SPER (System or Preservation of Electronic Resources) digital preservation testbed, U.S. National Library of Medicine

From the overview of SPER (System or Preservation of Electronic Resources) is a digital preservation testbed created at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine. It's a Java-based client-server system and uses DSpace and the OAIS model for digital archiving. Interestingly enough, "The ingested documents may be searched and retrieved publicly using a Web browser, submitting simple and advanced queries. A MySQL database is used by SPER for storing all ingest and retrieval information." There are several conference papers available about SPER.

SPER was used to create the FDA Notices of Judgment Collection, 1906-1963, "a set of historic medico-legal documents aquired by NLM from the Food and Drug Administration. This collection of more than 40,000 digitized pages, referred to as FDA Notices of Judgment (FDANJ), consists of about 70,000 published notices of judgment (NJ) from court cases, involving products seized under authority of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act."