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"It is important to build the concept of preservation from the outset*. In the digital era, the 'outset' for most new research and educational materials will be the institutional repository."
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About the project
Fast facts
- When: Preserv 2 from July 2007 to March 2009 (extended from December 2008). Preserv 1 ran from February 2005 to January 2007.
- Who: Southampton University (School of Electronics and Computer Science), The National Archives, The British Library and Oxford University (Library Services, Systems and Electronic Resources Service) ... collaborating people.
- Prior related work by the partners:
- Funded by JISC, within the programme Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions
- Keywords: digital libraries, institutional repositories, preservation, preservation services, EPrints, PRONOM
Coverage of Preserv
April 15, 2008 News release from University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS). ECS developers win $5000 repository challenge, on how the project's developers scooped the prize for showing how digital data can be moved easily between storage sites running different software while remaining accessible to users, using OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE).
May 1, 2007 Project video. Preserv Us! The story of the Preserv project by the people behind it (various formats, including embedded player, high quality and podcast formats). Produced by ECS-TV, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
April 30, 2007 About the making of the Preserv project video, with tips for producing other JISC project videos. Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production in Ariadne, No. 51, April 2007.
November 29, 2006 Preservation Support in GNU EPrints 3, in the EPrints Technical Wiki. The latest version of EPrints, due in January 2007, interacts with preservation services by providing features for complex-object export, recording the history of changes to a document, and preservation rights declaration.
November 29, 2006 An illustrated guide to PRONOM-ROAR, a repository file format identification service, in the ROAR Wiki. The National Archives' PRONOM database is applied to produce Preserv Profiles of hundreds of repositories in ROAR.
November 22, 2006 Preserv Profiles highlighted in section on the Registry of Open Access Repositories in Martha Brogan, Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library, Digital Library Federation.
October 6, 2006 Preserv project described in Helen Hockx-Yu, Digital preservation in the context of institutional repositories (section 6.1), E-LIS, also in Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2006, 232-243
August 3, 2006 Towards solving the repository preservation conundrum, in EPrints Insiders. Progress report aimed at repository managers.
July 25, 2006 Progress of the Preserv project is examined in a revealing interview by Kieron Niven of the Digital Preservation Coalition as part of its Featured Project series.
April 30, 2005 Preserv in the context of the JISC programme that funds it: Leona Carpenter, Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions, Ariadne, Issue 43
Formal reports
Preserv 2
- Preserv 2 project proposal (03/2007). The version that won new funding from JISC.
Preserv 1
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