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D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Joan E. Beaudoin |
Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects In discussions surrounding digital preservation, context -- those properties of an object related to its creation and preservation that make the object's origins, composition, and purpose clear -- has been identified as a critical aspect of preservation metadata.  |
D-Lib February 2001 Kenneth Thibodeau |
Building the Archives of the Future Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration...  |
D-Lib May 2002 William G. LeFurgy |
Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories...  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Lavoie & Dempsey |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Vermaaten et al. |
Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment Digital preservation strategies, as well as the processes and tools that implement those strategies, are designed to secure the long-term future of digital materials. A successful digital preservation strategy must account for and mitigate the impact of various threats.  |
D-Lib September 2002 Green et al. |
Coming to TERM: Designing the Texas Email Repository Model This article explores access to and long-term preservation of digital records in state government settings using the Open Archival Information System Reference Model to design a repository for managing email records in the state of Texas.  |
D-Lib January 2000 Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition...  |
D-Lib February 2007 H.M. Gladney |
Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an Outsider Today's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program is focused on cultural content similar to traditional research library holdings, with little attention to preserving practical information critical to most social infrastructure and of interest to most citizens.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Webb et al. |
'Oh, you wanted us to preserve that?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australia's Digital Collections Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections.  |
D-Lib February 2002 Stewart Granger |
Digital Preservation and Deep Infrastructure Institutions should adopt both a pragmatic approach and a strategic approach to preservation of digital data.  |
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand  |
D-Lib August 2003 Gladney & Bennett |
What Do We Mean by Authentic? What's the Real McCoy? Authenticity is among digital document security properties needing attention. Literature focused on preservation reveals uncertainty -- even confusion -- about what we might mean by authentic. This article provides a solid, useful definition that spans vernacular usage of "authentic."  |
D-Lib June 2005 Jantz & Giarlo |
Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories To ensure that current digital archives can be trusted to be available in the future, methods, practices, and standards need to be defined.  |
D-Lib April 2002 Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date...  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Nakasone & Sheffield |
Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project We explain the descriptive metadata used for field books, which share characteristics of museum, archives, and library objects, and explain why schemas were chosen, and how they are used.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Casad et al. |
Enduring Access to Rich Media Content: Understanding Use and Usability Requirements Through an NEH-funded initiative, Cornell University Library is creating a technical, curatorial, and managerial framework for preserving access to complex born-digital new media objects.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Goethals et al. |
Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation Collaboratively: The Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group This article documents goals and activities of the IIPC Preservation Working Group, such as a survey about the current state of preservation in member web archives and a number of collaborative projects.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 Jinfang Niu |
An Overview of Web Archiving This overview is a study of the methods used at a variety of universities, and international government libraries and archives, to select, acquire, describe and access web resources for their archives.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2011 Shaon & Woolf |
Long-term Preservation for Spatial Data Infrastructures: a Metadata Framework and Geo-portal Implementation The work presented in this article investigates the requirements for ensuring sustained access to environmental data from the perspective of a preservation-aware Spatial Data Infrastructure.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Cramer & Kott |
Designing and Implementing Second Generation Digital Preservation Services: A Scalable Model for the Stanford Digital Repository This paper examines the lessons-learned through over five years of development and operational experience.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2013 von Suchodoletz et al. |
Report on the First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies The International Conference on Digital Preservation is an established annual event bringing together practitioners and researchers in the digital preservation community, engaging individuals, organizations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in digital libraries.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 Becker & Cardoso |
Report on the Capability Assessment and Improvement Workshop (CAIW) at iPres 2013 To provide an interactive, focused venue for those interested in systematic approaches for assessment and improvement, we organized the first Capability Assessment and Improvement Workshop in Lisbon, on September 5, 2013, as part of the 10th International Conference on Digital Preservation  |
D-Lib December 2008 Priscilla Caplan |
Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Brian F. Lavoie |
The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation How do we ensure that digital preservation activities survive beyond the current availability of soft-money funding?  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 |
Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services Distributed preservation services require further investigation about the interaction of service providers and client repositories. While there may be some emerging consensus on the range of services that may be needed, the primary requirement is for market testing conditions.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2012 |
In Brief and In the News SPRUCE project tackles digital preservation challenges with hands on events... The TIMBUS project - timeless business processes and services... Orphan works and mass digitization: obstacles and opportunities...  |
D-Lib October 2000 Stewart Granger |
Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy Many libraries and archives are in the process of `going digital'. What are the issues with respect to emulation as a digital preservation strategy?  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2008 Andres Imhof |
Using International Standards to Develop a Union Catalogue for Archives in Germany The project brings together in a collaborative portal the finding aids from archival records on SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and FDGB (Free German Trade Union Federation) from five eastern German state archives.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Neil Beagrie |
The Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Ultimately, digital preservation will be successful when it can be seen not as a stand alone institutional activity but as an activity embedded in how institutions manage and approach digital information and resources on an ongoing basis.  |
D-Lib June 2008 Brian F. Lavoie |
PREMIS With a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata was the first comprehensive specification for preservation metadata produced from an international, cross-domain consensus-building process.  |
D-Lib April 2004 Brian F. Lavoie |
Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Seamus Ross |
The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe While Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPNET) plans to continue playing a part in satisfying the need for reliable knowledge about digital preservation methods and practices and high quality research, the team recognises that many more organisations of this kind are needed for the development of effective preservation capabilities across public, commercial, and consumer sectors.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 Li & Banach |
Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats.  |
D-Lib November 2003 Ronald Jantz |
Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System This article provides an overview of the Eagleton Poll Archive, the website and, more specifically, the underlying preservation framework  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Ok Nam Park |
Development of Linked Data for Archives in Korea The study reported on here converts records of National Archives of Korea to linked data, and connects archives data to library and museum data in order to show how linked data are actually used in MLA (Museum-Library-Archives).  |
D-Lib October 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Archaeology Data Service Guides to Good Practice... Free Range Librarian... E-Serials Cataloging... etc.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Kulovits et al. |
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings.  |
D-Lib August 2006 Lavoie, Henry & Dempsey |
A Service Framework for Libraries As libraries continue to engage with an ever-shifting information landscape, it is apparent that their efforts would be facilitated by a shared view of how library services should be organized and surfaced in these new settings and contexts.  |
D-Lib April 2006 Currall & McKinney |
Investing in Value: A Perspective on Digital Preservation Digital preservation is an investment decision, where expenditure in the current period is made in the belief that benefits will accrue in some future period and, as such, needs to have the benefits weighed against the costs and risks.  |
CAUSE/EFFECT Vol 22 Num 2 1999 Gerry Bernbom, Joan Lippincott, and Fynnette Eaton |
Working Together: New Collaborations among Information Professionals As colleges and universities, government agencies, and other organizations create and use information resources in the digital environment, they may not be taking steps necessary to ensure that they have long-term access to that information....  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Joan Beaudoin |
A Framework for Contextual Metadata Used in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects Contextual information is fundamental to understanding many aspects about digital content. The framework presented here was developed to accommodate recording this critical information.  |
D-Lib February 2002 |
Clips and Pointers ERCIM News special issue on e-government... Archiving Electronic Publications: A report of the NISO/BISG... Internet Scout Project reports... Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook... Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow: Pay Now or Pay Later... etc.  |
D-Lib February 2003 |
Clips and Pointers Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues... The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11... Creating and Using Virtual Reality: a Guide for the Arts and Humanities... Digital Libraries... CD Forum Guidance Papers... etc.  |
D-Lib December 2005 Anderson et al. |
The AIHT at Stanford University: Automated Preservation Assessment of Heterogeneous Digital Collections Development and initial implementation of a methodology for automated preservation-risk assessment, results applying the methodology to the AIHT collection, and some general conclusions from our results and from the project as a whole.  |
D-Lib March 2000 Moore, Baru, Rajasekar, Ludascher, et al. |
Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 1 ...This paper defines an approach for maintaining digital data for hundreds of years through development of an environment that supports migration of collections onto new software systems....  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Oliver & Knight |
Storage is a Strategic Issue: Digital Preservation in the Cloud The purpose of this paper is to document the decision taken to outsource the storage of the National Library of New Zealand's National Digital Heritage Archive, and in so doing provide some empirical evidence to assist other institutions worldwide facing similar decisions.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 |
Magazine Clips and Pointers HighWire Press 2009 Librarian eBook survey... Sustainable economics for a digital planet... Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)... Library of Congress digital preservation newsletter... etc.  |
Information Today March 18, 2010 Barbara Quint |
Digital Preservation Guidance From Blue Ribbon Task Force The technological challenges to long-term retention of digital content are great, but perhaps even greater are the economic and institutional challenges.  |
D-Lib March 2001 |
Clips & Pointers Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects... Museums and the Web 2001 Proceedings... Discussion Papers from the CAMiLEON Project... etc.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records...  |