Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that ETH-Bibliothek, the library of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), has selected the Rosetta digital preservation system to preserve, manage, and provide access to the Institute's digital collections in perpetuity.
Based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model, Rosetta supports 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. With its one-of-a-kind preservation module for risk analysis, planning, and action, Rosetta helps libraries increase their value to their institution by offering extended digital preservation services.
As the information service of a leading global scientific institution, ETH-Bibliothek plays a key role in preserving the scientific heritage of ETH Zurich. Rosetta will collect and preserve a huge range of digital material, with a focus on research data, which, depending on the researchers' needs, can range from raw data to publication-ready data sets. In addition, Rosetta will handle administrative records that are digitally transferred to ETH Zurich Archives and are expected to increase in volume considerably over the coming years. Rosetta will also preserve ETH-Bibliothek's own digital assets, such as the output from its mass digitisation projects.
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