This site has been archived as part of King's Digital Lab (KDL) archiving and sustainability process, following background analysis and consultation with research leads wherever possible.

Project content and data has been stored as a fully backed-up Virtual Machine and can be made available on request (depending on access controls agreed with the Principal Investigator) for a period of at least 2 years from the decommissioning date indicated below.

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At its inception, KDL inherited just under 100 digital research projects and websites. Aware of the intellectual and cultural value of many of these projects, with the support of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London, KDL took on its responsibility to the community to steward them in a responsible manner. When the options of setting up a Service Level Agreement for further hosting and maintenance with KDL and/or undertaking migration to IT Services at King’s or other institutions were deemed infeasible or inappropriate, the archiving process was initiated.

We would like to thank research leads, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London, and partner institutions, for their support in this process.

For further information on KDL archiving and sustainability process see:

Project name

Preservation Exemplar at King’s

Project principal investigator(s)

Gareth Knight

Decommission Date

November 2018

Archive URL(s)

https://pekin.cerch.kcl.ac.uk

Additional links

UK Web Archive
Internet Archive

Overview

The Preservation Exemplar at King’s (PEKin) project sought to investigate, scope and implement a solution for the management of electronic business records and research materials in an HE institution. It demonstrated the added value of bringing together the archival and data curation approaches to implement a coordinated and strategic solution to manage digital assets. It sought to embed preservation practices within the institution through a multi-layered strategy: working with central services to ensure the college operates a consistent preservation strategy and service; and working with academic units and professional services to ensure local data producers and systems managers are provided with targeted advice, guidance and tools to support decision-making.

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