| Abstract: | The Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University, in conjunction with Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University Library, is currently working on a National Historical Publications and Records Commission electronic records research grant, Fedora and the Preservation of University Records, to synthesize electronic records preservation research with digital library repository technology to develop systems capable of preserving university electronic records. This project is testing the potential of Fedora to serve as the architecture for such a system.
This presentation will give an overview of the project's synthesis of recordkeeping system requirements and its analysis and development of requirements for a preservation system. The presentation will then discuss the project's analysis and development of the steps required to ingest records into a preservation system in a manner that meets the records' preservation requirements. The talk will conclude with a review of the project's identification of the tools needed to complete these ingest steps and its development and testing of some of these tools.
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