Digital preservation: communicating across cyberspace and time
Proceedings of the 1st International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Symposium
Digital preservation: communicating across cyberspace and time
Proceedings of the 2010 Roadmap for Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Workshop
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The TIPR (Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories) project is a partnership between the Florida Center for Library Automation, Cornell University Library, and New York University, funded for two years by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). TIPR is based on the assumption that responsibility for long-term digital preservation must be distributed across a number of stewardship organizations running heterogeneous and geographically dispersed repositories. For reasons of redundancy, succession planning and software migration, these repositories must be able to exchange copies of archived information packages with each other. Practical repository-to-repository transfer will require a common, standards-based transfer format capable of transporting rich preservation metadata as well as digital objects, and repository systems must be capable of exporting and importing information packages utilizing this format. The project, which is reaching the midpoint of its second year, has drafted, implemented, and tested a specification for a Repository Exchange Package (RXP), a hierarchical packaging format designed to facilitate the exchange of Archival Information Packages (AIPs) between digital repositories. The RXP encodes structural and preservation metadata using METS and PREMIS, two widely used schema in the cultural heritage community. It is agnostic to the application software used by the sending or receiving repositories or the number of representations included in any AIP.