Emory Preservation Repository Mission and Vision

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”