In January, half-way through the two-year funding for the Registries of Good Practice project, we put together a midpoint review report for the project steering group. This group represents the funders of the work, Yale University Library (YUL) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), so the primary purpose of the report was to check the project was meeting their expectations and to give them a chance to steer the project. The same report was also presented the DPC's Good Practice Sub-Committee, to give them a chance to provide some oversight and input.
However, we want to be as open as possible, so we planned to make a public version of this report in the hope that this will help steer our work in year 2. This did not require significant changes to the report, which is almost identical to the internal version. However, it took a while to get around to reviewing and releasing the report due to other pressures on our time. As such, some of the information is a little out of date, but hopefully it will still provide a useful overview of the project work so far and what we're planning for the last year (and perhaps beyond!)
You can read the Registries of Good Practice midpoint review here.
We welcome any feedback on the report, and any input or guidance on the ideas and plans we've proposed for the future. Some of the bigger ideas will need new project partners and additional funding, so please let me know if you're interested in collaborating and/or have ideas for how to support this work in the current financial climate.
Finally, we'd really appreciate it if anyone interested in the future of the COPTR tool registry took part in the user survey that we are running in partnership with the Open Preservation Foundation: please let us know what you think!
Onwards, together.
Andy