As part of this week's Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation event, and the Jisc funded SPRUCE Project, I'm very pleased to announce the beta launch of the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR).
http://coptr.digipres.org/
The registry aims to support practitioners in finding the tools they need to solve digital preservation problems, while reducing the glut of existing registries that currently exacerbate rather than solve the challenge. I've blogged in detail about this here:
http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2013-01-08-creating-community-owned-digital-preservation-tool-registry-coptr
COPTR has collated the contents of 5 existing tool registries to create a greater coverage and depth of detail that has to date been unavailable elsewhere. The following organisations have partnered with COPTR and contributed data from their own registries:
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
The Digital Curation Exchange (DCE)
The Digital POWRR Project
The Open Planets Foundation (OPF)
The next stage of the initiative is for these organisations (when completely happy with the status of COPTR) to close their own registries and instead reference COPTR. The availability of a datafeed from COPTR provides a useful way of exposing COPTR (or subsets of the COPTR data) on their own sites: http://coptr.digipres.org/Using_the_COPTR_data_feed
COPTR now needs *your* help to build on a successful start and become a dependable resource for digital preservation practitioners. Here are some things you can do to help:
* Give us your feedback, this is a good location to do it: http://coptr.digipres.org/Talk:Main_Page
* Promote COPTR
* Add entries to COPTR for tools that are not yet covered, or refine existing entries
* Consider bringing your organisation into partnership with COPTR: http://coptr.digipres.org/How_can_my_organisation_commit_to_COPTR%3F
Paul Wheatley
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