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The digital revolution presents all
cultural heritage institutions
that collect and preserve digital content with
similar challenges. Even though
the collections in e.g. archives and libraries are different and even though our pratices in terms of curation, registration and preservation strategy cannot be identical due to differences in legislation etc., the task of preserving the raw bits and bytes of
digital material is in most respects the same. Therefore,
three of the major
cultural heritage institutions
under the Ministry of Culture in Denmark decided to explore the possibilities for cross-institutional
cooperation in the field of digital preservation.
In an exploratory project, the three institutions designed the socalled “Bitrepository”. The Bitrepository has afterwards been developed and gradually implemented in the three institutions.
This
presentation is not meant to be a very technical presentation but will
describe the Bitrepository from a managerial
perspective. It will examine the ideas behind
the Bitrepository, describe our experiences and lessons learned in the development and implementation
of the software. Furthermore, it will present the
organizational structure of the bitrepository and
outline the plans for the future.
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