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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