Overview: Digital Repository Service (DRS)

The Digital Repository Service (DRS) provides Harvard affiliated owners of digital material with a storage and retrieval system for their collections. Digital Repository services and facilities include:

• an electronic storage facility within which the digital objects created or purchased by Harvard agencies reside,

• management of administrative and structural metadata associated with stored objects,

• preservation policies and procedures to ensure the continued usability of stored objects, and

delivery of an object to a registered or known software application (e.g., an online catalog).

Consult the DRS Policy Guide for information about operation and use of the Digital Repository.