Digital Preservation Tools for Repository ManagersA practical course in five parts

presented by the KeepIt project in association with

Module 5, TrustUniversity of Northampton, 30 March 2010

Twitter hashtag #dprc (digital preservation repository course)

Say what you do.

Do what you say.

Show that you do what you say.

All of this leads to trust.

Colati and Shreeves, Digital Repository Management Uncovered, Webwise 2010

Course structure• Module 1. Organisational issues Scoping, selection, assessment,

institutional parameters (19 January)• Module 2. Costs Lifecycle costs for managing digital objects, based on

the LIFE approach, and institutional costs (5 February)• Module 3. Description Describing content for preservation:

provenance, significant properties and preservation metadata (2 March)

• Module 4. Preservation workflow tools available in EPrints for format management, risk assessment and storage, and linked to the Plato planning tool from Planets (18-19 March)

• Module 5. Trust (by others) of the repository’s approach to preservation; trust (by the repository) of the tools and services it chooses (TODAY)

Tools this module

• TRAC, Trusted Repository Audit and Certification: criteria and checklist

• DRAMBORA, Digital Repository Audit Method Based On Risk Assessment, Martin Donnelly, Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh