Presentation in UCLA Special Collections on March 6, 2013 about my preservation strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project.

1. Preservation Strategy
for the UCLA Civil
Rights Project
Rebekah Cummings
UCLA Special Collections
March 6, 2013

2. Overview
• My involvement in the Civil Rights Project/
The Civil Rights Project Archives
• Dataverse for CRP data
• eScholarship site for CRP publications
• Evaluation of legacy datasets inherited by the
CRP Archive

3. CRP Dataverse
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/StudyListingPage.xhtml?vdcId=1083

4. CRP eScholarship site
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/civilrightsprojectucla

5. Legacy Datasets
• Evaluating datasets inherited by the
Civil Rights Project Archives
• Relied on Libbie’s
institutional knowledge
• Appraisal of datasets
• What stays, what goes?

6. Questions?