DPN
Digital Preservation Network
Digital Preservation
The scholarship that is being produced
today, both print and digital, is at serious
risk of being lost forever to future
generations.
The good news is the academy can fix
it.
Lessons learned from the Space Shuttle
Create a federated Digital Preservation Network (DPN)
to ensure that the objects and meta-data of research
and scholarship are replicated and preserved across
diverse:
- software architectures
- organizations
- geographic regions
- political environments (after first launching within
U.S.)
Ensure longevity by building a framework that can
scale and evolve over time, formats, and organizations.
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The Current State of Play
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Replicating
Node (HT)
Replicating
Node (SDR)
DPN (Deepen)
Replicating
Node (Fedora)
DPN is not a software project. It is an ecosystem that is
designed to evolve to address new forms of
scholarship (public sharing of ideas/data/artistic
expression), changing formats and the evolution of
software and technology platforms.
DPN is a federation, not a “super organization.” It
should be loosely coupled with the replicating and
contributing nodes.
DPN will:
•create a forum that provides benefit to local preservation efforts;
•provide a framework for rationalizing investments in preservation
efforts;
•start with books and other formats we understand and evolve to
include new forms of scholarship and data as centers of
excellence emerge;
•create a framework against which the academy can retool
publication workflows for a digital world;
•provide a way of planning campus-based cyberinfrastructure
(e.g., network, computation, and transient storage needs) so that
it efficiently feeds preservation efforts
So where is DPN now?