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Digital Preservation Resources

OCLC / RLG / CRL

• Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories (draft, Aug. 2005)
• Certification of Digital Archives (CRL)
• OCLC Digital Collection Management
• OCLC Digital Archive at a Glance
• The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide (2004)
• PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, v2.0 (March 2008)
• RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description (2002)
• RLG Guides & Tools
• Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities; an RLG-OCLC Report (2002)
• Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) (version 1.0, Feb. 2007)

Open Source Software for Digital Repositories

• DSpace (developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs)
• Fedora (developed by Cornell University Information Science and the University of Virginia Library)
• Greenstone (produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project)

Other

• Chronopolis at the San Diego Super Computer Center (Digital Preservation Demonstration Project)
• CLOCKSS (a distributed, validated, comprehensive archive that preserves and ensures continuing access to electronic scholarly content)
• Collaborative Digitization Program (site includes CDP Best Practices for Digital Imaging, Dublin Core Metadata, and Digital Audio)
• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
• Digital Curation Centre (UK)
• Digital Library Federation
• Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources (IFLA resource)
• Digital Preservation Coalition (UK)
• European Commission on Preservation and Access
• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections, NISO, 3rd ed., Dec. 2007
• National Archives and Records Administration: Electronic Records Archives (ERA)
 • NARA and the San Diego Supercomputer Center sign Memorandum of Understanding (06/27/06)
• National Association of Secretaries of State, NASS and eC3 Joint Report on Digital Archiving
• National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
 • International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (Joint report of JISC, NDIIPP, the OAK Law Project and the SURFfoundation, July 2008)
• NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
• Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project (Australia)
 • Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment: a Guide for Authors (June 2008)
• Portico (offers a service which provides a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals)