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.