San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
The Chronopolis National-Scale Digital Preservation Repository (Chronopolis) is a joint partnership between the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the UCSD Libraries (UCSDL), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the University of Maryland (UMD). This partnership seeks to build a federated preservation architecture that will provide a 100 year digital preservation environment for nationally recognized intellectual holdings of U.S. academic, research, and cultural heritage institutions. Collections that meet criteria for national preservation will be offered digital curation and management services via the Chronopolis preservation environment and will share the advantages that a federated approach to digital preservation can provide. The Chronopolis environment is critical to the core mission of SDSC which is to support the data cyberinfrastucture needs of the scientific and engineering communities. The Chronopolis preservation environment will provide the services necessary to identify, preserve, and make accessible scientific data sets over the long term. A dedicated digital preservation environment is needed to fulfill this mission as key digital scientific information will be lost without formal curation for their planned sustainability.
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