Harvard University Library, USA
The Harvard University Library (HUL) is a centralized technical service provider to the University’s constituent libraries, archives, and museums. HUL has operated a large-scale digital repository, with associated ingest, access, data management, archival storage, and preservation services, for over six years, with more than 5.5 million assets (23 TB) under management. HUL staff have particular expertise in digital curation and project management, preservation and discovery metadata, digital reformatting, and formats. They have and continue to participate in many international digital library, curation and preservation initiatives, including METS, NDIIPP, NISO Z39.87, OCLC Registry of Digital Masters, PDF/A (ISO 19005-1), PREMIS, and RLG/OCLC/NARA projects on repository certification; and hold leadership or advisory roles in the DigCCurr, Digital Library Federation (DLF), IS&T Archiving, and Open Repositories conferences, and the PLANETS and PRONOM projects. HUL developed and maintains the widely-adopted open source JHOVE format identification, validation, and characterization tool, and is leading the collaborative development with OCLC of the Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR), a sustainable service for distributed management of important format representation information. Other recent HUL preservation activities include web archiving and large-scale (> 1 million volumes) text digitization. Though its Open Collections Program (OCP), and a variety of additional on-line public access catalogs for images, geospatial data, and archival finding aids, HUL seeks to expose a great variety of Harvard’s digital assets to the public for research and pedagogy.
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