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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 April 2003 Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand  |
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 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 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 Jul/Aug 2014 Oldman et al. |
Realizing Lessons of the Last 20 Years: A Manifesto for Data Provisioning & Aggregation Services for the Digital Humanities (A Position Paper) This paper addresses the complex issues of large scale cultural heritage data integration crucial for progressing digital humanities research.  |
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 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 Jul/Aug 2000 Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland & Philip B. Eppard |
Preserving the Authenticity of Contingent Digital Objects: The InterPARES Project In the development of digital libraries and of digital information systems in general, increasing attention is being given to issues relating to the preservation and authenticity of digital objects in order to assure their long-term accessibility and physical and intellectual integrity  |
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 October 2007 Andrew Treloar et al. |
The Data Curation Continuum: Managing Data Objects in Institutional Repositories The single repository approach, while initially attractive, suffers from a range of implementation challenges. These challenges can be best understood and addressed when considered in terms of the data curation continua.  |
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.  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 May/Jun 2007 Saidis & Delis |
Type-consistent Digital Objects This article provides an overview of the Digital Object Prototype framework and highlights its type-conformance capabilities and shows how heterogeneous digital material can be treated in a uniform manner without resorting to custom developments.  |
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 March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir |
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified.  |
D-Lib November 2004 Andreas Stanescu |
Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: The INFORM Methodology Clearly, the process of measuring the preservation durability of digital formats is best done in collaboration with digital archives, global registries, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital format experts, software and hardware developers and researchers.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage... A New Way to Follow the Research Trail... GreyGuide - Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature...  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2008 |
Clips and Pointers Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing... The State of America's Libraries... The Seamless Cyberinfrastructure: The Challenges of Studying Users of Mass Digitization and Institutional Repositories... etc.  |
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 January 2002 Anne R. Kenney |
Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources Virtual remote control in Cornell's Project Prism...  |
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 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 Mar/Apr 2008 |
Clips and Pointers Report of the The Library of Congress Working Group on the future of bibliographic control... A white paper on the preservation in the age of large-scale digitization... Position paper on issues surrounding digital preservation... etc.  |
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 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 September 2003 Pinfield & James |
The Digital Preservation of e-Prints This article addresses the question of whether or not e-prints -- electronic versions of research papers -- should be preserved and then goes on to make some comments about the practical issues that arise from the suggested answer.  |
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 February 2001 Kenneth Thibodeau |
Building the Archives of the Future Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration...  |
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 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.  |
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 August 2007 |
In Brief Award-Winning TPAP Digital Preservation Prototype Keeps Growing... Excerpts from Recent Press Releases and Announcements... ALA sends three resolutions to Congress in support of GPO, NLS, NDIIPP...  |
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 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 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 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 Nov/Dec 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Federal Grants of $30 Million Awarded to Support Museums across the U.S... Knowledge Managers' New Role in Making Open Scholarship Mainstream... 2014 Digital Preservation Training Needs Assessment Survey...  |
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 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 April 2002 Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date...  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Massart et al. |
Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX Information for Learning Object eXchange, is developed as part of the IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange specification specification that aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection.  |
D-Lib April 2003 Staples et al. |
The Fedora Project An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System  |
D-Lib October 2004 |
Clips & Pointers In Print: A Patent System for the 21st Century... Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries... Implementing Preservation Repositories For Digital Materials: Current Practice And Emerging Trends In The Cultural Heritage Community... etc.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 |
Clips and Pointers Cloud-sourcing Research Collections... Geek the Library: A Community Awareness Campaign... Impact of the Supreme Court's Decision in Costco v. Omega on Libraries...  |