CHRONOPOLIS AND METAARCHIVE:  PRESERVATION COOPERATION
This paper will examine ongoing work between two
major preservation systems, the Chronopolis Digital
Preservation Program, [6] and the MetaArchive
Cooperative. [13] In the past year, these two systems
have begun work on bridging their technical
underpinnings to create a more robust, reliable, longlived
preservation community for their users. The main
emphasis of this work is moving data between a
LOCKSS-based system (MetaArchive) and an iRODSbased
one (Chronopolis). This work also involves
several other emerging preservation micro-service tools
and practices, and the expertise of the University of
North Texas (UNT) Digital Library [21] in deploying
them. The final result of this work is intended to be of
three-fold benefit: 1) directly improving the services
offered by Chronopolis and MetaArchive to their
constituents; 2) offering specific technical findings
which will be of benefit to other systems using
LOCKSS and iRODS; and 3) contributing to the larger
preservation community through the examination of
organizational best practices for preservation system
interactions.
["Minor, David", "Phillips, Mark", "Schultz, Matt"]
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