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The Cedars Project

The Cedars Project. Kelly Russell Cedars Project Manager. Background. eLib Programme and related work in JISC raises issues about long term storage and access to electronic material eLib Phase 3 - Digital Preservation CURL interest in the roles and responsibilities for a research libraries

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The Cedars Project

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  1. The Cedars Project Kelly Russell Cedars Project Manager

  2. Background • eLib Programme and related work in JISC raises issues about long term storage and access to electronic material • eLib Phase 3 - Digital Preservation • CURL interest in the roles and responsibilities for a research libraries • Preservation Studies - JISC and the National Preservation Office

  3. JISC/NPO Studies • Responsibility for Digital Archiving and Long Term Access to Digital Data • A Framework of Data Types and Formats • Post hoc rescue of digital materials (Digital Archaeology) • Preservation of digital materials; policy and strategy issues for the UK • An Investigation into the Digital Preservation needs of Universities and Research Funders • Guidelines for digital preservation • Comparison of methods of digital preservation

  4. Cedars • Funded by JISC through the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) from April 1998 for 3 yrs • CURL Members: • Birmingham, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Imperial, King’s, Leeds, Liverpool, London, LSE, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton, TCD, UCL, Warwick • Associate members: British Library, NLS, NLW, Wellcome • Co-operating members: SAS

  5. Collaborating Institutions • CURL members • Led by Leeds, Oxford and Cambridge • Arts and Humanities Data Service • Research Libraries Group • British Library • National Preservation Office • UK Office for Library Networking

  6. Project Objectives • To promote awareness • To identify and disseminate • appropriate strategies for collection management • appropriate strategies for long-term preservation • Practical work based on a realistic sampling of current digital resource collections

  7. Key Components • Material which is the traditional preserve of the research library • Intellectual content, not physical object • Three flavours • dynamic data • primary sources • “intertwingled” data • Each raises different issues and problems

  8. Deliverables (1) • Strategies for preservation which are • grounded in realistically-scaled projects • representative of a good spread of significant resources • generalisable • One or more possible models established for a digital archive

  9. Deliverables (2) • Assess costs and resources required • informed opinion on scaleability to national level • Dissemination activities • seminars, working papers, guides to good practice • A focused investigation of preservation metadata (UKOLN)

  10. Summary • Digital Preservation a pressing issue for research libraries • CEDARS project funded by JISC and administered through CURL to explore the issues and implications for research collections • 3 year project - start 1 April 1998 • http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects.shtml

  11. Web Address: http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects.shtml

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