General information

Part of the digital preservation strategies currently underway in Fondren includes participation in the international MetaArchive program. The MetaArchive consortium (http://www.metaarchive.org/) uses LOCKSS software to preserve selected collections. As a member of this consortium Rice runs a MetaArchive server that holds collections from other MetaArchive member institutions.

Contact: System administrator, Denis Galvin

• Content Provider information (http://conspectus.metaarchive.org/content_providers) – can view all contributors and collection level descriptions of content submitted
• Collection level metadata schema (http://metaarchive.org/public/resources/conspectus_metadata_schema.html)

IR Contributing Communities

Currently Fondren is preserving a selection of collections from the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (IR) as follows:

Participating:

• Rice Electronic Theses and Dissertations

• Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) publications

• Woodson Research Center online archive

• Rice Thresher student newspaper

The Rice Thresher was ingested by the cooperative on 11/8/2011 by Rice-FE, South Carolina-FE, HBCU-eRack, Hull-eRack, Oregon-eRack, PSU-eRack. At the time the collection contained 7659 items. The collection is currently 1 archival unit (AU) the size of which is X. the Collection stops with resumption token 7600. Future harvests should be collected by adding a second AU. The HTML crawlable page can be found here (it will be very slow to open due to its size.)    http://harvest.library.rice.edu/hdl_1911_27631_1.html

Near Future:

• Rice Ephemera Archive
• School of Humanities
• Rice School of Natural Science

Forth coming:

• The Rice Institute Pamphlets

• Rice University Commencement Programs and Ephemera

• Rice University General Announcements

Complex collections:

• Americas Archive

• Museum of Houston

• Shepherd School of Music

• Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA)

Issues and tasks

• Investigate ways to automate notification of changes or additions to IR collections

• RSS feeds are enabled at both community and collection level, subscribing to the above collections then will push out information for when items are added to the IR
  

• Conduct “recovery” test to better understand process and outputs from program

• Investigate ways to automate metadata upload to MetaArchive system (plug-in, csv file upload)

• Develop schedule for “re-harvesting” or pushing out data to MetaArchive

• Refinements to OAI harvesting tool(?)

• Add master files to IR (eg TIFFs, WAVs, etc) to be included in harvest to MetaArchive – these files are considered high “at-risk” formats because of difficulty or high costs to reproduce

• update 18 Nov 2011 : Ying currently working on test collection
• Retrieving data test
• William Ward Watkin Community < http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/12394 >
• exported metadata located on fonlibstor (supplies unique identifiers uri)