[eIFLoa] Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories

[Iryna Kuchma]

 The Digital Curation Centre has released Preservation and Curation in
Institutional Repositories.

>From the announcement:
The DCC has produced a report that provides a snapshot of the state of the
art of preservation and curation in an institutional repository context in
early 2010, noting areas of recent and current research and development. It
should be of interest principally to institutional repository managers and
others concerned with the strategic planning for these services. The report
begins with a brief introduction to preservation and curation, followed in
chapter 3 by a summary of the current provision for these activities in
EPrints, DSpace and Fedora. Some repository models and architectures
relevant to preservation and curation are presented in chapter 4 and chapter
5 respectively, while a selection of preservation planning tools of possible
use in a repository context are described in chapter 6. Pertinent
developments in metadata are reviewed in chapter 7, while tools for working
with such metadata are presented in chapter 8. Technologies that assist in
performing emulation, reverse engineering and migration are described in
chapter 9. The issue of identifiers for repository materials is tackled in
chapter 10. A selection of guidelines and tools for auditing curatorial
aspects of institutional repositories is presented in chapter 11, and a
selection of tools for calculating the costs and benefits of curation is
presented in chapter 12. Finally, some conclusions are drawn in chapter 13.

(From
http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2010/03/29/preservation-and-curation-in-institutional-repositories/)


Alex Ball (author), contributors: Maureen Pennock; Michael Day

Institutional repositories were originally intended as a way of giving
immediate and wide access to research papers. They are increasingly taking
on a role as curators of institutional digital output, requiring the
adoption of specific policies and tools for preservation and curation. In
the ten years since the first dedicated institutional repository software
was released, a range of tools have been developed to assist in everything
from drawing up preservation plans and policies to extracting preservation
metadata from files, alongside modular architectures for linking all the
tools together. While the uptake of these technologies and techniques in
repositories is modest, there are encouraging signs of progress.

Subject: Open Archival Information System (OAIS); repository architectures;
preservation planning; preservation metadata; representation information;
persistent identifiers; repository certification; repository audit; costing

Publisher University of Edinburgh; UKOLN, University of Bath; HATII,
University of Glasgow; Science and Technology Facilities Council