1. Alliance for Permanent Access Conference,
8-9 November, 2011
JISC Digital Preservation: Current & Future Work
Neil Grindley
Digital Infrastructure - Programme Manager (Digital Preservation)
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2. JISC Digital Infrastructure
Portfolio Components
Information
& Library Research
Research
Infrastructure Management
Emerging Research Information
Research Support
opportunities Management
Preservation & Managing Research
Curation Research Tools Data
Repositories and
Discovery Curation Services
Digital Infrastructure Directions
Technical / Legal / Developer Community / Learning & OER / Access & ID
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3. Digital Preservation 2011 - 2013
JISC Digital Infrastructure 12/11 Call
Support and Enabling Project - £250k
Digital Preservation Expert Group
SPRUCE Project (University of Leeds / BL / OPF / DPC / LSE)
November 2011 – October 2013
To articulate the Business Case for Preservation by engaging with the community
and building an evidence base through support and enabling actions that help a
range of institutions tackle real-world preservation challenges.
(£370k in total)
Active Case Studies - £75k (4 months) Enhancing Capability - £100k (3months)
Carcanet Press Manchester DataSafe Bristol
Digital Directorate IoE DICE LSE
Future Proofing ULCC PHR ULCC
POPE IoE PrePARe Cambridge
POPS UCLan
(£105k in total) (£230k in total)
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4. New Digital Infrastructure Call 2011 - 2013
JISC Digital Infrastructure 16/11 Call
Area Work # projects Total ££s
Resource Discovery Make more open metadata available Up to 10 £250k
Sustainability
Sustainability Enhance the value of digital collections
digital collections Up to 10 £500k
RIM* - Infrastructure Examine national shared reporting service 1 £300k
RIM - Impact Increase evidence of research impact 1 £100k
RIM - Evaluation Evaluate RIM programme benefits 1 £50k
Research Tools Use tools & test demand on infrastructure 5-10 £350k
Linking You Toolkit Implementing and improving the toolkit 10 £140k
Access and ID Embedding AIM outputs & solutions 5-10 £200k
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/10/grantcall1611.aspx
* Research Information Management Deadline for proposals – 12 noon, 21st November 2011
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5. Digital Preservation Programme Timeline
2004 2012
12/11 16/11
15/10 Enhancing
The Business
Implementing Case for Sustainability
12/08
Tools Preservation and Assessing
Preservation the VALUE of
4/06 Exemplars
Repositories
Digital Assets
& Preservation
4/04
Asset
Management
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6. Other work …
Costs and economics of preservation …
• LIFE Pilot project work
• Costs Observatory
• Economic Sustainability Reference Model
JARVIG (e-Journal Archiving Implementation Group) …
• Complementing the preservation of scientific data by
preserving the scientific literature
Preserving the Web …
• Researcher engagement with the Web as corpus or dataset
Digital Curation Centre …
• Supporting HEI’s with Research Data Management
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7. 7th International Digital Curation Conference
Bristol, UK, 5 - 7 December 2011
"Public? Private? Personal? navigating the
open data landscape"
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11
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