Task Name: Rescue Repository

Task Description: An increasing number of projects in the Yale University Library are generating or acquiring digital content (images, video, audio, full text, data sets) along with varying levels of metadata and public interfaces for access to this material. Most of these projects urgently need a long-term (or even a short-term) digital preservation strategy. The lifecycle management of this content has become a clear necessity as the volume continues to grow. The digital masters for much of this material are in immediate danger of permanent loss through media decay, physical damage, technological obsolescence, or difficulties in archival management. The concept behind the Rescue Repository is to provide a centrally supported system for the short-term safekeeping of these endangered materials. This repository will constitute the first step toward the evolution of a long-term, OAIS-compliant digital preservation archive.

URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/~lso/databaseadmin/RRweb/

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: 12/31/2004

Revised End Date: 5/31/2005

Initiative Type: Integrated Access

Primary Category: Digital Preservation

Additional Categories: Digital Collections

Primary Stakeholder: Library-wide

Additional Stakeholders: Electronic Collections, Beinecke Library

Partners: Beinecke Library

E-mail Contact: roy.lechich@yale.edu, audrey.novak@yale.edu