"If It's Not Powered Up, It's Rotting: Transforming Archival Collections from Obsolete Platforms and CD-Rs to an Institutional Repository and Storage Array" by Todd Bruns

Unpublished Paper

If It's Not Powered Up, It's Rotting: Transforming Archival Collections from Obsolete Platforms and CD-Rs to an Institutional Repository and Storage Array

(2013)

Todd Bruns, Eastern Illinois University
Stacey Knight-Davis, Eastern Illinois University

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Abstract

Digital collections projects began at Eastern Illinois University in the mid 1990s. These early projects had specialized interfaces and different storage strategies. With the inception of an institutional repository (IR) in 2011, these collections were brought under a common interface and storage practices. The benefits and challenges of utilizing an IR for the dissemination of legacy digital projects is discussed, along with data storage solutions appropriate for a mid-sized academic library.

Keywords

institutional repositories,
bit-rot,
digital preservation,
legacy collections

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Publication Date

2013

Citation Information

Todd Bruns and Stacey Knight-Davis. "If It's Not Powered Up, It's Rotting: Transforming Archival Collections from Obsolete Platforms and CD-Rs to an Institutional Repository and Storage Array" (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/todd_bruns/27/