[Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

October 29, 2014
Read it online: http://bit.ly/ZZCJSK

*Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot*
*A step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system
shared across the academy*

The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) <http://www.dpn.org/> is a
federation of more than 50 academic institutional members who are
collaboratively developing the means to preserve the complete scholarly
record for future generations. DPN has launched a Member Content Pilot
program as a step toward establishing an operational, long-term
preservation system shared across the academy. The pilot is testing
real-world interactions between DPN members through DPN “nodes” that ingest
data from members of the Digital Preservation Network and package it for
preservation storage. Three DPN nodes (Chronopolis/Duracloud, The Texas
Preservation Node, and the Stanford Digital Repository) will be functioning
as First Nodes. All five DPN nodes (the three named above along with
APTrust and HathiTrust) will be providing replication services for the
pilot data.

The higher education community has created many digital repositories to
provide long-term preservation and access. DPN replicates multiple dark
copies of these collections in diverse nodes to protect against the risk of
catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters.

Participating DPN Member Content Pilot members include Chronopolis,
University of California San Diego; Dartmouth University; the DuraSpace
organization; Texas Preservation Node and; Yale University.

Steven Morales, DPN Chief Business Officer, is pleased with pilot project
progress. “The DPN Technical Working group, comprised of the five
Replicating Nodes for DPN, have done a phenomenal job linking together
their existing repositories, he said, It feels great to be at a point where
we can begin testing the network with real content.”

*The pilot provides:*

• A functioning preservation network capable of Services sufficient to
allow First Nodes to accepting and replicating Member Pilot content and
replicate it to Replicating Nodes using the developing DPN network.

• Opportunity for all participating Members and First Nodes to play out a
realistic content deposit scenario and to discuss and capture the
requirements and questions raised.

• A preliminary report to the DPN membership regarding results.

*DPN Timeline*

In 2012 DPN was launched with the support of founding member institutions.
By 2013 replicating nodes had been brought together to begin building the
network, software and messaging system. 2014 has been a testing year. This
summer three rounds of successful internal testing was completed. In the
current phase real member content is being tested as DPN members have
joined together as “first nodes”. Content has been identified and prepared
for packaging into DPN “bags”.

Through the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 multiple rounds of
testing will be ongoing. A soft launch of a production system will be
available in the summer of 2015 through the end of 2016 with all member
schools participating.

*About The Digital Preservation Network*

The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) will ensure that the complete
scholarly record is preserved for future generations. It will be the
long-term preservation solution shared collectively across the academy that
protect local and consortia preservation efforts against all types of
catastrophic failure. The supporting ecosystem enables higher education to
own, maintain and control the scholarly record throughout time. While
commercial entities may partner with us to contribute to this effort at
different points in time depending on priorities and business models, final
control must reside with the academy. http://www.dpn.org/.

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
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