Filling the Digital Preservation Gap - a brief update
As we near the end of the active phase of Filling the Digital Preservation Gap * here is a brief update about where we are with the main strands of work we highlighted in our phase 3 kick off blog post . Archivematica implementation Work at York Work is ongoing at York to get our proof of concept implementation of Archivematica up and running. The purpose of this work was not to get a production service in place but to demonstrate that the implementation plan we published in our phase 2 report was feasible. The implementation we are developing pulls metadata (about deposited research datasets) from PURE and provides a method for capturing additional information for managing datasets (filling some of the information gaps that are not collected through the PURE datasets module). It also includes an automated process to ingest deposited datasets (along with their metadata) into Archivematica, package them up for longer term preservation and provide a dissemination copy of the dataset to