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Preservation Step-by-Step

Preservation Step-by-Step Tabbed Content

Tab 1: Preservation Planning

  • Analyze the formats and packaging of sample or supplied content
  • Guided by Portico’s established preservation policies, develop a preservation plan appropriate to the supplied content and the needs of the content provider and library participants in the service. The preservation plan may include an initial migration of the packaging or files in specific formats (for example, Portico migrates publisher specific e-journal article XML to the NLM archival standard).
  • Develop any new tools necessary to implement the plan – possibilities including tools to:
    • retrieve the content
    • load the content into the processing system (Figure 3: Loaders)
    • repackage the content
    • migrate files in specific formats

Tab 2: Receipt & Inventory Management

The Portico digital preservation service is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use
digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.