Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories
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Date
27/02/2009Author
Ball, Alex
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Abstract
Institutional repositories were originally intended as a way of giving immediate
and wide access to research papers. They are increasingly taking
on a role as curators of institutional digital output, requiring the adoption
of specific policies and tools for preservation and curation. In the ten
years since the first dedicated institutional repository software was released,
a range of tools have been developed to assist in everything from
drawing up preservation plans and policies to extracting preservation
metadata from files, alongside modular architectures for linking all the
tools together. While the uptake of these technologies and techniques in
repositories is modest, there are encouraging signs of progress.