Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Brigham Young University (BYU) has selected the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. The first member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to adopt Rosetta, Brigham Young will implement Rosetta initially for the Harold B. Lee Library’s digital collections and will later expand the implementation to the digital assets of the university’s colleges and schools.
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. Rosetta 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.
Having embarked on a thorough evaluation of digital preservation systems in 2002, BYU became more interested in the Ex Libris system in light of the National Science Foundation’s requirement that all grant proposals contain a data-management and preservation plan—a requirement that Rosetta would help the university to comply with.
The adoption of Rosetta marks the latest phase of the university’s 10-year digital preservation initiative.
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