Long Term Preservation: Why It Needs
		       to Be Cheap and How To Make It So

		    Thomas S. Robertson, Stanford University

Abstract:
One of the greatest obstacles to long-term preservation is cost. In a time of
budget crises few are willing to spend significant money on something that
won't be needed for many years (or perhaps at all). Once the need is felt, it
is generally too late. This seminar will talk about strategies to keep
long-term preservation cheap including:
- distributing the cost over a large number of institutions
- centralizing system admin time
- working with cheap (and thus error-prone) hardware
- open source
The LOCKSS Program will be examined as an existing implementation of these
strategies.

Bio:
Thomas S. Robertson earned his B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford
University. He is the Assistant Director and Technical Manager of the LOCKSS
Program at the Stanford University Libraries. He has been with the LOCKSS
Program since 2001. He is currently working to build a technical community
around the LOCKSS software and to make LOCKSS work with existing technologies
including OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Before joining the LOCKSS Program he worked at HighWire Press.