Patricia Cruse

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Building A Preservation Program for the
University of California
Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information
Advisory Committee

• Patricia Cruse
• Director, Digital Preservation Program
• California Digital Library

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Whats digital preservation?

• Storing digital objects while retaining a balance
  of usability and faithfulness (truthiness) to
  their creators original intentions

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Whats digital preservation?

• Storing digital objects while retaining a balance
  of usability and faithfulness (truthiness) to
  their creators original intentions

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Digital preservation and loss

• Kinds of loss
• Hard loss - some or all data bits are missing
• Soft loss - bits still somewhere we think
• Legal loss - data format or data itself is
  legally encumbered
• Some loss is unavoidable, so prioritize
• What do we care about most?
• Where will our money go the furthest
• When to be perfect? When to triage?

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The Digital Preservation Program

• Established in 2002
• UC-wide program
• Goal ensure long-term availability and
  accessibility of materials that are important to
  the research, teaching, and learning for the UC
  campuses.
• Centrally managed
• Central and external funds
• A partnership

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E-journals and 3rd party content

• Problem
• Significant investment
• Rent the content
• Diversity of publishers
• Solution
• Portico service
• Continuing challenge
• At risk e-journals societies, associations, etc
• Associated datasets

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UC Libraries digital special collections content

• Problem
• Significant investment
• Inability to go it alone
• Diversity of content type
• Solution
• External funding
• Digital Preservation Repository user facing
• Partner with libraries
• Continuing challenge
• Growing content
• Library capacity

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Mass digitization OCA and Google

• Problem
• Protect our investment in the digital files
• Massive amounts of content
• Decisions and policies
• Storage
• Network
• Solution
• Look to broader UC community and external
  partners
• Future challenges
• more of the same
• access

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Web content

• Problem
• Libraries no longer able to collect
• Volatile content
• Changing methods
• Solution
• NDIIPP Funding
• Web Archiving Service
• Continuing challenge
• Massive amount of data
• Integrate UCs needs with collecting strategies
• Meaningful interaction with content
• Rights
• Rapidly evolving technology

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