Virginia Tech is in the MetaArchive Cooperative because we value community-supported digital preservation strategies. MetaArchive strengthens our digital preservation services to better support the range, complexity, and scale of content managed by VT Libraries. It helps us meet our needs, as well as the needs of the larger community.
The collections we ingest into MetaArchive largely include born-digital objects and digitized copies of audio/visual recordings, and these kinds of collections are at risk for all sorts of loss and damage. MetaArchive provides a trusted way to preserve these at-risk digital collections in a long-term fashion. The trust stems from the fact that MetaArchive is composed of peer, cultural heritage institutions that are on the same wavelength, and that we have a voice on the way the organization is run. This all gives us peace of mind.
~ Zach Vowell, California Polytechnic State University