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COPTR aims to meet the following simple aims: | COPTR aims to meet the following simple aims: | ||
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By helping to raise awareness of tools that are already available, it is hoped that reinvention of the wheel will be reduced and precious community tool development effort will be better focused where it is really needed. | By helping to raise awareness of tools that are already available, it is hoped that reinvention of the wheel will be reduced and precious community tool development effort will be better focused where it is really needed. | ||
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COPTR captures basic, factual details about a tool, what it does, how to find more information (relevant URLs) and references to user experiences with the tool. The scope is a broad interpretation of the term "digital preservation". In other words, if a tool is useful in performing a digital preservation function such as those described in the OAIS model or the DCC lifecycle model, then it's within scope of this registry. | COPTR captures basic, factual details about a tool, what it does, how to find more information (relevant URLs) and references to user experiences with the tool. The scope is a broad interpretation of the term "digital preservation". In other words, if a tool is useful in performing a digital preservation function such as those described in the OAIS model or the DCC lifecycle model, then it's within scope of this registry. | ||
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*Out of scope: Digitisation, file creation | *Out of scope: Digitisation, file creation | ||
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− | + | COPTR is a community registry that is owned by the community, for the community. It is supported by [http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADPII Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP)], [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/ The Open Planets Foundation (OPF)], The [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/ National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)], [http://www.dcc.ac.uk The Digital Curation Centre (DCC)], [http://digitalcurationexchange.org/ The Digital Curation Exchange (DCE)] and the [http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/ Digital POWRR Project]. Anyone can contribute to it, or edit existing entries in the registry. Spamming will of course be frowned upon. | |
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Organisations who would like to contribute the contents of their tool registry to COPTR should [[How can my organisation commit to COPTR?|follow this guide]]. | Organisations who would like to contribute the contents of their tool registry to COPTR should [[How can my organisation commit to COPTR?|follow this guide]]. |