Preservation strand of Information Environment 09-11 : JISC

Preservation strand of Information Environment 09-11

The purpose of the preservation exemplars strand of projects is to exploit the value of recent work in the field of preservation and related activites.

These projects are attempting to implement end to end preservation solutions within research groups or institutions.

There's a focus on policy and embedding preservation into existing workflows.

Projects

Project	Institution	Description
Exemplars focused on preserving an institution's repositories	University of Southampton	Working with various repositories dealing with a vareity of content types to develop bespoke preservation guidance for repositories.
Embedding institutional data curation services in research	University of Oxford	Working with 2 research groups involved with medical imaging and embedding curation into their workflows.
Biophysical repositories in the lab	King's College London	Working with the Randall Institute to embed preservation and effective information management into the workflow for their repository of structural biology content.
Preservation exemplar at King's	King's College London	This project is working with the archives and information management department at King's to support the effective preservation and long term access to committee records and other administrative material.

What is being produced?

These projects will provide evidence of best practice in managing preservation and will produce guidance, workflow models and in some cases institutional storage requirements for long term preservation. All of the projects are addressing the policy requirements of sustainable preservation.

Ideally the exemplar projects will illustrate a way forward for institutions wishing to implement preservation solutions.

Relationship to other strands or programmes

These projects are related to the research data management programme
There is also a close relationship to the repository strand of projects in this programme
This work is building on projects from the repositories and preservation programme. Particularly Committee Zone and Preserv
The infrastruture strand of this programme is also relevant

Who’s involved?

There are a wide variety of people involved in these projects from preservation specialists, software developers, repository managers and researchers. Preservation has to be a cross cutting exercise so these projects are bringing in a range of people and approaches.

Find out more

More information about preservation is avaialble from the preservation and records management web pages
Information environment team blog contains relevant news and developments
DCC website and all their tools and resources
DPC website is also very relevant
You can also follow Neil Grindley, programme manager for this strand, on Twitter

Contact

Neil Grindley, Programme Manager Information Environment/ Digital Preservation
Telephone: +44 (0) 203 006 6059
Mobile: +44 (0) 7816 277 573
Email: n.grindley@jisc.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0) 207 240 5377

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