Building a Digital Archive through Collaboration A Report

Building a Digital Archive through Collaboration: A Report from OCLC Meg Bellinger OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources

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Overview 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Deciding to Build a Digital Archive Scoping the Project Designing a Useful, Useable Tool Operationalizing OAIS Next Steps

1. Deciding to Build a Digital Archive • Clear need of OCLC members • Logical next step for OCLC

2. Scoping the Project (1 of 2) • What is our purpose? • First OAIS, then what? • Which platform?

2. Scoping the Project (2 of 2) • Implications of 3 rd party status? • What to archive?

3. Designing a Tool • What community? • Which workflow? • Which service levels?

4. Operationalizing OAIS (1 of 3) • What metadata ? • How to create the metadata? • Who will control objects once ingested?

4. Operationalizing OAIS (2 of 3) • How are objects in the Archive discovered by end-users? • What kinds of access? • View • DIP

4. 0 Operationalizing OAIS (3 of 3) • How secure is the Digital Archive? • Offsite backup • Virus and fixity checks • Audit trails

5. 0 Prioritizing Next Steps (1 of 2) • Which formats/types of objects ? • Which preservation strategies? • How to project—and control—costs?

5. 0 Prioritizing Next Steps (2 of 2) • • How to approach rights management? How to foster cooperative activities? Certification processes? …

Digital Co-op Regional DPR Centers Extending the OCLC Cooperative Content Digital Archive Other repository