Digital Preservation Program

Director: Patricia Cruse

The UC libraries are committed to maintaining world-class collections of scholarly information. To this end, essential information resources must remain available and accessible into the future — a growing challenge in the days of digital resources that are increasingly ephemeral and at risk.

The CDL, in partnership with the UC libraries, established the Digital Preservation Program to ensure long-term access to the digital information that supports and results from research, teaching, and learning at UC, including e-journals, web-based content, digitally reformatted materials from UC libraries and museums, and online teaching and learning materials. Through the Digital Preservation program, UC libraries can submit, manage, and preserve digital assets, and third parties are enabled to capture, manage, preserve, and discover web-based content.

The program's priority is a phased investigation into the means of enabling the UC Campus libraries to submit, manage, and preserve digital assets and enabling third parties to capture, manage, preserve, and discover web-based content.

Digital Preservation activities include:

• UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository: The digital preservation repository provides a set of services that support the long-term retention of digital objects for the benefit of the UC libraries and their users.
• Web at Risk: One of eight nationally funded National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) projects, this project is developing a web archiving service that will enable libraries to capture, curate, and preserve web-based information. Content will be collected largely from US federal and state government agencies, but will also include political policy documents, campaign literature, and information surrounding political movements.