http://preserv.eprints.org (ECDL 2005 Vienna Sept 18-23) PRESERV PReservation Eprint SERVices Digital Preservation for Institutional Repositories: Building on a Collaborative Approach http://preserv.eprints.org (ECDL 2005 Vienna Sept 18-23) PRESERV: investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories Activities Evaluating with the Southampton and Oxford institutional repositories : Adapting EPrints software to allow the collection and dissemination of preservation-oriented metadata to supplement the current bibliographic information Linking EPrints software to the PRONOM file format registry created at The National Archives Augmenting EPrints software to support ingest into an OAIS based preservation service The British Library and Southampton University will build and test an exemplar preservation service Background Institutional Repositories growing to showcase their outputs e.g. research Complementary to subject based repositories e.g arXiv Collaborative approach of OAI enables international search services OAIS provides a framework for preservation-based services Issues Improved processes need to be offered to repository authors and administrators to fulfill preservation responsibilities IRs must be sustainable IRs represent a variety of materials and formats Other organisations have preservation expertise Part of the UK’s Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions Programme Southampton: Leslie Carr Jessie Hey Steve Hitchcock Tim Brody