We’ve been working on issues relating to the long-term preservation of digital archives for a few years now. If you take a look at our Paradigm and Cairo projects, that should give you an idea of the kinds of issues we’re dealing with.
We’re about to begin the futureArch project, which will see us move the curation of born-digital archives and manuscripts from a series of small projects to a sustainable activity integrated with other aspects of the Library’s operations. When futureArch concludes, in just over three years time, we aim to have embedded the curation of born-digital archives and manuscripts into the way we do things.
-Susan Thomas
This would be a great work for Oxford people. It will helps researchers and scholars up to a large extent.
Well done Susan. Thanks to the Mellon foundation we will be starting a new chapter in the Bodleian’s history, creating new services for researchers, new infrastructure for the Library, and a new way of workign with politicians, writers, scientists …