Digital Preservation Coalition

JISC

Excerpt from DPC Annual Report 2008-2009

During this period, one major programme of JISC-funded work finished and another one commenced. The Repositories and Preservation Programme featured a number of significant preservation initiatives¹ and JISC will continue to help those projects synthesise and disseminate outputs on behalf of the community. The new programme, Information Environment 2009-2011² is also addressing preservation issues and includes four new ‘Preservation Exemplar’ projects.

Phase 2 of the Digital Curation Centre was evaluated and further funding was granted. The DCC will principally support universities to effectively manage their data and ensure they are accessible and re-usable well into the future.

The UK LOCKSS Alliance transitioned to a subscription service and a new pilot project commenced (PEPRS) to examine the feasibility of setting up a registry of preserved e-journal titles. Other important initiatives included: funding a Preservation of Web Resources Handbook (JISC PoWR Project); a significant report on Preservation Policy issues; and working in partnership with a number of other organisations to deliver conference sessions and workshops that addressed key issues of interest to both the university sector and beyond.

¹ www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres.aspx

² www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11.aspx