Preservation Management Theme

Preservation Management Theme

This theme is a long-standing area of interest and expertise in Loughborough and encompasses the preservation of information in all forms and contexts, including the cultural and intellectual heritage, research data and outputs and national and organisation memory. Our research has contributed to knowledge and practice, particularly in preservation needs assessment, disaster management and legal issues in digital preservation. We carry out theoretical, policy and applied research in the following areas as illustrated below by the selected examples of related projects:

Area 1: Digital curation, especially digital preservation
            - Preservation of computer games
            - Digital legal deposit
            - Copyright and licensing for digital preservation (AHRC)
            - International study on copyright and digital preservation (JISC)
            - Registries for archived electronic journals (JISC)

Area 2: Disaster management policy and practice
            - Safeguarding heritage at risk: disaster management in UK archives, libraries and museums (AHRC)

Area 3: Preservation management theory and policy
            - The preservation landscape in the United Kingdom and Ireland (British Library Board)

Area 4: Value and impact of preservation activities
            - Value in digital curation decision making
            - Digitisation of research material in libraries and archives (JISC)