Data-processing services

Tender description

The British Library is the UK’s national library, with an ever growing analogue and digital collection. Our digital collection is a combination of digitised and born digital, voluntary and legal deposit content that is currently maintained within a bespoke, internally developed digital repository system. Legal deposit content in the system is collected and maintained on behalf of all six legal deposit libraries in the UK, under the Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations (2013). The rapid growth in recent years, both in the volume and variety of digital content collected, has necessitated a significant uplift in the functionality, capacity and performance of the system. We are looking for suppliers who can clearly demonstrate their capability and capacity to meet requirements in the following 8 key areas: — ingest, — data management, — architectural fit, — preservation planning, — operational service and contractual, — implementation and migration, — archival storage and access. The British Library is the UK’s national library, with an ever growing analogue and digital collection. Our digital collection is a combination of digitised and born digital, voluntary and legal deposit content that is currently maintained within a bespoke, internally developed digital repository system. Legal deposit content in the system is collected and maintained on behalf of all six legal deposit libraries in the UK, under the Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations (2013). The rapid growth in recent years, both in the volume and variety of digital content collected, has necessitated a significant uplift in the functionality, capacity and performance of the system. We are looking for suppliers who can clearly demonstrate their capability and capacity to meet requirements in the following eight key areas: — ingest, — data management, — architectural fit, — preservation planning, — operational service and contractual, — Implementation and Migration, — archival storage and access.