The free haven project: distributed anonymous storage service
International workshop on Designing privacy enhancing technologies: design issues in anonymity and unobservability
Peer-to-peer data trading to preserve information
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Towards an Archival Intermemory
ADL '98 Proceedings of the Advances in Digital Libraries Conference
The LOCKSS peer-to-peer digital preservation system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Data recovery from distributed personal repositories
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
The learning registry: building a foundation for learning resource analytics
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge
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We present the results of a feasibility study using shared, existing, network-accessible infrastructure for repository replication. We utilize the SMTP and NNTP protocols to replicate both the metadata and the content of a digital library, using OAI-PMH to facilitate management of the archival process. We investigate how dissemination of repository contents can be piggybacked on top of existing email and Usenet traffic. Long-term persistence of the replicated repository may be achieved thanks to current policies and procedures which ensure that email messages and news posts are retrievable for evidentiary and other legal purposes for many years after the creation date. While the preservation issues of migration and emulation are not addressed with this approach, it does provide a simple method of refreshing content with unknown partners for smaller digital repositories that do not have the administrative resources for more sophisticated solutions.