Planets: Integrated Services for Digital Preservation

The Planets Project is developing services and technology to address core challenges in digital preservation. This article introduces the motivation for this work, describes the extensible technical architecture and places the Planets approach into the context of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. It also provides a scenario demonstrating Planets’ usefulness in solving real-life digital preservation problems and an overview of the project’s progress to date

Joint US-UK Digital Preservation Workshop, Washington, D.C., May 7-9, 2006

A report on an invitational workshop held in Washington, D.C. on the 7-9 May 2006; organised by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

What to Preserve?: Significant Properties of Digital Objects

This article reports on the JISC/BL/DPC workshop on significant properties, which took place on April 7, 2008 at the British Library Conference Centre, London. The intention of the workshop was to bring together the relevant projects and report on progress to date. It was also hoped that the workshop will lead to collective recommendations for future areas of research and development

Digital preservation in the context of institutional repositories

Type of paper: General review Purpose of this paper: To discuss the issues and challenges of digital preservation facing institutional repositories and to illustrate JISC’s view on institutional repositories and its key initiatives in helping UK institutions address these issues. Design/methodology/approach: A combination of published work and JISC documents (public facing or internal) were used as reference material. Findings: Digital preservation is a complex process and there are still many unsolved issues which make it a challenging task for institutional repositories. However, the wide deployment of institutional repositories also provides new opportunities for digital preservation. Much could be done to consider digital preservation from the outset, to involve the authors and to embed digital preservation into repository workflow, which will ease the later preservation tasks. Research limitations/implications: A number of ongoing JISC-funded projects are briefly reported which explore different models for the provision of digital preservation services for institutional repositories. These models may be a way forward to tackle collectively the issue of long-term preservation within the setting of institutional repositories. Depending on the outcomes of the projects, further investigation and implementation could be undertaken to test the models. Practical implications: This paper will help the reader to gain a better understanding of the issues related to digital preservation in general and how JISC’s work has helped to tackle these issues. What is original/value of paper: This paper clearly states JISC’s view on, and future plan for, digital repositories. This is of value to the UK educational community as JISC works on its behalf and responds to its needs

Digital Curation Centre – Phase Two

An overview of the Digital Curation Centre since its establishment in 2004, including accomplishments of Phase One, aims and objectives of Phase Two, and how DCC relates to JISC strategy

Progress towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges

Planets, CASPAR and DPE are projects funded by the European Union to address digital preservation challenges under its Framework Programme 6 (FP6). Helen Hockx-Yu reports on the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal

Establishing a UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme

This article describes the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme, an initiative funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in partnership with the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL). The Pilot directly engages a number of selected UK HE institutions in trailing the LOCKSS technology for e-journal archiving and preservation. LOCKSS (for Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an initiative that has been developed by Stanford University Libraries. It involves an alliance of over 80 libraries and 60 publishers worldwide, working together to preserve persistent access to licensed e-journal content from publishers to libraries. The Pilot is funded under JISC’s development programme area Digital Preservation and Records Management. This article describes the rationale to establish the pilot programme, the aims and objectives and, in detail, the individual components of the programme

Superb Stewardship of Digital Assets – Developing a strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation at the University of Notre Dame

This paper describes the effort to develop an institutional strategy for digital assets management for the University of Notre Dame, where information is currently managed within a devolved organisational structure, and archiving and preservation are often overlooked. It advocates a lifecycle approach of digital assets management and recommends a strategy with the goal to embed considerations for archiving and preservation in policies, workflows and technologies across the entire organisation