Sherpa DP cluster summary
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Sherpa DP
The SHERPA DP project is investigating the creation of a collaborative, shared preservation environment framed around the OAIS Reference Model. The project brings together the SHERPA institutional repository systems with the preservation repository established by the Arts and Humanities Data Service to create an environment that addresses the lifecycle of digital information. The project is being lead by the Arts & Humanities Data Service with the University of Nottingham as the named project partner. Five project partners (London Leap, The White Rose consortium, University of Edinburgh, University of Nottingham and the University of Glasgow) will provide 15 repositories to serve as a testbed for the service. The project's primary aim is to investigate a disaggregated preservation service that removes the burden of adding a preservation layer to individual institutional repositories, and the need for them to seek to employ scarce preservation management skills and expertise. In the disaggregated model developed for the project, institutional repositories will continue to be responsible for the ingest and distribution while a specialist service, provided by the AHDS, will take responsibility for the long-term management and preservation of research data. The SHERPA DP project is currently investigating the following subjects:
- An investigation of the OAIS reference model as a method to develop a disaggregated, persistent preservation environment for the SHERPA consortium. This includes the assignment of rights and responsibilities and establishment of a preservation workflow.
- An exploration of METS as a framework to package metadata created by institutional repositories, as well as preservation metadata for e-print created by the AHDS.
- Establish a coordinated set of protocols and software to be implemented as a working preservation service for a group of institutional repositories.
- An exploration of open source software and tools to add functionality to and extend the storage layer of DSpace, ePrints and Fedora repository systems.
- Draw together the experience gained into a Digital Preservation User Guide that will complement the 'The Preservation Management of Digital Material Handbook' created by Maggie Jones and Neil Beagrie, and act as a practical user guide to implementing this type of preservation environment.
Challenges/questions:
- What methods are currently being tested to share data between institutions?
- How does our investigation of OAIS, PREMIS and related technologies compare to other projects?
- How can preservation concerns be implemented into the workflow of an institutional repository?
