An Innovative Shared Preservation Service: The SHERPA-DP Project: Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access - Digital Preservation

Abstract

This paper will provide insights into an innovative preservation environment being developed by the SHERPA-DP project. SHERPA-DP, led by the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), builds on the work of the original SHERPA project and aims to create a collaborative, shared preservation environment for e-prints repositories framed around the OAIS Reference Model. The project brings together a number of academic institutional repository systems with the existing preservation repository established by AHDS, to create an environment that fully addresses the requirements of the different phases within the life cycle of digital information.