Local silos → Archivematica + DSpace
University of Melbourne
At the large, highly decentralised University of Melbourne — over 100 research centres across the institution — the challenge was as much cultural as technical, with digital research data and records siloed locally without preservation planning. Rather than a top-down rollout, Melbourne adopted a ten-year strategy built on incremental pilots using Archivematica. The University Archives processed high-value cultural collections such as the Germaine Greer Archive, while the repository team piloted automated Archivematica workflows feeding digital thesis deposits into DSpace. Building competencies gradually let the university prove the microservices model before scaling. A pragmatic Oceania example of change-managed adoption.
Original source
Planning for a digital preservation ecosystem: small steps and culture change
Digital Preservation Coalition (University of Melbourne)
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