Resources

Grant funded initiatives:

NDIIPP Project Information:
View project contract and proposal, documentation, and other for both the original and extension projects that we have undertaken with the Library of Congress under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

NHPRC Project Information:
View grant proposal, workplan, project documentation, and other items related to our work to form a sustainable business with support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Cooperative Activities:

Cooperative Charter:
Provides the mission, goals, and organizing principles of the MetaArchive Cooperative; outlines our membership levels; and details the roles and responsibilities in this collaborative paradigm.

Membership Agreement:
Defines the terms of the agreement made between members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, providing a framework for these relationships while remaining sufficiently flexible to address evolving needs of the Cooperative.

Technical Specifications:
Details regarding the network specifications/technical infrastructure required of Preservation and Sustaining Members.

MetaArchive NDIIPP Project Proposal (extension, 2007):
Contract describing the activites that the Cooperative is undertaking in its work with the Library of Congress through the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program between 2007 and 2010.

MetaArchive NDIIPP Project Proposal (original, 2004):
MetaArchive contract with the Library of Congress for our initial investigation of a cooperative model of peer institutions partnering for digital preservation purposes.

Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation:
Draft manuscript of our forthcoming publication.

Market Analysis:
This market analysis concentrates on the Cooperative's current primary markets: University libraries and archives. We will expand this analysis in 2008-9 to include other cultural heritage institutions, including museums and government entities.

Management Plan:
The document includes detailed information regarding the ownership structure of the Cooperative, our internal and external human resources, and the human resources we anticipate that we will need in the future to sustain our business.

Extension Harvest Plan:
Charts the network development and harvest plans for the overall MetaArchive network, including building on the Southern Digital Culture archive and founding two new archives.

Outreach Program Implementation Plan (Extension Phase):
Describes the plan for the MetaArchive Cooperative’s outreach and community building activities for the extension phase of our NDIIPP work.

Data and Node Recovery:
Provides an in-depth guide to LOCKSS data and node recovery activities that may need to be undertaken by Private LOCKSS Networks in case of node failures.

Conspectus Database:
Browse the directory of metadata associated with the collections currently stored within the MetaArchive networks.

Conspectus Schema:
This document charts and defines in detail the thirty-five categories of metadata collected for each record within the MetaArchive collection-level conspectus metadata specification.

Please contact our Program Manager if you are interested in learning more.