Repository Management User Profile - Self Depositor

Prepared by: Management FRG

Last Revised: Feb 2018

Status: Final

Reviewed by: Deposit FRG, Core Team

Approved by: DLP Steering

Demographics/User Characteristics

  • Familiar with the parent collection’s content and consumers
  • Generally unfamiliar with repository product interfaces
  • Is typically the content creator using a self-deposit service, but may also be a designated proxy who assists the content creator
  • Representative of one or more submitter-oriented Deposit User Profiles

Frequency of Repository Use

  • Irregular (as needed to maintain content)

General Motivators/Goals

  • Contribute to the larger collection’s preservation and dissemination goals
  • Maintains one or more individual digital objects’ intellectual content over time
  • Contributes updates to Descriptive metadata for their objects
  • Designates appropriate level of access to/visibility of the content
  • Monitors usage of the content

Key Repository Management Tasks

  • Coordinates and/or requests maintenance for individual digital objects and their constituent files
  • Maintains descriptive metadata for content
  • Coordinates with depositors to maintain content
  • Troubleshoots issues at the individual object or file level
  • Clarifies appropriate use and copyright for content
  • Runs/requests analytics for usage of their content

Repository Content/Information Desired

  • Metadata editor/updater for descriptive or rights metadata
  • File manager for replacing files within an object
  • Versioning interface
  • Analytics/usage dashboard (object-level)
  • User profile/proxy dashboard

Library/Unit Interactions

  • May report to a single Library, or may be a self-depositor who utilizes one or more campus Libraries
  • Works with Collection Managers and other Emory staff to maintain their material in the repository