Distributed Digital Preservation Guide from the MetaArchive Cooperative

摘要

Touted as being the first in a series of preservation publications, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation, produced by the MetaArchive Cooperative, contains a collection of articles by Cooperative members on the still? emerging field of using digital replication and distribution for preservation.Of the approaches discussed, the guide particularly recommends the use of the LOCKSS software to create Private LOCKSS Networks (PLNs), a model which the MetaArchive Cooperative has used for over six years for their own shared infrastructure. The PLN model is used as the underlying framework and case example for the Guide's discussions of architecture; technical considerations; organizational considerations; content selection, preparation, and management; content ingest, monitoring, and recovery; cache and network administration; and copyright practices-although much of the content is considered extensible to other distributed digital preservation solutions as well.