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University of Alberta
Digital Preservation
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5. CLOCKSS
University of Alberta Libraries is an Archive Node of CLOCKSS, which involves members who act
as custodians of the archived content. UAL is the only archive node in Canada. Chief Librarian
and Vice-Provost, Learning Services, Ernie Ingles, is a member of the Board of Directors. More
information about the CLOCKSS community is available on the CLOCKKS website.
6. Portico
UAL is an Archive Founder member of Portico. As detailed on the Portico website, "Portico
provides libraries and publishers with a reliable, cost-effective solution to one of the most critical
challenges facing the scholarly community today -ensuring that the electronic resources you rely
on everyday will be accessible to future researchers, scholars, and students.We preserve tens of
thousands of e-journals, e-books, and d-collections (digitized historical collections) and are
adding more content to the archive everyday. Libraries and publishers experience benefits from
the Portico service from day one and can be confident that they will have access to their most
valued content in the future."
7. Web Archiving
University of Alberta Libraries has initiated a web archiving program in cooperation with the
Internet Archive. We have licensed Archive-It to begin creating collections of important and
strategic importance to the University of Alberta community.
Collections include:
Heritage Community Foundation
University of Alberta Websites (in progress)
Circumpolar websites (in progress)
Western Canadian Political (in queue)
EXTERNAL DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS
Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
Trustworthy Repositories Audit &Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC)
Ten Principles/Basic Characteristics of TDRs
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography by Charles W ,Bailey, Jr.
ORGANIZATIONS
Canada
Canadian Association for Research Libraries (CARL) Preservation
Canadian Association for Research Libraries (CARL) Repositories
Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL)
Library and Archives Canada Digital Preservation
International
Centre for Research Libraries Archiving &Preservation
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
Digital Preservation Europe
JISC
Library of Congress Digital Preservation
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group(PA-SIG)
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