News
2010
In February 2010, we are pleased to announce our publication of A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation, authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative and edited by Katherine Skinner and Matt Schultz. This book is the first of a series of volumes published by the Educopia Institute describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit. The guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network.
2009
In December 2009, The MetaArchive Cooperative announced that it has received $659,052 to preserve our nation’s at-risk digital materials as part of the Library of Congress’s award-winning National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). With this funding, the Cooperative will continue to encourage and support universities, libraries, archives, museums, and government agencies as they take an active role in the preservation of their digital assets. Read the Press Release.
2008
In June 2008, MetaArchive and the Networked Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) announced their new partnership to preserve Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). The ETD Archive is being launched in the summer of 2009.
In January 2008, with the backing of a $300,330 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the MetaArchive Cooperative, a community-based digital preservation network, will begin to extend its groundbreaking digital preservation services to libraries, archives, government agencies, historical societies, and other cultural heritage repositories throughout the United States. The funding will aid the MetaArchive Cooperative to transform from a regional project to a sustainable digital preservation business with a national impact.
2007
We are pleased to announce that the MetaArchive Cooperative was awarded an additional 18-month contract extension by the Library of Congress to continue our work with the Library, beginning March 2007. With $1,125,000 in funds from the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and from its six partner institutions (Emory University, Auburn University, Florida State University, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, and the University of Louisville), the MetaArchive Cooperative will build a distributed digital preservation community to foster and promote the long-term survival of the digital assets of cultural memory organizations, including libraries, archives, and museums.
Please contact our Program Manager if you are interested in learning more about our Cooperative and the services we offer.