BACK TO BASICS: THE MINIMUM PRESERVATION TOOL
Abstract
This paper presents the Minimum Preservation Tool (MPT), designed and developed by the British Library to provide a basic technical digital preservation service for collections awaiting ingest to a more formal digital preservation repository. The MPT can satisfy fundamental preservation storage requirements that are not typically otherwise supported in a standard corporate technical environment more focused on cyber-security. Replication, checksum generation and validation, and regular reporting are all key features of the MPT, written as a set of Python Utilities and freely available on Github. MPT is an entry-level tool that lowers the bar for early participation in preservation endeavors, in contrast with larger scale and more expensive, complex end-to-end technical solutions.Details
- Creators
- Maureen Pennock; John Beaman; Peter May; Kevin Davies
- Institutions
- British Library
- Date
- 2021-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- minimum preservation tool; checksums; integrity; replication; accessibility; open source; file preservation; risk reduction; assurance
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- CC BY 4.0 International
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