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Preservation Repository Services

Professionally managed preservation repositories, like HUL Digital Repository Service, explicitly state commitments to the perpetual oversight of content in their care.

Consult the documentation from the repository service providers below to identify common and divergent threads regarding policies, pricing, and procedures applied throughout the content management lifecycle: from assessment, through ingest and archiving, and ultimately to dissemination and delivery.

Selected Preservation Repositories (beyond the Harvard University Library)

• Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
• UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository, managed by the California Digital Library (CDL)
• Flordia Digital Archive, using the FDA-created DAITSS system
• NDAD, the UK National Digital Archive of Datasets
• OCLC Digital Archive
• Portico, to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form

Standard and Guideline

• ISO 14721:2003, Space data and information transfer systems — Open archival information system — Reference model (OAIS).
• Center for Research Libraries, Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist. As noted in the introduction to the TRAC Report, this audit checklist may be used by digital repositories as one mechanism "to understand its capabilities, where it stands against potential threats, and any other risks inherent in its systems."