ECHO DEPository: Exploring Collaborations to Harness Objects with a Digital Environment for Preservation

Lead Partner: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Additional Partners: The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Tufts University, Michigan State University, Arizona State Library, Connecticut State Library, Illinois State Library, North Carolina State Library and Wisconsin State Library.

ECHO DEPository explores ways for libraries and repositories to share and preserve digital information in a variety of formats, including Web-based government publications, historical documents and photos, sound and video recordings, Web sites and other digital resources. Partners collaborate to produce tools, practices, evaluations and research that will help in selecting and preserving electronic resources in a variety of digital repositories.

Objectives

• Develop new tools for selecting, capturing and preserving materials published on the Web
• Evaluate existing tools for storing and accessing digital objects
• Research challenges of maintaining archived digital resources into the future.

More detailed project information can be found at the Project Web site (external link)

Highlights

• Tool: EchoDep Hub and Spoke Framework Tool Suite
• Tool: Web Archives Workbench
• Paper: Repository Software Evaluation using the Audit Checklist for Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories (2006) (external link) (PDF, 20KB)
• JCDL 2006 Poster: Tools For Acquisition, Packaging & Ingest of Web Objects into Multiple Repositories (PPT, 1.5MB)
• Paper: Metadata Enrichment for Digital Preservation (2006) (external link) (PDF, 313KB)
• Poster: Highlight on tools & emerging issues (2005) (external link) (PPT, 1.5MB)
• Paper: An Arizona Model for Preservation and Access of Web Documents (2005) (external link) (PDF, 108KB)
• Paper: ECHO DEPository Project (2005) (external link) (PDF, 111KB)

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