Digital Preservation Recorder
Software for Digital Preservation
Version 3.0 released, 11th December 2008 AEST
Digital Preservation Recorder (DPR) is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records.
DPR is a workflow tool which makes use of the format conversion services of the National Archives' Xena software. It creates and maintains a complete audit trail of preservation metadata during the processes of data quarantine, preservation and deposit into a digital archive.
Features:
- Friendly graphical user interface.
- Integration with open source anti-virus software (ClamAV).
- Step by step guided workflow.
- User management and authentication.
- Creation of detailed preservation metadata.
- Continuous data integrity checking.
- Fully audited reprocessing.
- Detailed reporting.
DPR is free and open source software, released under the GPLv2, and is available for download.
