Overview

Harvard Library’s Digital Preservation department provides services and infrastructure that maintain the safety, integrity, and usability of Harvard’s digital collections. Central to the unit is the Digital Repository Service (DRS), which provides secure, monitored storage and preservation services for more than 53 million files in many different digital formats. The DRS is a robust and mature repository that has been in production since 2000 and is used by over 50 Harvard libraries, archives, and museums. The DRS technology is maintained by Harvard’s Library and Technology Services (LTS) department.

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Recommendations

Click here to read a summary of initial recommendations made at the close of the Phase One interviews.

Survey

Between Tuesday, June 14, 2016 and Monday, June 20, 2016, an online survey was distributed to project participants to gauge level of interest and priorities among the previously determined recommendations. Click here to read the summary of the survey results.

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 Phase Two

Functional Requirements for a New Deposit Tool

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For a better idea of the new deposit workflow, in juxtaposition with the existing workflow, explore this diagrammatic representation.

Depositing Service

 Another apparent need exposed by the interviews and surveys is the provision of a deposit-only service, one which does not first rely on the use of Imaging Services for reformatting. For users with born-digital material or materials reformatted in-house or by a third-party vendor, which the user does not have the resources to themselves deposit, a deposit-only service is being explored as a potential alternative. Use cases and functional requirements for such a service will soon be documented here.

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