Co-operative Development of a Long-Term Digital Information Archive (KOPAL)

Project description

The objective of KOPAL was the practical testing and implementation of a co-operatively created and operated long-term archive system for digital information. As network partners, the German National Library, the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB) and IBM Germany implemented a co-operatively operated solution, capable of subsequent re-use by others, for the long-term preservation of digital resources. The technical operation of the system is taken care of by the GesellsGesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG).

Results

The ingest and retrieval software produced by the network partners (koLibRI) has the status of Open Source software. Comprehensive and heterogeneous data have been fed into the system during the term of the project in order to prove the concept's capacity and usefulness. Since mid-2007, the archival system has been transferred into the productive use by the German National Library.

http://kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php.en

Project framework

Funding

Federal Ministry of Education and Research,
sub-project of the "Competency Network New Services, Standardisation, Metadata" project
(Kompetenznetzwerk Neue Dienste, Standardisierung, Metadaten)

Partners

• German National Library
• Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB)
• IBM Deutschland
• Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)

Duration

2004 to 2007

Contact

Tobias Steinke
t.steinke@dnb.de