Pending approval by the DDR governance group, May 10, 2018.Updated January 2, 2020.
Audience
The intended audience for this policy includes faculty, administrators, and students of Duke University, as well as researchers external to Duke who are collaborating with Duke personnel and whose projects will make use of Duke University Libraries’ repository services.
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The preservation objectives are:
to provide a sustainable, trustworthy environment environments in which digital assets are preserved and, when appropriate, made accessible through persistent identifiers; for additional information see the Identifier documentation
to provide bit-level preservation to all deposited objects and associated metadata
to satisfy the requirements of funding agencies in managing, sharing and preserving research data
to verify and demonstrate authenticity of all deposited objects and metadata
to, whenever possible, maintain citability of accessible materials
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This policy covers all materials selected for inclusion in the Duke Digital Repositories and individual repository collection policies. This policy applies for the intended duration of stewardship for each collection. These policies are subject to change by the Duke University Libraries and are not specific to a systems or software implementation.
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