Ex Libris Group, a US-based provider of library automation solutions, has announced that the University of Utah has opted for Ex Libris Rosetta to preserve the school's extensive cultural heritage collections. These include newspapers and other historical textual documents, photographs, rare books, oral history interviews (including transcripts and audio) and motion picture collections.
In addition to cultural heritage collections, Rosetta will enable the university to preserve faculty publications and research data. The J. Willard Marriott Library hosts the collections of many campus departments and, as a member of the Mountain West Digital Library network, hosts collections belonging to other Utah institutions.
According to representatives of the University of Utah, it found Rosetta to be the most sophisticated and mature solution to manage and preserve the vast range of its digital collections. Rosetta’s ability to scale up will enable it to accommodate the rapid growth of its digital resources, projected to reach 250 terabytes in three years, and also to preserve and make accessible research data sets from its faculty. Installed in libraries and archives worldwide, Rosetta encompasses the entire digital preservation workflow, including the acquisition, validation, ingest, storage, preservation and delivery of digital objects. It enables academic institutions as well as libraries, archives, and other memory institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitised materials.
