Preservation Research Projects

  • ArchivesSpace Built by archivists for archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archives information management application for managing and providing web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects. ArchivesSpace was developed by a partnership among the New York University Libraries, the University of California, San Diego Library, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
  • Archiving the Political Web Working with the California Digital Library, NYU is capturing, curating and preserving collections of Web-based government and political information. This work was originally sponsored by the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program.
  • Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship A project that aims to investigate the preservability of a variety of enhanced digital scholarly books to identify which of their features can be preserved at scale using tools currently available, and which are likely to be lost over time.
  • New guidelines for responsible scholarly publishing As the web expands and becomes more experiential, scholarly publications are no longer static, limited spaces where the user's functions are limited to scrolling and clicking. In the present day, an appendix for a digital scholarly work will include links to others publications or studies; even more frequently, an e-publication will feature interactive charts or streaming video content. A researcher's project website might encourage dialogue between the user and the site itself, creating new interrogative spaces in the digital academic world--and of course, new solutions for how to preserve those bytes for future scholars. NYU Libraries is pleased to share…
  • Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR) was a partnership among NYU, Cornell University and the Florida Center for Library Automation, funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The task of preserving our digital heritage for future generations far exceeds the capacity of any government or institution. Responsibility must be distributed across a number of stewardship organizations running heterogeneous and geographically dispersed digital preservation repositories. For reasons of redundancy, succession planning and software migration, these repositories must be able to exchange copies of archived information packages with each other. Practical repository-to-repository transfer will require a…