Technical aspects from the Polonsky digital preservation programme

As part of the two-year Polonsky digital preservation research project, the Bodleian Libraries (the University of Oxford) and Cambridge University Library (CUL) are researching and developing requirements for digital-preservation-specific services. Part of the project concerns gathering technical requirements for long-term digital content repository systems; this has included reviewing our own infrastructures, surveying our digitized collections and existing repositories, visiting a number of other institutions, and assessing software from various vendors.