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Chronopolis — Digital Preservation Across Space & Time

After 17 successful years, UC San Diego Library is planning to migrate from Chronopolis to a UC-based preservation service and cease support for externally deposited content as part of implementing a sustainable long-term digital preservation strategy.  We appreciate the partnership of Chronopolis adopters and will be working with our partner organizations to communicate with Chronopolis depositors regarding next steps. The Library maintains a commitment to digital preservation as a service, and we are actively investigating our path forward.

Chronopolis in the News

UC San Diego Library and Texas Digital Library Collaborate to Transform Digital Preservation Possibilities for Sensitive Data

The UC San Diego Library is embarking on a new effort with the Texas Digital Library (TDL) to co-create a blueprint for the first nationally Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) service for private and sensitive data. This initiative was recently awarded a one-year, $87,384 grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Read more.

 

UC San Diego Library Receives Mellon Grant to Develop Approaches to Preserving Digital Repositories

A one-year, $161,000 grant from the New York City-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund a joint project to support the effective communication and exchange of data between local and national digital preservation repositories. The project — a collaboration between the UC San Diego Library, UC Santa Barbara, Emory University, Northwestern University and DuraSpace — will design tools that will enable libraries and archives to seamlessly deposit content into distributed digital preservation systems (DDPs), update that content over time and reliably restore content if needed.

The design work will leverage Chronopolis, a UC San Diego-led digital preservation platform, to enable digital repository platforms from around the world to simplify the process for creating preservation copies of their data. By addressing a current gap between digital preservation platforms and digital libraries this project will increase the reliability and sustainability of digital archives. Read more.

  

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