Findings of the Fedora and the Preservation of University Electronic Records Project
The Digital Collections and Archives and the Manuscripts and Archives department, Yale University Library are pleased to announce the completion of the "Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project." Funded by the United States National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the project combined electronic records preservation research and theory with digital library practice to investigate three primary areas of research: requirements for trustworthy recordkeeping systems and preservation activities, ingesting records into a preservation system, and maintaining records in a preservation system. While the Tufts-Yale Project is aimed at university archivists and focuses primarily on university records, the findings are not university-specific and are easily applicable to the management and preservation of electronic records in many industries.
The project is releasing twelve reports and an ingest prototype tool. The reports fall into four groups: introduction, ingest, maintain, and findings. All reports and the ingest prototype tool are available in the Reports and Findings section of the project website http://dca.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/.
An article about the project is in the October 2006 issue of RLG DigiNews, available at http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20987