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January 25, 2006

CLOCKSS-”A Large Dark Archive”

On one of the lists I blong to they mention an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about a movement to create CLOCKSS - Controlled Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe, a program to preserve e-journals. To quote from their Website:
“CLOCKSS is a collaborative initiative by a group of organizations drawn from publishers, libraries and learned societies. This two-year project will test the LOCKSS technology and social model to support a ‘large dark archive’ that is both fail-safe and has an acceptable process for providing continuing access for orphaned materials.

CLOCKSS is a Controlled use of LOCKSS for the purpose of ensuring the promise of long term access to published scholarly content in digital format. It provides additional functionality to that of the use of the LOCKSS system (’Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe’) which is widely known in the scholarly communications world as a technology for ensuring the integrity of digital content, and is used as part of preservation strategies for electronic journals to which libraries subscribe.”

This is a program worth watching. I have always been wary about continued access to online resources. I want the decision of what is saved and for how long and can it continued to be accessed in the hands of librarians. This looks like it might be a start.

posted by Anna at 1:23 pm |

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