"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

The Digital Preservation and Asset Management (4/04) Programme

Between 2004 and 2007, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded a series of eleven projects as part of its Digital Preservation and Asset Management programme. This was sometimes referred to as the 4/04 programme, after the number of the JISC Circular that invited proposals. Further information on the programme with links to individual project pages can be found on the JISC Website: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_preservation/programme_404.aspx

The Synthesis Study

Towards the end of the programme funding cycle, Maureen Pennock of the Digital Curation Centre team at UKOLN produced a synthesis study of all of the projects funded by the programme. The study provides a comprehensive and categorised overview of the outputs from the entire programme. The categories include: training, costs and business models, life cycles, repositories, case studies, and assessment and surveys. Each category includes detailed information on project outputs and references a number of re-usable project-generated tools that range from software services to checklists and guidance.

Maureen Pennock, JISC Programme Synthesis Study: Digital Preservation and Asset Management (Joint Information Systems Committee, January 2008). Public version available in PDF from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/404publicreport_2008.pdf