Digital preservation project by a group of Czech Libraries, financed by the Ministery of Culture of Czech Republic applied research grant. First information.

1. The ARCLib Research Project
Complex Solution for Long Term
Archiving of (Library) Digital Collections
Martin Lhoták (Library of the Academy of Sciences)
Petr Žabička (Moravian Library in Brno)
Miroslav Bartošek (Masaryk University)
Zdeněk Vašek (National Library of the Czech Republic)
Marek Melichar (Charles University in Prague), PASIG 11.3.2016

2. Agenda
• ARCLib project roots
– Czech Digital Library
– LTP Pilot
• ARCLib project goals

3. • open source system for a digital library
• https://github.com/ceskaexpedice/kramerius
• digital document production and administration system
• https://github.com/proarc/proarc/wiki
• digitization workflow management system
• https://github.com/proarc/proarc/wiki/RDflow

8. LTP Pilot
• Context (NDK, NDA + CRP project, NFA, WA, Regions,
Academic repositories)
• Growing level of recognition of the digital archiving
needs (OAIS translation, one DSA certified repository…)
• Research data and e-born data (Dspace community,
Horizon 2020)
LTP Pilot
+ Lower the barriers in access to LTP technologies
+ Stimulate interest in digital preservation
+ Join the forces – heritages + academe

9. LTP Pilot
• Test implementation and evaluation of Archivematica
as low barrier LTP solution
• Financed from CESNET Development Fund, 14 month,
2014-15, Masaryk University, Moravian Library, +
external staff from other academic and heritage
institutions
• Integration of Archivematica with CESNET storage,
test ingests and configuration for real life collections
• Other project goals – popularizing LTP,
creating community and spreading
expertise (workshop, AV manuals, etc)

10. ARCLib
• Applied research grant from Ministry of Culture of CR
• NAKI II programme
• Technologies and methodologies for preservation of
culture heritage
2016-2020
850k Euro

11. ARCLib
Goals:
• Develop complex OS LTP system using
Archivematica as 1 of its components
• Logical preservation methodology for
Czech institutions
• Bit level preservation– methodically and
technologically

12. ARCLib
ARCLib stages and expected results:
1. 2016-2018 – Analyses and design
– 4 x research articles
– 2 x certified methodology
– ARCLib development begins
2. 2019-2020 – Development and integration of
components
– SW development completed
– Pilot implementation
– 4 x research articles

13. ARCLib
Year 1 – key decisions
• Architecture and planning
• Archivematica, yes or no?
• Networked storage or local?
• What to cover – include research data,
archive collections, e-born data, where to
integrate
• Methodology, policies, standards

14. Thank you
marek.melichar@ruk.cuni.cz