Filling the Digital Preservation Gap – how hard can that be?

Jenny Mitcham (Digital Archivist) - University of York@Jenny_Mitcham

Capability gap - Preservation isn't just throwing tools at the problemPERICLES conference - 30 November 2016

Digital preservation – too hard?

The problemDigital preservation:

We are already doing some stuff…

But we aren’t doing enough stuff

Visible v. invisible

Visible

Invisible

Most universities have a place to store data

The researcher

The researcher gives data to the repository

Access to the research data via the repository interface

But what about this bit?The Open Archival Information System

Data reuse will happen here The repository

ingests the data

Filling the digital preservation gap:Project aim

“…to investigate Archivematica and explore how it might be used to provide digital preservation functionality within a wider infrastructure for Research Data Management.”

But we’ve experienced some challenges along the way

Why are we doing this?

No one else sees this as a priority…why should

we?

This is too

risky

But we’ve experienced some challenges along the way

None of the solutions look

perfect

What about big data?

Let’s wait until someone else sorts this out

for us

But you haven’t considered this

use case

What about sensitive data?

A quick plug for tonight

This is why the Digital Preservation Awards are so important

Hope to see you there!

And its not just about selecting the right tool/s for the job

1. Selecting a tool is easy…working out how to implement it is hard

2. A technical solution is not a magic wand

Research Data YorkWhat does it do?• Provides an admin interface for RD staff• Pulls data from PURE and Archivematica• Tracks data deposit and preservation process• Initiates the creation of the DIP• Sends automated e-mails to data requestor• …data deletion after 10 years from last access

NDSA LevelsWhere actually are we?• For research data we are not yet at level 1

• For born digital archives we are not quite at level 2

Where to find out more

Thanks for listening

Some links:Project website: http://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/archivematicaDigital archiving blog: http://digital-archiving.blogspot.co.uk/Archivematica: https://www.archivematica.org/en/Phase 1 report: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1481170Phase 2 report: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2073220Phase 3 report: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4040787