COPIM Archiving and Preservation Workshop, September 2020 | Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)

As part of COPIM Work Package 7 (Archiving and Digital Preservation), we are running a series of workshops in 2020 and 2021 aimed at gaining a better understanding of existing best practice in the preservation of OA monographs, and developing possible solutions for the technical issues of archiving books, including embedded content and links. Our first workshop took place on 16 September 2020, jointly run with the Digital Preservation Coalition. This workshop brought together representatives from the Archaeology Data Service, Cambridge University Library, Educopia, Internet Archive, Library of Congress, Los Alamos National Lab and Portico, as well as team members from Loughborough University, Open Book Publishers, the British Library, the DPC and Jisc. During the event, which took place on Zoom, we engaged in group discussions about the challenges of archiving third-party content, and breakout conversations around specific issues arising from a set of titles.