title: CHRONOPOLIS AND METAARCHIVE:  PRESERVATION COOPERATION
creators: David Minor Mark Phillips Matt Schultz
abstract: 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.