Digital Preservation Repos
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The Ohio State University has various repositories where digital content is stored and maintained on the digital preservation continuum. These repositories or “repos” serve different digital preservation and access purposes depending upon the nature of the content. This page sets out to define each of these repos, the content type maintained and managed there, as well as a decision-rubric for determining the best repo to be used
Repos
Repo | Description | Purpose | Content Type | Administered by | System Type |
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Gray Digital Preservation Repository | The Gray Digital Preservation Repository (Gray Repo or GDPR) service provides a path to preservation for born digital (or received as digital) content that has been accessioned, and is only intended to be minimally processed and/or is temporally restricted. As such, and in accordance with Distinctive Collections' accessioning policies and procedures, it is the default digital preservation repository. Further, it provides a preservation environment for some legacy digitized preservation files. It is a "dim archive" that allows for curatorial deposit and retrieval, but no direct patron access. | Preservation |
| Digital Preservation |
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Digital Collections is a digital preservation and access repo for highly curated born digital and digitized content. | Preservation and Access |
| Distinctive Collections and Metadata Initiatives |
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The Knowledge Bank, The Ohio State University’s institutional repository, is a service of The Ohio State University Libraries. The mission of the Knowledge Bank is to collect, preserve and distribute digitally formatted intellectual output of Ohio State faculty, staff and students, that is currently or will be of research interest. | Preservation and Access |
| Publishing and Repository Services |
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Janeway | Online journal publishing | Access |
| Publishing and Repository Services |
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The OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center is repository for Ohio State ETDs. | Preservation and Access | ETDs | Collection Development? |
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Internet Archive: Archive-It | Website archiving platform | Preservation and Access | Web archives | Digital Preservation | Hosted/managed by Internet Archive |
Internet Archive: Brittle Books | The Ohio State University Libraries contributes public domain texts from its Reformatting Program to the Internet Archive. Texts are selected by the OSU Libraries Collection Managers, in consultation with the Preservation and Reformatting Department. Titles are drawn from all subject areas of the Libraries' collections. Texts no longer in copyright are available to all through the Internet Archive, and will be deposited to HathiTrust. | Access (preservation in Hathi Trust?? and the Gray Repo) | Digitized public domain text in poor physical condition | ?? | Hosted/managed by Internet Archive |
The HathiTrust Digital Library is home to millions of digitized books and publications. Founded in 2008, initially as a collaboration of 23 libraries within the then Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC - now the Big Ten Academic Alliance) and the California Digital Library, it has expanded more than 200 member institutions. | ?? | ?? | ?? |
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The Veridian Software platform provides access to our digitized periodicals and other serialized content. Preservation files should be maintained in the Gray Repo. | Access |
| Digitization | Hosted/managed by Veridian | |
Digital Processing (K-Drive) | A University Libraries' network share for staging and processing content to any of our various preservation repos. NOTE: no other network share should be used for this purpose. | Staging and processing workflow |
| Infrastructure & Digital Preservation | Windows Share managed by University Libraries' Technology Infrastructure group |
Teams | Microsoft Teams maybe used as a transfer point for University Libraries to take possession of digital content to be accessioned and processed. Processing workflows may be conducted within the Team and/or in the K-Drive. | Staging and processing workflow |
| Infrastructure & Digital Preservation | Microsoft Teams managed by OTDI and University Libraries' Technology Infrastructure group |
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