Alex Kinnaman

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Digital Safe: Creating a Trusted Repository for High-Security Content- Alex Kinnaman In addition to the treasures and data held by the Bodleian libraries that are in the process of being digitally preserved, there is an urgent need for unified, long-term preservation of University of Oxford records. Administrative, financial, medical, and personal records of University personnel are increasing rapidly on a daily basis. Digital Safe, created by the Electronic Archives Pilot Project, has sought to solve this problem by outsourcing the data management technology to Arkivum and managing it locally. This will allow all 38 colleges and other various departments to have a single technology for secure storage. Priority has recently been placed on completing Digital Safe, which calls for a final review of its trustworthiness, sustainability, and infrastructure. My project focused on conducting a comprehensive audit for Digital Safe. However, given that this data is not for openness and reuse and is in need of controlled, long-term storage, the metrics in current trusted digital repository audits are not entirely sufficient. Of the Assessment Tools approved by the Center for Research Libraries, TRAC was chosen to informally review Digital Safe for its universal use and thoroughness. While conducting a final review for Digital Safe has also revealed areas in TRAC that do not include aspects of non-traditional closed repositories. Further investigation has led this audit of Digital Safe to also act a first step to developing metrics to examine high-security, closed repository trustworthiness.

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