EPrints and Preservation

Tarrant, D., Carr, L. and Hitchcock, S. (2008) EPrints and Preservation. In: Tackling the Preservation Challenge: Practical Steps for Repository Managers, 12th December 2008, London.

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Abstract

Digital repositories have been seen for many years as an enabler to gathering and preserving academic research. More recently it has been realised that the task of preserving digital materials is more complex than simply maintaining the physical bits on disk. The key aim of this conference is to bring these two communities together. This presentation looks at the work started by the Preserv and Preserv2 projects on digital preservation, the outcomes of which are now being integrated directly into the EPrints repository management software. Preserv2 introduces a framework to manage repository classification services, including DROID and newer functionality in PRONOM, which enables risk classification of objects within the repository. This framework has then been integrated into the EPrints platform to provide a single simplistic preservation interface to the repository administrator.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:	David Tarrant Les Carr Steve Hitchcock
Research Group:	Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Date:	19 November 2008
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Last Modified:	23 Sep 2011 10:37
Deposited On:	19 Dec 2008 15:44 by Tarrant, David

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