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 and repository preservation.