David Rosenthal and Victoria Reich
Co-founders of the LOCKSS Program
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that Victoria Reich and David Rosenthal, co-founders of the LOCKSS Program, have been named the 2025 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Award. In 1998, Reich and Rosenthal co-founded the LOCKSS (“Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) Program at Stanford University Libraries with funding from the National Science Foundation and later the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. LOCKSS aimed to ensure the long-term, low-cost preservation of digital materials and empower organizations, particularly libraries, to steward and preserve their own digital collections. The LOCKSS software has since been adopted as an economical, easy-to-use, and robust basis for the massive, global, publisher-supported CLOCKSS network and networks preserving, among others, e-journals and government documents. Through research, development, and maintenance, the proven technologies mitigate technological, economic, and legal threats to data persistence. The award recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the creation and innovative use of network-based information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Named for CNI’s founding director, the award will be presented during the CNI Membership Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, to be held April 7-8, 2025, where Reich and Rosenthal will deliver the Paul Evan Peters Memorial Lecture. Previous award recipients include Tony Hey (2024), Paul Courant (2022), Francine Berman (2020), Herbert Van de Sompel (2017), Donald A.B. Lindberg (2014), Christine L. Borgman (2011), Daniel Atkins (2008), Paul Ginsparg (2006), Brewster Kahle (2004), Vinton Cerf (2002), and Tim Berners-Lee (2000).
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