From: Victoria Reich <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:30:08 -0700

LOCKSS Program Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant

-- Funding to ensure long-term preservation of dynamic Web 2.0 content

The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program at Stanford
University has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation. The two-year grant accelerates work on new ways to gather
and preserve the kinds of dynamic and diverse digital content that
21st century scholarship demands.

“LOCKSS was originally developed to preserve academic e-journals
exactly as they were presented on publisher websites,” according to
Victoria Reich, Executive Director and co-founder of the LOCKSS
Program. “At that time, most content was static, but with new
technologies such as Web 2.0 and HTML 5, published content is
increasingly dynamic and interactive. This makes long-term
preservation much more challenging.”

The Mellon Foundation grant will enable LOCKSS to develop new
techniques for collecting dynamic digital content from modern
publishing platforms, and ensuring its long-term preservation.
Incorporating these techniques into future versions of the award
winning, open-source LOCKSS digital preservation software will benefit
the entire academic community.

About The LOCKSS Program. Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS), is
part of the Stanford University Libraries. Self-sustaining since 2004,
this collaborative community program enables libraries to build
digital collections and preserve them with full fidelity. It ensures
that publisher usage statistics are maintained, while providing
readers with continual access to authoritative scholarly literature.

For more information about the LOCKSS Program, visit http://www.lockss.org/.
LOCKSS is a trademark of Stanford University.