Medusa at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A digital preservation service based on PREMIS

Kyle Rimkus, Thomas Habing

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Abstract

The Medusa digital preservation service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides a storage environment for digital content selected for long-term retention by content managers and producers affiliated with the Library in order to ensure its enduring access and use. This paper reports on Medusa development, with emphasis on the research processes that informed key decisions related to its design, the central role of PREMIS metadata in its architecture, and future directions of integrating PREMIS management into a Fedora repository architecture. In so doing, it describes a strategy of digital preservation content management that draws strength from the creation and management of comprehensive PREMIS preservation metadata records.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationJCDL 2013 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Pages49-52
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2013 - Indianapolis, IN, United States
Duration: Jul 22 2013Jul 26 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
ISSN (Print)1552-5996

Other

Other13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityIndianapolis, IN
Period7/22/137/26/13

Keywords

  • Digital preservation
  • Medusa
  • PREMIS

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Engineering(all)

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