Task Name: Preserving Electronic Records -- Yale / Tufts NHPRC Grant

Task Description: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has recently awarded a grant in the amount of $196,908 to support testing Fedora’s capabilities to serve as an electronic records preservation system in the Yale University Archives, part of the Manuscripts and Archives department of the Yale University Library, and the Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University. Yale’s Electronic Records Archive Project will work in conjunction with Tufts to discover a method of capturing and maintaining digital records using Fedora. The project is also concerned with assessing Fedora’s ability to trace the authenticity of the information and to manage data of varying sources and formats.

ILTS Group(s):
ITS Library Systems Group
Integrated Systems & Programming
Research & Planning

Status: Done

Initial Period of Activity: Fall 04

Start Date: 9/1/2004

End Date: 2/28/2006

Initiative Type: Integrated Access

Primary Category: Digital Preservation

Primary Stakeholder: Manuscripts & Archives

Additional Stakeholders: Electronic Collections

Partners: This project is a Manuscripts & Archives initiative.

E-mail Contact: roy.lechich@yale.edu