Papers and presentations

Preserv 2

2008

• Workshop Jan 21, 2008 Applying preservation metadata to repositories (slides), with an associated worksheet, Repositories Support Project (RSP), Professional Briefing event, London
  Focussed on a practical exercise described in the worksheet, the workshop aimed to demystify preservation for managers of institutional repositories by linking 20 selected items from the PREMIS preservation metadata dictionary to activities that repositories perform today.

• Paper Dec, 2007 PRONOM-ROAR: Adding Format Profiles to a Repository Registry to Inform Preservation Services, International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 2, No. 2, November 2007
  Explains why and how the National Archives' format identification tool (PRONOM) was applied to a repository registry (ROAR) to provide format profiles for the content in 100s of repositories.
• Presentation Nov 27-28, 2007 Engaging repository policy with preservation, JISC Repositories & Preservation Programme Meeting, Bristol
  Based on the RSP presentation below, with some additional preliminary slides, and aimed at JISC project teams rather than repository managers.
• Presentation June 27-29, 2007 Policies for Institutional Repositories, including Preservation planning: connecting with policy (from slide 9), Repositories Support Project (RSP) Summer School 2007, Dartington, Devon
  Joint presentation with other RSP colleagues, builds an outline policy framework for IRs, then considers how this can be extended for preservation planning by repository managers.
• Presentation June 5-6, 2007 Repository preservation services: divisible, viable and sustainable?, Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge, JISC conference, Manchester
  Effectively the first presentation from the Preserv 2 project, recaps the first phase of the project and shows what motivates the new concepts to be explored in the next phase.

Following items produced by Preserv 1

• Paper May 15, 2007 Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services, D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 5/6, May/June 2007
  Describes the evolution of a series of models that have informed progress towards the conception of flexible and distributed preservation services for IRs.
• Video May 1, 2007 Preserv Us! The story of the Preserv project by the people behind it (various formats, including embedded player, high quality and podcast formats). Produced by ECS-TV, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
  Tells the story through commentary and personal perspectives from the main project participants.
• Article April 30, 2007 Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production. Ariadne, No. 51, April 2007
  About the making of the Preserv project video, with tips for producing other JISC project videos.
• Poster Jan 24, 2007 Simple Preservation Services – towards Proactive Support for the Institutional Repository Manager (PPT slide). 2nd International Conference on Open Repositories, San Antonio, TX
  Another poster, aimed at repository managers.

• Presentation Nov 21-22, 2006 Towards Informed Preservation Choices for Institutional Repositories (PPT slides). 2nd International Digital Curation Conference, Digital Data Curation in Practice, Glasgow
  Includes some investigation into the PRONOM-ROAR repository file format identification service.
• Presentation Oct 25, 2006 IRs: towards preservation services (PPT slides). JISC Repositories & Preservation Programme, New Projects Briefing, London
  Against some summary findings of the Preserv project, asks whether lightweight, interacting distributed Web services may be one way forward for preservation services.
• Presentation Jul 5, 2006 Repository models and policies for preservation (pdf slides). DPC Briefing Day, Policies for Digital Repositories: models and approaches, London, UK
  Briefly re-presents the project's preservation service models from the Washington poster (below), and reports some preliminary results from a survey of repositories on preservation policies and activities.
• Poster May 7-9, 2006 PRESERV: preservation services for institutional repositories (PPT slide). Joint US-UK (NDIIPP-JISC) Digital Preservation Workshop, Washington, DC
  Starting from the original preservation service provider schematic, develops an hierarchical range of OAIS-based models for investigation. Also illustrates for the first time the use of PRONOM to provide format profiles for IRs covered in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).

• Paper Nov 21-23, 2005 Preservation for Institutional Repositories: practical and invisible. Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical data (PV 2005), Edinburgh, UK
  A broad view of preservation issues for IRs - based on practice, experience and visions for the future.
• Poster Sep 29-30, 2005 PRESERV: Investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories (PPT slide). 1st International Digital Curation Conference, Bath, UK
  Broad overview of Preserv project: as at ECDL (below), with additional graphics.
• Presentation Sep 28, 2005 Preservation for IRs (PPT slides). EPrints training course, Southampton, UK
  Brief overview of digital preservation issues for IR administrators and support staff.
• Poster Sep 18-23, 2005 Digital preservation for Institutional Repositories: building on a collaborative approach (PPT slide). 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Vienna, Austria
  Broad overview of Preserv project: background, issues, activities.
• Poster Jul 7-8, 2005 Enabling Long-term Open Access to Materials in Institutional Repositories (IRs) (PDF or PPT slide). JISC Joint Programmes Meeting, Cambridge, UK
  Broad overview of Preserv project: outputs, outcomes and benefits.
• Presentation Jul 6, 2005 Capturing preservation metadata from institutional repositories (PPT slides). DCC Workshop on the Long-term Curation within Digital Repositories, Cambridge, UK
  Builds a graphical picture of Preserv and distributed preservation services for IRs, then asks how this model fits with two key preservation references, the OAIS model and PREMIS initiative on preservation metadata.
• Presentation Mar 7, 2005 PRESERV: PReservation Eprint SERVices (PPT slides). JISC 4/04 Preservation Programme Meeting, London, UK (slides prepared for meeting but not used)
  Even shorter than the introduction below; best for quick overview.

• Presentation Sep 28, 2004 PRESERV: a JISC 4/04 project (PPT slides). Pre-project report at TARDis Project Review Meeting, Southampton, UK
  Short introduction to the project, its planned activities and partners.