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Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation

Smith, MacKenzie

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Title
Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation
Author(s)
Smith, MacKenzie
Issue Date
2005
Keyword(s)
  • digital preservation
  • DSpace
Abstract
The amount of digital content produced at academic research institutions is large, and libraries and archives at these institutions have a responsibility to bring this digital material under curatorial control in order to manage and preserve it over time. But this is a daunting task with few proven models, requiring new technology, policies, procedures, core staff competencies, and cost models. The MIT Libraries are working with the DSpace™ open-source digital repository platform to explore the problem of capturing research and teaching material in any digital format and preserving it over time. By collaborating on this problem with other research institutions using the DSpace platform in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and other parts of the world, as well as with other important efforts in the digital preservation arena, we are beginning to see ways of managing arbitrary digital content that might make digital preservation an achievable goal. (from the article)
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright 2005 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 54 (1) Summer 2005: Digital Preservation: Finding Balance PRIMARY
Library Trends 54 (1) Summer 2005: Digital Preservation: Finding Balance. Edited by Deborah Woodyard-Robinson