and disk images 

Library/Unit Interactions

• Library Staff Depositor may work with special collections across campus libraries as well as on- or off-campus donors