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Archivematica Outside The Box: Piloting A Common Approach To Digital Preservation At The Five College Libraries, Shaun Trujillo, Meghan Bergin, Margaret Jessup, Johanna Radding, Sarah Walden Mcgowan

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Purpose – This work aims to provide a report on adopting a consortial model ofcollaboration toward understanding digital preservation practice.

Design/methodology/approach – This work provides a case study detailing the work and outcomes of a digital preservation pilot project undertaken by the Five College Libraries between 2014 and 2015.

Findings – Digital preservation is a broad endeavor and rapidly developing facet of digital collections and institutional repositories; yet, it is often an area that is not fully understood or implemented by many libraries and archives, largely because institutions lack the necessary resources to do it alone. Working across institutional lines …