Research Deliverables

This page serves as an evolving CV for the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), highlighting our community’s scholarship, presentations, and contributions to the field of digital preservation. It reflects the work of APTrust staff, collaborators, and member institutions across a wide range of initiatives—from technical innovation and architectural strategy to organizational development and community engagement.

Here you’ll find published articles, conference presentations, and recorded talks that showcase APTrust’s role in advancing preservation practice. The entries represent our commitment to openness, experimentation, and collaborative stewardship of digital content.

Daigle, Bradley. “Mutually Assured Preservation: Fostering Active Preservation Practice Through ‘Fire Drills.’” International Journal of Digital Curation 15, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v15i1.724.

Diamond, Andrew, and Bradley Daigle. “DART: Digital Archivist’s Routing Tool.” Presented at the Open Repositories 2018, Bozeman, Montana, June 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1is2RukUi2ido4VtzG9VDUqekIfTZ_F7JvyaVNsRS5iY/edit?usp=sharing.

Diamond, Andrew, and Flavia Ruffner. “Storage Challenges.” Presented at the Library of Congress Designing Storage Architectures 2023, Washington, DC, March 28, 2023. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10F982jPYSRdr6g_4wzyEbZKYSQuozocOSmGc16KQYQg/edit?usp=sharing.

Diamond, Andrew. Fixity in the Cloud. NDSA Infrastructure Interest Group, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8FEYmUg6Dk.

German, Chip. “Academic Preservation Trust.” Presented at the DLF Forum 2015, Vancouver, Canada, October 2015. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uCw9Vvwa-j6p9toMOhDZdL837xjsUJh-TJyW0F-vZWw/edit?usp=sharing.

German, Chip. “Academic Preservation Trust.” Presented at the EDUCAUSE 2015, Indianapolis, IN, October 30, 2015. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zZAP3K-mIWmOy0Dw5yXNTass7vRi1K4y40R8XLF0xOk/edit?usp=sharing.

German, Chip. “Academic Preservation Trust: Briefing.” Presented at the Archives Records 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, August 6, 2016. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/0B3XkR_kHCWRYSktHeFBCVWpYdmM/edit?usp=sharing

German, Chip, Andrew Diamond, Nathan Tallman, Linda Newman, and Jamie Little. “Academic Preservation Trust: Update.” Presented at the CNI Spring 2015, Seattle, Washington, April 14, 2015. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14g6B_oaLITWYdm6w99S7DmVpTN9-tMPAyT_J8id9U2Q/edit?usp=sharing.

German, Chip, and Kara McClurken. “In Medias Res: An Examination of Work in Progress at the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust) Consortium.” In Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future. Chicago: American Library Association, 2019. https://alastore.ala.org/content/digital-preservation-libraries-preparing-sustainable-future-alcts-monograph.

Northwestern University. “Beyond the Repository Grant Project Participant (IMLS LG-72-16-0135-16),” 2018. https://github.com/dpscollaborative/btr_bagit_profile.

Ruffner, Flavia. “Simplify to Amplify: Rearchitecting for Preservation in the Cloud.” Presented at the International Conference on Digital Preservation 2024, Ghent, Belgium, September 16, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13226918.

Ruffner, Flavia. “Simplify to Amplify: Rearchitecting for Preservation in the Cloud.” Presented at the Internet2 TechExchange 2024, Boston, December 12, 2024. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zMKNg6Kgl-fqkVVLJjPoAcZNVkE8VuaJ/edit?usp=sharing.

Ruggaber, Robin, Michele Kimpton, and Andrew Woods. “Academic Preservation Trust: A Consortium Committed to Digital Preservation.” Presented at the CNI Fall 2012, Washington, DC, December 10, 2012. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WNd6n-pdsbWuvoqluNoVUlrvj-m-5K6hLozlgTHQPmU/edit?usp=sharing.

Runyon, Michael, Gregory Murray, Flavia Ruffner, and Andrew Diamond. “Developing Efficient Scalable Cloud Preservation for Diverse Communities.” Presented at the NDSA Digital Preservation 2023, St. Louis, Missouri, November 26, 2023. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bdXJvdd58k6fyx6o9h6gV2G4b3XEd2y8umJ446b14D0/edit?usp=sharing.

Sexton, Jill, and Bradley Daigle. “Data Loss and Recovery: Strategies for Organizational Change.” Presented at the CNI Fall 2022, Washington, DC, December 13, 2022. https://www.cni.org/topics/special-collections/data-loss-and-recovery-strategies-for-organizational-change.

Sites, Martha. “Academic Preservation Trust: Why? What? When? And How?” Presented at the ARL Spring 2013, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 2013. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e-J_ZIn5BwE8LvZ7MA9HAekfCHoCxjm2l-BeJHVfjos/edit?usp=sharing.

Tallman, Nathan, and Flavia Ruffner. “Evolving a Multi-Cloud Strategy for Preservation.” Presented at the Library of Congress Designing Storage Architectures 2024, Washington, DC, April 15, 2024. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O1IWKbWdZ1xgr5XFUaTyZm2xSnLKybdb8ChDF_IDtdI/edit?usp=sharing.

Turnbull, Scott. “APTrust Lightning Talk.” Presented at the PASIG 2013, Washington, DC, May 23, 2013. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OlAa9OotQtsrwMikHhZ3dVmFPvu5KhEg1j1bGv-XQRE/edit?usp=sharing.

Turnbull, Scott. “APTrust Overview.” Presented at the Texas Digital Repositories, 2014. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nGDT1jRg3xrtDDOrcXRA5Qz4xUctfHhUoGRSPHmSTx4/edit?usp=sharing.

Turnbull, Scott. “Packaging Content for Aggregated and Federated Repositories through APTrust.” Presented at the Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 2014. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jn7kUarwrucjmprXa-oi-un-N8RLFNUKqo5P5UGFzuU/edit?usp=sharing.

Turnbull, Scott. “The Academic Preservation Trust Consortial Approach to Preservation and Services.” Presented at the Open Repositories 2013, July 10, 2013. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OqavP7KzP39MMjRNo7r9B6Ve-buAg3XcBY-PljsN78g/edit?usp=sharing.