1. a consortium committed to digital preservation Academic Preservation Trust CNI Fall Member Meeting 12/10/12 1 Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace Andrew Woods, DuraSpace

2. The Problem The scholarship that is being produced today, both print and digital, is at serious risk of being lost forever to future generations. 2 12/10/2012 CNI Fall Member Meeting 2012

3. What we know…  Universities don’t have a cost-effective, fail-safe way to preserve the scholarly record  Preservation repositories exist but are often single points of failure  The rapid growth of digital scholarship and research means we must act now to preserve born- digital content. 12/10/12 CNI Fall Member Meeting 2012 3

4. P OLITICAL U PHEAVAL Then… “The loss of the ancient world's single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of Alexandria, has been lamented for ages…. ” The Burning of the Library of Alexandria by Preston Chesser And now… The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which helped provide young people with access to computers and social media during Egypt's January 2011 protests, is now facing its own upheaval. Natural Disasters…aftermat h of Katrina A few Vulnerabilities … 12/10/12 CNI Fall Member Meeting 2012 4

5. Isn’t someone already doing this?

6. APTrust Community Building Governance, Legal and Policy Repository Services Preservation & Collection Framework Business & Marketing

7. APTrust Partners Columbia UniversityUniversity of North Carolina Duke UniversityNotre Dame Emory UniversityNorth Carolina State University Johns Hopkins UniversityStanford University University of MarylandSyracuse University University of MichiganUniversity of Virginia 12/10/12 CNI Fall Member Meeting 2012 7

8. Community at Work  The Librarians  Content & Technical  Implementation Partners

9. APTrust Governance: Advisory Group Pat SteeleMarylandDean of Libraries Winston TabbJohns HopkinsDean of Libraries Suzanne ThorinSyracuseDean of Libraries Greg JansenUNCTechnology Liaison Greg RaschkeNC StateIngest Liaison Donna TolsonUVaProject manager Martha SitesUVaEx-officio 12/10/12 CNI Fall Member Meeting 2012 9

10. Meeting the Demand Need Cost Effective Disaster Recovery Aggregated Content Long Term Preservation Tools & Practices Enhanced Preservation Strategy DR Storage, Tools and Audit Capability Aggregate Repository Entry to DPN for long term preservation Platform for Consortia Work

11. Uniqueness  Disk Storage  DuraCloud  HathiTrust  DPN  Levels of Preservation  Organization Models  Threat Protection

12. Initial Focus  Organizational Governance  Funding and Resources  Content Strategy  Technical Architecture  Implementation

13. Looking toward Dec, 2013  Growth Plan  Policies  Sustainable Financial Plan  Stabilization – working out the kinks  Service Growth –what’s next  Planning - Consortia development opportunities

14. Architecture Deep Dive  Ingest  Aggregation  Administrative Tools  Where are we with DPN

19. Next Steps  Welcome to Scott Turnbull  Milestones  Implementation  Meetings – ARL & APTRust Partner  Organizational

20. Learn more at aptrust.org