Preservation
Preserving the scholarly record for generations to come.
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Up one level- Life Cycle Information for E-Literature (LIFE)
- A collaboration between University College London (UCL) and the British Library, the LIFE Project has developed a methodology to model the digital lifecycle and calculate the costs of preserving digital information for the next 5, 10 or 100 years. For the first time, organisations can apply this process and plan effectively for the preservation of their digital collections.
- LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
- An international non-profit community initiative providing tools and support for libraries to preserve web-published materials.
- CLOCKSS
- CLOCKSS, based on the LOCKSS system, addresses the archive problem by creating a secure, multi-sited archive of web-published content that can be tapped into as necessary to provide ongoing access to researchers worldwide 'for free'. It is essentially a 'dark archive' equivalent of LOCKSS
- PARSE.Insight - INSIGHT into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe
- The EU-project "PARSE.Insight - INSIGHT into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe" started its work in March 2008. Its areas of activity include long-term digital preservation, the provision of raw scientific data and its links to publications. The aim of PARSE.Insight is to draw up a roadmap and recommendations to support the e-Infrastructure for the digital preservation and long-term accessibility of this raw academic data. The project partners first analyze the digital preservation methods and the communities involved in the provision of raw academic data. They then carry out a Europe-wide survey to determine how raw academic data is currently being archived. Three case studies are providing specific and complementary information. The results will be used as the basis for plugging the gaps in the European e-Infrastructure with regard to the long-term usability of raw scientific data and then to devise a tool to support EU investment and infrastructure decisions aimed at ensuring long-term access to raw scientific data. Nine partners from the fields of libraries, research, journalism and politics are working together in PARSE-Insight. The project is scheduled to run for two years.
