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Archivematica as a service : COPPUL's Shared Digital Preservation Platform Sprout, Bronwen; Jordan, Mark

Abstract

The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) is piloting a cloud-based preservation service using the Archivematica digital preservation system. The service is offered to COPPUL member institutions that wish to preserve digital holdings but prefer a hosted service to installing and managing local Archivematica instances. This service is a joint effort of COPPUL, Artefactual Systems (Archivematica lead developers), and University of British Columbia (UBC) Library (the cloud storage provider). COPPUL is responsible for promoting the service, signing up new institutions and seeding the one-time set-up costs. Artefactual Systems provides account administration, installation, server administration, and user technical support. UBC Library provides fee- based server hosting and digital object storage service. This article discusses COPPUL’s Archivematica-as-a-service model generally and covers certain aspects of implementation in greater detail, concluding with a discussion of future directions.

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Archivematica as a service : COPPUL's Shared Digital Preservation Platform
Creator
Sprout, Bronwen; Jordan, Mark
Date Issued
2015-06
Description
The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) is piloting a cloud-based preservation service using the Archivematica digital preservation system. The service is offered to COPPUL member institutions that wish to preserve digital holdings but prefer a hosted service to installing and managing local Archivematica instances. This service is a joint effort of COPPUL, Artefactual Systems (Archivematica lead developers), and University of British Columbia (UBC) Library (the cloud storage provider). COPPUL is responsible for promoting the service, signing up new institutions and seeding the one-time set-up costs. Artefactual Systems provides account administration, installation, server administration, and user technical support. UBC Library provides fee- based server hosting and digital object storage service. This article discusses COPPUL’s Archivematica-as-a-service model generally and covers certain aspects of implementation in greater detail, concluding with a discussion of future directions.
Subject
digital preservation; Archivematica; COPPUL; library consortia; cloud computing
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2015-10-24
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI
10.14288/1.0132717
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54940
Affiliation
Library, UBC; Non UBC
Citation
Sprout, B., & Jordan, M. (2015). Archivematica as a service: COPPUL’s shared digital preservation platform. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 39(2), 235-244.
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Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
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