As outlined in the Preservation Implementation Plan , Scholars Portal's preservation strategies are based around the transformation of ingested content into file formats conducive to long term preservation, in addition to standard bit-level preservation. In order to enable the full realization of this strategy, there are two main rights that need to be acquired from content providers:
Local loading
The most basic of the rights necessary for inclusion into Scholars Portal's repository system. This right refers to the ability of Scholars Portal staff to keep a local copy of the licensed materials on it's servers for persistent access purposes. Without this right, Scholars Portal cannot said to be obtaining sufficient control of the material in order to do any level of preservation, and therefore the only possible preservation level is "no preservation."
This right is required for even a baseline level of preservation. Without obtaining a copy of the materials being licensed, it is impossible for Scholars Portal to to provide any level of assurance with regard to its continued availability or integrity.
Transformation
This is the right necessary to enable the "full" preservation level. Content providers granting this right have consented to having their content migrated to new formats for the purposes of long-term preservation. In the interest of long term preservation, it is important that Scholars Portal be allowed to transform files in its care from formats deemed as being in danger of becoming obsolete into ones more suited to long-term interpretability.
Without this right having been assigned, Scholars Portal can only ensure file integrity, not the preservation of the intellectual contents of an archival unit.
For information on the instruments that grant these rights, please see the Rights policy for the format in question.