Digital Preservation Tools for Repository ManagersA practical course in five parts

presented by the KeepIt project

in association with

School of ECS, University of Southampton, 19 January 2010Suggested Twitter hashtag #dprc (digital preservation repository course)

Tools today

• The Data Asset Framework (DAF), Sarah Jones, University of Glasgow, and Harry Gibbs, University of Southampton

• The AIDA toolkit: Assessing Institutional Digital Assets, Ed Pinsent, University of London Computer Centre

KeepIt exemplarsUniversity of Northampton, NECTARRepository of research outputs

University of the Arts LondonArts and multimedia repository

eCrystals SouthamptonData files from chemical crystallography

University of SouthamptonTeaching and learning repository

We can all be exemplary preservation repositories!

Course structure• Module 1. Organisational issues Scoping,

selection, assessment, institutional parameters (TODAY)

• Module 2. Costs Lifecycle costs for managing digital objects, based on the LIFE approach, and institutional costs (5 February)

• Module 3. Description Describing content for preservation: provenance, significant properties and preservation metadata (2 March)

• Module 4. Preservation workflow tools available in EPrints for format management, risk assessment and storage, and linked to the Plato planning tool from Planets (17-18 March)

• Module 5. Trust (by others) of the repository’s approach to preservation; trust (by the repository) of the tools and services it chooses (30th March)