Preservation Strategy for the UCLA Civil Rights Project

Rebekah CummingsUCLA Special Collections March 6, 2013

Overview

•My involvement in the Civil Rights Project/

The Civil Rights Project Archives

• Dataverse for CRP data

• eScholarship site for CRP publications

• Evaluation of legacy datasets inherited by the

CRP Archive

CRP Dataverse

http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/StudyListingPage.xhtml?vdcId=1083

CRP eScholarship site

http://www.escholarship.org/uc/civilrightsprojectucla

Legacy Datasets

• Evaluating datasets inherited by the

Civil Rights Project Archives

• Relied on Libbie’s

institutional knowledge

• Appraisal of datasets

• What stays, what goes?

Questions?