SUNScholar/Repository Preservation

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Formulation

The repository preservation plan (RPP) is usually for the repository director/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 on the internet, in the same way that libraries and the contents of libraries in buildings, are preserved.

There is a very subtle, but very important distinction between digital curation/preservation and holistic repository preservation.

Preamble - Essential Reading

Priority 1 - Repository Long Term Support

Priority 2 - Preservable Digital Objects

Priority 3 - Electronic Citation Preservation

Sustainability

• 2014 - COAR - TASK FORCE: LIBRARIAN COMPETENCIES FOR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS PUBLISHING
• ** Sustainability Capacity Building **
• ** The Self-Hosting Value Proposition **
• ** Disaster Recovery **

Preservation Services

• http://4cproject.eu
• http://www.curationexchange.org
• https://www.archivematica.org
• 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

News

• http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/digital-preservation-policy-framework-case-study
• http://ptsefton.com/2014/07/04/trip-report-peter-sefton-open-repositories-2014-helsinki-finland.htm