Digital Preservation
August 3, 2022
DPSC Planning Project: Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation
Educopia Institute is partnering with six members of the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, LYRASIS, MetaArchive, and Texas Digital Library) to articulate the need for values-driven, community-supported distributed digital preservation service options and to propose a service model for collaboration that ensures the authority, sustainability, and viability of these options. This service model … Continue reading DPSC Planning Project: Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation
July 24, 2018
Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) (subcontract)
The use of born-digital information requires ongoing support of underlying software that supports its application; a dependency that is challenged by the complexity of digital environments and the inherent obsolescence of developing technologies. In response, many organizations are engaged in the collection and preservation of software. However, no single organization can collect all of the … Continue reading Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) (subcontract)
July 24, 2018
BitCuratorEdu
Quick Links to Project Deliverables: BitCurator Guide for Educators BitCuratorEdu Learning Objects What are the Barriers to Teaching Digital Forensics? (Blog Post) BitCuratorEdu Educators’ Summit BitCuratorEdu Workshops and Conference Presentations About the Project: The BitCuratorEdu project is a three-year effort funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study and advance the … Continue reading BitCuratorEdu
July 24, 2018
Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training
The Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training project engaged in multi-stakeholder scenario planning and developed a shared vision for expanding and supporting digital curation and preservation training. The project contributed to the continued growth of the National Digital Platform by strengthening and improving the sustainability of digital curation training resources available to librarians, archivists, and … Continue reading Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training
July 24, 2017
Fostering a Community of Practice: Software Preservation in Libraries and Archives (FCoP) (subcontract)
Through a cohort of six organizations in the United States representing public libraries, university special collections, historical societies and museums, the Fostering a Community of Practice: Software Preservation and Emulation Experts in Libraries and Archives (FCoP) project, led by CalPoly University, aims to broaden participation in software preservation and to empower librarians, archivists, and curators … Continue reading Fostering a Community of Practice: Software Preservation in Libraries and Archives (FCoP) (subcontract)
May 10, 2017
OSSArcFlow
Quick Links to Project Deliverables Digital Dossiers (All Partners) As-Is Workflows (All Partners) Recorded In-Person Partner Meeting Sessions (YouTube) Opening remarks Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 (Part One and Part Two) Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows Video Learning Modules (YouTube) Learning Module 1: Common Steps in OSS Born-Digital Archival Workflows Learning Module 2: … Continue reading OSSArcFlow
April 10, 2017
News on the Margins (subcontract)
The voices of marginalized communities, including those defined by such identity markers as skin color, ethnic origin, religious affiliation, sexuality, geography, and social class, are often invisible in mainstream news sources. Understanding the diverse experiences of people in the United States requires us to turn to sources written, produced, and disseminated by the broadest possible … Continue reading News on the Margins (subcontract)
December 9, 2014
Chronicles in Preservation
The Chronicles in Preservation project aimed to study, document, and model the use of data preparation and distributed digital preservation frameworks to collaboratively preserve digitized and born-digital newspaper collections. Project Outputs: Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Readiness, published 04 March 2014 Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Readiness are an effort to distill preservation-readiness steps into incremental processes … Continue reading Chronicles in Preservation
July 24, 2014
Chronicles II
The Chronicles II effort will bring representatives from critical stakeholder communities (newspaper publishers, press associations, journalism schools, and memory organizations) into structured conversation and debate to foster better understandings of each group’s perspectives, goals, and barriers to collaborative work for the purpose of preserving born-digital newspaper content. This project produced eight “Action Teams” who undertook … Continue reading Chronicles II
January 9, 2012
Identifying Continuing Opportunities for National Collaboration (ICONC)
The Identifying Continuing Opportunities for National Collaboration (ICONC) project analyzed the design and management of collaborative networks to better understand the criteria that lead to their successes and failures. Using a broad-based evaluation of collaborative models as context, the project reviewed and documented the landscape of digital preservation and digital stewardship and explored a range … Continue reading Identifying Continuing Opportunities for National Collaboration (ICONC)
August 24, 2009
MetaArchive II
The “Cooperative Network and Service Providers” grant enabled the MetaArchive distributed digital preservation network and service framework to formalize and extend its model into an ongoing, sustainable business. The resulting service and community was designed to be the first incubated community of the Educopia Institute, a nonprofit organization founded to cultivate community action between libraries, … Continue reading MetaArchive II
July 24, 2009
MetaArchive III
This NDIIPP project provided a two-year support infrastructure for the MetaArchive Cooperative’s transition from a hosted environment at Emory University into an administrative home at the Educopia Institute. This project included the technical transition of the network’s administrative nucleus from Emory University’s server environment into an Educopia-hosted cloud-based server. It also included the movement of … Continue reading MetaArchive III