Oxford Digital Library, Ongoing from July 2001
Website: http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/
Partners: Oxford University Library Service (OULS); Mellon Foundation
The Oxford Digital Library (ODL) is a digitisation project which aims to develop an overarching infrastructure with planned content creation, management, and delivery. It has developed standards for ensuring long-term access to the digital content created through its programmes. Operational from July 2001, the project is undergoing continuous development and has been funded from within Oxford University and from the Mellon Foundation.
The National Archives (UK) Digital Archive, Ongoing from 2001
Further information: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/digitalarchive/
Partners: The National Archives (UK)
The Digital Archive at the National Archives offers secure storage for selected electronic government records and provides access to them via linked PCs in the Public Reading Rooms at the Kew site.
PRONOM, Ongoing from 2001
Project website: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/
Partners: The National Archives (UK)
PRONOM was developed by the National Archives for managing information about the file formats used to store electronic records, and the software applications needed to render these formats. It is intended for free use by anyone needing to preserve electronic records over the long term and is under continuous development. PRONOM release 3 is publicly available on the Internet and the database contains over 250 software products, 550 file formats and 100 manufacturers (as of 2003) and is growing.