Issues

1
PRESERV Investigating and developing
infrastructural digital preservation services for
institutional repositories http//preserv.eprints
.org/

• Issues
• Improved processes need to be offered to
  repository authors and administrators to fulfill
  preservation responsibilities
• IRs must be sustainable
• IRs represent a variety of materials and formats
• Other organisations have preservation expertise

• Activities
• Evaluating with the Southampton and Oxford
  institutional repositories
• Adapting EPrints software to allow the collection
  and dissemination of preservation-oriented
  metadata to supplement the current bibliographic
  information
• Linking EPrints software to the PRONOM file
  format registry created at The National Archives
• Augmenting EPrints software to support ingest
  into an OAIS based preservation service
• The British Library and Southampton University
  will build and test an exemplar preservation
  service

• Background
• Institutional Repositories growing to showcase
  their outputs e.g. research
• Complementary to subject based repositories e.g
  arXiv
• Collaborative approach of OAI enables
  international search services
• OAIS provides a framework for preservation-based
  services

Part of the UKs Supporting Digital Preservation
and Asset Management in Institutions Programme
Southampton Leslie Carr Jessie Hey Steve
Hitchcock Tim Brody