Introduction
The Manuscripts and Archives department, Yale University Library, and the Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University are pleased to announce the completion of the "Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project."
This grant project combines electronic records preservation research and theory with digital library practice to investigate three areas of research: requirements for trustworthy recordkeeping systems and preservation activities, ingesting records into a preservation system, and maintaining records in a preservation system. The Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University and Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University undertook this project with support of a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) electronic records research grant (grant number 2004-083).
While the project is aimed at university archivists and focuses primarily on university records, the findings are not university-specific and are easily applicable to the management and preservation of electronic records in most industries.
The project deliverables consist of twelve reports and an ingest prototype tool. The reports fall into four groups: introduction, ingest, maintain, and findings. All reports and the ingest prototype tool are available in the Reports and Findings section of this website.