MetaArchive Project
Lead Partner: Emory University
Additional Partners: Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Florida State University, Auburn University and the University of Louisville.
The MetaArchive Project partners are developing a networked, multi-institution archive of Southern digital culture via a distributed digital preservation network. The content includes a variety of subjects such as the Civil War, civil rights movement, slave narratives, Southern music, handicrafts and church history. Its collaborative networks are comprised of libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions that seek to cooperatively preserve their own digital materials.
Objectives:
- Distributed digital preservation
- Ingest collections into system, copy, distribute, and store onto secure file servers in multiple locations
- Provide a dynamic means of constantly checking each file and providing repairs whenever necessary
More detailed project information can be found at the Project Web site
Highlights:
- News: MetaArchive Supports Community Approaches Conference
- Interview with staff of the MetaArchive project
- MetaArchive Cooperative Charter (PDF, 133 Kb)
- MetaArchive Technical Specifications (Appendix A to Charter) (PDF, 65 Kb)
- MetaArchive Membership Agreement (Appendix B to Charter) (PDF, 62 Kb)
- Tool: Conspectus Database for LOCKSS Private Network
- MetaArchive Collection-Level Conspectus Metadata Specification (2005)
