HathiTrust Announces Intention to Become A DPN Replicating Node | HathiTrust Digital Library

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-11-09

Summary:

"HathiTrust is pleased to announce its intention to become a “replicating node” in the Digital Preservation Network (DPN - www.dpn.org), contingent upon acceptable terms and conditions for doing so. HathiTrust is one of five institutions or consortia that have been collaborating over the past year to build a robust technological infrastructure for DPN, envisioned to be a broad, collaborative preservation safety net undergirding digital repositories, ensuring that 'a single point of failure cannot jeopardize centuries of scholarship' ... DPN replicating nodes together will maintain a 'dark archive' of digital content submitted by DPNcontributing nodes. The content will be replicated among the nodes with appropriate metadata and policies in place such that under certain conditions, content could be 'brightened' or made available at a future time irrespective of who deposited the content ..."

Link:

http://www.hathitrust.org/hathitrust_dpn_announcement

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.libraries oa.museums oa.hathi oa.glam oa.dpla oa.archives oa.ch oa.announcements

Date tagged:

11/09/2013, 08:27

Date published:

11/09/2013, 03:27