DPN

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DPN

• Digital Preservation Network

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Digital Preservation
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• The scholarship that is being produced today,
  both print and digital, is at serious risk of
  being lost forever to future generations.

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The good news is the academy can fix it.
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Lessons learned from the Space Shuttle
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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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DPN (Deepen)
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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.
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• 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

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• So where is DPN now?