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PRESERV
PReservation Eprint SERVices
PRESERV: Investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation
services for institutional repositories
http://preserv.eprints.org/
Issues
Background
Activities
• Improved processes need to be offered to repository authors and administrators to fulfill
preservation responsibilities
Institutional Repositories
growing to showcase their
outputs e.g. research
• IRs must be sustainable
• IRs represent a variety of materials and formats
• Other organisations have preservation expertise
Complementary to subject
based repositories e.g arXiv
Collaborative approach of OAI
enables international search
services
OAIS provides a framework for
preservation-based services
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
Part of the UK’s Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions Programme
Southampton:
Leslie Carr
Jessie Hey
Steve Hitchcock
Tim Brody