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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 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 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 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 Mar/Apr 2008 Catherine C. Marshall |
Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving Part 2: Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions Implications of accumulation, distribution, digital stewardship, and long-term access in digital archiving, and some promising technological directions and requirements for each of these four issues.  |
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 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 April 2002 Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date...  |
D-Lib February 2001 Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one...  |
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 Nov/Dec 2012 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We feature an extensive consideration of contextual metadata for cultural objects, visual interfaces for cultural heritage collections, the infrastructure needed to build upon and leverage open access and more.  |
D-Lib December 2005 Clay Shirky |
AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was created with the idea that by giving a moderately complex digital archive to a variety of participants, we would be able to better understand which aspects of digital preservation were institution-specific, and which aspects were more general.  |
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 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 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 October 2001 Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world...  |
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand  |
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 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 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 Jul/Aug 2011 Cynthia Tobar |
Music to My Ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives The Philharmonic plans to digitize its entire collection of 8 million pages of documents and 7,000 hours of audio visual material, reflecting the Philharmonic's commitment to providing the broadest possible access to its collections.  |
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 January 2006 Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context  |
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 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 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 November 2000 Michael Seadle |
Spoken Words, Unspoken Meanings A DLI2 Project Ethnography...  |
D-Lib June 2000 Sandra Payette & Carl Lagoze |
Value-Added Surrogates for Distributed Content Establishing a Virtual Control Zone  |
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 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 June 2009 Bradley Hemminger |
NeoNote: Suggestions for a Global Shared Scholarly Annotation System The goal of this article is to prompt others to think more generally and more globally about issues surrounding access, representation, searching and sharing of content items and annotations in digital repositories.  |
D-Lib May 2001 Robert E. Kahn |
Representing Value as Digital Objects A discussion of transferability and anonymity...  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases.  |
D-Lib October 2006 |
An Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains It is possible to build scholarly value chains across heterogeneous, distributed repositories. It is also possible to record audit trails of scholarly value chains into the very foundation of the scholarly communication system.  |
D-Lib November 2005 Rosenthal et al. |
Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach Work is under way to elaborate the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model with sufficient detail to allow systems to inter-operate on the basis of common specifications for ingesting and disseminating information.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history.  |
D-Lib November 2002 Jinfang Niu |
A Metadata Framework Developed at the Tsinghua University Library to Aid in the Preservation of Digital Resources  |
D-Lib May 2004 |
Clips & Pointers In Print... Point to Point... Calls for Participation... etc.  |
D-Lib June 2001 John S. Erickson |
A Digital Object Approach to Interoperable Rights Management Fine-grained policy enforcement enabled by a digital object infrastructure...  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2010 Reilly & Tupelo-Schneck |
Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture This paper introduces the Digital Object Repository Server, the most recent instantiation of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives' repository work.  |
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.  |
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 November 2001 Linda Pearce |
Lessons Learned: The Development of Electronic Reserves at the University of Calgary This article lays out the issues surrounding the in-house development of a fully featured electronic reserve platform known as Allectra at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada...  |
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 March 2002 Michael Seadle |
Whose Rules? Intellectual Property, Culture, and Indigenous Communities This article is about the soft side of copyright: not just what will stand up in court, but what lies in the cultural expectations of the creators and users of intellectual property, especially those from non-western backgrounds...  |
D-Lib May 2003 Tanner & Deegan |
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage in Europe The authors explore and report upon the pricing practice and policy for the transition to digital for a wide range of cultural and heritage organisations.  |
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 January 2002 Tony Gill |
Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, interoperability and digital cultural content...  |
Food Processing January 2010 |
New Food Rollout: January 2010 Our January List of New Food Products Recently Introduced to the Market.  |