Digital Preservation and Stewardship Committee 
Digital Preservation and Stewardship Committee Terms of Reference
Purpose
The Committee on Digital Preservation and Stewardship (DDPS) is a standing committee of CAUL-CBUA. Its purpose is to foster and advance digital preservation and stewardship amongst the members of CAUL-CBUA; to guide and enhance the capacity to undertake such preservation and stewardship in the Atlantic region but most particularly within CAUL-CBUA; and to work towards single discovery and joint preservation of CAUL-CBUA assets.
Authority
The Committee on Digital Preservation and Stewardship (DDPS) is created by, and receives its authority and direction from, the CAUL-CBUA Board of Directors.
Responsibilities
Media Type Digital Preservation Plan
Draft coming
The CAUL - CBUA Atlantic Islandora Repository Network (CAIRN)
Project Description
The CAUL - CBUA Atlantic Islandora Repository Network (CAIRN) project is building a regional digital asset repository for use by all CAUL - CBUA institutions to steward digital assets of any kind, in a consortially-managed framework.
CAIRN works with assets in existing digital repositories (e.g. CONTENTdm, DSpace) as well as those added directly to the CAIRN system. CAIRN is an initiative intended to complement existing local infrastructure and initiatives, in order to create additional system capacity and redundancy, and to facilitate regional data harvesting opportunities. One project deliverable will be an Atlantic Directory of Digital Collections.
