Distributed Digital Preservation Workshop: ETDs Can Be as Secure as Their Paper Predecessors

Distributed Digital Preservation Workshop: ETDs Can Be as Secure as Their Paper Predecessors

Gail McMillan

Martin Halbert

Join the NDLTD-MetaArchive initiative to cooperatively harvest ETDs via a Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) network. By participating in this half-day workshop you will gain the information necessary to fully understand how this preservation system works and your options for participating. If you haven't already, please complete the ETD preservation survey at http://lumiere.lib.vt.edu/surveys/. The NDLTD DDP network is part of the MetaArchive Cooperative's preservation archives http://www.metaarchive.org/ which employ the open-source LOCKSS software http://www.lockss.org/ to harvest, cache, and validate files in a geographically distributed network. The MetaArchive Cooperative is an independent, international membership association comprised of institutions that seek an active role in the preservation of their digital collections. Don't let your institution be one of the 75% of the survey respondents who reported that their institution does not have a formal preservation strategy.

2008