Member Projects 2007

DARP Project, January 2007

The sixth interview was carried out in January 2007 between Najla Semple and Hilary Beedham of the UK Data Archive. Hilary is also a member of the project team of the East of England Digital Preservation Regional Pilot Project [DARP] which was published as a report, available at: www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/darp2006.pdf

IRI Scotland Project, 1st September 2005 - 31st August 2007

IRI Scotland is seeking to develop an internationally interoperable framework for a distributed institutional repository infrastructure for Scottish research. This will entail experimenting with a collective hosting repository and a cross-repository search facility capable of accommodating a wide range of research and research-related digital objects. IRI Scotland will also investigate strategies designed to facilitate the cultural and organisational changes needed to underpin institutional repositories.

IRI Scotland (http://www.iriscotland.lib.ed.ac.uk/) a SCURL project (http://scurl.ac.uk/)

Member Projects 2006

DAAT: Digital Asset Assessment Tool, October 2004 - June 2006

Further Information: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_daat

Partners: ULCC; AHDS; National Preservation Office; The National Archives (UK); The British
Library; Kings College London; School of Advanced Study of the University of London; Digital Preservation
Coalition

This project will develop a digital preservation assessment tool for use within the UK HE/FE and research, learning and teaching communities.  The proposal will provide those responsible for managing digital resources in a variety of institutional settings, including libraries, archives, data centres, computer services and research teams, with a valuable tool for identifying the preservation needs of their digital holdings.  This project was funded under the JISC Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions (4/04) programme.

MoPark Metadata Options Appraisal, 14th June 2004 - 30th September 2006

Project website: http://www.mopark.net/

Funder: Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park
The CDLR is carrying out a metadata options appraisal for a project called MoPark. MoPark aims to encourage green tourism within the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park through the creation and population of a digital multimedia repository and management system.

CMS Metadata Interoperability Project: Ensuring Metadata Interoperability Across Scottish Content Management Systems and Digital Repositories, 1st June 2005 - 30th April 2006

Project website: http://cms.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

Partners: Scottish Museums Council; National Library of Scotland

A SLIC funded project aiming to establish, document, and disseminate guidelines for best practice in the choice and use of CMS metadata for the management of simple and complex digital objects in an interoperable Scottish Common Information Environment.

STARGATE, 28th October 2005 - 28th May 2006

Project website: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/stargate/; http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/robertson/

Partners: Heriot Watt, University Journal of Digital Information; Professor Tom Wilson (Information Research: an international electronic journal); Library and Information Research Group (Library and Information Research); CILIPS/SLIC (Information Scotland)

The STARGATE project will explore the use of static repositories as a means of exposing publisher metadata to OAI-based disclosure, discovery and alerting services within the JISC IE and beyond.

Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (paradigm), October 2004 – October 2006

Project website: http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/
Featured DPC Members' Project No. 5: University of Oxford; University of Manchester

The Universities of Oxford and Manchester have established collecting profiles in modern political papers. The papers of contemporary politicians - that will become the research materials of tomorrow - are being comprehensively created in electronic form. The exemplar strategies that this project will develop with political papers will be of use for any institution which collects, preserves, and maintains access to private papers. This project has been funded under the http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_404">JISC Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions (4/04) programme.

PRESERV (PREServation Eprint SERVices), October 2004 – September 2006

Further information: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_preserv
Featured DPC Members' Project No. 4: University of Southampton; The National Archives (UK); 
The British Library; University of Oxford

PRESERV aims to 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 project has been funded under the http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_404">JISC Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions (4/04) programme.

SHERPA DP, October 2004 – October 2006

Project website: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_sherpa2

Featured DPC Members' Project No. 1: Arts and Humanities Data Service; Consortium of
Research Libraries in the British Isles (CURL); University of Nottingham

The SHERPA Digital Preservation (DP) project aims to create a collaborative, shared preservation environment for the SHERPA institutional repositories project framed around the Open Archiving Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model. The project will bring together the SHERPA institutional repository systems with the preservation repository established by the Arts and Humanities Data Service to create an environment that fully addresses all the requirements of the different phases within the life cycle of digital information. This project has been funded under the JISC Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions (4/04) programme.

Member projects 2005

Persistent Identifiers, 2004 - end of 2005

Contact: Lee Hibberd     

Partners: National Library of Scotland

To develop a system and policy for improving the permanence of object identifiers.  Initial work will ensure that persistent ids exist for all digital images.  Results will be applied to other digital objects.

Risk analysis of corporate-wide file types, Completed July 2005

Contact: Lee Hibberd

Partners: National Library of Scotland

To prioritise the efforts of the library's digital preservation activities on the groups of digital/electronic information that is most at risk of loss. This will involve an assessment of formats, carrier media, reader devices, complexity and other issues that affect all types of files across the library including CAD drawings, library records, corporate information, digitised assets and web pages.

D Space@ Cambridge, Due to complete December 2005

Project website: https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/

Partners: Cambridge University Library (CUL), MIT Library

The DSpace@Cambridge project is a 3-year collaboration between CUL and MIT Libraries, funded by the DTI-sourced Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), to establish a digital institutional repository for Cambridge University. Expected deliverables include the development of improved digital preservation functionality in the DSpace software platform. 
CMI is funding a complementary CUL-MIT Libraries project, LEADIRS (www.lib.cam.ac.uk/UKseminars/), to promote digital institutional repository strategies in UK HE/FE. This will include coverage of preservation issues.

Member projects 2004