Difference between revisions of "Digital preservation"
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| + | and manage a wide range of content types - science data, arts, teaching and learning, as well as open access research papers - that might be found in the typical institutional repository of the future. This work is being taken forward in the [http://preservation.eprints.org/keepit/ KeepIt project]. While this is a work in progress, this area can be used by project partners as a collaborative workspace for developing related resources, including | ||
* KeepIt training resources | * KeepIt training resources | ||
* KeepIt bibliography | * KeepIt bibliography | ||
* KeepIt calendar | * KeepIt calendar | ||
Revision as of 14:52, 20 July 2009
Tools and services are being developed to support digital preservation for EPrints repositories. Application is being tested on a diverse series of exemplar repositories.
Tools and services
- Toolkit for file format identification and risk assessment (includes Java 'wrapper' that works with DROID digital object ID tool from the (UK) National Archives and interfaces to Calendar and Web servers, triggering events and recording the history of the events and outcomes in the two respective services).
- Interface for format risk management
- StorageController: manage content in open storage and cloud storage services
Preservation Support in EPrints 3
- Complex-Object Export: METS and DIDL plugins
- History Module
- Rights Declaration
See Preserv project and Preserv wiki
Repository preservation exemplars
How should digital repositories engage with preservation? This is being investigated with a series of Repository Preservation Exemplars, all using EPrints and representing the anticipated diversity of content in the typical institutional repository of the future.
and manage a wide range of content types - science data, arts, teaching and learning, as well as open access research papers - that might be found in the typical institutional repository of the future. This work is being taken forward in the KeepIt project. While this is a work in progress, this area can be used by project partners as a collaborative workspace for developing related resources, including
- KeepIt training resources
- KeepIt bibliography
- KeepIt calendar
