1. http://preserv.eprints.org (ECDL 2005 Vienna Sept 18-23)
PRESERV
PReservation Eprint SERVices
Digital Preservation for Institutional Repositories: Building on a Collaborative Approach
(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