Capital funding comes from the Higher Education Funding Council and is awarded to JISC in tranches. With the award covering the period 2006 – 2009, a number of projects were funded under the aegis of the Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme strand. Some of these were renewed phases of projects previously funded by the Digital Preservation and Asset Management strand (4/04 Programme), and others were new initiatives that were commissioned in response to calls put out as part of the wider Digital Repositories and Preservation Programme.
Projects
Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects CAIRO
CAIRO will develop a tool for the ingest of complex collections of born-digital materials (email, websites, documents etc.) into a preservation repository, including basic descriptive, preservation and relationship metadata.
- Project Manager – Susan Thomas
- Lead organisation – Oxford University
- Start date – 01/10/06
- End date – August 2008
- Funding - £139,421
Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content Over Time InSPECT
The project will examine the whole concept of significant properties, determine which properties are significant for a range of object types and assess the importance of each of these for future representation of the object, and finally propose a generalised methodology that will enable resource curators to determine the significant properties of classes of digital objects that must be preserved over time.
- Project Manager – Stephen Grace
- Lead organisation – Arts & Humanities Data Service (Centre for e-Research, King's College, London (CeRch) as of April 2008)
- Start date – 12/10/06
- End date – February 2009
- Funding – £ 118,560
Data Exchange Tools and Conversion Utilities DExT
DExT will explore the feasibility of developing data exchange models and data conversion tools for primary research data collected in the course of empirical research.
- Project Manager – Louise Corti
- Lead organisation - UK Data Archive
- Start date – 11/12/06
- End date – March 2008
- Funding – £ 115,628
Lifecycle information for e-Literature LIFE2
LIFE2 will build on the Life Cycle Information for E-Literature (LIFE) project and refine the LIFE methodology for the analysis and costing of lifecycle of digital objects.
- Project Manager – Richard Davies
- Lead organisation - University College London
- Start date – 26/02/07
- End date – June 2008
- Funding – £139,995
Securing a Hybrid Environment for Preservation and Access / Digital Preservation SHERPA DP2
Sherpa DP2 will extend the collaborative, shared preservation environment developed by the Sherpa DP. The project will build on that work by extending the implementation model to interact with repositories holding different and varied types of digital content and using a more diverse range of content management systems. A tool for creating METS packages will be developed, and automation of digital object preservation will be investigated.
- Project Manager – Stephen Grace
- Lead organisation – AHDS (CeRch as of April 2008)
- Start date – 01/03/07
- End date – March 2009
- Funding – £139,995
Records Management and Preservation REMAP
REMAP will develop a model and a tool to embed records management and preservation within the repository workflow, using appropriate Web services and fulfilling a range of institutional needs from ingest to export.
- Project Manager – Richard Green
- Lead organisation – Hull University
- Start date – 01/04/07
- End date – March 2009
- Funding – £125,858
Service Oriented Architecture for Preservation and Ingest of Digital Objects SOAPI
SOAPI will develop an architecture and toolkit for (partially) automating preservation and ingest workflows in digital repositories, based on a set of atomic web services, each encapsulating a unit of preservation functionality, combined with web-based forms when human input is required.
- Project Manager – Mark Hedges
- Lead organisation – AHDS (CeRch as of April 2008)
- Start date – 01/04/07
- End date – September 2008
- Funding – £117,893
Preserving and Accessing Software
A piece of software may be the primary output of the research, a tool developed for a specific purpose, or a proof of concept. Often research data is of little use without the specific software developed to process it. This project will investigate issues around the deposition and preservation in repositories of software artefacts, developing guidelines for the preservation of software research outputs.
- Project Managers – Jim Woodcock & Juan Bicarregui
- Lead organisation – University of York
- Start date – 01/04/07
- End Date – March 2009
- Funding – £99,782
Preservation e-Print Services Preserv2
Building on the PRONOM-ROAR service developed in Preserv1 that identifies format profiles for 200+ repositories, Preserv2 will investigate structured processes for active preservation aimed at repository content, including characterisation, preservation planning and preservation action.
- Project Manager – Steve Hitchcock
- Lead organisation – University of Southampton
- Start date – 01/06/07
- End Date – February 2009
- Funding – £199,958
Assessing Institutional Data Assets AIDA
AIDA will create a self-assessment tool for describing institutional readiness and capabilities for digital preservation. The tool will take into account different states of institutional preparedness when recommending options or highlighting threats to assets.
- Project Manager – Kevin Ashley
- Lead organisation – ULCC
- Start date – 01/10/07
- End Date – March 2009
- Funding – £149,788