Prepared by: Management FRG

Last Revised: Feb 2018

Status: Final

Reviewed by: Deposit FRG, Core Team, DLP Steering

Approved by: DLP Steering

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 interface
• Digital object structural data
• Preservation packages for export
• Preservation actions/event logs
• Preservation-related reports
• Versioning interface

Library/Unit Interactions

• Typically reports to a unit within one Library, but may provide curation services for multiple Libraries’ collections
• Works with Collection Managers to diagnose fixity or integrity issues with digital objects
• Reports issues to Repository Administrators and Repository Engineers to initiate repair or restoration of digital objects