SHERPA Digital Preservation: Creating a Persistent Preservation Environment for Institutional Repositories
Introduction
This project will create a collaborative, shared preservation environment
for the SHERPA institutional repositories project framed around the Open
Archiving Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model. The project will
bring together the SHERPA institutional repository systems with the
preservation repository established by the Arts and Humanities Data Service
to create an environment that fully addresses all the requirements of the
different phases within the life cycle of digital information.
Aims and Objectives
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Use the OAIS reference model to develop a persistent preservation
environment for the SHERPA consortium, assigning rights and
responsibilities and establishing protocols and work flow processes that
will ensure the long-term preservation of the repository content
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Explore the use of METS as the framework for packaging and transferring
metadata held within the institutional repositories, including the
preservation metadata created by the preservation service
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Establish a coordinated set of protocols and software to be implemented
as a working preservation service for a group of institutional
repositories
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Explore the use of open source software and tools to add functionality to
and to extend the storage layer of repository software applications
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Draw together the experience gained into a Digital Preservation User
Guide that will complement the ‘The Preservation Management of Digital
Material Handbook’ created by Maggie Jones and Neil Beagrie, and act as a
practical user guide to implementing this type of preservation
environment
The project completed in March 2007 and the final report is now available:
SherpaDP Final Report.
Lead Institution
Arts and Humanities Data Service (King’s College London)
Project Partners
University of Nottingham, Consortium of University Research Libraries
Programme area(s) addressed:
3. Institutional repository infrastructure development
Project Staff
Main Contact
Sheila Anderson
Director, AHDS
sheila.anderson@ahds.ac.uk