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FAIR Synthesis: Hybrid Archives

The Hybrid Archives project has examined the processes required to deposit institutional collections for preservation at a service such as the Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS), whilst allowing the data owner to keep hold of the content and provide local access to it. It has developed a model of partial deposit. This model allows for a preservation copy of the content to be deposited at the AHDS using the Open Archives Initiative protocol; users, however, are still guided to the original collections hosted by the data owners.

Further information is available via the JISC project page and the project website.

Outputs from the project include the Hybrid Archives Model, associated supporting documentation and a range of related guidance and reports. The work has also led to further initiatives.

Contact

Sheila Anderson
Arts & Humanities Data Service
3rd Floor, 26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Email: sheila.anderson@ahds.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7928 7673

Model

The Hybrid Archives Model has demonstrated and disseminated the idea that preservation does not necessarily have to involve handing over an entire dataset to a third party. The model opens a way to allow a copy to be taken using OAI for preservation and also maintaining separate access.

Supporting documentation

The Hybrid Archives licence model addresses who has what rights to do what with the data; different scenarios can be encapsulated within the licence according to requirements. The model wil thus allow for materials with IPR issues to be deposited for preservation and access to them granted later once these issues have been resolved.

Guidance and reports

Cross Domain Searching Issues Paper, written under the auspices of the FAIR Museums and Images cluster group, July 2004.

The following papers have been compiled in the development of the Hybrid Archives Model and were produced to support this development.

Report on preserving resources that are frequently updated
Survey of existing OAI-PMH/Z39.50 tools
Survey of existing data harvesting/transfer techniques and tools
Selection criteria for the preservation of e-prints (carried out in tandem with the SHERPA-DP project)

Links with other initiatives and projects

The Hybrid Archives work has influenced the following projects:

SHERPA DP project, funded under Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions. This is being run by the AHDS in collaboration with the SHERPA project and will be using the outcomes of the Hybrid Archives project to inform this work.
An EU project based in Denmark has been based on the Hybrid Archives work and the AHDS will be working with them on this. Contact project staff for further details.

Presentations

Hybrid Archives - a poster, JISC Joint Programmes Meeting, Brighton, 6-7th July 2004

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