Related Initiatives
Stanford University is building a digital repository, the purview
of which is any digital content that Stanford deems worthy of permanent
preservation. The repository's content will come from several sources:
new digital conversion projects; legacy digital content already
owned by SUL; digital content purchased from external sources, including
e-journals and e-texts; donations (e.g., archives); ongoing submissions,
such as the Stanford Scholarly Communications Service, CourseWork
(Stanford's OKI-based course management system), and metadata related
to other SUL initiatives. Stanford intends eventually to offer preservation
services to the publishers it works with through HighWire Press
as well as to other off-campus partners.
LOCKSS stands for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. It is an Internet
“appliance,” or “easy to use” software,
designed to preserve access to authoritative versions of web-published
materials.
LOCKSS allows individual libraries to take custody of content in
all formats delivered via HTTP, and safeguard their community’s
access it. Using LOCKSS a library can ensure that, for their readers,
hyperlinks continue to resolve and content is delivered even when
in the Internet those links don’t work and the content is
no longer available.
The site offers information about developing digital collections
and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship,
education, and cultural progress.
Last modified:
June 23, 2005
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