Objective 2. Build an OAIS-Compliant System for Managing Cornell’s Digital Assets.
In collaboration with CIT and external partners, establish within three years a fully functioning, administratively supported, and sustainable OAIS-compliant repository system for managing and preserving Cornell University’s digital assets, extending beyond the library to encompass university records of continuing value. This system must meet or exceed certification requirements currently being defined.
Implementation
- Ensure collaboration both within the university and beyond.
- Secure institutional commitment to this process that reaches the highest administrative levels of the university.
- Work with other partners to build this system and to ensure compatibility with OAIS-compliant repositories that other institutions are creating or committed to creating (e.g., Harvard, CDL, Michigan, Texas, Library of Congress, as well as those in other countries such as the Koninklijke Bibliotheek).
- Recommended three-year plan:
- Year 1: Education, draft policy dissemination, stakeholder selection and buy-in, requirements development, request for information, partnership selection, gap analysis, cost analyses. The gap analysis will focus on five digital assets: digital image collections, Euclid journals, ArXiv pre-prints, USDA materials, and university content (material in D-Space, University Press, e-journals, university records, Web content management system).
- Year 2: Develop partnership agreements, develop implementation and business plans, begin development phase.
- Year 3: Continue and complete development.
- Year 4 and on: Populate and maintain digital archive.
Potential Partners
- CIT.
- Institutions creating or committed to creating OAIS-compliant repositories.
- IT companies.
Measures of Success
- Tasks accomplished each year.
- Becoming a certified OAIS repository system.
- Interaction with other OAIS-compliant repositories.