Examples of Digital Preservation Initiatives
For more details on this topic, see List of digital preservation initiatives.- The Library of Congress operates the National Digital Stewardship Alliance
- The British Library is responsible for several programmes in the area of digital preservation, including the International Dunhuang Project. The National Archives of the United Kingdom have also pioneered various initiatives in the field of digital preservation.
A number of open source products have been developed to assist with digital preservation, including DSpace, Fedora, EPrints and Research-Output Repository Platform. The commercial sector also offers digital preservation software tools, such as Ex Libris Ltd.'s Rosetta, Tessella Ltd.'s Safety Deposit Box, CONTENTdm, Digital Commons, Equella, intraLibrary, Open Repository and Vital.
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