Prepared by: Management FRG
Last Revised: Jan 2018
Status: Draft
Reviewed by:
Approved by:
Demographics/User Characteristics
- Familiar with repository technologies/products and storage environments
- Familiar with repository concepts and standards
- Familiar with technical and preservation metadata standards and encoding
- Familiar with preservation activities and best practices
- Familiar with recommended preservation file formats, format migration
- Familiar with repository system services and workflow processes
- Familiar with the mission of digital libraries and institutional repositories
Frequency of Repository Use
- Weekly
- Supports the preservation and discovery mission of the Libraries
General Motivators/Goals
- Ensure the integrity and authenticity of digital files and objects ingested into the repository
- Monitors changes to preferred preservation file formats over time
- Ability to perform detailed diagnostics on digital assets
- Ensures appropriate metadata is recorded to support preservation needs
Key Repository Management Tasks
- Runs periodic fixity checks to ensure file integrity
- Maintains technical and preservation metadata for files
- Verifies audits and logs of preservation events over time
- Verifies outcomes of automated characterization metadata
- Identifies reports needed for preservation health
- Identifies needs for preservation packages for distribution to external services, etc.
- Performs versioning/migration of files over time
Repository Content/Information Desired
- Technical/characterization metadata
- Preservation metadata
- File manager
- Digital object structural data
- Preservation packages for export
- Preservation actions
- Preservation-related reports
- Versioning interface
Library/Unit Interactions
- Typically reports to one Library, but may provide curation services for multiple Libraries’ collectionsÂ