in an environment of frustration and failure

Communicate often and effectively, both at an appropriate operational level and

through some kind of management board for the joint programme
Set realistic targets and regularly evaluate the arrangements.

REFERENCES where to look for more information

Cross references
Costs also see Resource costs: chapter 10
Standards also see Useful tools for managers: chapter 10

Offsite references case studies (all links viewed March 2003)

There are few available analyses of collaboration in digital preservation (though many on
collaboration in other aspects of managing digital information). The following list therefore focuses on
a spread of projects and programmes that may be worth studying.

Many well-known digital preservation collaborations have been basically research projects and
feasibility studies, without an ongoing remit to manage material. Well-documented ones include:
CEDARS, a collaboration of three UK university libraries, developed a Distributed Digital
Archiving Prototype System of particular relevance, along with important reports.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/
CAMiLEON, a collaborative research project at the Universities of Michigan (US) and Leeds
(UK), examining methods of maintaining accessibility.
http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/
NEDLIB, a European collaboration of nine national libraries, a national archive and three
large publishers, which produced a number of tools relevant to distributed programmes.
http://www.kb.nl/coop/nedlib/

A few of the many active preservation programmes built on various collaborative models include:
The Austrian On-Line Archive (AOLA), a joint initiative of the Austrian National Library and
the Technical University of Vienna's Department of Software Technology. AOLA is an
archive of snapshots of Austrian web space. http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/
Academic Research in the Netherlands Online (ARNO) which links the document servers of
the University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University and the University of Twente, to make and
keep their academic output electronically accessible. http://www.uba.uva.nl/en/projects/arno/
Australian Digital Theses Project which aims to establish a distributed and maintained
database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at the
participating institutions. http://adt.caul.edu.au/
The China Digital Library Project which plans to establish a digital data storage centre
coordinated by the National Library of China
Purge Alert, an international initiative of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
(CEOS), to encourage members of the global spatial data community to transfer responsibility
for still-valued datasets before they are deleted by their original custodians.

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