In a new initiative supported by Jisc, Preservica, Arkivum, the Open Preservation Foundation and Artefactual will work together to deliver a proof-of-concept Preservation Action Registry (PAR) to exchange preservation action best practice within the preservation community and between different preservation systems. This exchange of preservation knowledge and its practical implementation has the potential to vastly accelerate the pace of digital preservation research and the deployment of best practice to live systems.
The collaborative project will focus on the mechanisms of exchanging and sharing preservation action best practice across diverse systems by focusing on protocols for exchange, a common data model and the deployment of APIs to read and write recommendations. Initially, the project will be aimed at the needs of UK HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) participating in the Jisc RDSS (Research Data Shared Service) allowing researchers to receive and act upon the latest Preservation advice - increasing the value of the RDSS to the UK academic community.
The project will be open from the outset and publish the PAR protocols and data model under an open source licence so that the wider digital preservation community can participate and be involved in future development. The PAR will allow organisations to openly share their preservation actions, which holds the potential for a revolution in the automated exchange of research and production advice between practitioners, academics, sector specialists and vendors. This ensures that the advice and tools offered to end users are as up to date as possible and helps turn the promise of fully automated digital preservation into a reality.
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