JISC

Start date: 1 October 2004

End date: 1 September 2006

Funding programme: Digital Preservation and Records Management Programme

Project website: http://preserv.eprints.org/

JISC theme(s): Information environment, e-Administration

Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee

Introduction  

The project will implement an ingest service based on the OAIS reference model for institutional archives built using Eprints software. Working with the National Archives, the project will link Eprints through a Web service to PRONOM software for identification and verification of file formats. The project will emphasise automation, will provide modular tools for capturing metadata and will enable the identification and verification of file formats. The project will scope a technology watch service to populate and update PRONOM where full automation is not feasible for file format recognition. 

This ingest service will be integrated into the Eprints deposit process for two existing institutional archives, at Southampton and Oxford Universities for evaluation, subject to prior satisfactory testing on pilot archives. 

The British Library and Southampton University will build and test an exemplar OAI-based preservation service. This service could be used with any OAI-compatible preservation archive to create a software-independent preservation archive.  

This project will work with other JISC approved projects in the JISC 4/04 programme and other JISC programmes to create institutional responsibility for preservation planning, data management, archival storage and administration, to effectively build a network of distributed and cooperating services that are based on the OAIS digital preservation reference model. 

The Preserv project is now complete and the final project report is available: Preserv Final Report.

Lead Institution

University of Southampton 

Project Partners

The National Archives, The British Library and Oxford University 

Programme area(s) addressed:

3.   Institutional repository infrastructure development