Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) committed in its 2012-2017 strategic plan to the long term maintenance and preservation of digital content. OSULP manages digital objects in two Samvera repositories: the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository, regularly ranked in the top ten U.S. repositories by Webometrics, and Oregon Digital, a longstanding...
In a recent effort to strengthen active preservation strategies, Oregon State University Libraries committed to conducting a multi-part annual preservation assessment for our institutional repository, focusing on the sustainability of file formats. This spring we conducted the first assessment, gathered a lot of data, and uncovered a few holes in...
This paper uses a collective case study to reveal similarities and differences in the operations and service models of nine distributed digital preservation services. The study uncovers a wide range of organizations and technical variations among the nine services, but finds that they can be grouped into three basic service...
In Spring 2019, a library team was asked to conduct this Core Trust Seal self-assessment for the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository in order to determine whether the repository could achieve certification as a trusted digital repository.
The authors completed and submitted this Core Trust Seal self-assessment for the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository in August 2022. The repository was awarded CoreTrustSeal certification for trustworthy data repositories. This international certification is based on a set of requirements and best practices for repositories, including data description, infrastructure, interoperability, sustainability, and...
Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) has a long history of digitizing, creating, and curating digital objects. These objects include digital representations of unique items from the Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) such as the photographs, maps, manuscripts, audio, and video housed in Oregon Digital. The ScholarsArchive@OSU...
Presentation delivered at the Online Northwest conference.
A technical overview of the creation of the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project web portal. This web resource was created using multiple xml standards as transformed by two different types of xsl stylesheets. The presentation focuses specifically on the use of...