Vicky Reich from Stanford University, Director and co-founder of the LOCKSS Program, will present an overview of LOCKSS. Bill Kehoe will follow with a short description of his work with LOCKSS here at Cornell, and there will be time for questions.
Vicky included the following informal request in accepting our invitation to speak:
I would really appreciate having the chance to talk to the people responsible for collections. The point of digital preservation is the collections, not the metadata, not the technology, not whether or not it's OAIS compliant, etc. etc. Might these people be included? I'm particularly interested in talking to humanities, social science, gov doc selectors, whoever does the "big deal science licenses", and the agricultural folks.
This presentation will not be highly technical and we encourage attendance by people with the interests and responsibilities Vicky mentions.
The foundation of a library is its collections. The LOCKSS Program allows libraries to easily and affordably build, preserve and provide access to locally held copies of Web content to which the copyright holder has granted access (i.e. traditional core journal collections). Accuracy and completeness of content in LOCKSS boxes is assured through a robust, secure, peer-to-peer audit and repair system. There is no need for expensive RAID or off-line media; the content in each box (commodity PC hardware running open-source software) is backed up by the same content in other boxes. If the local copy gets lost or damaged it is restored automatically from the other boxes. The LOCKSS system has demonstrated automatic and transparent ingest, preservation, format migration and dissemination of both for-fee and open access Web content. Approximately 100 titles in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities are already being preserved on LOCKSS boxes around the world.
Vicky Reich is Director and co-founder of the LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries. Prior to the LOCKSS Program, she was for eight years the Assistant Director of HighWire Press. She has over 20 years of extensive library experience in both public and technical services and has held positions at the: Upjohn Company; University of Michigan; Library of Congress; National Agricultural Library; and Stanford University. She earned her MLS from the University of Michigan. For additional details, see: http://www.lockss.org/vicky.htm
Bill Kehoe is a Programmer/Analyst in the Cornell University Library system. In 1998, after some years of helping to build CUL's digital library systems, he became involved with digital preservation research. He is now helping to build two open archival information systems--one distributed between CUL and the Gttingen State and University Library; the other, CUL's federated OAIS for Cornell.
