Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR)

COPTR helps practitioners find tools needed for long term digital preservation tasks. It describes 622 tools and 36 workflows.

Find Tools To Try

You can find a digital preservation tools to experiment with using the Tools Grid. Or you can view tools by stage, function, content type or file format. Watch this video to learn more.

Find Workflows To Learn From

You can also view digital preservation workflows to learn how digital preservation is implemented in practice and which tools are involved.

Contribute Your Experiences

To be useful, COPTR needs your help to update existing records as tools change, or to reflect your experiences using the tools. We also need new records for any new or missing tools you think are useful and we'd love to host more digital preservation workflows so we can learn more how these tools are used in context. You can find out more about how you can get involved here.

Editing this wiki requires a user account, but due to problems with spam, you have to get in touch with us to request an account. Just email coptr@openpreservation.org with your preferred username and we'll get you sorted. If you have any problems accessing your account, or want to report any spam, you can use the same contact email to request help.

About COPTR

COPTR is part of Digipres Commons, is hosted by The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF), supported by the The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), and is maintained by you!

For more information, see About COPTR, including how to Contact Us, how COPTR is structured and how to access COPTR data via the API.

If you need to contact us for any reason, you can email coptr@openpreservation.org.

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NEW FOR JULY 2021: COPTR has been re-launched with new functionality. Find out all about it in this video presentation.

COPTR Partners

COPTR was created and launched with the support of the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation initiative and has been populated and maintained by members of the COPTR partner organisations: