Digital Curation Centre Research on networks of trusted repositories

Introduction

This page introduces some work undertaken at UKOLN between 2004 and 2007 as part of the Digital Curation Centre's research programme (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant no. GR/T07374/01, Digital Curation Centre: Research).

It has long been acknowledged that successful digital preservation initiatives are likely to depend heavily on co-operation, e.g. structures that enable the sharing of knowledge, expertise and infrastructure across traditional domain boundaries. The rise of the 'institutional repository' paradigm reminds us that co-operation is going to be also needed at the repository level. In place of physically integrated, centralised digital preservation systems that will attempt to fulfil all the functions defined by the OAIS model, we are likely to see distributed preservation infrastructures based on networks of co-operating repositories together with shared services like registries of file format information. In these networks, repositories will need ways of interacting both with each other and with their designated communities. Initial work is focused on the production of a scoping paper that will introduce the problem and focus on issues like selection, object exchange and repository certification. This will help identify other potential research topics.

References and links

A comprehensive list of references and links relating to this research (dating from 2006) is available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/dcc/networks/links/

Project outputs

Michael Day, "Toward distributed infrastructures for digital preservation: the roles of collaboration and trust." International Journal of Digital Curation, 3(1), 2008, 15-28.
Available at: http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/60/61

Michael Day, "Toward distributed infrastructures for digital preservation: the roles of collaboration and trust." 3rd International Digital Curation Conference, Washington, D.C., 11-13 December, 2007.
PDF draft available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/publications/2007/idcc-2007/day/draft.pdf

Michael Day, Maureen Pennock and Julie Allinson, "Co-operation for digital preservation and curation: collaboration for collection development in institutional repository networks." DigCCur2007 International Symposium in Digital Curation, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 18-20 April 2007.
PDF paper available at: http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/dayPennock_paper_9-3.pdf

Michael Day, "Towards co-operative and distributed networks for digital preservation" Digital Curation Centre, December 2006. PDF draft available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/dcc/networks/papers/2006/issues-paper-v01.pdf

Michael Day, "Co-operative and distributed infrastructures for digital preservation." Poster prepared for Digital Curation Centre Research Advisory Board meeting, Edinburgh, 21 December 2006. PDF version vailable at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/dcc/networks/presentations/2006/research-board/

Other relevant publications

Michael Day, "Report from the DigCCurr 2007 International Symposium on Digital Curation, Chapel Hill, N.C., April 18-20, 2007." International Journal of Digital Curation, 2(1), June 2007, 102-111 .
Available at: http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/28/31

Michael Day, "Preserving the outputs of scholarly communication for the long-term: a review of recent developments in digital preservation for electronic journal content." In: Wayne Jones, (ed.), E-journals access and management. Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science. New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 39-64. ISBN: 978-0-7890-3385-7.
Draft version available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/publications/2008/e-journals/

Michael Day and Helen Hockx-Yu, "Joint US-UK Digital Preservation Workshop, Washington, D.C., May 7-9, 2006." International Journal of Digital Curation., 1(1), November 2006. PDF Available at:
Available at: http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/10/9
Final draft versions (HTML and PDF) are also available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/drafts/jisc-ndiipp/

Michael Day, "The long-term preservation of Web content." In: Julien Masanès, (ed.), Web archiving. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006, 177-199. ISBN: 3-540-23338-5.
Draft version available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/publications/2006/web-archiving/

Michael Day, "The Digital Curation Centre." ARC: Archives, Records Management & Conservation, no. 202, June 2006, 9-10.
Draft version available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/dcc/publications/2006/arc-draft.pdf

More information on the work of the Digital Curation Centre can be found on the centre's Website: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/