Begun in 2007 under the leadership of the Washington State Digital Archives, the Multi-State Preservation Consortium has brought together 10 states and dozens of different agencies to create a centralized digital archive based on the Washington State model. Though highly successful the process has not always been smooth, and the lessons we have learned can be applied to other multi-partner digitization efforts.
Author Jerry Handfield, "Ingestion and Indigestion: Negotiating Between States in the Digital Cloud" in Proc. IS&T Archiving 2009, 2009, pp 157 - 159, https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2009.6.1.art00032