Cooperative Digital Preservation of Western Canadian Content: COPPUL’s Private LOCKSS Network

Cooperative Digital Preservation of Western Canadian Content:

COPPUL’s Private LOCKSS NetworkDenise Koufogiannakis

Chair, Steering Committee

Mission

“to preserve digital collections of local interest to COPPUL members that are not being preserved elsewhere”

Participating Members

University of British Columbia

Simon Fraser University

Athabasca University

University of Alberta

University of Calgary

University of Saskatchewan

University of Manitoba

University of Victoria

University of Winnipeg

Private LOCKSS Network distribution

History 2006 COPPUL collections meeting Task group recommendations 2 year pilot approved by directors for 2008-09 Sept 2009 – directors approved a continuation

of the initiative, establishing the PLN on a permanent basis

All pilot members agreed to continue their participation, and one new member joined, brining our total to 9 institutions

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Access to Preserved Material

Original Original SourceSource

LibrarLibraryy

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User

LOCKSS box

Collections Policy Collections must be of local interest and

significance to the member institution putting the collection forward.

Collections must be of greater than usual risk of being lost if not preserved by LOCKSS (they are not preserved elsewhere). Local backup is not sufficient for mitigating risk to the collection.

Collections should be “open” to all members, or all members must subscribe to the product being considered.

Titles subscribed to via large commercial packages should be excluded from consideration.

May 2008

Content focus OJS CONTENTdm DSpace Born digital theses Other digitized collections

Content Preserved

A Low Cost Preservation Solution

Summary of costs for each participating institution:o Annual LOCKSS Alliance Membership fee

o Current maximum = US$10,800

o Equipmento $500-$1500 per LOCKSS network depending upon server

configuration

o In-house staff timeo E.g. identifying, preparing, and submitting relevant

collections; technical setup; representation on COPPUL PLN committees

Issues Technical

considerations Scalability Governance

Future directions for the COPPUL PLN Adding more

content Managing growth Including content

from COPPUL members that are not PLN members

Working collaboratively with other PLNs

Adapting to change

Thank you!