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| Title: | NDLTD Preservation Strategy with the MetaArchive Cooperative |
| Authors: | McMillan, Gail
Skinner, Katherine |
| Creation Date: | Jun-2009 |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2009 |
| Publisher: | Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. |
| Place: | Blacksburg, VA |
| Abstract: | The NDLTD (http://www.ndltd.org/) and the MetaArchive Cooperative
(http://www.metaarchive.org/) share the goal of enabling higher education institutions to
provide long-term open access to electronic theses and dissertations (ETD). Therefore, they
are collaborating to offer an opportunity for institutions to participate in a preservation network especially for ETDs. This document outlines the NDLTD preservation strategy,
which is an ETD Dark Archive in a secure distributed preservation network. |
| Description: | The MetaArchive Cooperative and the NDLTD joined forces in 2008 to offer preservation services
for ETD collections by implementing a dark archive1 using the technological approach called
distributed digital preservation network (DDPN). Participants in this new dark archive may
participate in the Cooperative by hosting a LOCKSS-based networked server. All collections will be
ingested into the ETD Dark Archive by the MetaArchive system and copied, distributed, and stored
on secure servers at at least six NDLTD partner institutions in the MetaArchive Cooperative. These
servers do not merely back up the ETDs, but provide a dynamic means of continually
programmatically checking all files and providing replacement files when necessary. |
| Keywords: | distributed digital preservation
preservation strategy for ETDs |
| Citation: | McMillan, Gail, and Katherine Skinner. NDLTD Preservation Strategy with the MetaArchive Cooperative. Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, 2009 (2nd ed.) http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/NDLTD/BoD200906/NDLTDPreservationPlan20090606.pdf |
| Series/Report no.: | 2nd ed. |
| Appears in Collections: | Publications (Papers, Articles, etc.)
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