Digital Curation at Gloucestershire Archives: From Ingest to Production by Way of Trusted Storage

Abstract

Gloucestershire Archives has developed SCAT (‘Scat is Curation And Trust’) which is a digital curation workbench tool for archivists in local government archive services. SCAT enables learning about digital curation by ‘doing’. In addition to learning through practice, SCAT provides for practice based advocacy relating to digital continuity. SCAT addresses the digital curation lifecycle including monitoring the performance of a trusted dark store provider and ‘producing’ digitally based material for user access. Gloucestershire Archives has made SCAT freely available. It is hoped that other archive services can experiment with SCAT and more effectively join in digital curation developments.