Digital Preservation Resources
OCLC / RLG / CRL
- Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories (draft, Aug. 2005)
- Certification of Digital Archives (CRL)
- OCLC Digital Collection Management
- OCLC Digital Archive at a Glance
- The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide (2004)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, v2.0 (March 2008)
- RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description (2002)
- RLG Guides & Tools
- Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities; an RLG-OCLC Report (2002)
- Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) (version 1.0, Feb. 2007)
• Understanding Premis (Library of Congress 2/1/2009)
Other U.S.
- Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation, Interim Report (Dec. 2008)
- Chronopolis at the San Diego Super Computer Center (Digital Preservation Demonstration Project)
- Collaborative Digitization Program (site includes CDP Best Practices for Digital Imaging, Dublin Core Metadata, and Digital Audio)
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Digital Library Federation
- Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative - "a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner"
- HathiTrust, a collaboration of the 13 universities of the CIC and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities' digitized collections
- National Association of Secretaries of State, NASS and eC3 Joint Report on Digital Archiving
- National Archives and Records Administration: Electronic Records Archives (ERA)
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
- NISO, A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (3rd ed., Dec. 2007)
- Portico (offers a service which provides a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals)
• NARA and the San Diego Supercomputer Center sign Memorandum of Understanding (06/27/06)
International
- CLOCKSS - "a joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community"
- Digital Curation Centre (UK)
- Digital Preservation Coalition (UK)
- Digital Preservation Policies Study - "aims to provide an outline model for digital preservation policies and to analyse the role that digital preservation can play in supporting and delivering key strategies for Higher and Further Education Institutions" (JISC, Oct. 2008)
- European Commission on Preservation and Access
- International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (Joint report of JISC, NDIIPP, the OAK Law Project and the SURFfoundation, July 2008)
- Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability Project
- Keeping Research Data Safe: a Cost Model and Guidance for UK Universities (JISC funded, April 2008)
- LOCKSS - "an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content"
- NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (2002-2003)
- Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project (Australia)
• Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today (July 2009)
• Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: a Guide for Authors (June 2008)
Open Source Software for Digital Repositories
- DSpace (developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs)
- Fedora (developed by Cornell University Information Science and the University of Virginia Library)
- Greenstone (produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project)