We regret to inform users that this resource is no longer available. The site has been withdrawn as the technologies which it is built with have reached end-of-life.

An archived version of the site is available at https://wayback.archive-it.org/org-467/20200108145722/https://www.dpoc.ac.uk/

Blog posts and Tweets can be downloaded through the Oxford University Research Archive

Last update to original site:
14 March 2019

Date withdrawn:
6 November 2020

Please contact digitalsupport@bodleian.ox.ac.uk with any questions.

About the Project

The Polonsky Digital Preservation Project (2016-2018) was a collaboration between Bodleian Libraries (Oxford) and Cambridge University Library (Cambridge) with funding from the Polonsky Foundation. The project’s aim was to enhance the libraries digital preservation programmes by building on existing expertise and research in the field of digital preservation and curation. Through the project the organisations would forge closer links with key digital preservation and curation advocates, including the Digital Preservation Coalition, to preserve each institution’s digital assets for the researchers of the future.

Six digital preservation Fellows – three based as a team within each institution directed by a Project Board – worked collectively as a larger team. At each institution the Fellows focused on:

Resarch outputs

Publically available research outputs from the DPOC project were deposited with the libraries' repositories.

Templates and Toolkits

Halvarsson, E. and Langley S., (2019). Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit. Dataset. Oxford University Research Archive. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:qq9Z7wddQ

Mason, S. and Pretlove, L., (2018). Digital Preservation Training Needs Assessment Toolkit. Dataset. Oxford University Research Archive. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:pz64RQmGE

Mason, S. (2018). Digital Preservation Training Programme Pilot Toolkit. Dataset. Oxford University Research Archive. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:yrPm5qnaR

Data sets

Gerrard D.M., Halvarsson, E., Langley, S., Mason. S., Mooney and J.E., Prelove L., (2019). Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge Project Social Media Dataset (2016-2019). Dataset. UUID:64fc5df-f31a-44c9-b1f0-264823981c96

Langley S. and Pretlove L., (2018). Digital Preservation Maturity, Resourcing, Policy and Strategy Survey (2018) – Selected Anonymised Raw Data. Dataset. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.26222

Journal articles and monograph chapters

Gerrard D.M., Mooney J.E and Thompson D., (2018). 'Digital preservation at Big Data scales: proposing a step-change in preservation system architectures'. Library Hi Tech. Vol. 36 Issue: 3. pp.524-538, https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-06-2017-0122

Langley S., (2018). Digital Preservation Should be More Holistic: A Digital Stewardship Approach. In Myntti J and Zoom J. (eds) Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future. ALA Editions Chicago, pp.241-262. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1745-9

Langley S., Halvarsson E., Sarah. M, Pretlove L., Gerrard D.M and Mooney J.E., (2018). Could Collaborative Research between Two Major Libraries Help Consolidate Digital Preservation and Break the “Project Cycle”?. In Myntti J and Zoom J. (eds) Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future. ALA Editions Chicago, pp.241-262. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1745-9

Conference papers and posters

Halvarsson, E. and Mason S., (2016). 'Parallel Auditing of University of Oxford and University of Cambridge’s Institutional Repositories'. Poster. Exhibited at the 12th International Digital Curation Conference, 20 – 23 February 2017, Edinburgh, UK. ORA UUID: 058d21df-9042-4df4-b5d7-e9ef475b82da

Mason S., (2018). 'Skills for IT specialists in digital preservation: a fourth lens for DigCurV?'. Paper presented at the VALA Conference,, 13 – 15 February 2018, Melbourne, Australia. ORA UUID:e8c691ac-3839-4408-8e75-8c19e974c551

Mason S. and Halvarsson E., (2017). 'Designing and implementing a digital preservation needs assessment: Findings from the Bodleian Libraries’ institutional repository'. Paper presented at iPres Conference, 25 – 29 September 2017, Kyoto, Japan. ORA uuid:6be5fd04-735c-4818-baa6-3500128d7ab8

Mason S. and Prelove L., (2017). 'Digital preservation skills assessment toolkit: a collaborative development'. Poster. Exhibited at iPres Conference, 25 – 29 September 2017, Kyoto, Japan. ORA UUID: uuid:89efae7d-622e-4002-aff4-dfbc7100665e

Mooney, J.E. and Gerrard D.M., (2017). ‘Technical aspects of the Polonsky digital preservation programme’. Poster. Exhibited at iPres Conference, 25 – 29 September 2017, Kyoto, Japan. ORA UUID: 9b7b4744-a2c0-4089-a92b-31b60624bcdf

Presentations

Mason S. and Pretlove L., (2017). 'Skills for digital preservation'. PowerPoint presentation. Presented at PASIG Conference, 11 – 13 September 2017, Oxford, UK. [Available via:] https://pasig.figshare.com/pasigoxford [last accessed 2019-01-06]

Langley S., (2017). 'Realistic digital preservation in the near future: How to get from A to Z when B seems too far away?'. PowerPoint presentation. Presentation at PASIG Conference, 11 – 13 September 2017, Oxford, UK. [Available via:] https://pasig.figshare.com/pasigoxford [last accessed 2019-01-06]

Langley, S. et al (2017). 'Operational Pragmatism in Digital Preservation: establishing context-aware minimum viable baselines'. Panel session at iPres Conference, 25 – 29 September 2017, Kyoto, Japan. [Available via:] https://ipres2017.jp/wp-content/uploads/69Somaya-Langley.pdf [last accessed 2019-01-06]