SUNScholar/Repository Preservation

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Formulation

The repository preservation plan (RPP) is usually for the repository manager to formulate in collaboration with the institutions IT department.

Considerations

Currently, in the academic literature much is being said about digital curation/preservation, however this distracts from the strategic imperative of preserving the repository itself and the contents of the repository, in the same way that libraries and the contents of libraries themselves, are preserved. There is a very subtle but very important distinction between digital curation and repository preservation.

• Preamble - Essential Reading
• Priority 1 - Long Term Support
• Priority 2 - Preservable Digital Objects
• Priority 3 - Electronic Citation Preservation

Essential Reading (Only available online)

• 2013 - NDSA - STAFFING FOR EFFECTIVE DIGITAL PRESERVATION
• 2012 - CCSDS - REFERENCE MODEL FOR AN OPEN ARCHIVAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (OAIS)
• 2008 - NISO - A FRAMEWORK OF GUIDANCE FOR BUILDING GOOD DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
• 2008 - NISO - A FRAMEWORK OF GUIDANCE FOR BUILDING GOOD DIGITAL COLLECTIONS - VIEW ONLINE
• 2003 - ARL - CLIFFORD LYNCH - INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES: ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCHOLARSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Preservation Services

• http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation
• http://www.clockss.org

Contributions

From Denise Nicholson

• http://libguides.wits.ac.za/digitalpreservation
• http://digi.nrf.ac.za/publ/Managing%20Digital%20Collections.pdf

Ohio State University Library

• Ohio State University Library (OSUL) Documentation Examples
  • http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/6/61/Osul-digital-preservation-policy-framework.pdf
  • http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/8/87/Osul-digital-initiatives-program.pdf
  • http://library.osu.edu/projects-initiatives/digital-projects/standards

• Ohio State University Library (OSUL) Links
  • http://library.osu.edu/blogs/digitalscholarship
  • http://library.osu.edu/documents/digital-projects/OAIS_Report.pdf
  • http://library.osu.edu/projects-initiatives/digital-projects/standards/outside-resources
  • http://library.osu.edu/projects-initiatives/osu-records-management/records-information-management-resorces

• Ohio State University Library (OSUL) Contacts
  • https://portal.lib.ohio-state.edu/intranet/staff/group/pres
  • https://portal.lib.ohio-state.edu/intranet/staff/group/DCS
  • https://portal.lib.ohio-state.edu/intranet/staff/group/infrastructure

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