[Rdap] NEWS: Institutional Treasures Preserved with DPN and DuraCloud Vault

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

December 12, 2016

Contact: Mary Molinaro, DPN COO & Service Manager, (859) 608-6310
mary at dpn.org; Heather Greer Klein, DuraSpace Services Coordinator,
hklein at duraspace.org

Institutional Treasures Preserved with DPN and DuraCloud Vault

In January of 2016 the Digital Preservation Network <http://dpn.org/> (DPN)
began accepting collections to a vital corpus of digital scholarly
resources through DuraCloud Vault. DPN and DuraSpace, developer of DuraCloud
Vault <http://duracloudvault.org/> with Chronopolis, are pleased to report
that member deposits into DPN through DuraCloud Vault are well underway.
Numerous notable collections are now permanently preserved and will last
beyond the life spans of individuals, technological systems, and
organizations.

The 60+ members of DPN have come together around a commitment to preserve
vital scholarly, historic and cultural digital collections as the basis for
a transformative understanding of how and why we are who we are as a nation
far into the future. DPN is focused on developing tools and services to
ensure that the cultural and research assets of today are available to
scholars in the future.

The following overviews offer insights into the critically important
digital content that institutions have chosen to preserve in DPN through
DuraCloud Vault.

Tufts University Library: Edward R. Murrow Papers
<http://sites.tufts.edu/murrowcollection/>

The impact of current journalistic practices in reporting news accurately
is being felt all over the world. The historic significance of permanently
preserving a record of how and why early broadcast investigative journalism
became a part of our national persona is reflected in the Tufts University
Edward R. Murrow Papers. The corpus includes documents, correspondence,
personal materials, work and activities-related files, and over 320
photographs, about 1700 books, memorabilia as well as audiovisual material.

“Over the decades, numerous publications have portrayed Murrow as one of
the architects of U.S. broadcast news, but in the political climate of
recent years, he is increasingly viewed as a defender of rights against
McCarthy-type witch hunts.” –From The Life and Work of Edward R. Murrow, An
Archives Exhibit <http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/murrow/exhibit/>

University of Kentucky Libraries Nunn Center: Civil Rights Hall of Fame
Oral History Project
<http://kdl.kyvl.org/?f%5Bsource_s%5D%5B%5D=Robert+Penn+Warren+Civil+Rights+Oral+History+Project&page=1>

The University of Kentucky Library Civil Rights Hall of Fame Oral History
Project web site states that the purpose of the Collection is, “To educate
and inspire viewers on the power of the human spirit and how it is moving
our nation towards greatness.”

These video recordings of first-hand accounts of individuals’ civil rights
struggles and achievements are significantly powerful messages that bring
history alive in a personal way. Their availability far into the future
provides our nation with permanent evidence for how far we have come, how
much was sacrificed, and how much farther we have to go in advancing civil
rights for all.

IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis) Library: Speedway
Racing Collection <http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/collections/IMS>

Indianapolis and fast cars are intertwined by the highly unique and
important history of motorsports sometimes called “Greatest Spectacle in
Racing” since its brickyard beginnings in 1908 through modern day race of
2016. The Speedway collection consists of image resources that reflect the
Speedway’s rich physical photographic collection along with other
materials. The documented history of motorsports in Indiana is also the
history of advances in auto design, testing and related engineering
advances. The IUPUI Library sought to preserve, but equally important, to
freely share this immensely important resource with the Indianapolis
citizenry and beyond.

Because of its significance in the civic, cultural and economic life of the
state, The Speedway Collection required a robust preservation option. DPN
has provided deep and long lasting preservation for this unique and prized
collection. We are pleased that the heritage of The Indianapolis Motor
Speedway is now preserved via DPN.

About DPN

The Digital Preservation Network <http://dpn.org/> (DPN) is the only
large-scale digital preservation service that is built to last beyond the
life spans of individuals, technological systems, and organizations. DPN
provides members of the academy and their successors with assurance that
future access to their scholarly resources will be available in the event
of disruptive change in administrative or physical institutional
environments. By establishing a redundant and varied technical and legal
infrastructure, the survival, ownership and management of preserved digital
content in the future are assured for DPN members.

DPN’s heterogeneous network is currently comprised of the following five
nodes: HathiTrust <https://www.hathitrust.org/>, Academic Preservation Trust
<http://aptrust.org/>, Texas Preservation Node <https://tdl.org/dpn/>,
DuraCloud
Vault <http://duracloudvault.org/>, and Stanford Digital Repository
<https://sdr.stanford.edu/>.

Membership in DPN is open to any organization interested in or in need of
long-term digital preservation.

About DuraSpace

DuraSpace <http://duraspace.org/> is an independent 501(c)(3)
not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open
technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. They
collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities
by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current
and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage.
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