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Emory Preservation Repository Mission and Vision

Emory Preservation Repository Mission and Vision

Jun 18, 2018

Mission and Vision

The Emory Preservation Repository (Cor1), is the technology that curates, preserves, and delivers long-term digital access to unique cultural heritage and scholarship collections from Emory University.

The Emory Preservation Repository 

  • Enables users to discover and explore digital and digitized collections with ease

  • Provides self-service applications and tools for curators, content owners, and content creators to provide enhanced access to unique Emory content via the web

  • Integrates with Emory workflows, services, and technologies to streamline the building of shared online collections

  • Offers robust preservation of digitized and digital content regardless of format to ensure
    long term access well into the future

  • Leverages open technical standards and community-sourced best practices

The Cor Program team aspires to develop products and services that are

  • Aligned - to the larger commitments and missions of the Libraries, LITS, Emory, and Samvera communities

  • Shareable - enables interoperability, shared solutions, and shared collections; furthers the greater good of the repository community at large

  • Sustainable - achievable with existing resources and skills, supported by knowledge transfer

  • Collaborative - fosters and engages internal and external partnerships via regular communications

  • Comprehensive - scales to meet the collective needs of the Libraries and Emory University

  • Responsive - adapts to changing needs, resources, technologies

  • Useful - supports a broad spectrum of user needs; facilitates the creation and preservation of digital collections

  • Visible - promotes discovery of and access to unique Emory digital collections and the Program’s processes and services

 

[1] Latin for “heart”. Inspired by the Emory motto, “The wise heart seeks knowledge”