The Digital Preservation Network: Architecture, Processes and Policies

The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) was formed in 2012 to ensure that the scholarly record and output of scholarly research are preserved for future generations. DPN uses a federated approach to preservation, bringing together extant preservation systems to leverage existing expertise and infrastructure. The higher education community has already created digital repositories to provide long-term preservation and access. Replicating multiple dark copies of these collections in diverse nodes, DPN will protect against the risk of catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters.

This presentation will highlight: architectural Diagrams of relevant infrastructure; system Components of the DPN Nodes; data Elements in DPN; the flow of Primary Interactions in DPN; policy and operational issues.