ECHO DEPository: Exploring Collaborations to Harness Objects with a Digital Environment for Preservation
Lead Partner: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Project Dates: 2004-2010
Additional Partners: A complete listing of the project partners can be found at the partners viewshare
The ECHO DEPository project pulled together several streams of activities aimed at helping to answer the question of how digital resources will be identified, archived, and preserved for the future. ECHO DEPository explored ways for libraries and repositories to share and preserve digital information in a variety of formats, including Web-based government publications, historical documents and photos, sound and video recordings, websites and other digital resources. Partners collaborated to produce tools, practices, evaluations and research that will help in selecting and preserving electronic resources in a variety of digital repositories.
More detailed project information can be found at the Project Web site (external link)Highlights
- ECHO DEPository - Phase 2: 2008-2010 Final Report of Project Activities (external link) (PDF, 2.32 MB)
- ECHO DEPository - Phase 1: 2004-2007 Final Report of Project Activities (external link) (PDF, 2.07 MB)
- Paper: Repository Software Evaluation using the Audit Checklist for Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories (2006) (external link) (PDF, 20KB)
- JCDL 2006 Poster: Tools For Acquisition, Packaging & Ingest of Web Objects into Multiple Repositories (PPT, 1.5MB)
- Resource:(external site) Archived project web site
