ressourcepres

Ressourcepres is a term encountered in some digital preservation discussions to denote an integrated approach to safeguarding digital resources across their entire lifecycle. It is not a formal standard with universal adoption, but rather a concept and, in some cases, a reference architecture or toolkit used by libraries, archives, museums, and research repositories to frame preservation activities.

The central idea of ressourcepres is to ensure long-term accessibility and authenticity of digital assets by combining governance, metadata, storage, and technical strategies. Typical components associated with the concept include preservation metadata to document provenance and technical characteristics, fixity checks to detect integrity changes, packaging and packaging standards for transfer and storage, and policy-driven workflows that determine when actions such as migration, normalization, or emulation should occur. Implementations often emphasize multi-copy storage, regular integrity verification, and clear provenance tracking to support auditability and accountability.

Ressourcepres practices commonly align with established digital preservation principles, such as the OAIS reference model, PREMIS for preservation metadata, and packaging formats like BagIt. Projects described under this label may adopt open standards and interoperable components to enable replication, format sustainability, and access. However, because ressoucepres is not a formal standard, guidelines and implementations can vary between institutions and communities, reflecting local needs, resources, and policy frameworks.

See also digital preservation, OAIS, PREMIS, BagIt, data governance.