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In ensuring persistent access to digital heritage, the complementary processes of archiving and preservation are intertwined. In her paper 'Ensuring Long-Term Access to Online Publications', Margaret Phillips distinguishes between the two activities: archiving involves the identification, collection and provision of access to digital records in their current format, whilst preservation refers to the management of electronic materials so that they remain accessible as technology changes. Nevertheless, the twin processes are difficult to separate and both are included in the discussion of archiving which follows below. To add to this complexity, a coherent understanding of what constitutes a reliable archive for storage of archived materials has proved difficult to define. This is partly due to the diversity of digital record types and archival interests, though a recent joint RLG-OCLC draft report, which documents the work of the Digital Archive Attributes Working Group, has made an important contribution to this area.

The dynamic and ephemeral nature of digital publications presents a special challenge for archiving. Unless persistent identification systems are employed, documents can be moved to new locations without trace or disappear entirely from the web, or incorporate changes to content in a way which can prove difficult to capture and control. In addition, rapid changes in technology mean that documents created in current formats, may be obsolete and inaccessible within a decade. As many electronic documents contain links to or are functionally dependent on other internet locations, guarantees of functionality present added challenges for any archival system. The facility with which electronic documents may be reproduced means that intellectual property rights issues also need to be addressed before materials can be copied. Once electronic records have been collected, archival repositories also require appropriate infrastructures to enable storage, maintenance and access over the long term.

To find answers to such problems, defining work in digital archiving was carried out by the joint Commission on Preservation & Access (CPA)/RLG Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information. Its seminal report, issued in 1996, marked a turning point in thinking about archiving issues, and introduced important recommendations for the attributes of trusted digital repositories. Drawing on the work of the Task Force, the OAIS Reference Model, as developed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), has provided an influential international standard framework for digital archival systems. The OAIS has been widely adopted, and has been used to inform important undertakings such as the NEDLIB and CEDARS programs. The work of the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) has also made valuable contributions to the development of an interoperable architecture for the various archival systems.

Several other schemes have proved to be important in pioneering new approaches for capture and long-term digital archiving. From its inception in 1996, the Swedish Kulturarw3 (Cultural Heritage Cubed) project has explored methods for the collection, preservation and provision of access to Swedish online documents, based on a model of periodic harvesting of the entire Swedish domain. Adopting a different approach, the National Library of Australia has concurrently created the PANDORA archive, which is an archive of selected Australian online publications deemed to be of national significance and long term research value. In Finland, the EVA archival system to collect, register and store internet publications and ensure their long-term preservation, has been a joint project of libraries, publishers and expert organisations within the country since 1997.

Under this topic are links to resources detailing digital archiving projects, as well as to articles and papers which provide contributions to digital archiving theory.

Text last updated: Jan 2002

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100-Year Archive DILEMMA
Mearian, Lucas (Date Created: Jul 2005)
"As digital tapes and optical discs pile higher and higher in the cavernous rooms of offsite archive providers, businesses are finding them increasingly expensive to maintain. The storage industry is working on the problems of data archiving from various angles. One solution to the backward-compatibility problem is to convert data to common plain-text formats, such as ASCII or Unicode. Another approach is to use PDF files to store long-term data. On the media side, the Storage Networking Industry Association is working toward solving what it calls the '100-year archive dilemma' through a standards effort for media."
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,1033
82,00.html
Computerworld, Vol. 39, Issue 30 (July 25, 2005)
2007 Australian Federal Election on the Internet
Crook, Edgar (Date Created: Dec 2007) (Australia)
This paper describes the challenge of archiving web sites for the Australian 2007 Federal Election in the PANDORA web archive.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1040/13
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Historical 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving
Day, Michael In: Cultivate Interactive (Date Created: Nov 2002)
A report from the 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving held in Rome on the 19th September 2002 organised by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and the Vienna University of Technology.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue8/ecdlws2/
Historical 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving
Day, Michael In: Ariadne (Date Created: 30 Oct 2003)
A report on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim in August 2003, describing work presented on identifiers, web archiving tools and experiences in web archiving from various countries.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/ecdl-web-archiving-rpt/
4th International Web Archiving Workshop
Day, Michael (Date Created: 30 Oct 2004)
The 4th International Web Archiving Workshop was held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. This workshop report features a paragraph summary of each paper.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/ecdl-web-archiving-rpt/
In Ariadne, Issue 4, October 2004
Historical 5th Joint Technical Symposium : Image and Sound Archiving and Access - the challenges of the 3rd Millennium: Abstracts
Joint Technical Symposium/Commission Superieure Technique de l'Image et du Son (Date Created: Jan 2000) (France)
Abstracts of papers and posters presented at this meeting are available in pdf.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041010230730/http://www.cst.fr/jts2000/en
/index.htm
Full proceedings (book or CD-ROM) may be ordered from JTS Paris secretariat: http://www.cst.fr/jts2000/en/index.htm#actes Archived by Internet Archive
9th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009) Corfu, Greece, September/October, 2009: Workshop Proceedings
Masanes, Julien (ed.); Rauber, Andreas (ed.); Spaniol, Marc (ed.) (Date Created: Oct 2009)
This workshop proceedings (56 p.) includes 7 papers given at IWAW 2009 (Corfu, Greece 30 September - 1 October 2009).
http://www.iwaw.net/09/IWAW2009.pdf
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Historical Access in the Future Tense
Greenstein, Daniel; Ivey, Bill; Kenney, Anne R.; Lavoie, Brian; Smith, Abby (Date Created: Apr 2004) (United States of America)
This report, based on papers presented at a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) conference held in May 2003, focuses on preservation and stewardship in the education and research area, including digital preservation of the resources. Preservation topics related to institutional collaboration, cost of maintenance of a digital collection, legal challenges, and policy issues are discussed. Papers include Mapping the Preservation Landscape by Abby Smith ; Library Stewardship in the Digital Age by Daniel Greenstein ; Collection, Preservation and the Changing Resource Base by Anne R. Kenney ; Issues in Intangible Cultural Heritage by Bill Ivey ; Of Mice and Memory : Economically Sustainable Preservation for the Twenty-first Century by Brian Lavoie ; In Support of Long Term Access by Abby Smith.
ISBN: 193232609x
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub126/pub126.pdf
Historical Access to Web Archives: the Nordic Web Archive Access Project
Brygfjeld, Svein Arne (Date Created: 22 Aug 2002) (Scandinavia)
Presented at the 68th IFLA General Conference and Council held in Glasgow, 18-24th August, 2002, this paper describes a prototype access system for access to large-scale web archives, as developed by the Nordic Web Archive Access Project. The project is an initiative of the National Libraries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/090-163e.pdf
Also available in French at http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/090-163f.pdf
Accountability and Accessibility : Ensuring the Evidence of E-governance in Australia
Cunningham, Adrian; Phillips, Margaret E. (Date Created: Aug 2005) (Australia)
This article is an updated version of a earlier article called Keeping Online Information Accessible for E-governance and E-democracy published in 2004. The article focuses on the need for government agencies and other institutions to ensure that electronic publications and organisational records are collected, managed and preserved as a means of ensuring long-term access for the benefit of e-governance and e-democracy. The article provides definitions of online publications and online records; explores the role of libraries and archives in e-government, including initiatives undertaken at the National Library of Australia and National Archives of Australia; addresses factors that contribute to the vulnerability of online information; and concludes with a list of factors that inhibit the long-term availability of online information for e-governance and e-democracy.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00012530510612059
Aslib Proceedings, ISSN 0001-253X , vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 301-317. Available via subscription from www.emeraldinsight.com
Historical Acid Free Bits : Recommendations for Long-Lasting Electronic Literature
Montfort, Nick; Wardrip-Fruin, Noah (Date Created: 14 Jun 2004)
The purpose of this article is to raise awareness of preservation issues for the creators of e-literature. The article begins by outlining the principles and methods of creating long lived e-literature. The author encourages the incorporation of preservation activities as part of the creation process or at least an awareness of preservation issues when decisions in the creation process are made, such as the use of non-proprietary systems, formats, and the use of adequate documentation.
http://www.eliterature.org/pad/afb.html
Adapting Existing Technologies for Digitally Archiving Personal Lives: Digital Forensics, Ancestral Computing, and Evolutionary Perspectives and Tools
John, Jeremy Leighton (Date Created: 29 Sep 2008) (United Kingdom)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Centre, 29-30 Sept. 2008) considers the use of existing technologies for digital curation in the context of personal digital archives and the Digital Manuscripts Project at the British Library. Technologies derived from computer forensics, data conversion, classic and evolutionary computing are discussed and the importance of using multiple technologies rather than a single approach is stressed.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day1/09_John.pdf
Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past: Towards a Robust Strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation
Stijn Hoorens; Jeff Rothenberg; Constantijn van Oranje; Martin van der Mandele; Ruth Levitt (Date Created: 2007) (Netherlands)
This report prepared for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek reviews the history of digital preservation, the role of National Libraries and publishers and discusses the dynamic environment of scholarly publishing. The report considers the strategy implications for the KB and its e-Depot archive.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/
Summary and Full document in PDF available for download from http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/ also available for sale. RAND (Technical ) Report TR-510-KB
Advancing Geospatial Data Curation
Bose, Rajendra; Reitsma, Femka (Date Created: Nov 2005) (United Kingdom)
This paper delivered at PV 2005 discusses the issues in the emerging discipline of Geospatial data curation.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pv-2005/pv-2005-final-papers/030.pdf
Historical It Always Hurts the First Time: Experiences with Transferred Electronic Records
van Dijk, Marcel In: Cultivate Interactive (Date Created: Feb 2003) (Netherlands)
This case study notes the problems of transferring electronic records to the Amsterdam Public Record Office from a government agency. The study covers issues such as project planning, metadata, various file formats such as e-mails and text files.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue9/amsterdammro/
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Historical The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's e-Journal Archiving Program: Summary of the Projects and their Progress
Digital Library Federation (DLF) (Last Updated: 28 Dec 2001) (United States of America)
An overview of progress to December 2001 of the electronic journal (e-journal) archiving projects under way at the Libraries of Cornell University, Harvard University, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Public Library, the LOCKSS system project at the Stanford Libraries and the collaboration between Yale Library and Elsevier Science.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/ejpreps.htm
Historical Application of Persistent Identifiers as One Approach to Ensure Guarantee Long-Term Availability of Online Theses : the Established Uniform Resource Name (URN) Management at Die Deutsche Bibliothek
Schroeder, Kathrin (Date Created: May 2003) (Germany)
This article discusses the implementation, management and structure of URNs at Die Deutsche Bibliothek (German National Library), within the international NBN (National Bibliography Number) name space of national libraries. Practical experiences of URN management including workflows, current activities and examples are also included.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/schroeder-kathrin/HTML/index.html
Historical Applying the Lessons Learned from Retrospective Archiving to the Digital Archiving Conundrum
Heterick, Bruce (Date Created: 2002) (United States of America)
Since 1995 JSTOR has been converting back issues of paper journals into electronic formats. This article provides an overview of the activities of JSTOR in creating an archive of scholarly journals. Included in the piece is a summary of JSTOR’s mission; an explanation of who contributes and uses the archive; a discussion of principles considered fundamental to digital preservation; and a description of five main challenges in archiving electronic content (rights and responsibilities, content, functionality, migration and business model).
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/1wfdrr1waf8ddax8/
Available in Information Services & Use, Vol 22, Issue 2/3, 2002, pp. 113-120, ISSN 0167-5265
Appraisal of Digital Resources in the Public Sector: A General Introduction from a DELOS Report
Guercio,Maria (Date Created: 18 Nov 2008)
This briefing paper from Digital Preservation Europe provides an introduction to the appraisal and selection of digital resources in the public sector as part of the preservation process. It is based on research for a report for the DELOS project.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/Appraisal-
of-Digital-ResourcesEN.pdf
Digital Preservation Europe Briefing Paper
Historical Appraising Digital Records for Long-Term Preservation
Eastwood, Terry (Date Created: 30 Dec 2004)
This article discusses electronic record appraisal from an archival viewpoint but draws inferences that may be helpful in the preservation of other types of data, such as scientific data. The article discusses the various stages and processes of appraisal as a first step in digital preservation. The Appraisal Task Force of the InterPARES project is also outlined.
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/3/0/202/_pdf
Data Science Journal, ISSN 1683-1470, Vol. 3, 2004, pp. 202-208,
Approaches to Managing & Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use: White Paper to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities
Farr, Erika; Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.; Kraus, Kari M.; Nelson, Naomi L.; Peters, Catherine Stollar; REside, Doug; Redwine, Gabriela (Date Created: May 2009) (United States of America)
This white paper (33 p.) reports on a series of visits and meetings for personnel working with the born-digital components of significant collections of literary material at Emory University, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre at the University of Texas at Austin and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. The purpose of the visits was to exchange knowledge and to prepare a larger collaborative proposal aimed at preserving and accessing the born digital documents and records of contemporary authors. The paper includes descriptions of digital components (hardware and software) of the selected personal papers collections and methods/tools and strategies used by the institutions to deal with them.
http://www.neh.gov/ODH/Default.aspx?tabid=111&id=37
APSR Sustainability Issues Discussion Paper
Bradley, Kevin (Date Created: 28 Jan 2005)
This comprehensive paper examines various aspects of digital sustainability. These include economic aspects, such as costing, funding and business models; technological aspects, such as repositories, formats, bit stream and persistence; and risk and risk management. Also included is a summary of specific issues and their associated tasks. The document also includes an extensive bibliography.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/documents/APSR_Sustainability_Issues_Paper.pdf
Architecture of DAMP : a System for Harvesting and Archiving Web Publications
Milinovic, Miroslav ; Topolscak, Nebojsa (Date Created: Jul 2005) (Croatia)
This article discusses the DAMP project (Digital Archive for Web Publications). DAMP is used to archive Croatian websites. It was developed by The University Computing Centre based at the University of Zagreb (SRCE) and the National and University Library (NUL) in Zagreb. The article discusses the first version of DAMP, including its architecture, the gathering process and future developments such as the instigation of an authentication and authorisation system.
http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Issues/Vol3/issue3_3_1.html
WIDWISAWN, Vol. 3, no. 3 (July 2005)
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Archival Data Format Requirements
Christensen, Steen S. (Date Created: Jul 2004) (Denmark)
This document discusses the requirements of the Netarkivet in terms of both file formats and metadata. The document outlines the basic requirements for storage formats that can be used for long term preservation. Different storage formats are then evaluated in relation to Netarkivet specifications and a recommendation for a suitable long term storage format is made.
http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/Archival_format_requirements-2004.p
df
Historical Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) : Final Report
Shirky, Clay (Date Created: Jun 2005) (United States of America)
The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was designed to test a proposed preservation architecture. The test had two phases; phase one tested the transfer from the donating archive and data handling within local systems; phase two tested export and import between the participants. The participants of the project were the Library of Congress, Stanford University, Old Dominion University, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University Library. A common data set, the George Mason University 9/11 archive, provided the data for the test.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/aiht/high/ndiipp_aiht_fina
l_report.pdf
Archive With Care
Rees, Peter (Date Created: Jun 2005)
This article covers the problems of a lack of open format standards from the perspective of the research data recorded in ELNs (Electronic Laboratory Notebooks), in particular their use by the pharmaceutical industry. Although formats like PDF/A can solve some problems, there is still reliance on proprietary file formats used in analytical instruments and other scientific software.
http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=40
Issue 82 (June 2005), Scientific Computing World
ArchivePress: A really Simple Solution to Archiving Blog Content
Davis, Richard; Pennock, Maureen (Date Created: 06 Oct 2009) (United Kingdom)
This paper given at iPRES 2009 (6th International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects, 5-6 October 2009, San Francisco, California) describes research undertaken by the ArchivePress project, a collaborative initiative between the University of London Computing Centre (ULCC) and the British Library (BL) funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), in developing a simple approach for the archiving of blogs by organisations regardless of size.
http://pubs.ulcc.ac.uk/101/
Available in ULCC Publications Archive
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Historical Archives in the Regions: An overview of the English Regional Archive Strategies
The National Council on Archives (Date Created: 2001) (United Kingdom)
This report draws together the nine English Regional Archive Strategies. A key area of work highlighted in the report is to find solutions for some of the larger challenges currently facing the domain, such as sustainable arrangements for the management and preservation of digital records, and improving access to conservation services across the regions.
http://www.ncaonline.org.uk/materials/archivesinregionsoverview.pdf
Historical Archiving and Accessing Web Pages : the Goddard Library Web Capture Project
Allen, Robert B. ; Anderson, Nikkia; Hodge, Gail; Senserini, Alessandro ; Smith, Daniel In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Nov 2004) (United States of America)
This is a report on capturing intranet web pages by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The aim of the Web Capture project was to ensure the long term preservation of this information, and to extract and index metadata in a format that is searchable. The article discusses how this was achieved including descriptions of system flow, web site selection, and the capture process. Technical limitations of the process are also discussed.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2004-hodge
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november04/hodge/11hodge.html
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Historical Archiving and Preserving PDF Files
Ockerbloom, John Mark In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Feb 2001)
This article examines the long-term preservation of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Possible migration strategies for PDF documents are outlined and appropriate techniques for archiving are discussed.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file5
58.html#feature2
Archiving Archaeological Data -- Is There a Viable Business Model for a U.S. Repository?
Eiteljorg, Harrison (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
This article explores the problems of a lack of active digital repositories for archaeological data in the United States. The author proposes that a lack of funding and a viable business model for this type of archive is in part responsible for this situation.
http://csanet.org/newsletter/winter05/nlw0501.html
CSA Newsletter, vol. XVII, no. 3 (Winter 2005)
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Historical Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action
Kahle, Brewster; Lyman, Peter In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jul 1998)
In this article, Peter Lyman and Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive describe the World Wide Web as a new kind of cultural artifact requiring new kinds of management techniques, giving examples of innovative approaches already on the Web. Further technical work is proposed, including developments in legal and data transmission infrastructures, technologies for digital publishing, digital libraries and archives, and time-capsule technologies.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07lyman.html
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Historical Archiving E-mail
Boudrez, Filip; Van den Eynde, Sofie (Date Created: Aug 2002)
A report from the Flemish DAVID Project examining in detail the legal and technical issues related to the preservation of email records, including sections on email archiving policies and practice. The report is available in PDF format.
http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/davidproject/teksten/Rapporten/Rep
ort4.pdf
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Historical Archiving Electronic Publications: A report of the NISO/BISG Meeting, January 20, 2002
National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) (Last Updated: 02 Feb 2002)
This report from the ALA Midwinter Conference 2002, provides descriptions of three ongoing electronic archiving projects that "examine cost-effective business models for archiving, explore rights issues, and identify the needed standards". Powerpoint slides by presenters from the respective projects area available.
http://www.niso.org/news/events/niso/past/niso_bisg_rpt/
Archiving Foreign Government Statistical Web Sites for All at Indiana University Libraries
Singer, Andrea (Date Created: 26 May 2008) (United States of America)
This paper delivered at the World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council (10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada), focuses on a government information web site archiving project at Indiana University called National Government Statistical Web Sites (GIMSS). Web sites of national level governmental statistical agencies excluding the European Union, Australia, Canada, and the USA are archived using Archive-It. Statistical agencies from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, South Asia, and Southeast Asia are included, with collection comprising approximately 200 sites archived since June 2006.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/130-Singer-en.pdf
Also available in French http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/130-Singer-trans-fr.pdf
Archiving in the Networked World: Interoperability
Seadle, Michael In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010)
This editorial looks at the challenges of achieving interoperability in long term digital archiving systems by drawing on the experience in the LuKII (LOCKSS und KOPAL Infrastructure und Interoperabilität) project and reviewing the literature on interoperability.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047604
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 189-194
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Historical Archiving Scientific Data
Buneman, Peter; Khanna, Sanjeev; Tajima, Keishi; Tan, Wang-Chiew (Date Created: Jun 2002)
A paper presented at ACM SIGMOD 2002, describing the development of an archiving tool for XML data that allows retention of all previous states of the data as it changes over time. Meaningful change descriptions, retrieval of specific versions and history over time for any element in the archive are supported. The paper is available in a number of formats.
http://db.cis.upenn.edu/research/ki.html
Archiving Temporal Web Information: Organization of Web Contents for Fast Access and Compact Storage
JaJa, Joseph; Song, Sangchul (Date Created: 2008)
This technical report (11 p) address the problem of archiving dynamic web contents over significant time spans through the development of a scheme that stores unique temporal web contents in containers using the ARC/WARC format, and that provides quick access to the archived contents for arbitrary temporal queries.
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~joseph/temporal-web-archiving-final-umiacs-
tr-2008-08.pdf
Technical Report UMIACS-TR-2008-08
Historical Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art
Rinehart, Richard In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: May 2002)
A brief description of "Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art", a consortium project whose collaborators include the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org, the Franklin Furnace Archive and the Cleveland Performance Art Festival and Archive.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may02/05inbrief.html#RINEHART
Archiving the Canadian Web : Experiences at Library and Archives Canada
Lilleniit, Roselyn (Date Created: Aug 2007) (Canada)
This article describes current practices for selection, acquisition, management and accessibility of Canadian web sites at Library and Archives Canada and outlines future plans.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a904273506~db=all~ord
er=page
Available in The Serials Librarian, Vol 53, No 1/2, 20 Aug 2007, pp. 139-149
Historical Archiving the Greek Web
Eirinaki, Magdalini; Jevtuchova, Darija; Lampos, Charalampos; Vazirgiannis, Michalis (Date Created: Sep 2004) (Greece)
This paper describes a project to archive Greek orientated web materials using the domain name (.gr), the Greek language and Greek content as selection criteria. It describes the methodology for archiving, including details on the web crawler and semantic analysis, and presents the results of the experiments.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/Lampos.pdf
Archiving the Icelandic Web
Sigurðsson, Kristinn (Date Created: 16 Sep 2006) (Iceland)
This presentation given at ICA-SUV Seminar in Reykjavik, Iceland on 16 September 2006 gives an update on web archiving in Iceland.
http://www2.hi.is/solofile/1009995
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Historical Archiving the Internet
Kahle, Brewster In: Report on the WWW 8 Conference (Date Created: 11 Apr 1996)
Brewster Kahle discusses his rationale for an Internet Archive of public documents. He gives insights into some of the logistical issues including those of data gathering, cost, access and collecting mandate. It is intended that the Archive will provide resources for research and data analysis.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030605113917re_/www.archive.org/sciam_art
icle.html
Historical Archiving the Slovenian Web : Recent Experiences
Grobelnik, Marko; Kavcic-Colic, Alenka (Date Created: Sep 2004) (Slovenia)
This paper reports on a two year project ending in September 2004 which aimed to develop a national repository for the long term preservation of the Slovenian web. The two main goals of the project were to develop a methodology to archive the Slovenian web and to develop a web crawler to facilitate this.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/Kavcic.pdf
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, September 2004.
Historical Archiving the Web - Some Legal Aspects
Kavcic-Colic, Alenka (Date Created: 21 Aug 2002)
A paper presented at the 68th IFLA General Conference and Council held in Glasgow, 18-24 August, 2002, discussing some legal aspects of archiving publications from the web. Copyright and legal deposit legislation are discussed with regard to rights implications for harvesting, public access and long-term preservation.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/116-163e.pdf
Also available in French at http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/116-163f.pdf
Archiving the Web : Does Whole-of-Domain Archiving = Information Overload?
Pymm, Bob; Wallis, Jake (Date Created: Jan 2009) (Australia)
This paper presented at Information Online 2009 (Sydney Convention Centre, 20-22 January 2009) presents a study comparing results of searching the whole of Australian domain harvest undertaken by the National Library of Australia in 2007 and selective archiving in the PANDORA web archive. The authors explore the question of the value of whole domain harvests compared to selective archiving.
http://www.information-online.com.au/sb_clients/iog/data/content_item_
files/000001/PresentationB8.pdf
Historical Archiving the Web : European Experiences
Hakala, Juha In: Tietolinja News (Date Created: Oct 2003)
This paper was presented at CONSAL XII, 20-23 October 2003, Brunei, and is an updated version of Collecting and Preserving the Web: Developing and Testing the NEDLIB Harvester, published in 2001. It outlines the outcomes of the NEDLIB Harvester Project for the archiving of Web resources. Some of the key issues in using this form of technology for preserving materials on the Web are reviewed. New developments are discussed including the Nordic Web Archive II project and the establishment of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) to develop standards and tools for web archiving.
http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/extra/tietolinja/0203/webarchive.html
Historical Archiving the Web : Political Party Web Sites in the Netherlands
Druiven, Henk; Keyzer, André; Voerman, Gerrit; den Hollander, Frank (Date Created: Jun 2003) (Netherlands)
This article describes the Dutch project Archipol, which archives Dutch political Web sites, and examines why this information may be important to researchers in the future. Also discussed are various international initiatives to archive similar Web sites.
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/dmqdln7vt3vp27b9/?p=17748463c0ce
482ea54b6a0106c89ae1&pi=0
Available in Information Services and Use, vol. 23, issue 1 (2003), ISSN 0167-5265
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Historical Archiving the Web: The PANDORA Archive at the National Library of Australia
Cathro, Warwick; Webb, Colin; Whiting, Julie (Date Created: Jun 2001) (Australia)
This paper prepared for the Preserving the Present for the Future Web Archiving Conference, Copenhagen, 18-19 June 2001, describes the National Library of Australia's PANDORA web archive. It includes description of the Library's framework for digital collection management, the reasons for a selective approach to web archiving, the archiving processes, persistent identifiers, access control, preservation plans and opportunities for global cooperation and information sharing.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1314/16
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Historical Archiving the World Wide Web
Lyman, Peter In: Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving (Date Created: Apr 2002) (United States of America)
A paper in the series of six environmental scans commissioned as part of the US National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), this article examines archiving the web from several perspectives. As well as technical issues, such as those involved in defining the digital object, authenticity and provenance and the technologies needed for preservation, the article considers the roles of librarians and computer scientists in managing digital material and organisational issues such as copyright and the responsibility to preserve.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/web.html
The collected papers are also available in PDF format via: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html
Archiving Web Site Resources : a Records Management View
Kelly, Brian; Pennock, Marueen (Date Created: 2006)
This brief paper forms part of the poster exhibition at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference WWW 2006 (23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh Scotland). The paper describes a records management approach to the archiving and maintenance of web sites so that enough metadata is collected on the resource to ensure legal and archival requirements. The authors propose several ways to facilitate this including collaboration between record creators and managers, education and training.
http://www2006.org/programme/item.php?id=p100
Poster also archived by the UK Web Archive http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100215095152/http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/WWW2006_Archiving_Web_Site_Resources_poster.pdf
Archiving Web Sites for Preservation and Access : MODS, METS and MINERVA
Guenther, Rebecca; Myrick, Leslie (Date Created: Apr 2007) (United States of America)
This article examines the technical challenges in harvesting and managing web archives and metadata strategies using as an example the Library of Congress' Minerva project.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a902777368~db=all~ord
er=page
Journal of Archival Organization, April 2007, Vol 4 No1-2, p 141-166 and through InformaWorld
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Historical Archiving Websites
Boudrez, Filip; Van den Eynde, Sofie (Date Created: Jul 2002) (Belgium)
A report (95 p., 1.8 MB) from the Flemish DAVID Project examining the need for archiving of web sites, approaches for collection and management, and a range of legal issues including copyright. The report is available in PDF format.
http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/davidproject/teksten/Rapporten/Rep
ort5.pdf
Archiving, Indexing and Accessing Web Materials: Solutions for Large Amounts of Data
Cowart, Charles; Minor, David; Moore, Reagan; Zhu, Bing (Date Created: 23 Jun 2007) (United States of America)
This paper given at IWAW 2007(7th International Web Archiving Workshop, Vancouver Canada, 23 June 2007) describes two different technologies applied by the San Diego Super Computer Centre for archiving, indexing and accessing web archived materials for two projects: Library of Congress/San Diego Supercomputer Center and the National Science Digital Library.
http://iwaw.net/07/IWAW2007_minor.pdf
Paper presented at IWAW 2007.
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Historical Arrangement for Depositing Electronic Publications at the Deposit of Netherlands Publications [sic] in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Date Created: 1999) (Netherlands)
English text of a general agreement made on 10 June 1999 between the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Dutch Publishers' Association for the voluntary deposit of on- and offline electronic publications. The arrangement is experimental in nature, and is to be reviewed on a three-yearly basis, with the first evaluation due on or before 1 July 2002. Importantly, dynamic databases, whilst covered by the compass of the agreement, will not be sought on deposit by the KB until technical and other problems associated with their collection, storage and access are fully understood.
http://www.kb.nl/dnp/overeenkomst-nuv-kb-en.pdf
Historical Aspects of Digital Preservation and Archiving Forum
Research Libraries Group In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Jun 1999)
This is a brief write-up of the Digital Preservation and Archiving Forum which took place 20-21 May 1999 at Emory University. It is mainly a list of words of wisdom.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file3
535.html#rlg-news
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Historical Attributes of File Formats for Long Term Preservation of Scientific and Engineering Data in Digital Libraries
Barkstrom, Bruce R.; Folk, Mike (Date Created: 2002)
This paper was produced as part of the Investigating Scientific Data Management Applications with Electronic Records Project sponsored by NARA (National Archives and Records Administration). The paper discusses the characteristics of file formats that can be advantageous in the preservation and storage of scentific and engineering data. File formats are discussed in the context of archival storage and access, usability, data integrity and maintainability and durability.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/NARA/Sci_Formats_and_Archiving.doc
Historical Audio Archiving for 100 Years & Longer : Once We Decide What to Save, How Should We Do It?
Gladney, Henry (Date Created: Jul 2001)
Gladney's 10 page letter to the editor of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society places the issues of audio preservation within the frame and concerns of digital preservation generally. It also provides a critique of current digital preservation approaches. He argues that low cost technology has encouraged the use of digital systems for audio by many libraries and archives but that little attention has been paid to the long term preservation of audio documents. These "incompletely solved challenges", he further states, avail themselves of technical solutions, but that the greatest issues will be economic and political.
http://www.aes.org/journal/suppmat/gladney_2001_7.pdf
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 49, no. 7/8, July/August 2001
Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories : Creating a Mandate for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
McHugh, Andrew; Ross, Seamus In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2005) (United Kingdom)
This article provides an introduction to audit and certification in digital repositories. Various issues are discussed including what conditions must be satisfied for a digital repository to attain trusted status, how can a repository formalise its trusted status and gaining an audit and certification mandate. The activities and initiatives of the Digital Curation Centre in regard to audit and certification are also discussed.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
025.html#article1
Australian Web Domain Harvests: A Preliminary Quantitative Analysis of the Archive Data
Koerbin, Paul (Date Created: 15 Apr 2008) (Australia)
This report provides a preliminary quantitative analysis of content from three Australian web domain harvests conducted between 2005 and 2007. It reports on the size of the Australian web harvests; number and percentage of hosts and URLs by 2nd level domain; MIME types and changes between the 2006 and 2007 harvests.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/documents/auscrawls.pdf
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Historical Austrian Online Archive Processing: Analyzing Archives of the World Wide Web
Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Rauber, Andreas; Witvoet, Oliver (Date Created: Sep 2002) (Austria)
A paper describing the use of OLAP technologies (On-Line Analytical Processing) to build a data warehouse of a web archive. Data warehousing allows exploration and analysis of technical aspects of the archive, such as the use of operating systems, scripts and file types, from which inferences of change over time may be drawn.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ifs/research/pub_pdf/rau_ecdl02.pdf
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Historical Authenticity of Electronic Records : a Report Prepared for UNESCO and the International Council on Archives
Millar, Laura (Date Created: Jan 2004)
This report, prepared for UNESCO and the International Council on Archives (ICA), extends the analysis and recommendations of the 2002 ICA report to UNESCO on authenticity of electronic records, especially with regard to developing countries. The central question addressed by this report is: what measures are necessary for records and archives professionals, especially in developing countries, to ensure the authenticity of electronic records and so ensure the preservation of, and continued access to this information.
http://www.ica.org/en/node/30209
ICA Study 13-2
Automated Batch Archival Processing: Preserving Arnold Wesker's Digital Manuscripts
Dong, Lorraine A.; Durden, Megan; Kim, Sarah (Last Updated: 2008) (United States of America)
This article in Archival Issues describes a project to develop an automated batch archival process for born digital manuscripts by graduate students at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas using the Harold Wesker digital manuscripts as a case study in Spring 2007. The article describes the background to the project, file processing, batch ingesting into DSpace, project results and suggestions including recommended elements for an automated batch archival processing toolkit.
http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/6003
Archival Issues : Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference, ISSN 1067-4993 V. 30, No. 2 (2006) pp 91-106
Automating Online Delivery of Database Content : an Open-Source XML- Based Alternative
Berko, Monica; Wong, David (Date Created: Jul 2005)
One of the goals of the Deep Web working group of the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) was to develop a web-based access tool to search and navigate structured data archives, stored as XML, which are the long-term preservation copies of deposited databases and document archives. This paper describes the development of a public domain tool to provide access to archived databases. It describes the background and search for this type of software and examines several alternatives, including Xing and Xedit.
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/refereed/berko/paper.html
Paper presented at the Ausweb Conference, July 2-5, 2005 at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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Historical Automating Preservation : New Developments in the PRONOM Service
Brown, Adrian In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Apr 2005) (United Kingdom)
PRONOM 4 is due to be launched in June 2005. This article discusses the revisions and enhancements available in the new version, including technical registry enhancements, automatic file format identification and the development of PRONOM unique identifiers (PUI).
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file9
59.html#article1
Automating the Appraisal of Digital Materials
Harvey, Ross; Thompson, Dave In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010) (United Kingdom)
This article aims to investigate aspects of automating the appraisal of digital materials in a digital archive. The issues are explored through examination of the digital preservation and curation literature plus the practical experience of planning the implementation of a digital archive in the Wellcome Library.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047703
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 313-322
Historical Availability & Preservation : Long-term Availability & Preservation of Digital Information
Young, Robert M. (Date Created: Jun 2002)
This paper (32 p.) looks at the issues of long term preservation and availability of digital information from an industry perspective. A dual approach is suggested whereby information is stored in digital formats in the short to medium term and for long term requirements Kodak proposes that a Reference Archive on microfilm of permanent document images will be an effective and low maintenance solution to this problem. Kodak maintains it could function as a check to the trustworthyness of digital information in the long term as well as functioning as an economically viable alternative storage of digital information over generations.
ISBN: 3936534055
http://www.project-consult.net/Files/IWP_05_Kodak_20020618.pdf
AIIM Industry white paper vol. 5
Historical Barriers or Stepping Stones? : Impediments to Digital Archiving and Preservation Programs
Webb, Colin In: CLIR issues (Date Created: 2003) (Australia)
This article provides a brief overview of the impediments that the National Library of Australia has encountered in developing its digital preservation programs, including lack of expertise, costs and a lack of suitable preservation management tools. Mr Webb postulates that these barriers may well appear as stepping stones when viewed retrospectively.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues34.html#webb
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Historical Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Lifecycle Approach
Hodge, Gail In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2000)
This report is based on a study commissioned by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), in March 1999 to highlight the importance of digital archiving (long-term storage, preservation and access to information that is "born digital"). Project managers from a selection of projects including web archives were surveyed about the methods they were using in their project regarding: Creation; Acquisition and Collection Development; Identification and Cataloguing; Storage; Preservation; Access.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/january2000-hodge
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html
Historical Bits and Bites of Data Formats : Stainless Design for Digital Endurance
Aschenbrenner, Andreas In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Feb 2004)
This paper analyses the use of XML as a preservation format, particularly in those areas which may be problematic. The article discusses the ideal design criteria for the development data types and then concentrates on the shortcomings or concerns of XML in preserving data formats.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
683.html#article2
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Historical Blog Today, Gone Tomorrow? Preservation of Weblogs
Entlich, Richard In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Aug 2004)
Blogs (weblogs) are a recent development on the Internet and they are becoming more popular as a communication tool. The article outlines the nature and ephemeral life of weblogs and how content can be lost, and also looks at the nascent efforts to preserve them.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file1
789.html#article3
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Historical Blueprint for Representation Information in the OAIS model
Holdsworth, David; Sergeant, Derek In: Cedars : Curl Exemplars in Digital Archives Project
This paper describes the current scheme for representation information employed in the CEDARS project.
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecldh/cedars/nasa2000/nasa2000.html
Historical Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive and People's Technology
Rein, Lisa (Date Created: 22 Jan 2004) (United States of America)
In this interview, Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, discusses the philosophy and direction of the Archive. Also discussed are projects in collaboration with the Library of Congress, the implementation of new technologies and some common difficulties in archiving certain files and websites.
http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a/4563
Historical British Library Strategic Developments
Brindley, Lynne (Date Created: Apr 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article, based on a paper given at the 26th UKSG (United Kingdom Serials Group) Conference in April 2003, looks at recent strategic developments at the British Library (BL). As well as exploring the factors that have influenced such strategies, the author also addresses the new roles of the BL in relation to the areas of digital acquisition, digital article services and digital preservation and archiving. Included in the article is an overview of the current legal deposit (2003) situation in the UK in relation to digital materials, as well as a summary of the BL’s digital infrastructure development.
http://serials.uksg.org/media/84ppnnmqlgmd1cqhlk1p/contributions/a/p/k
/j/apkjbbu9l629e0ay.pdf
In Serials The Journal for the Serials Group, (ISSN 0953-0460) Vol. 16, No. 2, July 2003, pp. 125-129.
Building a Digital Archive : a Dutch Experience
Horsman, Peter; Pompe, Klaartje In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Dec 2005) (Netherlands)
This article describes a project to develop a digital repository for the long term preservation of the digital contents of the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam. The project is a collaboration between the Archives and the Netherlands Archives School. The article outlines the processes and objectives over 2 years, including the project management technique of 'time boxing'; migration of documents to XML; system design; and testing DSpace. The article ends with some observations on open source software.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
502.html#article2
Historical Building A Digital Library Of Television News
Breeding, Marshall (Date Created: Jun 2003) (United States of America)
This article is a brief overview of the processes involved in establishing a digital archive of television news videotapes at the Vanderbilt Television News Archives in the USA. The author examines some technical apects of converting and preserving the videotape into a digital format; explains the different phases of the project, such as the creation of metadata and the establishment of the digitisation process; and provides an overview of the costs and challenges facing the project.
http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=10346
Also available in PDF version, Computers in Libraries, June 2003, Vol 23, Issue 6, ISSN 1041-7915 and by subscription online at www.ebscohost.com/
Historical Building a Digital Preservation Archive: Tales From the Front
Caplan, Priscilla (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United States of America)
This article concentrates on the development of a digital archive by the Florida Centre for Library Automation (FCLA). The FCLA supports the libraries of public universities in Florida and initiated the FCLA digital archive (FDA) as a means of assisting such libraries in the preservation of digital collections. At the time of writing (2004) the FDA had been under development for about a year, and the author describes the background and different stages of the project, provides an overview of the archive’s functional design and highlights how action plans and preservation strategies have had to be modified since the initial stages of the project.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03055720410530988
http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410530988
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 38-42, ISSN 0305-5278 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
Building a Digital Repository: A Practical Implementation
Boudrez, Filip (Date Created: 30 Aug 2008) (Belgium)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Centre, 29-30 Sept. 2008) provides a case study for the implementation of a digital repository at the Antwerp City Archives. Organisational issues and the importance of aligning record-keeping and digital archiving practices are emphasised.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/42_Boudrez.pdf
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Historical Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (Date Created: Apr 2002) (United States of America)
A collection of papers commissioned by the Library of Congress and the Council on Library and Information Resources as a background to developing the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Topics of the papers covered "six principal areas in which the LC faces collection-management issues: large Web sites, electronic books, electronic journals, digitally recorded sound, digital film, and digital television."
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html
Also available in PDF format at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/pub106.pdf
Building a Repository Infrastructure for Finland
Ilva, Jyrki (Date Created: Oct 2009) (Finland)
This article discusses the background and developments related to building a repository infrastructure in Finland. It describes the involvement of the National Library, University of Helsinki University and Oulu University libraries in a two year project funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education (2009-2010). Aspects considered in the article include the technological infrastructure, and copyright issues related to self-archiving of research articles in Finnish universities.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1763/
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ScieCom Info - Nordic Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication vol. 5 no. 3, October 2009
Historical Building Digital Archives for Scientific Information
Solla, Leah In: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (Date Created: Nov 2002) (United States of America)
A brief article describing projects at Cornell University Library investigating digital archiving and preservation issues and the role for libraries. Projects covered include those investigating web resources (PRISM), electronic journals (Project Harvest) and similar projects in subject areas such as mathematics and physics. The aim for a common deposit system is noted.
http://www.istl.org/02-fall/article2.html
Historical Building on Our Strengths : Digital Archiving, Preservation and Access : Report of the Digital Archiving, Preservation and Access Task Force
DAPA Task Force (Date Created: 25 Mar 2005) (United States of America)
This report surveys digital preservation needs and proposes to use the technical architecture of an 'institutional repository' to meet digital archiving needs and to offer repository services to members of the George Mason University community
http://u2.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/1920/16/1/dapa_final_report.pd
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Historical Building Preservation Functionality in a Digital Archive : the National Library of the Netherlands
Bellekom, Chris (Date Created: Oct 2004) (Netherlands)
This article describes the activities of the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek - KB) to ensure the long term preservation of digital materials. It includes the e-Depot, the development of a preservation manager to store and use the technical metadata in the e-depot and the UVC for images.
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v17n4/s3/p275
in Learned Publishing, Vol. 17, no. 4 (October 2004), ISSN 0953-1513. pp. 275-280.
Historical Can We Save Our Audio-visual Heritage?
Teruggi, Daniel In: Ariadne (Date Created: 30 Apr 2004)
This article describes PrestoSpace an FP6 integrated project and major international initiative seeking to find preservation solutions for analogue media. The Programme deals with different components essential for preservation including restoration, storage, archive management and description (metadata). PestoSpace covers digital preservation of all types of audio-visual collections.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/teruggi/
Historical Canadian Digital Information Strategy. Draft Consultation Version, October 2007
Library and Archives Canada (Date Created: Oct 2007) (Canada)
The Draft consultation version of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy (October 2007) put forward three broad opportunities: strengthening digital content; ensuring preservation for ongoing access; and maximising access and use. Specific objectives and proposed actions were outlined. Collaboration within a common framework was recommended. Responses were due by 23 November 2007. The HTML and PDF versions as at 22 November 2007are available from the Canadian Government Web Archive. Latest information available from Library and Archives Canada Canadian Digital Information Strategy webpages.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20071114183825/http://w
ww.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cdis/index-e.html
Available online as full text and PDF. comments due by 23 Nov 2007
Capturing the Basque Web
Marcos Maciá, Sonia; Pulgar Vernalte, Francisca (Date Created: 25 May 2009) (Spain)
This paper given at LIDA 2009 (May 25-30 2009, Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia) describes the Basque Web capture project launched in 2007 by the Basque Government Department of Culture and the Basque Government IT services company. After describing the international context the authors go on to discuss the context, tools and selection policies of ONDARENET: the Basque web archive.
http://eprints.rclis.org/16256/
Available as PDF from E-Lis: eprints in Library and Information Science
From Casual History to Digital Preservation
Davidow, Ari (Date Created: 31 Mar 2007) (United States of America)
This paper given at Museums and the Web 2007 (April 11-14, 2007, San Francisco, California) considers the digital preservation issues surrounding the .Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) "Katrina's Jewish Voices" Project and the lessons learned.
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/davidow/davidow.html
Available in J. Trant & D. Bearman (eds.) Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings.
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Historical CEDARS Project Report: April 1998 - March 2001
CEDARS Project Team (Date Created: Jun 2001) (United Kingdom)
The report of the first three years of the CEDARS project, a focussed investigation into digital preservation issues. The report comprises an overview of the CEDARS demonstrator archive established across the CEDARS partners, the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Leeds, and contains case studies for a variety of deposited digital materials and basic recommendations for use of migration and emulation as preservation strategies. The report also provides guidance and recommendations on organisational and management issues. The full report is available for download as PostScript or PDF.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050410120000/http://www
.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/pubconf/papers/projectReports/cedarsrepmar01exec.h
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Archived by the UK Web Archive
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Historical CEDARS Summative Evaluation: Final Report, April 2001
Coutts, Margaret; Owen, John Mackenzie; Veling, Solke (Date Created: Apr 2001) (United Kingdom)
A summative evaluation of the first three years of the CEDARS project, examining objectives and outcomes and aiming to provide guidance for the final extension year of the project. The report is provided as a Microsoft Word document.
http://www.worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/f
ile1450.doc
Historical CFP : Call For Preservation! : Results and discussion of a survey on the preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Libner, Kelsey (Date Created: 2003) (United States of America)
The first part of this paper discusses the results of a survey of 16 institutions regarding practices for the long term preservation of ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations). Data migration, preservation policies, electronic file backup and workflows are some of the areas surveyed. The second part of the paper discusses the file formats, particularly PDF and PDF/A. Areas requiring further investigation are also discussed.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/libner-kelsey/HTML/index.html
Historical Challenge of Web Site Records Preservation
Phillips, John T. (Date Created: Jan 2003)
This article explains the need for web site records management and retention, examines the challenges of web site records preservation management and discusses solutions to these problems. The article also describes studies and documents that attempt to quantify and describe the problems of web site preservation.
http://www.arma.org/bookstore/productdetail.cfm?ProductID=1222
Information Management Journal, (ISSN 1535-2897), Vol. 37, no. 1, January/February 2003 and by subscription online at www.ebscohost.com
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Historical Some Challenges and Issues in Managing and Preserving Access to Long-Lived Collections of Scientific and Technical Data
Anderson, W. L. (Date Created: 30 Dec 2004)
This report summarises the major archiving, preservation and access issues for scientific and technical data as identified by an ad hoc working group of the U.S. National Committee for CODATA. The author divides these issues into four categories: science-based issues, including interoperability and compatiblity of the various types of science data (e.g. observational, experimental and computer generated data); data management issues, including selection and appraisal; policy issues, such as access and copyright; and technical issues including the volume of data and the diversity of formats.
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/3/0/191/_pdf
Data Science Journal, ISSN 1683-1470, Vol. 3, December 2004, pp. 191-202.
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Historical Change the Metaphor : The Archive as an Ecosystem
Coleman, David; Martin, Julia In: JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing (Date Created: Apr 2002)
This article introduces a new metaphor for the processes in managing the preservation of digital archives, that of the ecosystem, and likens the survival of data against technological change to the processes of evolutionary adaptation - "an ongoing process of selection -- of media platforms, of preservation structures, of migratory patterns " to avoid "data extinction".
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.301
Characteristics of .au Websites: An Analysis of Large-Scale Web Crawl Data from 2005
Ackland, Robert; Bailey, Peter; Spink, Amanda (Date Created: 02 Jul 2007) (Australia)
This paper provides a preliminary analysis of .au domain websites collected by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 2005. It is a first step in the planned ".au Census" project.
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw07/papers/refereed/spink/paper.html
Paper presented at AusWeb07, the thirteenth Australasian World Wide Web Conference, Coffs Harbour NSW 30 June - 4 July 2007
Citizen-created Content, Digital Equity and the Preservation of Community Memory
Carnaby, Penny (Date Created: 25 Aug 2009) (New Zealand)
This paper presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Congress (23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy) oulines some of the issues surrounding the preservation of citizen created digital content such as social networking sites, blogs, wikis, etc. It explores how libraries, archives and museums can value and protect both formal and informal digital assets and the approaches and efforts being made in New Zealand.
http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/146-carnaby-en.pdf
Historical Climbing the scholarly publishing mountain with SHERPA
MacColl, John; Pinfield, Stephen In: Ariadne (Last Updated: 11 Oct 2002) (United Kingdom)
A paper discussing the UK-based SHERPA project funded to create OAI –compliant ”e-print” repositories through self-archiving in the Higher education sector and acknowledging and addressing the associated management, intellectual property rights, digital preservation and technical issues.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/sherpa/
Historical CODATA Work on Archiving Scientific Data
Anderson, William L. (Date Created: 2002)
This article describes the objectives and activities of CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology), which is part of the International Council of Science (ICSU). CODATA focusses on data management challenges of preserving primary data, of which much more is generated than is published. Various activities such as the International CODATA conferences, the development of a web portal focussing on archiving science and technology data, and the data archiving task group objectives are discussed.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=639445.639449
Available in Information Services and Use, vol. 22, issue 2/3 (2002), ISSN 0167-5265 and by subscription online at www.ebscohost.com
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Historical Code of Practice for the Voluntary Deposit of Non-Print Publications
The British Library (Last Updated: 04 May 2001) (United Kingdom)
This code sets out the agreed practice for the voluntary deposit of non-print physical format publications in the United Kingdom. The arrangement, which came into effect in January 2000, received the endorsement of the various UK publisher trade bodies and legal deposit libraries, and is intended to guide interim practice before new legislation is drafted. The code also recognises the challenges for the deposit of static and dynamic online publications, and examines some of the issues associated with long term access and preservation.
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/legaldep/voluntarydeposit/
1999 Revised Version available at National Library of Scotland website http:///www.nls.uk/professional/legaldeposit/nonprint/code.html
Historical Collaboration between RLG and OCLC With Digital Archiving Initiatives
Bellinger, Meg; Dale, Robin In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Dec 2001) (United States of America)
An interview with Robin Dale of the Research Libraries Group and Meg Bellinger of OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources, in which they discuss the collaboration of RLG and OCLC in digital archiving initiatives, including the joint preservation metadata intiative, characterisation of reliable digital archives and long-term digital archiving programs. Anticipated future collaborations and perceived obstacles to digital preservation are also noted.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file1
628.html#interview
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Historical Collecting and Managing Web Resources for Long-Term Access : Web Harvesting and Guidelines to Support Preservation (ICABS Actions 3.3 and 3.4)
Gatenby, Pam (Date Created: Aug 2004) (Australia)
This paper outlining the National Library of Australia’s recent contributions to the advancement of understanding of international Web archiving issues, was presented at the 70th IFLA Conference in August 2004. The NLA’s work on web harvesting and the preservation of digital materials as part of its ICABS responsibilities are detailed, together with its involvement in the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s (IIPC) Deep Web Working Group.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/026e-Gatenby.pdf
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Historical Collecting and Preserving the Web : Developing and Testing the NEDLIB Harvester
Hakala, Juha In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Apr 2001)
This article by Juha Hakala outlines the outcomes of the NEDLIB Harvester Project for the archiving of Web resources. Some of the key issues in using this form of technology for preserving materials on the Web are reviewed.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
424.html#feature2
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Historical Collecting and Preserving the Web : The Minerva Prototype
Arms, William Y. In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Apr 2001) (United States of America)
This article, by William Arms (Cornell University), Roger Adkins, Cassy Ammen and Allene Hayes (Library of Congress), describes the Library of Congress' Minerva Project (Mapping the INternet the Electronic Resources Virtual Archive). The main features of Minerva are described, and suggestions for a full-scale preservation system explored.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
424.html#feature1
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Historical Collecting and Preserving the World Wide Web : a Feasibility Study Undertaken for the JISC and Wellcome Trust
Day, Michael (Date Created: 25 Feb 2003) (United Kingdom)
The study (91 p.) is an analysis of the task of archiving the web, and includes a review of current web archiving activities and approaches. One of the major recommendations of this study is to establish a pilot medical web archiving project using the National Library of Australia's PANDAS software.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/archiving_feasibility.pdf
Historical Collecting, Indexing and Archiving Net Publications
Schwens, Ute (Last Updated: 12 Jun 2006) (Germany)
These pages outlined the legal mandate and deposit arrangements of the German National Library, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) as it was named at that time, for acquiring digital publications, both for physical formats such as DVDs and for online publications such as websites and electronic periodicals prior to the introduction of the new law which came into effect on 22 June 2006. The current situation is explained on the later web pages of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek about online publications.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070128202450/http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/u
eber_dnb/netzpubl.htm
Page archived by the Internet Archive
Historical Collection of Swedish web pages at the Royal Library - The Web Heritage of Sweden
Arvidson, Allan (Date Created: 22 Aug 2002) (Sweden)
A paper presented by Allan Arvidson of the Royal Library of Sweden at the 68th IFLA Council and General Conference, Glasgow, 18-24th August, 2002, discussing the evolution of the Swedish web since the Royal Library began harvesting "snapshots" in 1997. The paper questions whether a true picture of Sweden is achieved, from both geographical and technical viewpoints, and comments on the possible influences of future web technologies.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/111-163e.pdf
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Historical Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 1
Baru, Chaitan; Gupta, Amarnath; Ludaescher, Bertram; Marciano, Richard; Moore, Reagan; Rajasekar, Arcot; San Diego Supercomputer Center; Schroeder, Wayne; Wan, Michael In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Mar 2000)
This article, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, "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." "The ultimate goal is to preserve not only the bits associated with the original data, but also the context that permits the data to be interpreted." See also Part 2 of this article which describes the creation of a one million message persistent email collection.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/moore/03moore-pt1.html
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Historical Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 2
Baru, Chaitan; Gupta, Amarnath; Ludaescher, Bertram; Marciano, Richard; Moore, Reagan; Rajasekar, Arcot; San Diego Supercomputer Center; Schroeder, Wayne; Wan, Michael In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Apr 2000)
This article, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center, describes a project to create a one million message persistent email collection. Following on from Part 1 , which describes the development of an environment that supports migration of collections onto new software systems, this article discusses the four parts of a persistent archive system: "support for ingestion, archival storage, information discovery, and presentation of the collection."
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/moore/04moore-pt2.html
In D-Lib Magazine, Vol 6, No. 4
Historical Coming Crisis in Preserving Our Digital Cultural Heritage
Lynch, Clifford A (Date Created: 06 Jan 2003) (United States of America)
In this article the author explores the challenges that are facing cultural heritage institutions in relation to digital preservation. The author states that it is difficult for libraries to maintain their role of preserving society’s cultural and intellectual heritage due to the fact that an increasing amount of heritage is being produced in digital form. Constraints for librarians have arisen from digitisation and include areas such as legal rights and protections, both of which have made it difficult for copying and reformatting material. The article offers suggestions on how to address these problems, including making the preservation of intellectual and cultural record in digital form a public policy as well as a legal issue.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a903396299~db=all~ord
er=page
Co-published in the Journal of Library Administration, (ISSN0193-0826) 38, 3/4, 2003 pp. 149-161 and : The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources : To Preserve and Protect (ed: Andrea T. Merrill)
Comparison of Existing Archival Systems
Borghoff, Uwe M. (Date Created: Apr 2006) (Germany)
This is a 7 page summary in English of a document originally published in German "Vergleich bestehender Archivierungssysteme". It is part of a series of 7 digital preservation papers commissioned by nestor. This article describes the approach to the evaluation and selection of digital preservation systems. It outlines the evaluation schema, procedures and criteria. There is also a summary of the conceptional and technical orientation of the systems, their planning and development tendencies.
http://deposit.ddb.de/ep/netpub/94/89/24/972248994/_data_dyna/_snap_st
and_2006_07_04/www.langzeitarchivierung.de/downloads/mat/03_summary.pd
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Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative
Halbert, Martin In: International Journal of Digital Curation (Date Created: Oct 2009) (United States of America)
This article (based on a paper given at the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, December 2008) discusses the importance of distributed digital preservation infrastructures which are cooperatively maintained by cultural memory organisations using the example of the MetaArchive Cooperative and placing it in the context of other US and UK digital preservation efforts.
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/117/120
International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 4 No.2, 2009 pp. 43-59
Conceptual Framework for the Use of the Service-Oriented Architecture-Approach in the Digital Preservation
Klett, Fanny; Saul, Christian (Date Created: 30 Sep 2008)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Centre, 29-30 September 2008) presents a conceptual framework for the use of the SOA-approach for digital preservation, by combining SCA (Service Component Architecture) and BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) models to the future development of a scalable, adaptable and service oriented software system.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/36_Saul.pdf
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Historical Concerning Etags and Datestamps
Clausen, Lars R. (Date Created: Jul 2004) (Denmark)
In order to avoid archiving of many copies of the same content, this paper reports on an investigation of a scheme for reliably predicting whether the content has changed, without having to download it. This involved an investigation of the reliability of the Etag and Last-Modified-Date fields of HTTP-headers as indicators of changed content. The investigation examined the front pages of 361,408 websites on the .dk-domain, which were harvested every other night over a period of one month. A checksum of the content was then compared to the Etag and Last-Modified Date fields. This comparison was used for calculating the reliability and usefulness of these fields in determining content changes.
http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/Etags-2004.pdf
Historical Conference report : Archiving Web Resources International Conference: Issues for Cultural Heritage Organisations
Phillips, Margaret E. In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Feb 2005)
This article reports on the Archiving Web Resources International conference which was held on 9-11 November 2004 at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The main themes and papers of the conference are summarised.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
298.html#article2
ContextMiner: Supporting the Mining of Contextual Information for Ephemeral Digital Video Preservation
Shah, Chirag In: International Journal of Digital Curation (Date Created: Oct 2009) (United States of America)
This article analyses the functionality and usability of ContextMiner, a framework and system supporting ephemeral digital video curation which was developed as part of the VidArch project at SILS (School of Information & Library Science, University of North Carolina). As well as considering the usability of the interface based on user feedback, a content analysis of the harvested data and context is discussed for harvested YouTube videos.
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/127/130
International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 4 No.2, 2009 pp. 171-183
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Historical Contract, Copyright and the Future of Digital Preservation
Ryan, Alicia (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United States of America)
Set within the context of the United States, the author of this article discusses copyright issues for digital material and its implications to libraries and other depositories. She argues that libraries and archives should be granted legal rights to handle digital material, including copying, preserving and providing access to the stored material, especially in cases when the works are at risk or no longer commercially available.
http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/scitech/volume
101/ryan.pdf
In Journal of Science and Technology Law, Vol. 10, no. 1, (Winter 2004)
Historical Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment
Besek, June M. (Date Created: Jan 2003)
This CLIR report discusses the copyright issues involved in the creation of a nonprofit digital archive. Current US copyright law is covered. The report discusses how the processes of data collection and access conditions effect the both the end users and copyright holders.
ISBN: 1887334971
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub112abst.html
Available online as full text or PDF, or for purchase in print CLIR pub112
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Cornell University Library Digital Preservation Policy Framework
Cornell University Library (Date Created: Dec 2004) (United States of America)
This policy document covers the mandate, objectives, roles and responsibilities, activities and priorities of the Cornell University Library's preservation program.
http://commondepository.library.cornell.edu/cul-dp-framework.pdf
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Historical Cost to Preserve Authentic Electronic Records in Perpetuity : Comparing Costs Across Cost Models and Cost Frameworks
Sanett, Shelby In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Aug 2003)
This article outlines a methodology to evaluate various cost models and frameworks so that the most appropriate preservation strategy can be selected and implemented. The various cost categories are distilled into 5 tables and are evaluated in terms of acquisition and preservation related activities and access related activities.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
379.html#feature2
Historical Costs of Digital Preservation
Testbed Digitale Bewaring (Date Created: May 2005) (Netherlands)
This article discusses in detail the cost model developed at the Testbed Digitale Bewaring (Digital Preservation Testbed). Cost indicators, which influence the total cost of preservation, are canvassed. The cost model calculates and compares the costs of the various preservation strategies and several document types, such as email, text, spreadsheets and databases.
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/docs/CoDPv1.pdf
Creating an Institutional Repository : LEADIRS Workbook
Barton, Mary R. ; Waters, Margaret M. (Date Created: 2005)
This extensive document (134 p.) from the LEarning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminar program (LEADIRS) and available from DSpace covers all aspects of building institutional repositories such as planning, choosing repository software platforms, including digital preservation considerations, legal and regulatory environmental and policy development and cost modeling. Each section has associated worksheets and key questions. There are many references to case studies which are used to highlight approaches to the various issues in developing an institutional repository.
http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/leadirs.pdf
Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources
Smith, Joan A.; Nelson, Michael In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2008) (United States of America)
This article describes a simple model for archiving "everyday websites" at the time of dissemination using the web server to prepare the site's resources for preservation.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/smith/01smith.html
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Historical Creating Trading Networks of Digital Archives
Cooper, Brian; Garcia-Molina, Hector (Date Created: 2001)
This paper examines how agencies might preserve digital collections by forming and participating in peer-to-peer (P2P) trading networks. Peer-to-peer trading algorithms and a simulator, to conduct and report on trading sessions, were used to examine issues of storage and replication allowances, trading network size, and choice and reliability of trading partners.
http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/726/
Historical CRL Political Communications Archiving Investigation
D-Lib Magazine In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2003)
A brief overview of a Center for Research Libraries (CRL) project on developing methodological, conceptual and organisational frameworks for the systematic, sustainable preservation of political Web materials.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/01inbrief.html#REILLY
Curating Digital Records of Performance
Abbott, Daisy; Jones, Sarah; Ross, Seamus (Date Created: Sep 2008) (United Kingdom)
This paper delivered at the 2008 Annual Conference of CIDOC (Athens, September 15 – 18, 2008) presents an overview of the work of AHDS Performing Arts in the UK, and introduces the issues relevant to research and practice of digital curation of performance materials.
http://www.cidoc2008.gr/cidoc/Documents/papers/drfile.2008-06-18.22185
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Curating E-mails : a Life-cycle Approach to the Management and Preservation of E-mail Messages
Pennock, Maureen In: Curation Reference Manual (Date Created: 24 Jul 2006) (United Kingdom)
This installment of the Digital Curation Manual discusses the issues in the management and curation of emails. Issues covered include roles and responsibilites, legal issues, preservation strategies and curation approaches.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/completed-cha
pters/curating-e-mails
Available in html or pdf
Current Issues in Web Archiving in Australia
Koerbin, Paul (Date Created: Jul 2005) (Australia)
This paper discusses the curatorial, technical and legal issues currently problematic for web archiving activities by PANDORA at the National Library of Australia.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1222/15
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Paper given at the Open Publish Conference, Sydney, Australia, 27-29 July 2005.
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Historical Cyberculture, Cultural Asset Management, and Ethnohistory : Preserving the Process and Understanding the Past
Ross, Seamus (Date Created: Jun 2001)
In this keynote address from the Preserving the Present for the Future : Strategies for the Internet conference, Seamus Ross emphasises the importance of preserving the cultural context in which the internet operates. The author highlights eight challenges for ensuring long-term access to materials in cyberspace, and compares the advantages of centralised, decentralised and distributed archiving models.
http://www.deflink.dk/upload/doc_filer/doc_alle/740_sross_cyberculture
_rev2.doc
Czech Web Archive Analysis
čabiška, P.; Matĕjka, L (Date Created: 2007) (Czech Republic)
This paper reviews the current activities of WevArchiv, a project of the National Library in Prague. It also considers strategies that could help to reduce costs.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a780451540~db=all~ord
er=page
Available in New Review of Hypermedia & Multimedia 2007, v. 13 no 1 pp27-37
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Historical From Data Deluge to Data Curation
Giaretta, David; Lord, Philip; Lyon, Liz; Macdonald, Alison (Date Created: Sep 2004)
This article discusses the findings and strategic and policy level recommendations of the e-Science data curation report commissioned by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee). The article also discusses the role and activities of the Digital Curation Centre in meeting some of these recommendations.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/150.pdf
Paper presented at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 31 August - 3 September, 2004
Data for the future: The German Project "Co-operative Development of a Long-Term Digital Information Archive" (kopal)
Altenhöner, Reinhard (Date Created: Feb 2006) (Germany)
This paper delivered at the 8th Bielefield Conference (7-9 Feb 2006) provides an overview of the German kopal project.
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2006/proceedings/altenhoener_fin
al_web.pdf
Also available in Library Hi-Tech, Vol 24, No. 4, 2006 pp. 574-582.
Data Model and Architecture for Long-term Preservation
Frew, James; Janee, Greg; Mathena, Justin (Date Created: Apr 2008) (United States of America)
This paper describes a data model and architecture for the U.S. National Geospatial Data Archive based on co-archiving of object semantics, explicit storage of objects and semantics ans files and abstraction of the underlying storage system. Also described is an implementation of the architecture in a prototype archive running at UCSB.
http://www.ngda.org/research/Tech%20Arch/jcdl-paper.pdf
Paper to be delivered at JCDL 2008.
Historical Data Preservation : Great Data But Will It Last?
Spedding, Vanessa (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article is an overview of the major digital preservation initiatives in both Europe and the United States. The article contains a brief description of the problems facing governments, libraries and business in long term preservation. Costs, commercial potential, and investment in archiving products are also discussed.
http://www.researchinformation.info/rispring03data.html
in Resource Information, Issue 5, Spring 2003.
Data Quality in Web Archiving
Spaniol, Marc; Senellart, Pierre; Denev, Dimitar; Mazeika, Aturas; Weikum, Gerhard (Date Created: 20 Apr 2009)
This paper given at WICOW'09 (3rd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web, April 20 2009, Madrid Spain) provides an overview of strategies that help to overcome, or at least identify the temporal diffusion of Web crawls that last from a few hours to several days.The paper introduces a model for identifying coherent sections of a website and thus measuring data quality and a crawling strategy for minimizing Web site captures.
http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow3/papers/p19-spaniolA.pdf
Historical Data Storage Technology Assessment 2002 : Projections Through 2010
Sadashige, Koichi (Date Created: Mar 2003)
This report is a follow-up to the “Data Storage Technology Assessment” published in August 2000 and is divided into two main parts. The first part of the report explores the impact the market has on the progress of technology, and lists most important technological events between 2000-2002, such as development of the DVD, optical disc, magnetic tape, hard disc drive and Flash memory. The second part of the report provides an overview of data storage equipment, with emphasis on storage equipment in network environment. Magnetic tape and optical disc technologies are discussed in detail, including various available products. Future trends in the area are outlined for this decade.
http://www.imation.com/Global/Support/government/AP_NMLdoc_DSTAssessme
nt.pdf
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Historical Database of Virtual Art for an Expanded Concept of Documentation
Grau, Oliver (Date Created: 2003)
This article, written by the developer of the Database of Virtual Art, discusses the database's development as well as the detailed documentation stored on the works in the database. Because of the unique nature of virtual art, extensive documentation is vital if the art is to remain accessible in the future.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070429172110/http://www2.hu-berlin.de/gra
u/database.htm
Historical Dawning of the Dutch Network of Digital Academic REpositories (DARE) : a Shared Experience
Feijen, Martin; van der Kuil, Annemiek In: Ariadne (Date Created: Oct 2004) (Netherlands)
This article describes the first year of the DARE project. The Project was initiated to preserve and provide access to the results of Dutch academic research from a range of institutions. This article covers the infrastructure, implementation, the data and service models, lessons learned and future plans of the project.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/vanderkuil/
DCC Digital Curation Manual : Instalment on "Archiving Web Resources"
Thompson, Dave (Date Created: Dec 2008) (United Kingdom)
This instalment of the DCC Digital Curation Manual prepared by Dave Thompson of the Wellcome Trust provides an introduction to web archiving and digital curation. Points covered include Automation of harvesting, Deposit approaches, Selection, negotiation and capture, Issues associated with the "deep" web, Existing initiatives (e.g. Internet Archive, NWA, PANDAS), Legal implications, Collaboration and responsibility and Non standard media types.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/completed-cha
pters/archiving-web-resources
Historical DEJA: A Year in Review
Baudoin, Patsy; Smith, MacKenzie (Date Created: 30 May 2002) (United States of America)
This article, presented as part of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Electronic Journal Archiving Program, provides an overview of the work undertaken by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in relation to the design of a Dynamic E-journal Archive (DEJA). Areas addressed in the article include a definition of dynamic electronic journals, the types of content that should be considered for preservation purposes and a description of preservation strategies.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/mitfinal.pdf
Also available in Archiving Electronic Journals: Research Funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, edited and introduced by Linda Cantara, Indiana University.
Historical Deposit for Digital Collections
Borbhina, Jose; Campos, Joao P.; Gomes, Daniel; Noronha, Norman; Silva, Mario J (Date Created: Sep 2001) (Portugal)
This paper given at ECDL 2001 (Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries , 5th European Conference, Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-9, 2001) describes an architecture for a system which manages the workflow for deposit of digital publications from the Web, developed by Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon in collaboration with the National library of Portugal as part of the NEDLIB project. Two subsystems Digital Deposit and PURL.PT are described and an evaluation after a trial harvest is presented.
http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/xldb/publications/paper_ecdl01.pdf
Also available Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2163/2001, pp 200-212.
Design and Selection Criteria for a National Web Archive
Freitas, Sergio; Gomes, Daniel; Silva, Mario J. (Date Created: Sep 2006) (Portugal)
This paper presented at ECDL 2006 conference in September, describes the architecture of the Tomba prototype. The paper also discusses strategies to populate a web archive, selection, and access. Tomba : Portuguese Web Archive was developed by the Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa and has been crawling the Portuguese web since 2002.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e313463036m04246/
Available in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp 196-207 http://www.springerlink.com/content/e313463036m04246/
Historical Developing a Digital Preservation Strategy at Edinburgh University Library
Semple, Najla (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United Kingdom)
This article concentrates on a digital preservation pilot project developed at the Edinburgh University Library. In addition to the project background, it includes descriptions of preservation metadata schema, the main features of the Library’s OAIS -based pilot archive, its integration of the METS standard, as well as plans for merging both METS and OAIS into the Library’s new digital object management system.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410530979
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 33-37, ISSN 0305-5278 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
Historical Developing a Trusted Digital Repository: the OCLC Experience
Lawson, Dawn; Spies, Phyllis B (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United States of America)
This article focuses on the OCLC’s (Online Computer Library Centre) experience in developing a digital archive. The development of standards for digital archiving and preservation metadata with RLG (Research Libraries Group) in defining the main attributes of a trust digital repository is described, as are the main tools and functions of the archive including the harvest, ingest and dissemination of archived objects. The Connecticut State Library’s use of OCLC’s Web archiving tools is also discussed.
http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410530960
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 27-32, ISSN 0305-5278 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
Developing National Taiwan University Web Archiving System
Chen, Kuang-hua ; Chen, Yen-liang ; Ting, Peng-fung (Date Created: Sep 2008) (Taiwan)
This paper given at IWAW 2008 (International Workshop on Web Archiving, Aarhus Denmark 18-19 Sept, 2008) discusses the development and implementation of the National Taiwan University Web Archiving System (NTUWAS), which was developed by the National Taiwan University Library and also gives a brief survey of international web archiving activities.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Chen.pdf
Developing Practical Approaches to Active Preservation
Brown, Adrian (Date Created: Jun 2007) (United Kingdom)
This paper describes the methods used by the UK National Archives for preservation planning, and action, the technologies used for implementation, and the role of PRONOM in supporting these services.
http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/37/42
International Journal of Digital Curation Vol 2, no 1, 2007
Historical Digital Archive Developments
Falk, Howard (Date Created: 2003)
This article provides a guide to the development of digital archives in universities, colleges, as well as national and international governmental institutions worldwide. The author provides an overview of academic digital archives in the USA and Europe; the concerns of journal publishing such as the costs of digital repositories and copyright; worldwide national initiatives and projects to preserve digital materials including activities of the British Library, Library of Congress, and the National Archives of Australia; as well as information relating to archiving software.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470310491603
Available in The Electronic Library, Vol 21, Number 4, pp. 375-379 (ISSN 02640473). Subscription is also available online at http://konstanza.emeraldinsight.com/. Available in HTML or pdf formats.
Digital Archive policies and Trusted Digital Repositories
Moore, Reagan W.; Smith, MacKenzie (Date Created: Jun 2007) (United States of America)
This paper describes the PLEDGE project being conducted by the MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries. This project aims to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation archives and to develop standardised rules which would potentially allow for automated “trustworthiness” assessment.
http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/27/30
International Journal of Digital Curation Vol 2, no 1, 2007
Digital Archives that Disappear
(Date Created: 22 Apr 2009)
This article and comments in Inside Higher Ed discusses the (temporary?) disappearance of a commercial digitised newspaper archive (Paper of Record) and touches on who has responsibility for long term preservation and provision of access.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/22/record#Comments
Inside Higher Ed, 22 April 2009
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Digital Archiving
National Library of Australia (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
A Web page summarising the National Library of Australia's digital archiving initiatives. Links are provided to key documents which describe the various components of the program.
http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/digarch.html
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Historical Digital Archiving : Bringing Issues and Stakeholders Together : Proceedings
(Date Created: Jan 2000)
Proceedings with links to individual papers for workshop held at UNESCO House, Paris 30-31 Jan. 2000.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021105190156/www.icsti.org/2000workshop/
Archived by the Internet Archive.
Digital Archiving : the New Challenge? : Legal and Archival Issues
Boudrez, Filip; Dekeyser, Hannelore; Dumortier, Jos (Date Created: Feb 2005) (Belgium)
The first part of this extensive document discusses electronic archiving within the legal context, particularly from a European perspective. The second part of the document deals with electronic record keeping, including preservation strategies, archiving standards and procedures.
http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/docs/digitalarchiving_manual.pdf
Historical Digital Archiving : What is Involved?
Flecker, Dale (Date Created: Jan 2003) (United States of America)
This article (2 p.) discusses the issues in archiving and preserving electronic journals, especially within a higher education context. The article is based on the results of Harvard University's study in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant on electronic journal archiving.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0316.pdf
in, Educause Review, January/February 2003
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Historical Digital Archiving and Long Term Preservation: An Early Experience with Grid and Digital Library Technologies
Chadduck, Robert; JaJa, Joseph; McCall, Fritz; Moore, Reagan; Smorul, Mike (Date Created: 2004)
This article describes two large scale data archiving projects which have a common infrastructure based on storage hierarchies. The projects are the Persistent Digital Archives project, which is a joint effort between the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the University of Maryland (UMD), and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); and the second is the Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) that currently offers over 13TB of earth science data to a very broad international user community, including researchers and government agencies interested in environmental and ecological studies.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080226074819/http://www.archives.gov/era/
papers/thic-04.html
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Digital Archiving in the Twenty-First Century:Practice at the National Library of the Netherlands
Steenbakkers, Johan F. In: Digital Preservation : Finding Balance (Date Created: 2005) (Netherlands)
This article discusses the development of electronic journals and the changing responsibilities of publishers and national libraries in providing ongoing access. It focuses on the work of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) to secure the permanent archiving of electronic publications through cooperation with publishers. It provides a brief overview of e-depot which is the KB’s deposit system.
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/library_trends/v054/54.1steenbakkers.pdf
Historical Digital Archiving without Preservation is Just Storage: Education is the First Step to Achieving Preservation Goals
Kriegsman, Sue; Mandell, Lee (Date Created: Apr 2004)
This paper was presented at the IS&T 2004 archiving conference (San Antonio, Texas;April 20, 2004). The paper looks at digital preservation from the perspective of four sectors - industry, digital laboratories, home consumers and collection managers - and emphasises the important role of education as a step in achieving an understanding and knowledge of digital preservation.
http://www.imaging.org/ist/store/epub.cfm?abstrid=30283
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Historical Digital Archiving- Developing Policy and Best Practice Guidelines at The National Library of Australia
Gatenby, P. (Date Created: 30 Jan 2000) (Australia)
This paper looks at the National Library of Australia's business model for online publications. There is a focus on PANDORA including selection, collection, metadata and cataloguing.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010303103129/www.icsti.org/icsti/2000work
shop/gatenby.html
Historical Digital Assets for the Next Millennium
Yakel, Elizabeth (Date Created: 2004)
This paper briefly discusses the main models for managing digital assets, including unit based, institutional and trusted digital repositories. It also describes the need for an evolution in the way of thinking so that digital objects are regarded as digital assets, thus acknowledging their long-term value.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10650750410551424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10650750410551424
OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 20, no. 3, 2004, pp. 102-105, ISSN 1065-075X. Also available online via subscription.
Digital Black Hole
Palm, Jonas (Date Created: Apr 2006) (Sweden)
This article was published as part of the Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe (TAPE) programme. The article presents an analysis of costs for digitizing and long-term storage at the Riksarkivet (National Archives, RA) in Stockholm, Sweden.
http://www.tape-online.net/docs/Palm_Black_Hole.pdf
Digital Cultural Heritage and the Cooperation of National Memory Institutes
Žabička, Petr (Date Created: May 2006) (Czech Republic)
This paper discusses and current and future developments of the WebArchiv, a project to selectively archive the Czech web cultural heritage. It outlines the acquisition and access process, the hardware and software infrastruce and aspects of national and international cooperation for the project.
http://en.webarchiv.cz/files/dokumenty/konference/Zabickabanskabystric
a2006.doc
Paper presented at the the 1st Colloquium of Library Information Employees of the V4+ Countries. State Science Library, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, 11 - 13 May, 2006. Libraries in the Knowledge Society
Digital Curation
Yakel, Elizabeth (Date Created: 2007)
This article discusses and defines "digital curation" as an umbrella term that includes digital preservation, data curation, electronic records management, and digital asset management.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10650750710831466
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/10650750710831466
Also available in PDF and from OCLC Systems & Services ISSN: 1065-075X Volume: 23 Issue: 4, 2007 pp: 335 - 340
Digital Curation / Digital Archiving: a view from the National Archives of Australia
Cunningham, Adrian (Date Created: Apr 2007) (Australia)
This paper reviews the past ten years of digital curation endeavour at the National Archives of Australia. It also discusses the terminological differences between digital curation and archiving, digital libraries and archives and the requirement for active archival intervention.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/cunningham_paper_7.pdf
Paper presented at the DigCCurr 2007 Conference Chapel Hill North Carolina 18-20 April 2007.
Digital Curation Centre : a Vision for Digital Curation
Atkinson, Malcolm; Buneman, Peter; Burnhill, Peter; Giaretta, David; Lyon, Liz; Ross, Seamus; Rusbridge, Chris (Date Created: Jun 2005) (United Kingdom)
This paper presented at From Local to Global: Data Interoperability — Challenges and Technologies, Mass Storage and Systems Technology Committee of IEEE Computer Society, 20–24 June 2005, Sardinia, Italy describes in detail the purpose and goals of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). Topics covered include research and development activities, services, publications and outreach activities.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100215095141/http://www
.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/DCC_Sardinia_paper_final.pdf
Archived by the UK Web Archive
Digital Curation Centre : Externally Moderated Reflective Self-Evaluation : Report
Brophy, Peter; Frey, Jeremy (Date Created: Sep 2006)
The Digital Curation Centre was established in 2004. This report evaluates the activities, outputs and achievements of the Centre since then based on a model of self evaluation and moderated by independent external advisers. The report is based on information gathered from a staff survey, community survey, feedback from workshop participants, focus groups and interviews with experts. The report concludes that the DDC be retained and its activites expanded with the integration of changes suggested in the report.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100215095059/http://www
.dcc.ac.uk/docs/DCC_Evaluation_Report_Final.pdf
Archived by UK Web Archive
Historical Digital Curation: Should we be Prepared to Face a Future Without Digital Curation?
Burnhill, Peter (Date Created: May 2004) (United Kingdom)
This article focuses on the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK. The main aim of the DCC is to support UK institutions to actively manage, as well as to store and preserve digital data for long-term access. Included in the article is an critical examination of issues regarding scholarly data, description of the key objectives of the centre and an overview of the DCC’s main research priorities.
http://www.researchinformation.info/rimayjun04digitalcuration.html
Available in Research Information, May/June 2004, Issue 11
Historical Digital Durability at the KB: Digital Archiving and Development of 'Permanent Access Technology'
Bellekom, Chris ; van Wijngaarden, Hilde (Date Created: 2003) (Netherlands)
Outlines the requirements for 'permanent access technology' at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), their effort to build an e-Depot, as well as their approach to long-term preservation of image-formats employing the Universal Virtual Computer.
Informatie Professional - 7(2003)11; p. 32-35, ISSN 1385-5328 http://www.informatieprofessional.nl/
Historical Digital Future : a Look Ahead
Hunter, Greg S. (Date Created: Feb 2002)
This article examines three critical aspects of digital preservation: medium, technology and intellectual preservation. The various approaches to preserving information integrity over time are discussed. The author also examines three strategies for a short or long-term implementation plan.
http://www.arma.org/bookstore/productdetail.cfm?ProductID=1234
in Information Management Journal, January/February 2002, pp 70-72 Available from ARMA bookstore
Digital Images Archiving Study : Final Draft
Anderson, Sheila [et al.] (Date Created: Mar 2006) (United Kingdom)
This article is part of a series of feasibility studies produced by the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) which aim to assess the preservation risk and retention criteria for digital content. The purpose of the Digital images study is to define the preservation requirements of digital image files and to determine archiving methodologies and future research directions. Issues discussed include the properties of digital images, preservation methods, images metadata, life cycle models and assessing preservation costs.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/FinaldraftImagesArchivingStud
y.pdf
Digital Negative (DNG)
Adobe Systems Inc. (Date Created: Oct 2004)
Adobe has announced a new public format for raw digital camera files, the Digital Negative (DNG) file format. DNG offers an open format for archiving proprietary raw files from a diverse range of cameras by different manufacturers, which has positive implications for their long-term preservation. Adobe has also launched a freely available software tool, the Adobe DNG converter, which can translate many of the proprietary files in use today into the new format. Both the Adobe DNG converter and the DNG file format specification are available for download.
http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html
Historical Digital Preservation : An Individual Responsibility For Communal Scholarship
Smith, Abby (Date Created: May 2003)
This article provides a brief discussion of the idea that future scholarship depends on current digital diligence by both libraries and scholars. Scholarly works are created in a wide range of digital formats and their availability for future use depends not only on librarians but on the creators of those works themselves. The Humanities are identified as an area where scholars need to develop work practices that will ensure the integrity of a digital project long after the creator has moved on.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0338.pdf
in Educause Review, May/June 2003
Historical Digital Preservation : Best Practice and its Dissemination
Beagrie, Neil In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2005)
This article describes the production and use of the international publication Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook by Maggie Jones and Neil Beagrie. This publication is available online and in hardcopy. The article discusses the objectives of the publication and intended audience. Future developments of the Handbook including implementing feedback from course participants and continual reviewing and extending the content of the Handbook are also discussed. It is planned that the Handbook will be integrated with online tutorials and modular workshops.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue43/beagrie/
Historical Digital Preservation : Recording the Recoding : the Documentary Strategy
Depocas, Alain (Date Created: 2002) (Austria)
This article argues that the best way to preserve new media art is to disseminate the work together with the relevant documentation that includes metadata as well as contextual information. Establishing the structure of this documentation can pose a great challenge since it involves recording as many aspects as possible of artistic activities including new technologies, as well as the history of the evolution of new art forms. The accompanying documentation is envisaged as an interpretation, rather than mere illustration of the new media art - as an interface that makes it possible to explore the networked structured work, rather than just to capture or contain it. Therefore the nature of archives is redefined from the notion of storing the information, to that of navigation, of establishing links between pieces of information, of mapping, and of the ability to identify relevant information.
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=152
Version of paper presented at the ARS Electronica Festival, 2001
Historical Digital Preservation Activities in the UK: Building the Infrastructure
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: Aug 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article provides an overview of the developments and activities in digital preservation in the United Kingdom – from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and British Library-hosted workshop at the University of Warwick in 1995 up until the present day. Included are summaries of the Cedars and CAMiLEON projects, the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy (2002-2005), the work of the British Library and the National Archives as well as the Digital Preservation Coalition.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/129e-Jones.pdf
This paper was given at the World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council, 1-9 August, 2003 in Berlin
Historical Digital Preservation and Deep Infrastructure
Stewart Granger In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Feb 2002)
This article aims to explain the concept of the term 'deep infrastructure' when applied to Digital Preservation. The author presents a 'picture' of deep infrastructure, and then dissusses the various aspects. An approach that incorporates both practical and strategic methods to achieving 'deep infrastructure' are advocated.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february02/granger/02granger.html#
Digital Preservation and Open Access Archives : Persistent Access to Open Access Digital Assets
Pasqui, Valdo (Date Created: 11 Sep 2007)
This briefing paper from Digital Preservation Europe briefly discusses the context and objectives of Open Access Repositories, the OAIS model, and the underpinning properties, policies and strategies.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/open_archi
ves_pasqui.pdf
Digital Preservation Europe Briefing Paper
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Historical Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information : The State of the Practice
Frangakis, Evelyn; Hodge, Gail (Last Updated: 13 May 2004)
This report is an update to “Digital Electronic Archiving : the State of the Art and Practice” report, also jointly sponsored by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and CENDI. It focuses on operational digital preservation systems used specifically in science and technology, while considering the wide range of digital objects as well as different format types, including text, data, audio, video, etc. The report identified 50 projects and systems used by various international organizations to preserve digital science data, of which 21 were selected to highlight because of the operational nature of their systems as well as the potential wider interest to the scientific community.
http://cendi.dtic.mil/publications/04-3dig_preserv.html
PDF version available for printing.
Historical Digital Preservation Coalition
Jones, Maggie In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Feb 2004) (United Kingdom)
An interview with Maggie Jones, Coordinator of the UK Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). It provides background information, goals and objectives and some information about future directions of the organisation.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
683.html#article1
Historical Digital Preservation Coalition
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: Jun 2004) (United Kingdom)
This article, adapted from a paper given by the author at the August 2003 IFLA Conference, gives a brief history and description of the major activities of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) since its inception in February 2002.
http://oberon.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410531031
Also available in pdf version and in VINE Digital Preservation and Libraries, Part Two. , Vol. 34, no. 2, 2004, pp. 84-86, ISSN 0305-5728
Historical Digital Preservation Conundrum, Part 1
Smith, Abby (Date Created: Apr 2004) (United States of America)
This article forms the first of two articles addressing the digital preservation conundrum. The author examines a number of factors which contribute to making the long-term preservation of digital information difficult. Areas explored include the dynamic nature of digital content, copyright issues and the changing needs of users. The author also comments on the roles of US federal agencies (such as the Library of Congress) in relation to digital preservation
http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J123v46n01_12
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a903456727~db=all~ord
er=page
Available in The Serials Librarian, Vol 46, No 1/2, 2004, pp. 107-113 and as a section in the monograph, Serials in the Park, pp. 107-113, ISBN 0789025647 (hardcover)
Digital Preservation Conundrum, Part 2: Preservation and Electronic-Archiving
Fenton, Eileen Gifford (Date Created: Apr 2004) (United States of America)
This article forms part two of the Digital Preservation Conundrum and addresses some of the issues highlighted in Abby Smith’s commentary on this topic. In this article, the author looks at the basic assumptions in preserving print resources and examines how these can/cannot be applied to the preservation of digital materials. The author also argues that, like their print counterparts, electronic resources require an effective supporting infrastructure if they are to be preserved for the long-term.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a903456728~db=all~ord
er=page
Available in The Serials Librarian, Vol 46, No 1/2, April 2004, pp. 115-119 and as a section in the monograph, Serials in the Park, pp. 115-119, ISBN 0789025647 (hardcover)
Historical Digital Preservation in Practice: The e-Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Oltmans, Erik; van Wijngaarden, Hilde (Date Created: Jan 2004) (Netherlands)
This article describes the Koninklijke Bibliotheek’s (KB – Netherlands’ National Library) partnership with IBM in relation to the long-term preservation of digital materials. Both parties have developed a standard-based deposit system called the e-Depot. This article not only provides an overview of the main functions of the e-Depot, but describes further developments by the KB/IBM team, including a preservation manager for the storage and use of technical metadata within the e-Deport and an access tool, the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03055720410530951
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 21-26, ISSN 0305-5728 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
Digital Preservation In Radiology : Ensuring Long Term Accessibility of Digital Medical Images
Kulovits, Hannes; Rauber, Andreas (Date Created: 31 Mar 2009)
This Digital Preservation Europe briefing paper outlines the preservation requirements of digital imaging in European medical practices and suggests that additional efforts may be required to establish trusted repositories through risk assessment and compliance auditing.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/digital_pr
eservation_in_radiology.pdf
Digital Preservation Europe Briefing Paper
Historical Digital Preservation in the Estonian National Archives
National Archives of Estonia (Date Created: 2005) (Estonia)
This document covers the background, current and future plans for digital preservation at the Estonian National Archives. It includes topics such as legal issues, strategic plans, survey and preservation of national datasets, data conversion and metadata. Specific projects are also discussed.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070607024413/www.ra.ee/galahad/file_stora
ge/2/949
Archived by the Internet Archive
Historical Digital Preservation of Scientific Information in Brazil : an Initial Approach of Existing Models
Arellano, Miguel Angel Mardero (Date Created: Jun 2004) (Brazil)
This brief paper is based on the results of a study from a doctoral dissertation at the University of Brasilia (Brazil). The study investigated how scientific information is being preserved and what kind of digital preservation strategies are in place in government institutions in Brazil. The data revealed that scientific information institutions lack standards related preservation activities and that the scientific data is being stored in databases that are proprietary in nature without digital preservation strategies in place.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002545/
8th ICCC International Conference of Electronic Publishing, Brasilia (Brazil), 23-26 June 2004
Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers
Kilbride, William; Todd, Malcolm In: Ariadne (Date Created: 30 Jan 2010) (United Kingdom)
This article reports on the series of Digital Preservation Roadshows held in the UK and Ireland (Gloucester, York, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester and Aberystwyth and finally Cardiff) during 2009 and 2010 which were organised by the Society of Archives and sponsored by Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), The National Archives (TNA) and CyMAL. The roadshows were designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/dp-rdshw-rpt/
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Historical Digital Preservation Strategy
Davis, Simon (Date Created: Nov 2002) (Australia)
This presentation looks at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Digital Preservation Policy, devised from its Agency to Researcher Digital Preservation Project. As well as touching on digital preservation problems such as obolesence and restriction on the use of proprietary technology, the article explores data formats used by the NAA as a means of providing digital preservation solutions. These include data formats developed by the NAA, such as dataset, emailmessage, webpackage and XML and Java-based tools, as well as dataformats already in existence, such as XHTML, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and Open Office.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/49635/20050510-0000/www.naa.gov.au/recor
dkeeping/rkpubs/fora/02nov/digital_preservation.pdf
Digital Preservation Through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences
Adams, Margaret; Altman, Micah; Crabtree, Jonathon; Donakowski, Darrell; Maynard, Mark; Pienta, Amy; Young, Copeland (Date Created: Mar 2009) (United States of America)
This article provides an overview of the Data-PASS collaboration which is supported by the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and is a collaboration of five major institutions: the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research; The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research; The Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science; the electronic records custodial division of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); and The Henry A. Murray Research Archive, with strong technology support from the Harvard-MIT Data Center.
http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/papers/SharedPractices.pdf
Draft of Article prepared for the American Archivist
Digital Preservation using the WARC file format
Kristiansen, Mads Alhof (Date Created: 30 Jul 2006) (Denmark)
This paper was prepared as a graduate student project in collaboration with the Danish Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek) and has been published as a technical paper at University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. It considers the potential of WARC as an archival medium through small scale experiments testing the preservation strategies of migration, emulation and durable encoding using the case study of the Royal Library's Digital Object Management System.
ftp://ftp.diku.dk/diku/semantics/papers/D-548.pdf
Technical paper 2006 D-548, TOPPS, DIKU (Datalogisk Institut på Københavns Universitet)
Digital Preservation: Illuminating the Past, Guiding the Future
National Archives of Australia (Date Created: Jun 2006) (Australia)
This brochure (15 p.) describes the challenges of digital preservation and the approach of the National Archives of Australia to preserving Commonwealth Government electronic records. It briefly introduces the Xena software.
ISBN: 1920807454
http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/XENA_brochure%5B1%5D_tcm2-918.pdf
Available online as PDF.
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Historical Digital Preservation: The Australian Experience
Woodyard, Deborah (Date Created: Oct 2000) (Australia)
This paper, presented at the 3rd Digital Library Conference: Positioning the Fountain of Knowledge, discusses how and what is being digitally preserved in Australia. Current projects include standardizing metadata and preserving audio collections and electronic publications. Cooperative projects, such as PANDORA and PADI are two of the projects mentioned.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1333/16
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Digital Preservation: The Need for an Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System for Small to Medium Sized Collections
Bradley, Kevin (Date Created: Feb 2008)
This paper given at the 2008 Memory of the World Conference (19-22 February 2009, Canberra, Australia) discusses the findings of the UNESCO report "Towards an Open Source Repository and Preservation System: Recommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System and on Related Software Development”.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/83301/20080415-1354/www.amw.org.au/mow20
08/mow/speakerPapers/BradleyPaper.pdf
Historical Digital Reality II: Preserving our Electronic Heritage
NELINET (Date Created: 05 Jun 2000) (United States of America)
This page contains links to conference papers from a seminar held on Monday June 5, 2000 at John F. Kennedy Library, Boston MA which was co-sponsored by NELINET Preservation Advisory Center, John F. Kennedy Library and the Northeast Documentation Center.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071026114309/http://www.nelinet.net/edser
v/conf/digital/dr_2000/digital.htm
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Digital Repositories Roadmap : Looking Forward
Heery, Rachel; Powell, Andy (Date Created: 07 Apr 2006) (United Kingdom)
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), this discussion document provides information on current practices, future plans and individual roadmaps for various types of repository material such as geospatial data, academic papers and learning material for 2006-2010. The content of the roadmap was made by contributors from academic and research organisations in the UK.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/rep-roadmap-v15.doc
Historical Digitization in an Archival Environment
McKay, Sally (Date Created: 2003)
This article concentrates on the disadvantages of digitization, particularly with regard to cultural institutions. Legal, technical and selection issues are discussed. There is a short section on digital preservation issues associated with digitised materials.
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v04n01/Mckay_s01.htm
in E-JASL Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, vol. 4, no.1, (Winter 2003)
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Historical Digitizing, Archiving and Preserving Japanese Cultural Heritage
Harada, Hisayoshi In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Apr 2003) (Japan)
This article describes the current activities and initiatives at the National Diet Library in creating a National Digital Library Digitization Project. Copyright is discussed, especially in regard to networked digital publications. The National Diet Library also has several projects planned, including WARP (Web Archiving Project) and DNAVI (the NDL Database Navigation Service). The National Diet Library has also begun research and study for long term preservation of digital information to make the public aware of its importance. A three year project began in 2002 to set up comprehensive guidelines and policies for long term preservation strategies.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file1
230.html#feature1
DINI Institutional Repository Certification and Beyond.
Dobratz, Susanne ; Scholze, Frank (Date Created: Feb 2006) (Germany)
This paper presented at 8th Bielefeld Conference (7-9 February, Bielefeld, Germany) provides an overview of institutional repositories which support Open Access in Germany and describes the DINI Certificate 2006 which was developed by DINI, the German initiative for Networked Information.
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2006/proceedings/dobratz_scholze
_final_web.pdf
Also published in Library Hi-Tech, Vol 24, No 4, 2006, pp 583-594.
Directory of Digital Preservation Repositories and Services in the UK : 2nd ed.
Simpson, Duncan (Date Created: Jun 2005) (United Kingdom)
This is an updated version of the Directory first issued in 2004. It is a listing of predominately UK resources that provide services in digital storage and preservation. It includes public and not for profit resources and resources from the private sector. The type of resources include archives such as the UK Web Archiving Consortium, data services such as AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service), support services and consultancies. The entry for each resource includes location, scope of the service, volume and type of material held, and contact details.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/guides/directory.pdf
Historical Disposable Scholarship?
Miller, Frederick (Date Created: Jan 2004)
This article provides a brief commentary on the issues of long-term preservation of digital information within the higher education sector. With such institutions producing a growing amount of digital media and information, the author stresses the importance of developing strategies to ensure long-terms access of digital scholarship for future generations. Also discussed is the role of higher education institutions in developing digital preservation strategies.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0411.pdf
Available in EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Volume 27, No 1, 2004, pp. 8-9, ISSN 1528-5324.
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DiVA : Academic Archive Online
Müller, Eva In: DigiCULT.Info Newsletter
This article provides a general overview of the DiVA archive, including current functionality and workflows . In operation since January 2003, the DiVA system is used by several universities in Nordic countries. Long term preservation is an integral part of the system. Each document is assigned a persistent identifier and an archive copy is stored in a local depository as well as sent to the appropriate national library digital archive. The article also describes the development of the DiVA document format (DDF), which is an XML document type, as an important part of the long term preservation strategy.
http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info_9.pdf
Historical DiVA Project : Development of an Electronic Publishing System
Andersson, Stefan; Hansson, Peter ; Klosa, Uwe; Muller, Eva In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Nov 2003) (Sweden)
This article describes the status of the DiVA (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet) system developed at the Uppsala University in Sweden. It concentrates on publishing workflow, DiVA document format and solutions supporting long-term preservation such as persistent links. Future development plans are also discussed.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november03/muller/11muller.html
DK Domain : in Words and Figures
Andersen, Bjarne (Date Created: Feb 2006) (Denmark)
In July 2005, new legal deposit laws in Demark gave the Royal Library and the State and University Library the mandate to gather and preserve the Danish domain of the Internet. This paper discusses the initial cross section harvesting that occurred from July to October 2005. Also discussed are the technical specifications of the harvest, harvest limitations, statistics on file types and the size of Danish websites.
http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/DFrevy_english.pdf
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Historical Dominos : a New Web Crawler's Design
Djeraba, Chabane; Hafri, Younès (Date Created: Sep 2004)
This article describes 'Dominos', a high performance crawler developed as a real-time distributed system running on a cluster of machines in order to facilitate the French Web legal deposit. Various general web crawling strategies are described, including repetitive crawling, targeted crawling, and deep web crawling and the differences between Dominos and other web crawlers are outlined. A detailed technical picture of the functions and processes of the Dominos crawler and results from performance testing are included.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/Hafri.pdf
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, September 2004
Double Bind of E-journal Collections
Fox, Robert (Date Created: 2007) (United States of America)
This article compares and contrasts the philosophies and technical underpinnings of LOCKSS and Portico, two different approaches used for e-journal archiving and preservation of born digital material.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/10650750710720739
Also available in PDF and in OCLC Systems and Services: International Library Perspectives ISSN 1065-075X Vol 23, Issue 1, 2007, pp21-29
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Historical DPC Forum - Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records
Joint Information Systems Committee Distributed National Electronic Resource (JISC/DNER) (Last Updated: 25 Mar 2002) (United Kingdom)
Organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and held at the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists, London, on 25 March, 2002, this event brought together key institutions involved in web-archiving, in order to share experience and to highlight issues in archiving and long-term preservation. Links to the summary report of the meeting and presenters' notes are provided.
http://www.dpconline.org/events/web-archiving-online-documents-and-rec
ords.html
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Historical DPC Forum with Industry: Future R & D for Digital Asset Preservation
Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) (Date Created: Jun 2002) (United Kingdom)
This web page provides links to a summary meeting report and presentations by speakers from both the public and private sectors, as presented at the Digital Preservation Coalition forum with industry, held at Prospect House, London on 5th June, 2002. Topics covered long-term trends and research and development issues for preservation and access to digital material in both government and industry.
http://www.dpconline.org/events/future-rad.html
Historical DPC Forum: Archiving: Adapting to the Digital Age
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: 24 Sep 2003) (United Kingdom)
A report and summary of the Digital Preservation Coalition's (DPC) forum held at the National Archives, Kew (UK) on 24th September, 2003. The report covers sessions on electronic records management and collecting and preserving digital materials. Links to some presentation slides (in PDF format) are available.
http://www.dpconline.org/events/archives-adapting-to-the-digital-age.h
tml
Historical Draft DCC Approach to Digital Curation
Digital Curation Centre (Date Created: 27 Aug 2004) (United Kingdom)
This 19 p. document is a draft andintended for further update. It features a detailed definition and discussion of the concept of digital curation, particularly as it is applied by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). Also discussed is the OAIS Reference Model as the basis of Centre's digital curation approach. The document also identifies key services that the DCC can research, develop and supply to facilitate digital curation, including the creation of a Registry/Repository of Representation Information, including information about formats, software and standards.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100215095100/http://www
.dcc.ac.uk/docs/phase-1/DCCApproachtoDigitalCuration-20040827.pdf
Archived by the UK Web Archive
Historical In DSpace, Ideas are Forever
Marx, Vivien (Date Created: 03 Aug 2003)
This article from the New York Times discusses DSpace and other similar archives. It describes the circumstances encouraging the growth of scholarly archiving and includes quotes from the director of M.I.T. Libraries and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. (Free registration required.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/edlife/03EDTECH.html?ex=1060922358&e
i=1&en=262cf6a5774edd97
New York Times, Education Life
Historical DSpace: An Institutional Repository from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Smith, MacKenzie In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. Proceedings
A paper presented at ECDL 2002, describing the rationale for institutional repositories, the DSpace system, and its implementation at MIT. Plans to release the system in open source to allow continued research in open scholarly communication and long-term preservation for digital materials are also discussed. The abstract is available free-of-charge online. The full article may be obtained in print form or online for a fee.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/8nkpt4nnwkpepbh8/?p=b085cd359d3f44
65835fa1bccd90abc6&pi=39
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Historical DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository
Barton, Mary; Bass, Mick; Branschofsky, Margret; Harford Walker, Julie; McClellan, Greg; Smith, MacKenzie; Stuve, Dave; Tansley, Robert In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2003) (United States of America)
An article describing DSpace, a collaborative initiative between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs, which provides a way to manage and retain accessibility to research materials and scholarly publications over time in a professionally maintained repository. Details of the repository's information model, architecture, interface and workflow, as well as its scope, planning and preservation options are discussed.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/smith/01smith.html
Historical E-Archiving : an Overview of some Repository Software Management Tools
Prudlo, Marion In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2005)
This article examines three of the more popular repository management systems - LOCKSS, EPrints and DSpace. These tools are analysed in terms of functionality, costs, participants and required skills for use.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue43/prudlo/
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Historical E-Government and Digital Preservation
Dumortier, Jos (Date Created: May 2003)
This paper was presented at the Workshop on E-Government: Legal, Technical and Pedagogical Aspects at Albarracín (Spain), 8-10th May 2003. The paper discusses digital signatures within the context of digital archiving. Digital signatures are used to authenticate the originator and the integrity of information. The article discusses the long term validation of digital signatures and the implications of this for emulation and migration preservation strategies.
http://www.unizar.es/derecho/fyd/lefis/documentos/Albareccin_JosDumort
ier.pdf
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Historical E-Journal Archive DTD Feasibility Study
Inera Incorporated (Date Created: 05 Dec 2001)
This report, commissioned by the Harvard University Library E-Journal Archiving Project under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides recommendations for the development of a common SGML structure for representing the intellectual content of archived journal articles and examines the challenges to be faced in transforming such content. It is based on examination of DTDs from ten publishers and the experiences of organisations that have worked with multiple publishers and DTDs.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/hadtdfs.pdf
Historical E-Journals - What Do You Get For Your Money?
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: Feb 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article focuses on the role of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK, in relation to the issues and challenges of the long-term preservation and continued access of licensed e-journals. JISC has acknowledged the challenges that have emerged with licensed e-journals, particularly with regard to the differing roles and responsibilities of both libraries and publishers. To that end, the Committee has developed a JISC/Publishers Association (PA) Model Licence that seeks to explore such areas as continued online access and different archival options. Between September and November 2002, a JISC consultancy conducted a survey of libraries and publishers as a means of addressing this need for a more definitive role between libraries and publishers, as well as assessing options for a central archiving facility.
http://uksg.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0953-0460
&volume=16&issue=1&spage=27
Available online at uksg.metapress.com and in Serials for the International Serials Community, ISSN 0953-0460, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2003, pp. 27-31
E-journals: Archiving and Preservation Briefing Paper
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: 06 Mar 2007) (United Kingdom)
This briefing paper reports on the current options for e-journal archiving in the UK. It considers the role of Legal Deposit, the role of institutional and open access repositories and current e-journal archiving options.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/pub_ejournalspreservat
ionbp.aspx
Available in HTML with PDF and RTF versions available for download
Historical E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research
Day, Michael In: Ariadne (Date Created: 22 Jun 2001)
This article considers some of the long-term preservation issues for e-print services (or archives), a potential application of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Some of the major implications such as responsibility for preservation, and authenticity are discussed.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue28/metadata/
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Historical E-Science Curation Report : Data Curation for E-Science in the UK : an Audit to Establish Requirements for Future Curation and Provision
Lord, Philip; Macdonald, Alison (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
This report (85 p.), prepared for the JISC Committee for the Support of Research (JCSR), endeavours to establish the current provision and future requirements for curation of digital primary research data generated within e-science in the UK. The report consists of strategic and policy level recommendations. Questionnaires and interviews were used to ascertain current provisions for data curation, in areas including such as repositories, libraries, funding, costs, preservation, and standards.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-ScienceReportFinal.pdf
Early Learnings from the National Library of New Zealand's National Digital Heritage Archive Project
Knight, Steve (Date Created: 25 Aug 2009) (New Zealand)
This paper presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council (23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy) provides an overview of Phase 1 of the NDHA (National Digital Heritage Archive) developed by the National Library of New Zealand. It discusses the state of digital preservation at the Library and in the broader community.
http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/146-knight-en.pdf
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Historical Earth Observation Archives in Digital Library and Grid Infrastructures
Fusco, Luigi (Date Created: 30 Dec 2004)
Earth observation missions generate petabytes of data which need to be preserved for use in long-term analyses. This article describes how digital library and Grid technology can support long-term data preservation and access. Examples of initiatives that use these technologies are described, such as the European DILIGENT project.
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/3/0/222/_pdf
Data Science Journal, ISSN 1683-1470, Vol. 3, December 2004, pp 222-226.
Historical ECDL 2001 Workshop - What's next for Digital Deposit Libraries? Preserving Online Content for Future Generations - Papers
Lupovici, Catherine; Masanès, Julien (Date Created: 26 Sep 2001) (France)
This web site contains links to presentations given at the ECDL 2001 Workshop on September 8, 2001 in Darmstadt, Germany. Topics focus on legal deposit and the internet, web harvesting and archiving. Papers in Powerpoint format include - Austrian On-Line Archive : Current Status and Next Steps ; Harvesting the Finnish Web Space : Practical Experiences ; BnF's Project for Web Archiving ; Collection of German Online Resources by Die Deutsche Bibliothek ; Kulturarw the Swedish WWW Archive.
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2001/index.html
Historical ECDL 2002 Workshop Report: Web Archiving
Masanès, Julien; Rauber, Andreas (Date Created: Oct 2002)
A brief report on the 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving, held in Rome on 19 September, 2002, in conjunction with ECDL 2002. The Workshop had three sessions dealing with technical issues and strategies, the progress of several web archiving projects, and two international consortia initiatives in web archiving.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/10inbrief.html#RAUBER
Editors' Interview with Victoria Reich, Director, LOCKSS Program
Research Libraries Group In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Feb 2006)
Vicki Reich is interviewed about LOCKSS, including the new initiative CLOCKSS and other recent developments.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file1
339.html#article0
Electronic Publication: Problems of Archiving and Access to Archived Information: Legal Deposit, Data Protection and Related Topics
von Hielmcrone, Harald (Date Created: 16 Jul 2008) (Denmark)
This paper given at World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council (10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada) discusses the challenges for libraries of electronic publications. It focuses on the situation in Denmark looking in particular at the effect of the revision of the Legal Deposit Act and the legal aspects of web harvesting.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/087-Hielmcrone-en.pdf
Historical Electronic Publications Pilot 1996/97 : Final Report
Hjartarson, Fay; Mowat, Kathryn; Ramage, Pamela (Date Created: May 1999) (Canada)
Conducted as a joint initiative between Statistics Canada and the Depository Services Program (DSP) between 1996-1997, the Electronic Publications Pilot's (EPP) main aim was to gather information on how DSP libraries and their users were embracing the electronic environment, and to assess the impact electronic publications would have on print publications. This article provides an overview of the pilot, including an explanation of the methodology undertaken, limitations of the study, research findings including technical and resource problems and archiving issues.
ISBN: 0662278607
http://www.statcan.ca/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=11-534-R&CHROPG=1
Catalogue no. 11-534-RIE
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Electronic Records, Problem Solved? : the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy and the Future of Electronic Record Keeping in Victoria
Gibbs, Ross; Heazlelwood, Justine (Date Created: 8 Jul 2000) (Australia)
This paper discusses the outcomes of the VERS project for the capture and long-term preservation of government records. A standard model for archiving electronic records is outlined, together with essential criteria for formatting documents for long-term access.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2000/2000pdf/Gib_Hea.PDF
Historical Ephemeral to Enduring : The Internet Archive and Its Role in Preserving Digital Media
Edwards, Eli (Date Created: 2004) (United States of America)
This article focuses on the role and functions of the Internet Archive (IA) in the USA. As well as providing background information on the development of the Archive, the article looks at the Archive's several website collections as well as gaps in the collection, the role of the IA in relation to copyright and compares and contrasts the IA's approach to archiving with internet and archiving projects undertaken by national libraries around the world.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/ital/volume23a/number1a/v23n1.c
fm#edwards
Also available in Information Technology and Libraries, Vol 23, No 1, March 2004, pp. 3-8, ISSN 07309295
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Historical Ephemeral Will Endure : the Future of Conceptual Art and Digital Preservation
Sharp, Rebecca In: DigiCULT.Info Newsletter (Date Created: Aug 2002) (United States of America)
Based on an interview with Jon Ippolito, Co-ordinator of the Variable Media Initiative (VMI) at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, this article addresses the main components of the VMI. The initiative allows artists working with ephemeral media formats to collaborate with museum and media consultants to produce appropriate preservation strategies for their works. Through the use of an interactive questionnaire, artists specify “preservation and dissemination options according to the properties unique to their work”, thus further enabling this area of art history to be available to future generations.
http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info2.pdf
Historical ePrints UK : Developing a National E-Prints Archive
Martin, Ruth In: Ariadne (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
ePrints UK is a two year project which aims to provide the higher and further education sector access to and preservation of the e-print papers available from compliant open archive repositories. This paper provides a brief overview of the ePrints UK project, including technical issues such as database development and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) interfaces and non technical issues such as intellectual property rights and insufficient repositories from which to harvest records.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/martin
Historical ERA: An Archives of the Future for the Future
Carlin, John W. (Date Created: Mar 2004) (United States of America)
Written by the Archivist of the United States, this article provides an overview of the challenges facing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in dealing with the preservation of federal government electronic records. The article describes the NARA’s attempts in dealing with such challenges, by outlining developments of the Electronic Records Archive (ERA). Included in the article are descriptions of stakeholders, the main functions and bids for design of the ERA, as well as other projects and initiatives the NARA is undertaking in relation to electronic recordkeeping.
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/spring/archivist.ht
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Available in Prologue, a quarterly publication of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Spring 2004, Vol. 36, No. 1
Erfaringer med høstning af det danske net 2005-2008
Jacobsen, Grethe (Date Created: Dec 2008) (Denmark)
This article (in Danish) provides an update on the activities of Netarkivet.dk and its efforts to archive the Danish Web. Included are statistics comparing the 2005 and 2008 crawls.
http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/dfrevy/article/viewFile/2291/2276
DF Revy, ISSN 0106-0503, No. 8, December 2008, pp12-15
Escience and Archiving for Space Science
Borne, K. D. ; Eastman, Timothy E. (Date Created: 01 Sep 2005)
This article explores space science data preservation, archiving, and access. It also looks at interoperability of datasets and OAIS architecture.
http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/codata/journal/contents/4_05/4_05pdfs/D
S430.pdf
Data Science Journal, Vol. 4, 1 September, 2005, http://www.datasciencejournal.org/
Eternal Bits : How Can We Preserve Digital Files and Save Our Collective Memory?
Smith, Mackenzie (Date Created: 19 Jul 2005) (United States of America)
This article outlines the problems and solutions in preserving digital information. The Dspace archiving process is discussed and examples are used to highlight various data preservation scenarios.
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29463
IEEE Spectrum Online, 19 July 2005
Ethical Issues in Web Archive Creation and Usage - Towards a Research Agenda
Kaiser, Max; Rauber, Andreas; Wachter, Bernhard (Date Created: Sep 2008)
This paper delivered at IWAW 2008, discusses key ethical concerns raised about web archiving and proposes directions to pro-actively address the concerns particularly through IT methods.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Rauber.pdf
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Historical EVA : The Acquisition and Archiving of Electronic Network Publications In Finland
Lounamaa, Kirsti; Salonharju, Inkeri In: Tietolinja News (Date Created: 15 Jan 1999) (Finland)
This article presents the current status of a project to capture and preserve electronic documents published in the Finnish Internet. The article describes the policy used to select the material to be included in the collection, the capturing process, the storage technology and accessing method. Electronic documents are not yet a part of the Legal Deposit in Finland, but the revision of the Act is going on and the aim is to also preserve electronic publications for the coming generations.
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/tietolinja/0199/evaart.html
Tietolinja News 1/1999
Historical Evaluation of Motion JPEG 2000 for Video Archiving
Gill, Michael; Pearson, Glenn (Date Created: Apr 2005) (United States of America)
This paper discusses the applicability of Motion JPEG 2000 (MJ2) as a format for long term video preservation. This paper examines three MJ2 implementations - Kakadu, Morgan Multimedia's codec and Open JPEG 2000.
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/pearson/MJ2_video_archiving.pdf
Paper presented at the Archiving 2005 conference, April 26-29, 2005, Washington D.C.
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Historical Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow
Nixon, William J In: Ariadne (Date Created: 8 Jul 2002) (United Kingdom)
This article describes the progress of the e-print archive at the University of Glasgow, including the aims of the archive, decisions about implementation, metadata and presentation. The article also notes the role of the library in encouraging submissions, providing advice on copyright, and arranging deposit, conversion of formats and review of metadata quality.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue32/eprint-archives/
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Historical Exposing and Harvesting Metadata Using the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol: A Tutorial
Warner, Simeon (Date Created: Jun 2001)
This article describes the Open Archives Initiative's metadata harvesting protocol.
http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/4/papers/3/
HEP Libraries Webzine Issue 4, June 2001
Fading Memory of the State
Talbot, David (Date Created: Jul 2005)
This article describes the difficulties and issues that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are encountering in trying to preserve electronic data. It outlines the development of NARA's Electronic Records Archives (ERA) scheduled for incremental release between 2007-2011. Also discussed are other initiatives such as DSpace.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/feature_memory.as
p?trk=nl
Available by subscription to Tecnology Review
FAQ: Copyright Keeps Open Archives and Digital Preservation Separate
Hirtle, Peter B. In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Apr 2007)
This article considers the effect of copyright on self-archiving in open access digital repositories.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file1
37.html#article5
Fast Browsing of Archived Web Contents
JaJa, Joseph; Song, Sangchul (Date Created: Sep 2008)
This paper given at IWAW 2008 (International Workshop on Web Archiving, Aarhus Denmark 18-19 Sept, 2008) considers the problem of archiving a linked set of web objects into web containers in such a way as to minimize the number of containers accessed during a browsing session. The paper describes the development of a methodology and simulation results which are compared to the common scheme used to organize web objects.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Song.pdf
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Historical Feasibility and Requirements Study On Preservation Of E-Prints: Report Commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Anderson, Sheila; James, Hamish; Pinfield, Stephen; Ruusalepp, Raivo (Date Created: 29 Oct 2003) (United Kingdom)
Published by the Joint Information Systems Committee, this final report observes that while UK e-print repositories probably lack the research, tools and strategies for long-term preservation, e-prints do not present unique technical challenges for preservation. It describes the properties of e-prints and identifies areas that require further research, including e-print metadata, cost models and e-print file formats.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-prints_report_final.pdf
Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project
Dockins, Robert; Glick, Kevin; Wilczek, Eliot In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2006) (United States of America)
This article provides an overview of the recently completed Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project being undertaken by the Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University and Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University. The project aimed at combining electronic records preservation research and theory and digital library research and practice. The article discusses recordkeeping systems and preservation activities, and the two of the products of the project the Ingest Guide and Maintain Guide.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file2
514.html#article0
Filing and Archiving E-mail
Boudrez, Filip (Date Created: 2006) (Belgium)
The report (47 p.) discusses the quality requirements for an e-mail archiving procedure, including the DAVID model and some aspects of e-mail archiving including selection, migration to preservation formats and archving metadata. The report also describes how the Antwerp City Archives developed a system for the management and archiving of e-mail.
http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/docs/filingArchiving_email.pdf
Historical Final Cedars Workshop: A Report from Manchester, UK
Day, Michael In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Apr 2002) (United Kingdom)
Michael Day reports on the final Cedars workshop, held at UMIST, Manchester, UK on 25-26 February 2002. The workshop's main purposes were to disseminate information on the Cedars project, put the work into a wider digital preservation context and consider future directions.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file5
20.html#conference
Historical Final Report on the Initial Development of the DSpace Federation
DSpace (Date Created: 30 Jun 2004) (United States of America)
This is the DSpace Federation Project's year-end 2004 report (34 p.) for the Mellon Foundation. Of interest is the case studies submitted by the participating universities.
http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/mellon-dspace.pdf
Finding and Archiving the Internet Footprint
Cox, David; Garfinkel, Simson (Date Created: 10 Feb 2009)
This paper given at the First Digital Lives Conference (British Library Conference Centre, London, 9-11 February 2009) explores the range of information that an originator may have left on computers that form part of the Internet. It discusses methods for finding the content and legal and ethical issues faced by archivists.
http://simson.net/clips/academic/2009.BL.InternetFootprint.pdf
Finland's Internet Archive
Jansson, Leena (Date Created: Aug 2009) (Finland)
This article briefly describes Finland's Internet Archive which was opened by the National Library of Finland on 2 April 2009. It includes information on the Finnish web archive's background, content and collection, use of the archive, its users and usability.
http://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/extra/bulletin/article4.html
The National Library of Finland Bulletin 2009
Historical First Experience in Archiving the French Web
Abiteboul, Serge; Cobéna, Gregory; Masanès, Julien; Sedrati, Gerald (Date Created: Sep 2002) (France)
This paper describes preliminary work and experiments by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and INRIA in archiving the French web under legal deposit legislation. Defining the perimeter of the French web and versioning issues are also discussed.
ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/gemo/gemo/GemoReport-229.pdf
Florida Digital Archive and DAITSS: A Model for Digital Preservation
Caplan, Priscilla In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010) (United States of America)
This article describes the Florida Digital Archive (FDA) and the DAITSS (Dark Archive in the Sushine State) preservation repository application used by FDA in the context of various models for implementing digital preservation.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047631
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 224-234
Formal Analysis of Recovery in a Preservational Data Grid
Christensen, Niels H. (Date Created: Jun 2006) (Denmark)
This paper describes the processes of data recovery in the Netarkivet data grid. Netarkivet is the Danish national web archive. The mathematical model includes five recovery operations and scenarios are developed which illustrate the use of these operations.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/nhc-kb-dk-msst2006.pdf
Paper presented at the Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 15-18 May 2006
Historical Functional Requirements for a Preservation System
Testbed Digitale Bewaring (Date Created: Jan 2005) (Netherlands)
This article discusses the requirements for a preservation system to implement the Digital Preservation Testbed recommendations. It focuses mainly on the preservation planning aspect of the OAIS model. An associated document, Costs of Digital Preservation, examines the costs associated with the digital archive. The preservation of digital records are described within the context of several phases including pre-accession, accession and long term preservation. Specific features of a system to support the Testbed recommendations for preserving email, text document, spreadsheet and databases are also discussed.
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/docs/Technical_and_Func
tional_Requirements.pdf
Further Experiences in Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library
Hilton, Christopher; Thompson, Dave In: Ariadne (Date Created: Oct 2007) (United Kingdom)
This article assesses the progress made by the Wellcome Library in collecting born digital materials and provides an overview of the experiences and challenges.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue53/hilton-thompson/
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Historical Future Digital Heritage Space : An Expedition Report
DigiCULT Consortium (Date Created: Dec 2004)
Using the analogy of an expedition, this extensive report covers several themes, one of which is persistent and perpetual access to digital heritage. The report outlines what can be expected in the next 10-15 years within the context of ICT systems and applications. The report also gives recommendations which may be useful for ensuring the creation of a successful future digital heritage space. Other themes include large scale and distributed information systems, creat/re-create 3D/VR/AR, intelligent and contextual cultural information (interoperable heritage resources).
http://www.digicult.info/downloads/dc_thematic_issue7.pdf
Also available as html.
Future Proofing Web Sites
Pennock, Maureen In: Ariadne (Date Created: 08 Feb 2006)
This is a report on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. The report covers practical approaches to future proofing web sites, tools and current archiving activities and international activities and legislation.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/dcc-fpw-rpt/
Government Web Content in Canada a National Library Web Archive Perspective
Cantello, Gillian; Stegenga, John (Date Created: 27 May 2008) (Canada)
This paper delivered at the World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council (10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada) discusses web harvesting of government produced information by Library and Archives Canada and its relationship to legal deposit which was broadened to include online publications in early 2007.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/130-Cantello_Stegenga-en.pdf
Also available in French http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/130-Cantello_Stegenga-trans-fr.pdf
Historical GPO LOCKSS Pilot Project
United States. Government Printing Office. (Date Created: 20 Jun 2005) (United States of America)
This article describes the United States Government Printing Office 12 month pilot project using LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) as a means to manage, disseminate, and preserve access to Web-based Federal Government e-journals that are within the scope of the FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) and the IES (International Exchange Service).
http://web.archive.org/web/20070608001124/http://www.access.gpo.gov/su
_docs/fdlp/lockss/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Historical Guide to Institutional Repository Software : 1st edition
Crow, Raym (Date Created: 16 Oct 2003)
This guide aims to help organisations select appropriate software systems when implementing institutional repositories. The five software systems discussed – CERN Document Server Software (CDSware), DSpace, Eprints, Tools and Technologies for Open Repositories (I-TOR) and MyCoRe – are all available via an Open Source Licence, comply with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocols and are currently available to the public. Also included is information for further reading on the five systems as well as a Systems Feature and Functionality Table which includes comparative information on persistent document identification and data preservation support.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/OSI_Guide_to_Institutional_Re
pository_Software_v1.htm
Also available in PDF version.
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Historical Guide to Institutional Repository Software : 3rd edition
Crow, Raym (Date Created: Aug 2004)
This guide aims to help organisations select appropriate OAI-MHP compliant, publicly available software systems when implementing institutional repositories. The guide provides summary descriptions of seven software systems - ARNO, CDSware, DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, i-Tor, and MyCoRe, which are all available via an Open Source Licence. Also included are links to further documentation on functionalities and technical specifications for the seven systems.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_IR_Software_v3.pdf
Also available in PDF version
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Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (Last Updated: 2009)
This is ICPSR's (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) guide to the task of preparing data for deposit in a public archive. It is mostly focused on quantitative data generated by statistical software like SPSS or SAS. Third edition 2005. Fourth edition 2009.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/access/dpm.htm
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Site archived by the Internet Archive.
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Historical Handling File Formats
Clausen, Lars. R. (Date Created: May 2004) (Denmark)
This report describes a part of “Internetbevaringsprojektet” (the Internet preservation project), which is a joint project between Statsbiblioteket (The State Library) and Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) in Denmark. The aim of the project is to archive the Danish part of the Internet. As part of this project, this report specifically deals with strategies in handling file formats to ensure long term preservation and accessibility. Some of the main ways to preserve access to information stored as digital objects are discussed, including capture, sequential conversion to new formats, conversion on demand, emulation and hardware preservation. The report concludes with a suggested strategy for dealing with file formats in an archival system, file preservation workflows and general recommendations for handling file formats.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/FileFormats-2004.pdf
Harvester Results in a Digital Preservation System
Steinke, Tobias (Date Created: 29 Sep 2008) (Germany)
This paper given at IPRES 2008 (29 - 30 Sep 2008, British Library Conference Centre), compares existing approaches to use METS and Web harvesting results in archival systems. It describes the advantages and disadvantages of treating Web harvests like other digital publications in dedicated preservation systems. A side by side comparison of containers based on METS and the possibilities for WARC are made.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day1/25_Steinke.pdf
Historical Harvesting and Archiving of Electronic Resources in Lithuania : Towards Virtual Library
Jodelis, Remigijus (Date Created: May 2003) (Lithuania)
In November 2002 the National Library of Lithuania started the LIBIS Electronic Resources Subsystem, consisting of NEDLIB harvester and supplementary modules in LIBIS (the Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System), designated to create the Archive of Electronic Resources. This paper gives an overview of the project, types of resources archived, harvester problems and future directions.
http://www.inforum.cz/archiv/inforum2003/prispevky/Jodelis_Remigijus.p
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Paper presented at Inforum 2003 : 9th Conference on Professional Information Resources 27-29 May 2003
Harvesting the Danish Internet - the First Two Years
Jacobsen, Grethe (Date Created: 02 May 2007) (Denmark)
This paper describes experiences related to harvesting the Danish Internet in the first two years of the netarchive.dk project.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/CollectingTheDanishInternet_2007.pd
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Historical Harvesting the Web, Preserving Chinese Voices : the Digital Archive for Chinese Studies in Heidelberg
Gross, Jennifer; Wagner, Rudolf G. (Date Created: Nov 2004) (China)
This paper was given at the International Conference on Sinological Resources in the Digital Era, Taipei, December 7-9, 2004. It provides detailed information on the origins, technical infrastructure and format, copyright issues and the collection development focus of DACHS (Digital Archive for Chinese Studies). Future plans and current usability problems are also discussed.
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/publications/taipei2004.rtf
Highlighting the Archives Perspective in the Personal Digital Archiving Discussion
Cushing, Amber L. In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010)
This article compares the approaches of the archival and personal information management communities to personal digital archiving based on an examination of the archival literature and the concepts and challenges posed by Catherine Marshall. It tries to identify similarites in the concerns about management of personal information over time and the possible benefits of a cross disciplinary approach.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047695
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 301-312
Historical Infrastructures for Web Archiving: Annotation of Ephemeral Collections for Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions
Dougherty, Meghan; van den Heuvel, Charles (Date Created: Apr 2009)
This paper given at MiT6: (Media in Transition International Conference Stone and Papyrus Storage and Transmission, April 24-26 2009, Cambridge, Mass.) considers the gaps in the requirements of, and development of access tools for the creators and users of web archives. The authors suggest that there is a need for discovery and enrichment tools in addition to retrieval tools to enhance access and usability. Institutions and researchers will need to work together to develop tools and to understand each others ongoing requirements. Annotation as a way of adding value is explored as an historically used method which has potential application to web archives.
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Dougherty_Heuvel.pdf
How People Manage Information Over a Lifetime
Marshall, Catherine C. (Date Created: 2007)
This is a chapter in Personal Information Management (William Jones & Jaime Teevan eds.). The author discusses the importance of the long term storage of personal digital information from the perspective of seven issues and then outlines some technological developments that may go some way to address these issues. The issues include predicting value, distributed storage, long term access and format obsolescence and incompatibility.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/PIM%20Chapter-Marshall.pdf
Personal Information Management (Jones and Teevan, eds.), University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, 2007.
Historical How to Preserve Digital Art
Mayfield, Kendra (Date Created: 23 Jul 2002) (United States of America)
A news article providing an overview of the Archiving the Avant Garde project.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/07/53712
Historical IASSIST 2000 : Data in the Digital Library: social, spatial, and government data services: Electronic Presentation Archive
University of Chicago (Date Created: Jun 2000) (United States of America)
Presentations at the 26th conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) related to managing, preserving and providing access to digital collections in archives and libraries.
http://www.src.uchicago.edu/datalib/ia2000/presentations/presentation.
htm
Identification and Archiving of the Czech Web Outside the National Domain
Vlcek, Ivan (Date Created: Sep 2008) (Czech Republic)
This paper delivered at IWAW '08 (September 18–19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark) presents work supporting the comprehensive archiving of the Czech Web by the WebArchiv Project through the integration of WebAnalyzer in to the Heritrix Crawler. The paper describes the functionality and testing of WebAnalyzer and harvesting of Czech websites in other countries.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Vlcek.pdf
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Historical Implementing a Reliable Digital Object Archive
Cooper, Brian; Crespo, Arturo; Garcia-Molina, Hector (Date Created: 26 Jun 2000) (United States of America)
This paper describes the implementation of a prototype digital repository, the Stanford Archival Vault (SAV), intended for the long-term preservation of digital objects, their metadata and software applications. It identifies unexpected challenges in indexing and configuration of replication in digital repositories and describes the mechanisms developed to address these challenges. The paper is available in several formats, including text, PostScript and PDF, or may be read online by selecting "Pagewise preview".
http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/715/
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Research and Development in Digital Libraries (ECDL)
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Historical Implementing an Open Jurisdictional Digital Repository - the STORS Project
Lavelle, Jan; Sokvitne, Lloyd In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 2004) (Australia)
Operating within the legal deposit provisions of Tasmania, this article describes the State Library of Tasmania’s (Australia) development and implementation of an open jurisdictional digital repository for published electronic materials - the Stable Tasmanian Open Repository Service (STORS). Included in the paper is an overview of the publisher self-contribution model; a description of the content and format scope of STORS; explanations on metadata structure, risk management issues and software developments; as well as future considerations for STORS, including additional preservation data.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/june2004-sokvitne
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/sokvitne/06sokvitne.html
Implementing PREMIS: A Case Study of the Florida Digital Archive
Conway, Paul; Donaldson, Devan Ray In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010) (United States of America)
This article describes the PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) implementation process within the Florida Digital Archive (FDA) in an attempt to better understand the implementation process and potential organisational barriers to wider PREMIS uptake.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047677
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 273-289
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Historical Implementing Preservation Repositories for Digital Materials : Current Practice and Emerging Trends in the Cultural Heritage Community : a Report by the PREMIS Working Group
OCLC/RLG PREMIS Working Group (Date Created: Sep 2004)
PREMIS, an international working group jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, reports the findings of a survey focused on current implementations and preservation metadata management practices of digital preservation repositories. The survey was conducted between December 2003 and February 2004 and drew respondents from 48 libraries, archives and other institutions from Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The survey covered repository services, models and policies, as well as architecture, storage, preservation processes and metadata. The report summarises and analyses the range of responses and notes a number of trends emerging in practice.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/surveyreport.pdf
Historical Implementing Preservation Strategies for Complex Multimedia Objects
Choudhury, Sharmin; Hunter, Jane (Date Created: Aug 2003)
This article focuses on appropriate preservation strategies for mixed-media digital objects. While the authors provide background information on different digital preservation strategies (such as emulation, migration and preservation metadata), the article is primarily based on case studies using three different examples of new media artworks. For each case study, the authors describe the artwork, highlight problems in preserving the particular objects and determine appropriate preservation strategies. Also included, is a description of the software tools which have been developed as a means of implementing such strategies
http://metadata.net/panic/Papers/ECDL2003_paper.pdf
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Historical Incentives to Preserve Digital Material : Roles, Scenarios and Economic Decision-Making
Lavoie, Brian F. (Date Created: Apr 2003)
"Economic issues are a principal component of the research agenda for digital preservation. Economics is, fundamentally, about incentives, so a study of the economics of digital preservation should begin with an examination of the incentives to preserve. Appropriate incentives are fundamental to the development of economically sustainable digital preservation activities. This white paper identifies the key decision-making roles in the digital preservation process, characterizes a core set of organizational models under which decision-makers might undertake digital preservation, and examines the implications of these models for the incentives to preserve digital materials."
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/digipres/incentives-dp.pdf
Historical Ingest Guide for University Electronic Records : Draft for Public Comment
Glick, Kevin; Wilczek, Eliot (Date Created: 30 Sep 2005)
The Digital Collections and Archives (DCA), Tufts University and Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) of Yale University Library released the Ingest Guide for University Electronic Records as a draft for comment. The Guide details a step by step approach to the ingest workflows required to ensure the trustworthiness and authenticity of records when they are transferred to a preservation system. The Guide has two sections. Section A, Negotiate Submission Agreement, which details the terms and conditions of the records transfer. Section B, Transfer and Validation, deals with the transfer, validation and transformation of records. Public input and comments accepted until December 15, 2005. Final version published in 2006.
http://dca.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/reports/3_1_draftpublic2.pdf
Comments can be sent to Kevin Glick, Yale University, kevin.glick@yale.edu or Eliot Wilczek, Tufts University, eliot.wilczek@tufts.edu
Historical Ingest Technologies
ERPANET (Date Created: Sep 2004)
This ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network) guidance tool is a brief introduction to ingest and its role in the development of a digital repository system. The appendix contains a companion guide and checklist when defining and/or selecting an ingest strategy, presenting a survey of the factors required for consideration.
http://www.erpanet.org/guidance/docs/ERPANETIngestTool.pdf
ERPA guidance note
Historical Institutional Repositories
Roy Tennant (Last Updated: 15 Sep 2002)
An article published in Library Journal discussing the use of web-based capturing systems to create repositories of “grey literature” and preprint materials touching on software, implementations and metadata.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA242297.html?industryid=47125
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Historical Institutional Repositories in the Context of Digital Preservation
Wheatley, Paul (Date Created: Mar 2004)
This report focuses on the crucial digital preservation issues for institutional repositories, with view on implications on the design and development of repository software. The repository software of various institutions are compared and analysed as well as their different objectives regarding long-term preservation of data and/or collection policy. In addition, the requirements for effective preservation are outlined, including the preservation functions essential in a repository such as persistent identification, object characterisation, and support of object rendering. The report concludes with recommendations that specific requirements for digital repositories should be developed and that independent certification services ought to be established to evaluate how repositories meet these requirements.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/DPCTWf4word.pdf
DPC Technology Watch Series Report, 04-02
Historical Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure For Scholarship In The Digital Age
Lynch, Clifford A. (Date Created: Feb 2003) (United States of America)
In this article, the author addresses the strategic role of institutional repositories in universities as a means for advancing scholarship and preservation of scholarly works. Citing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) development of the DSpace institutional repository system as a model for universities for the future, the author also seeks to define institutional repositories; looks at their strategic importance for scholarship and higher education; addresses their relationship with networked information standards and infrastructure such as persistent identifiers, preservable file formats and rights documentation; and provides his views for future developments in this field.
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/
In ARL Bimonthly Report, no. 226, February 2003, pp. 1-10
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Historical Integrating a Free Digital Resource: The Status of Making of America in Academic Library Collections
Walker, Kizer In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Feb 2002) (United States of America)
This article presents the results of a web-based survey on the institutional use and integration of MOA (Making of America) digital materials into collections and compares these results to actual usage as shown by web usage logs. A comparison to JSTOR usage and an interview with MOA project representatives at Cornell University and the University of Michigan regarding interoperability and long-term access are included.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file2
822.html#feature2
Integration of Non-harvested Web Data into an Existing Web Archive
Andersen, Bjarne (Date Created: Nov 2007) (Denmark)
This paper describes a software prototype for transforming non-harvested web data into ARC-files. It provides an analysis of the problems associated with a test conducted on real data from a Danish web site and use of the Wayback tool to index the data.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/IntegrationOfNonHarvestedData.pdf
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Historical Integrity and Authenticity of Digital Cultural Heritage Objects
DigiCult Consortium (Date Created: Aug 2002)
The first of three thematic issue papers from the Preservation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage Unit of the Information Society Directorate General of the European Commission addresses issues of preservation of the integrity and authenticity of digital objects. Amongst the articles are a discussion of what constitutes authenticity, a paper outlining the level at which authenticity should be addressed, a listing of standards and projects, and an argument for cooperation. The journal is illustrated with case studies from traditional archives as well as sound and vision archives.
http://www.digicult.info/downloads/thematic_issue_1_final.pdf
Historical International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) / Canadian Association of Public Data Users (CAPDU) 1999: Conference Program
York University, Toronto (Date Created: May 1999) (Canada)
Includes links to abstracts from the IASSIST-CAPDU conference entitled, 'Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers: the future of data in the global network'.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050310075326/http://www.yorku.ca/iassist/
program.htm
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Historical Internet Archive : an Interview with Brewster Kahle
Kahle, Brewster In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Jun 2002)
Brewster Kahle discusses the organisational infrastructure, policies and processes of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine and touches on various aspects of technical, financial and legal issues in digital archiving.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file9
93.html#interview
Historical Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption To Help Archive Vintage Software
Internet Archive (Date Created: 2003) (United States of America)
This web page features links to Brewster Kahle's speech and correspondence in applying for exemptions to the Copyright Act so to allow archiving of software. Although focussed on the U.S. and the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) the issues are relevant to other copyright legislations.
http://www.archive.org/about/dmca.php
Introducing the Portuguese Web Archive Initiative
Costa, Miguel; Gomes, Daniel; Miranda, João; Nogueira, André (Date Created: Sep 2008) (Portugal)
This paper delivered at IWAW '08 introduces the Portuguese Web Archive initiative which began in January 2008. It describes the project's infrastructure and characterization of the Portuguese Web.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Gomes.pdf
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Historical Introduction to Heritrix : an Open Source Archival Quality Web Crawler
Avery, Dan; Kimpton, Michele; Mohr, Gordon; Ranitovic, Igor; Stack, Michael (Date Created: 16 Sep 2004)
This article provides an introduction to Heritrix, the open source archival web crawler developed by the Internet Archive. Major components of the crawler are described, its features and limitations are discussed and its performance is evaluated. Future plans, including collaboration with other institutions, are also noted.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/Mohr.pdf
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, September 2004
Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing
King, Gary (Date Created: Nov 2007) (United States of America)
This article provides an introduction to the Dataverse Network Project which enables data sharing via a standard citation format which enables persistent identification.
http://gking.harvard.edu/files/abs/dvn-abs.shtml
Also available in Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 32, No. 2 (November, 2007): Pp. 173--199
Historical Invest to Save: Report and Recommendations of the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation
Hedstrom, Margaret; Ross, Seamus (Date Created: 2003)
This report (38 p.) identifies research challenges, development opportunities and solutions for problems associated with the preservation of digital information. Consisting of six main areas, the report presents digital preservation challenges; looks at the benefits of long-term preservation; summarises a set of principles and assumptions to guide the research agenda; highlights the work to date within this field; discusses a research agenda, including emerging research; and addresses the need for additional areas of support.
http://eprints.erpanet.org/archive/00000048/01/Digitalarchiving.pdf
Investing in Value : a Perspective on Digital Preservation
Currall, James; McKinney, Peter In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Apr 2006)
This article outlines the difficulties in assigning a value to information objects. It describes the espida project (An Effective Strategic model for the Preservation and disposal of Institutional Assets) which is funded by the JISC and based at the University of Glasgow. Espida is working on producing a value model for digital assets so that digital preservation can be seen as an investment decision where the returns can take many different forms.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/mckinney/04mckinney.html
Investment in an Intangible Asset
Hunter, Laurie In: Curation Reference Manual (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This installment of the Digital Curation Manual provides strategies in presenting effective arguments for funding bodies on the merits of digital preservation and digital curation. Risks associated with loss of data are identified and the benefits associated with preserving access to data are also discussed. Models for long-term maintenance and sustainability and collaborative approaches to developing models are detailed.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/completed-cha
pters/investment-intangible-asset
Available in pdf or html
Invitational Workshop: Setting up Deposit Systems for Electronic Publications (DSEP) presentations, papers
NEDLIB (Date Created: Dec 2000)
http://nedlib.kb.nl/index.html
Presentations and papers from the workshop are available at the NEDLIB website.
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Historical It's About Time : Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation : Report on the NSF Workshop on Research Challenges in Digital Archiving: Towards a National Infrastructure for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information : Workshop Report -- Draft 2.0 (Pre-Publication Draft)
NSF Workshop on Research Challenges in Digital Archiving Organizing Committee (Date Created: 12 Aug 2002) (United States of America)
This report identifies the new research opportunities and challenges in the long term preservation of digital information. Within the Computing and IT sector, technological issues such as storage capabilities, metadata and interoperability are discussed as new areas for research. Non technological areas requiring attention include funding inadequacies, economic and business models for sustainable preservation programs, policies and incentives for long term preservation and social, economic and legal impediments to preservation. Final report (PDF, 1.5 MB, 52 p.) published August 2003 sponsored by National Science Foundation and Library of Congress.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030219142352/http://www.si.umich.edu/diga
rch/Report.DFt.2.doc
Archived by the Internet Archive
JORUM Preservation Watch Report
Stevenson, Jane (Date Created: Jul 2005) (United Kingdom)
JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. This extensive report (73 p.) summarises current activities, standards and recommendations relating to digital preservation, with the aim of implementing a long term preservation strategy for learning objects within the JORUM learning object repository. The report includes a discussion of international preservation initiatives, centralised and decentralised preservation models, preservation policy, preservation metadata and case studies.
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/Digital_Preservation_Report.pdf
JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment (JHOVE)
Donnelly, Martin (Date Created: Mar 2006)
JHOVE is an open source framework for the identification, validation and characterisation of various file formats, including html. xml, gif, tiff, jpeg2000, and wave. The article looks at how formats are identified, validated and characterisated as well as system development, standards and legal factors. Also included are sample records.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/109
DCC Case Studies and Interviews, ISSN 1749-8767
Just in Time Recovery of Web Pages
Harrison, Terry L.; Nelson, Michael L. (Date Created: Sep 2006)
This paper was presented at the HYPERTEXT 2006 conference held at Odense, Denmark on 23-25 August 2006. This paper describes Opal, a framework for locating missing (404) web pages using web archives, search engines, and other research projects. The paper covers the architecture of the Opal framework, the implementation of the framework, and a quantitative analysis of the framework that indicates the strong potential of Opal as an effective way to locate missing web pages.
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/pubs/ht06/ht10-harrison.pdf
KB e-Depot Digital Archiving Policy
Oltmans, Erik; van Wijngaarden, Hilde (Date Created: 2006) (Netherlands)
This paper discusses the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's policy and ambitions for digital archiving of electronic publications. It provides an overview of the KB's e-depot repository and the requirement and potential for collaboration.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07378830610715464
Also available in PDF and from Library Hi Tech ISSN 0737-8831 ; Volume: 24 Issue: 4; 2006 pp. 604-613
KB e-Depot: Building and Managing a Safe Place for e-Journals
Ras, Marcel (Date Created: Mar 2009) (Netherlands)
This article in Liber Quarterly describes the policies underpinning the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's e-Depot. It provides an overview of the digital archive's operations, organisational management and experiences over the last six years.
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000276/article.pdf
Liber Quarterly, ISSN 1435-2005, Vol 19 (2009) no. 1
Historical Keepers of the Crumbling Culture : What Digital Preservation Can Learn From Library History
Friedlander, Amy; Marcum, Deanna In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: May 2003)
This article uses the preservation issues of the past to illustrate contemporary preservation issues. The authors contend that some lessons learnt in managing print preservation are also generally applicable in managing digital preservation. The article also raises other consequences of new preservation technologies such as content ownership and responsibility for preservation.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/may2003-friedlander
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/friedlander/05friedlander.html
Keeping Electronic Records Accessible : How the Federal Archives of Germany Preserves the Digital Heritage of the German Democratic Republic : a Case Study
Hanger, Andrea (Date Created: May 2006) (Germany)
The author introduces this case study by generally discussing the issues for the Federal Archives of Germany in the acquisition, preservation, accessibility, authenticity and reliability of electronic records. The case study which considers factors affecting the preservation of 200 data sets created in the German Democratic Republic between 1970 and 1990 and now stored in the Federal Archives of Germany digital repository. It is used to illustrate the importance of archivists being involved early in the record life cycle to encourage data producers to supply complete and accurate documentation and comprehensive audit trails. The author also concludes that METS may be a good way to preserve records over the long term.
http://archiwa.gov.pl/images/stories/file/7th-ecaa/A_Hanger_Keeping_El
ectronic_Records.pdf
Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Archives, Warsaw, 18-20 May, 2006
Keeping It Simple: The Alabama Digital Preservation Network (ADPNet)
Trehub, Aaron; Wilson, Thomas C. In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010) (United States of America)
This article reviews the state of digital preservation networks in North America, focusing in particular on the Alabama Digital Preservation Network, an example of a Private LOCKSS Network and distributed digital preservation model.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047659
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 245-258
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Historical Keeping Online Information Accessible for E-Governance and E-Democracy
Cunningham, Adrian; Phillips, Margaret E. (Date Created: Feb 2004) (Australia)
This article focuses on the need for government agencies and other institutions to ensure that electronic publications and organisational records are collected, managed and preserved as a means of ensuring long-term access for the benefit of e-governance and e-democracy. The article provides definitions of online publications and online records; explores the role of libraries and archives in e-government, including initiatives undertaken at the National Library of Australia and National Archives of Australia; addresses factors that contribute to the vulnerability of online information; and concludes with a list of factors that inhibit the long-term availability of online information for e-governance and e-democracy.
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1246
This paper was prepared for the Australian Electronic Governance Conference. Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, Victoria, April 14-15, 2004.
Kopal: Cooperation, Innovation and Services: Digital Preservation Activities at the German National Library
Altenhoner, Reinhard; Steinke, Tobias In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010) (Germany)
This article describes digital preservation activities of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB, the German National Library) and focuses on the strategic value of the long-term preservation Kopal project.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047640
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 235-244
Historical Kulturarw3 Project - The Royal Swedish Web Archiw3e - An example of "complete" collection of web pages
Arvidson, Allan; Mannerheim, Johan; Persson, Krister (Date Created: Aug 2000) (Sweden)
This paper given at IFLA 66th (13-18 August 2000, Jerusalem Israel) describes the Royal Library of Sweden's project Kulturarw3 to test methods of collecting, preserving and providing access to Swedish electronic online documents.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla66/papers/154-157e.htm
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Historical Language Engineering Techniques for Web Archiving
Coch, Jose; Masanès, Julien (Date Created: 2004) (France)
This article describes the WATSON project and the use of language engineering techniques for facilitating both web archiving and archive mining by researchers. These techniques include pre-filtering of less important sites, categorisation of sites and characterisation of sites via a WATSON working station, which shows key words, key sentences and metadata information.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/Coch.pdf
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, September 2004
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Large Scale Archival Storage of Digital Objects
Linden, Jim; Martin, Sean; Masters, Richard; Parker, Roderic (Date Created: Feb 2005) (United Kingdom)
This report on mass archival storage was based on the practical experience in developing the Digital Object Management system in the British Library. The authors are part of the British Library's Digital Object Management (DOM) Programme. The report includes an overview of general issues related to building a large secure data storage system, including storage management, emerging technologies and software. Although based on the British Library's experience, many of the issues discussed are applicable to any institution planning or engaged in secure long-term storage of large volumes of digital materials.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/dpctw04-03.pdf
DPC Technology Watch series report 04-03
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Historical Last Page of the Internet : the Importance of Preserving the Dynamic Aspects of the Internet
Brugger, Niels (Date Created: Jun 2001)
This paper, presented at the Preserving the Present for the Future : Strategies for the Internet conference, discusses the complications involved in the preservation of the dynamic features of the internet, as identified by media scholar Niels Brugger.
http://www.deflink.dk/upload/doc_filer/doc_alle/1023_NBR.doc
Lazy Preservation : Reconstructing Websites by Crawling the Crawlers
Bollen, Johan; McCown, Frank; Nelson, Michael L. ; Smith, Joan A. (Date Created: Sep 2006) (United States of America)
This paper was presented at the Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2006) in November 2006. The paper describes the results of two experiments, the caching behavior of search engines and reconstructing websites using the Warrick web-repository crawler, which was developed at Old Dominion University. The authors stress that this approach should not be a substitute for a digital preservation infrastruture and policy but could be used as a last resort approach.
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~fmccown/pubs/lazyp-widm06.pdf
Lecture Meeting and Discussion "Present and Future Prospects of Web Archiving - For International Partnerships"
National Diet Library (Japan) (Date Created: Apr 2008) (Japan)
This article reports on a meeting held at the National Diet Library in Japan on 23 January 2008. Speakers included Julien Masanes (European Archive), Kris Carpenter (Internet Archive), Dr Masaru Kitsuregawa (Univ. of Tokyo). A link is provided to slides from the lecture.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter/160/602.html
National Diet Library Newsletter April 2008, no. 160.
Legal Aspects of Web Archiving from a Dutch Perspective : Report Commissioned by the National Library in the Hague
Buenen, Annemarie; Schiphof, Tjeerd (Date Created: 04 Oct 2006) (Netherlands)
This report commissioned by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek provides an overview of intellectual property rights in relation to web archiving in the Netherlands.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/documenten/KB_Lega
l_Aspects_WebArchiving_EN.pdf
Legal Deposit and Collection Development in a Digital World
Joint, Nicholas (Date Created: 2006) (United Kingdom)
This editorial article compares and contrasts management of national collections of hard copy and digital deposit materials. The author argues that while print collections are comparatively comprehensive, selective collecting of digital material requires intelligent selection to be meaningful .
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242530610689310
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=A
rticle&contentId=1571426
Available in HTML and PDF. Published in Library Review 2006 Vol 55 no 8 pp.468-473
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Historical Legal Deposit from the Internet in Denmark : Experiences with the Law from 1997 and the Need for Adjustments
Henriksen, Birgit (Date Created: Jun 2001) (Denmark)
This paper, presented at the Preserving the Present for the Future : Strategies for the Internet conference, reviews the 1997 amendments to Danish legal deposit legislation to include static internet publications. The author examines the limitations of the updated statute for the collection of dynamic web resources, and argues for the further extension of the law to allow for harvesting of a broader representation of the Danish web.
http://www.deflink.dk/upload/doc_filer/doc_alle/1023_BNH.doc
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Historical Legal Deposit In Denmark : The New Law and Electronic Products
Dupont, Henrik, Det Kongelige Bibliothek (Date Created: 1999) (Denmark)
This article, originally published in LIBER Quarterly, details the provisions of the Act on Copyright Deposit of Published Works, which came into effect in Denmark on 1 January 1998. The amendments change the emphasis of the legislation from printed to published works, regardless of the medium in which they are produced. Importantly, the law extends to physical format digital materials, and to those published Internet materials which are issued in a static and final form.
http://liber-maps.kb.nl/articles/dupont11.htm
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Historical Legal Deposit of Digital Materials
Oltmans, Erik (Date Created: Jun 2003) (Netherlands)
This is the text of a paper delivered at the LIBER conference in Rome, June 2003. Using the Digital Information Archiving System (DIAS) developed jointly with IBM, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) implemented electronic deposit (the 'e-Depot') in 2002. This paper explains the fully operational e-Depot at the KB with a focus on the data flow of processing deposited digital publications and the management of long-term preservation aspects of the stored digital objects.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/LIBER-Oltm
ans-input.doc
Legal Deposit of the French Web: Harvesting Strategies for a National Domain
Lasfargues, France; Oury, Clément; Wendland, Bert (Date Created: Sep 2008) (France)
This paper delivered at IWAW '08 (September 18–19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark) describes the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) web harvesting activities in the context of the French Copyright Law August 1 2006, which extended legal deposit to the Internet. It compares the .fr domain harvests conducted over the last four years and discusses collaboration with the Internet Archive.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Lasfargues.pdf
Legal Issues Related to Whole-of-Domain Web Harvesting in Australia
Simes, Laura; Pymm, Bob (Date Created: Apr 2009) (Australia)
This article considers the existing legal position regarding whole-of-domain web harvesting in Australia including constraints of the copyright and legal deposit legislation. It also looks at the recent amendments to the Copyright Act and potential impacts on web harvesting in Australia.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a912331943&db=all
Journal of Web Librarianship, ISSN 1932-2917, Vol 3, Issue 2 April 2009, pp.129-142
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Historical Legal Issues Relating to the Archiving of Internet Resources in the UK, EU, USA and Australia : A Study Undertaken for the JISC and Wellcome Trust
Charlesworth, Andrew (Date Created: 25 Feb 2003)
Key legal issues such as copyright, data protection and defamation are discussed with emphasis on their application to the United Kingdom legal framework. The article also examines other approaches to web archiving, including several EU countries, the US and Australia. EU experience suggests that establishing legal deposit is highly desirable, US experience reveals that pragmatic approach is successful, but potentially full of legal controversies and Australian licensing approach although limited in its ability to deal with general harvesting of the web provides an acceptable degree of legal risk and allows selective archiving of both ‘shallow’ and ‘deep’ web resources. Also included is a series of recommendations for the JISC and Wellcome Trust regarding the archiving of UK materials.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/archiving_legal.pdf
Historical Levels of Service for Digital Repositories
LeFurgy, William G In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: May 2002)
In this article, William LeFurgy of the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) outlines conditions governing persistence of digital objects, such as system architecture and material specification, and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories, considering three levels of tools and processes and three levels of persistence of materials.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may02/lefurgy/05lefurgy.html
Link Rot and Legal Resources on the Web: A 2010 Analysis by the Chesapeake Project
Legal Information Archive Chesapeake Project (Date Created: May 2010) (United States of America)
This report is the third annual analysis conducted by the Chesapeake Project of link rot among the original URLs for law- and policy-related materials published to the Web and archived though the Project. It compares results for 2008-2010 and finds a steady increase in link rot between years and reports on differences in top level domains.
http://legalinfoarchive.org/
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Historical LOCKSS : a Permanent Web Publishing and Access System
Reich, Vicky In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 2001)
A paper describing the implementation of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) tool to facilitate continued access and preservation of web-published scientific journals. LOCKSS utilizes web caches to collect content as published across a peer-to-peer network and uses detect and repair facilities to monitor damage.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june01/reich/06reich.html
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Historical Long Term Archiving of Digital Documents in Physics - Conference report
Smith, Arthur P. (Date Created: Nov 2001)
This report of the IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) conference (November 5-6, 2001 Lyon Villeurbanne) summarizes the discussion about what a digital archive consists of, and lists the conference recommendations.
http://publish.aps.org/IUPAP/ltaddp_report.html
Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings : Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives
Bly, Sara; Brun-Cottan, Francoise; Marshall, Catherine C. (Date Created: May 2006)
This paper provides useful background information on how home computer users are creating, receiving and archiving their data. Based on the results of a survey, the study highlights the obstacles faced in PIM such as inconsistent and piecemeal approaches to the problem and lack of technical support. There is also the notion among home computer users that digital data is long lived so minimal intervention is required. The conclusion is that unless a systematic approach to digital archiving is developed by personal computer users, personal digital data is in danger of being irrevocably lost. The information gathered will be used by the authors towards their goal of designing a Personal Information Management (PIM) system.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/archiving2006-marshall.pdf
Proceedings of IS&T Archiving 2006. (Ottawa, Canada, May 23-26, 2006), Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Springfield, VA, 2006.
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Historical Long Term Spatial Data Preservation and Archiving : What are the Issues?
Bleakly, Denise R. (Date Created: Jan 2002) (United States of America)
This report (42 p.) discusses the activities of several United States government agencies relating to data management and preservation of geospatial data. It includes a general overview of the various digital preservation strategies and describes how geospatial data is unique and what makes it more difficult to archive compared to other types of data.
http://www.prod.sandia.gov/cgi-bin/techlib/access-control.pl/2002/0201
07.pdf
SAND Report 2002-0107
Historical Long-term archiving of digital documents : what efforts are being made in Germany?
Connertz, Thomas (Date Created: Jul 2003) (Germany)
This article provides an overview on the state of digital archiving and legal deposit in Germany. As this article is written from the perspective of a publisher, Thieme Publishing, it offers a different view on the technical, legal and practical difficulties in extending these existing arrangements to digital materials.
http://ninetta.ingentaselect.com/vl=3224230/cl=15/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/li
nker?ini=alpsp&reqidx=/cw/alpsp/09531513/v16n3/s9/p207
in Learned Publishing, Vol. 16, no. 3 (July 2003). pp. 207-211.
On Long-Term Digital Preservation Information Systems: A Framework and Characteristics for Development
Quisbert, Hugo (Date Created: 2008) (Sweden)
This doctoral thesis considers long-term digital preservation systems from an information systems perspective.
http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2008/77/LTU-DT-0877-SE.pdf
2008:77 ISSN 1402-1544
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Historical Long-Term Preservation of Digital Material - Building an Archive to Preserve Digital Cultural Heritage from the Internet
Aschenbrenner, Andreas (Date Created: Dec 2001) (Austria)
Submitted as a Diploma thesis, this report presents a detailed case study of the Austrian On-Line Archive and a prototype for automatic retrieval of interactive online documents. A review of long-term digital archiving initiatives, issues and proposed strategies in digital preservation are also included.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications/thesis-ando/
Also available in PDF or gnu-zipped PostScript ( http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications.html ).
Historical Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Liegmann, Hans (Date Created: May 2003) (Germany)
This paper describes Die Deutsche Bibliotek's voluntary deposit system for ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations) using NEDLIB's process model and incorporating the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). Issues discussed include preservation metadata, submission and transfer processes for ETDs and trusted digital repositories.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/liegmann-hans/HTML/index.html
Historical Long-Term Preservation of ETDs in Algeria : Discussion Through CERIST Deposit System
Bakelli, Yahia; Benrahmoun, Sabrina (Date Created: May 2003) (Algeria)
In Algeria, an electonic copy of every Masters and PhD thesis must be deposited at CERIST (Research Centre on Science and Technical Information) as a condition of obtaining the qualification. This paper examines the issues of preservation and accessibility of these resources. The issues are examined within both an Algerian and international context.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/bakelli-yahia/HTML/index.html
Long-Term Preservation of Web Archives - Experimenting with Emulation and Migration Methodologies: IIPC Project to Evaluate Emulation and Migration as Long-Term Preservation Solutions for Web Archives
Long, Andrew Stawowczyk (Date Created: 10 Dec 2009) (Australia)
This project report (54 p.) describes a study undertaken for the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Preservation Working Group at the National Library of Australia. The study considers the pros and cons of emulation and migration as preservation strategies for web archives and presents the results of experiments undertaken with content from the PANDORA web archive.
http://www.netpreserve.org/publications/NLA_2009_IIPC_Report.pdf
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Historical Longitudinal Study of Web Pages Continued : a Consideration of Document Persistence
Koehler, Wallace (Date Created: Jan 2004)
This paper reports on a longitudinal study extending from 1996 to 2003. The study monitored the same set of URLs in order to ascertain the degree of persistence and to identify what types of web documents are more likely to persist. The report includes a literature review and research methodology. Findings of the report support the idea that web documents are not a stable media for the publication of long-term information without intervention and management.
http://informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper174.html
in Information Research, Vol. 9, no. 2, (January 2004), ISSN 1368-1613
Lossless Video Compression for Archives: Motion JPEG2k and Other Options
Davila, R. Justin; Gilmore, Ian (Date Created: Jan 2006)
This article compares various lossless video schemes including JPEG, MPEG and MPEG 4 as well as some lesser known systems. They are discussed against the requirements that an archival file being both lossless to preserve content and also compressed to conserve storage capacity.
http://www.media-matters.net/docs/WhitePapers/WPMJ2k.pdf
L’archivage d’Internet, un défi pour les décideurs et les bibliothécaires : scénarios d’organisation et d’évaluation L’expérience du consortium IIPC et de la BnF
Illien, Gildas (Date Created: 10 Jul 2008) (France)
This paper delivered at World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council (10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada) outlines the challenge of introducing web archiving to library stakeholders and staff at the National Library of France (BnF). It also discusses metrics and organisation and BnF's experience with the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium).
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/107-Illien-fr.pdf
Making Certification Real : Developing Methodology for Evaluating Repository Trustworthiness
Dale, Robin L. In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Oct 2005) (United States of America)
This article discusses the audit and certification tools and processes being developed by the RLG-National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Digital Repository Certification Task Force, which has released the Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories; and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Audit and Certification of Digital Archives project.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
025.html#article2
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Managing and Archiving Records in the Digital Age : the Same Discipline or a Difficult Partnership of Two Different Professions?
25 - 26 Oct 2004 , Bern
ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network)
(Date Created: 2004)
This provides a desciption, list of participants and expected outcomes of an invitational workshop held in Bern in October 2004. There are also links to public lectures including 'New Organisational Structures Responding to New Challenges: The Digital Curation Centre in the UK' by Seamus Ross and 'Electronic Records Archives Program' by Ken Thibodeau.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2004/bern/
Historical Mapping Functionality of Off-line Archiving and Provision Systems to OAIS
Berkemeyer, Jorg; Die Deutsche Bibliothek In: NEDLIB : Networked European Deposit Library (Date Created: Jan 1999)
This paper discusses the preservation of physical format digital material by national libraries and then considers it in the context of the "OAIS" model as specified in the document 'Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) (version 4.0)' by the Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems. It concludes that the OAIS model is indeed relevant to the preservation of physical format digital material.
http://nedlib.kb.nl/meetings/frankfurt/GEN-232.doc
Memento: Time Travel for the Web
Ainsworth, Scott; Balakireva, Lyudmila L.; Nelson, Michael L.; Sanderson, Robert; Shankar, Harihar; Van de Sompel, Herbert (Date Created: Nov 2009) (United States of America)
This draft of a paper to be presented at WWW 2010 provides an overview of the protocol-based Memento solution for providing temporal access to archival Web content. It describes a proof-of-concept experiment in temporal content negotiation using the archival content of Wikipedia and the Internet Archive and the URI of the original.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112
ArXiv.org has versions of the paper.
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Historical Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
Cathy Nelson Hartman; Daniel Gelaw Alemneh; Samantha Kelly Hastings (Date Created: Aug 2002) (United States of America)
(Publisher abstract:) "Preserving long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing libraries and information centers today. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has entered into partnership agreements with federal and state agencies to ensure permanent storage and public access to a variety of government information sources. As digital resource preservation encompasses a wide variety of interrelated activities, the UNT Libraries are taking a phased approach to ensure the long-term access to its digital resources. Formulation of preservation policy and creation of preservation metadata for electronic files and digital collections are among the most important steps. This paper discusses the issues related to digital resources preservation and demonstrates the role of preservation metadata in facilitating the preservation activities in general. In particular, it describes the efforts being made by the UNT libraries to ensure the long-term access and preservation of various digital information resources."
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/981/902
Metrics and Strategies for Web Heritage Management and Preservation
Bermes, Emmanuelle; Illien, Gildas (Date Created: 24 Aug 2009)
This paper presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly (23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy) reviews the challenges of web archive measurement. It considers metric scenarios for web archives including collection development, processing and management and the core metrics for technical monitoring and cost analysis at all levels of the workflow.
http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/92-bermes-en.pdf
Migrating Content in WARC Files
Beran, Peter Paul; Rauber, Andreas; Strodl, Stephan In: 9th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 2009) Corfu, Greece, September/October, 2009: Workshop Proceedings (Date Created: 01 Oct 2009)
This paper given at IWAW 2009 ( 9th International Web Archiving Workshop, Corfu, Greece; 30.09.2009 - 01.10.2009) presents a workflow to apply digital preservation strategies on the content of WARC archives and presents a set of tools that support the extraction, migration and injection of objects in WARC files.
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_181115.pdf
Mind the Gap : Assessing Digital Preservation Needs in the UK
Sharpe, Robert; Waller, Martin (Date Created: Feb 2006) (United Kingdom)
This extensive report (40 p.) uses information gathered from surveys and interviews as well as existing sources of information to reveal a digital preservation 'state of the nation' . The survey covered many types of institutions including government, financial, scientific as well as archives and libraries. The report identifies the current state of practice, UK digital preservation needs and recommendations.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/reports/uknamindthegap.pdf
Mind the Gap : Digital Preservation Needs in the UK
Jones, Maggie; Semple, Najla In: Ariadne (Date Created: Jul 2006) (United Kingdom)
This article describes the background and outcomes of the UK Needs Assessment undertaken by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the resulting Mind the Gap report.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/semple-jones/
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Historical Minimum Criteria for an Archival Repository of Digital Scholarly Journals (version 1.2, May 2000)
Digital Library Federation (Last Updated: 26 Jun 2001)
This document sets out 7 minimum criteria for a digital archival repository that acts to preserve digital scholarly publications. Closely based on the Open Archival Information System Reference Model, with modification to reflect the needs of libraries, publishers and academics, it includes key research issues associated with data deposit, preservation and access.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/criteria.htm
Missing Links: The Enduring Web
Ball, Alex; Day, Michael; Guy, Marieke In: International Journal of Digital Curation (Date Created: Oct 2009) (United Kingdom)
This article provides an overview of the Missing Links: The Enduring Web workshop held at the British Library 21 July 2009 which was sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition, JISC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium.
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/124/127
International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 4 No. 2, 2009 pp. 135-143
Historical mod_oai : An Apache Module for Metadata Harvesting
Harrison, Terry L.; Liu, Xiaoming; McFarland, Nathan; Nelson, Michael L.; Van de Sompel, Herbert (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
This article discusses mod_oai, an Apache 2.0 module that optimizes web content harvesting by building Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) capability into the Apache server. The article includes a comparison between web crawling and OAI-MPH harvesting and presents the results of experimentation using the authors' university web site as a testbed.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0503/0503069.pdf
Modelling Information Persistence on the Web
Gomes, D.; Silva, Mario J. (Date Created: Jul 2006) (Portugal)
This paper was presented at the Sixth International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE '06) July 11-14 2006, Palo Alto, California, USA. Over a three year period the researchers measured URL and content persistence using Tomba, the Portuguese web archive. The paper discusses what characterises the persistent URLs and gives reasons for lack of persistence.
http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/xldb/publications/fp613-gomes.pdf
Historical Moral Perspective on South-North Web Archiving
Britz, Johannes J.; Lor, Peter (Date Created: Dec 2004)
This paper examines moral issues of web archiving. Financial and technological constraints make it difficult for organisations such as national libraries or governments in developing countries to undertake archiving, and the transient nature of the web means that these resources will be lost. The authors argue that developed countries have a moral obligation to undertake archiving on behalf of developing countries so that the principles of social justice such as equal access to information and freedom of communication can be achieved. Legal issues arising from web archiving, such as ownership and republishing, are briefly discussed.
http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/6/540
Journal of Information Science, Vol. 30, no. 6 (December 2004), pp. 540-549. Available online by subscription from Sage Journals online and in hardcopy
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Historical Moving Frontier : Archiving, Preservation and Tomorrow's Digital Heritage
Berthon, Hilary; Webb, Colin (Date Created: Feb 2000) (Australia)
This paper reviews international progress in digital archiving and preservation over the past one to two years. There have been developments in international collaboration, many archiving models are being tested, active work on a range of facilitating issues, and an ongoing debate over the most appropriate preservation strategies. A growing trend noted is the ongoing commitment of sharing information, for example, the redevelopment of the PADI website.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1348/16
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Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management
Davis, Richard In: Ariadne (Date Created: 30 Jan 2010)
This article discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010. Recognising problems with persistence, the question of whether to cite the original Web address or a web archive address is considered for content such as blogs. The ArchivePress Project and citation archives are also discussed.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/davis/
Historical Museums Seek Methods for Preserving Digital Art
Carlson, Scott (Date Created: 28 May 2002)
A short news article of an interview with Mark Tribe about the Archiving the Avant Garde project, that seeks to establish a set of guidelines for preservation of digital works of art.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021019023416/chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2
002052802t.htm
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Historical National Archives Green Paper : An Approach to the Preservation of Digital Records
Davis, Simon; Heslop, Helen; Wilson, Andrew (Date Created: Dec 2002) (Australia)
This paper discusses the National Archives approach to digital preservation, specifically in relation to the Agency to Researcher Digital Preservation Project. Areas covered include the fundamental nature of digital records, problems of digital preservation, approaches to preservation such as migration and emulation and XML as an archival data format.
http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/An-approach-Green-Paper_tcm2-888.pdf
Available as PDF from this URL
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Historical National Co-ordinating Body for Digital Archiving?
Haynes, David; Streatfield, David In: Ariadne (Date Created: May 1998) (United Kingdom)
This article is based on the recommendations of the 1997 'Responsibility for Long Term Preservation and Access to Digital Documents' report to the Digital Archiving Group. The study sought to identify responsibility for the long-term preservation of digital information within the United Kingdom, based on consultation with various groups in the electronic information sector. The need for a coherent and coordinated national strategy for ensuring long-term access to digital materials features amongst the recommendations.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue15/digital/
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Preserving Digital Public Television Project: Repository Design Report with Attached Metadata Plan
Pawletko, Joseph; Rubin, Nan; Van Malssen, Kara (Date Created: 19 Mar 2010) (United States of America)
This report (87 p.) describes the design and implementation of the prototype Digital Preservation Repository at New York University which was developed between 2006 and 2009 for the Library of Congress NDIIPP project Preserving Digital Public Television . Included in the report is the metadata plan using METS, METSRights, MODS, PBCore, and PREMIS.
http://www.thirteen.org/ptvdigitalarchive/files/2010/03/PDPTV_ReposDes
ign_2010-03-19.pdf
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Historical National Digital Preservation Initiatives: An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity
Beagrie, Neil (Date Created: Apr 2003)
This report, copublished by CLIR and the Library of Congress, examines national and international preservation initiatives in Australia, France, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Although the report focuses on libraries, other organisations are also examined. The information was gathered over January and February 2002 by interviews, questionnaires and research. The report identifies underlying trends influencing preservation worldwide and includes several recommendations from national libraries to the NDIIPP.
ISBN: 1932326006
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub116abst.html
Available online as full text or .pdf, or for purchase in print
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Historical National Library of Australia Initiatives Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol For Metadata Harvesting
Boston, Tony (Date Created: Oct 2003) (Australia)
This paper, given at the International Seminar on the Use of Standards in the Development of Online Access Systems for Archives in Canberra in October 2003, describes the use of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting at the National Library of Australia (NLA). It looks at the advantages of using the protocol on such NLA services as PictureAustralia, the National Bibliographic Database and the Library’s digital collections, and also provides a brief description of OAI software.
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1252
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Historical National Library of Australia: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Online Publications
Phillips, Margaret In: JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing (Date Created: Jun 1999) (Australia)
This article gives an overview of archiving networked digital material in the PANDORA project and covers topics such as collection, selection, metadata, access, costs, permanent naming, technological obsolescence and preservation.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0004.405
Historical National Library of New Zealand - Digital Library Development Review
Ross, Seamus (Date Created: 01 Jul 2003) (New Zealand)
The National Library of New Zealand Act 2003 requires the Library to “collect, preserve and make available New Zealand’s electronic documents”. This report, produced in response to the Act, seeks to identify and recommend areas of digital library development, so that the Library can satisfactorily fulfil its statutory responsibilities. Included in the report are areas addressing the need for the establishment of a digital repository for the long-term preservation of materials, and recommendations for the Library to use its role in supporting other libraries in the areas of digital preservation.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/files/ross_report.pdf
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Historical National Library of the Netherlands and Elsevier Science Make Digital Preservation History: Permanent Digital Archive Assures Perpetual Accessibility of Scientific Heritage
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) (Date Created: 20 Aug 2002) (Netherlands)
A press release announcing the agreement between the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) and Elsevier Science. The KB is to be the first official digital archive for Elsevier Science journals and will receive digital copies of approximately 1,500 journals covering all areas of science, technology and medicine for deposit into the KB's E-Deposit system. The agreement allows the KB to provide access to the archived journals within the Library, with extension to remote access should Elsevier or its successor ever cease providing the journals online.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/eskb-press
release7_20aug02_def.pdf
The press release is available in Dutch at http://www.kb.nl/kb/resources/frameset_kb.html?/kb/pr/pers/pers2002/elsevier.html
NDL Digital Archive Portal "PORTA" Started Full Scale Operation
National Diet Library (Japan) (Date Created: Dec 2007) (Japan)
This article describes PORTA the National Diet Library Digital Archive Portal which provides access to 20 types of digital Archives (as of Oct 2007) to cooperating Institutions and the National Diet Library (NDL) digital archives.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter/158/581.html
National Diet Library Newsletter No 158, December 2007
Historical NDLTD and Issues of Long Term Preservation and Archiving : It's About Time
McMillan, Gail (Date Created: May 2003)
This paper, presented at the ETD 2003 conference, discusses the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) and outlines the reasons why the organisation should pursue an active preservation program and develop an infrastructure to support this.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/mcmillan-gail/PDF/index.pdf
Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2003, May, 20-24, (ETD2003)
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Historical nestor : Network of Expertise in Long-term STOrage of Digital Resources - a Digital Preservation Initiative for Germany
Dobratz, Susanne; Neuroth, Heike In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Apr 2004) (Germany)
Known as nestor, the German Network of Expertise in Long-term STOrage of Digital Resources is a cooperative digital preservation venture formed in 2003 between 6 participating institutions in Germany. Led by the Deutsche Bibliothek, the network is in the initial phase of a 3-year funded project which will see it operate on a permanent distributed infrastructure model comparable to the UK’s Digital Preservation Coalition. This article outlines the background to, and aims of the initiative. Expert reports are under preparation by project partners on areas such as the long-term preservation of multimedia objects, national preservation policy, archiving of research data, and the preservation of digitised material in German museums.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/april2004-dobratz
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april04/dobratz/04dobratz.html
Historical New Approaches to Television Archiving
Ubois, Jeff In: First Monday (Date Created: Mar 2005)
The current approach to broadcast archiving is fragmented due to differing standards, legal considerations and costs. This has resulted in only a small percentage of output bring preserved. The development of digital broadcasting has also introduced new archiving issues. This article discusses the types of institutions involved in television archiving, some technical and legal issues and suggestions for collaboration in order to achieve a more comprehensive approach to archiving this medium.
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/1210
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Historical New Data Storage and Service Model of China Web InfoMall
Chen, Chong; Huang, Lianen; Xie, Zhengmao; Yan, Hongfei (Date Created: Sep 2004) (China)
This paper describes the Chinese web archiving project, InfoMall, which began in 2001. The paper concentrates on three main aspects of implementation strategies, how the materials are taken from the web, storage strategies and availability of the pages to the public. Detailed descriptions of the service model and the Tianwang archival storage format for web pages are also available.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/Hongfei.pdf
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, September 2004
Historical New Legal Deposit Law Saves Non Print Materials and Electronic Publications for Future Generations
Finlayson, Catriona (Date Created: Feb 2004) (United Kingdom)
This news release from the British Library describes the implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (UK). The ground-breaking law extends current legal deposit legislation by requiring publishers to deposit electronic and other non-print materials (CD-Roms, websites, microform) to the British Library and other legal deposit libraries in the UK. The article also contains background information on how the scheme works, the types of electronic materials covered and international trends in the legal deposit of electronic resources.
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/newsletter/30/23.PDF
In News from Member Libraries, SCONUL Newsletter 30 Winter 2003
Historical New Legal Deposit Laws Include Digital Data
Harris, Sian (Date Created: May 2004) (United Kingdom)
This article comments on changes in legal deposit legislation in the UK, with the introduction of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003. This Act requires publishers to deposit digital information (such as offline electronic materials and websites) with one of the six national libraries in the UK and Ireland. The article provides a background to the new legislation, processes being undertaken to ensure that such legislation becomes a reality and a description of how other European countries are dealing with the preservation of electronic materials.
http://www.researchinformation.info/rimayjun04legaldeposit.html
Available in Research Information, May/June 2004, Issue 11
New Methodologies for Quantifying Licence-Based Commons on the Web
Bildstein, Ben (Date Created: Aug 2008) (Australia)
This paper delivered at the First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture, at iSummit '08, 30 July – 1 August 2008, describes the challenges of quantifying online commons, proposes using raw web crawler data and reports on some experiments using the Australian web domain harvests.
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps08/art52/
University of New South Wales FAculty of Law Research Series, 2008. Working Paper 52
Historical New Model Scholarship : How will it survive?
Smith, Abby (Date Created: Mar 2003)
This CLIR report (55 p.) discusses the issues in preserving digital scholarly resources. 'New model scholarship' is defined as those resources that are born digital, such as web sites, that will be of use to future researchers. The report looks at organisational approaches to preserving digital content and includes, as appendices, a review of organisational models for digital archiving and a survey of current research, practices and understanding of digital preservation in the United States.
ISBN: 1887334998
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html
Available online as full text or PDF, or for purchase in print
Historical New York Public Library Archiving Performing Arts Electronic Resources: A Planning Project - Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mellon Electronic Journal Archiving Program
New York Public Library (Date Created: 31 Jul 2002) (United Kingdom)
Based on a project undertaken by the New York Public Library as part of the Mellon Electronic Journal Archiving Program, this article describes the avenues taken by the Library in investigating the establishment of a repository for archived electronic resources in the performing arts. It highlights the two main areas of the project’s investigation – content development and an overview of the implementation of a new electronic archive based on the OAIS model.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/nyplfinal.pdf
Also available in Archiving Electronic Journals: Research Funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, edited and introduced by Linda Cantara, Indiana University
New Zealand Web Harvest 2008
National Library of New Zealand (Date Created: Oct 2008) (New Zealand)
This web page provides an overview of the New Zealand Domain Web Harvest which was conducted in October 2008 by the National Library of New Zealand.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/current-initiatives/past-initiative
s/web-harvest-2008
New Zealand Web Harvest 2010 Options Paper
National Library of New Zealand (Date Created: 20 Jan 2010) (New Zealand)
This consultation paper (14 p.) has been prepared to assist planning of the New Zealand web harvest scheduled for April 2010 and to inform stakeholders of options to address some of the concerns raised following the 2008 web harvest. Feedback is requested by 8 February 2010. A follow up report Web Harvest Consultation Report published 8 April 2010 summarises the submissions and decisions made.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/library-documents/harvest-options
-paper
NGDA : National Geospatial Digital Archive
Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Barbara (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This project, run by Stanford University and the University of California Santa Barbara and funded by the Library of Congress under NDIIPP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program), has several aims. These include the creation of a federated network to archive geospatial data and the identification and collection of geospatial data at risk.
http://www.ngda.org/
Historical OAI and its Value to the Cultural Heritage Sector
Carpenter, Leona; Heery, Rachel In: DigiCULT.Info Newsletter (Date Created: Feb 2003)
This article discusses how the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) through its OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) enhances access to digital resources such as e-prints, images, multimedia and web pages. The article also discusses various projects and services using OAI to improve access to cultural resources, including 'hidden web' material, which is material that is in digital format but is not available through the usual Internet searching facilities.
http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_info3_low.pdf
OASIS: Web Archiving System in the National Library of Korea
National Library of Korea (Date Created: Nov 2009) (Korea)
This article provides a brief update on web archiving activities by the National Library of Korea. It includes information on: the opening of the National Digital Library of Korea (NDLK) in May 2009; the acquisition of online resources in the OASIS collection; the acquisition process; and, the legal basis for acquisition of online resources.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/cdnlao/newsletter/066/662.html
CDNLAO Newsletter no. 66, November 2009
Historical Online Scientific Data Curation, Publication and Archiving
Gray, Jim; Stoughton, Christopher; Szalay, Alexander S.; Thakar, Ani R.; vandenBerg, Jan (Date Created: Jul 2002)
This article describes the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) strategies for data publication, data access, curation, and preservation. The article describes what needs to be preserved, how it is to be preserved and who will preserve it. Also discussed is the interconnected concepts of the 'data pyramid" and 'data inflation'.
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0208012
Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-74
Historical Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide
Lavoie, Brian F (Date Created: Jan 2004)
This article provides an overview of the background, origins, functions and developments of the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model. As stated by the author, "The OAIS reference model is a conceptualization of the environment, functional components and information objects associated with a system designed to effect the long-term preservation of digital materials". The article also lists the main responsibilities of an OAIS-type archive and provides examples of digital archiving systems that are OAIS-compliant.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/lavoie_OAIS.pdf
Is part of the DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition) Technology Watch Series
Historical Open Archives Activities and Experiences in Europe : an Overview by the Open Archives Forum
Dobratz, Susanne; Matthaei, Birgit In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2003)
This article describes the work of the Open Archives Forum as well as providing an overview of European activities in OAI compared to other countries. The Open Archives Forum provides support, dissemination and information for those new and existing agencies involved in initiating, planning and maintaining open archives. The Forum is split into three 'workpackages', workshops and disseminations, organizational validation and technical validation.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/dobratz/01dobratz.html
Historical Open archives and UK Institutions : an Overview
Pinfield, Stephen In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Mar 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article provides a brief overview of current activity in the development of open archives (particularly e-print repositories) within UK universities and similar institutions and discusses some of the issues the open archives initiative (OAI) is raising. The article also describes JISC's FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) programme, which consists of 14 projects designed to increase access to and sharing of institutional resources such as e-prints and e-thesis. The projects deals with issues such as includes metadata enhancement, rights and data management.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march03/pinfield/03pinfield.html
Open Source for Digital Curation
McHugh, Andrew In: Curation Reference Manual (Date Created: Jul 2005)
This is the first instalment of the DCC Digital Curation Manual. The article offers a practical and in-depth analysis of all aspects of open source within the context of digital curation. The article covers the background and development of open source software, the application of open source to digital preservation, including costs, legal issues, functionality and security. It also discusses the various applications in governments, science and humanities institutions.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/completed-cha
pters/open-source-digital-curation
Also available as .PDF.
Historical Opportunities For Research Libraries In The NSF Cyberinfrastructure Program
Messerschmitt, David G. (Date Created: Aug 2003) (United States of America)
This article explores the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program (ACP) that has been developed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel in the United States. As well as providing an overview of the area of digital science, the author looks at the core elements of the ACP, which includes shared IT resources and services for the digital science community, shared disciplinary data/software repositories, as well as the long-term preservation of data.
http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br229/
In ARL Bimonthly Report, no 229, August 2003, pp.1-7
Our Digital Heritage as Source Material to End-users: Collection of and Access to Net Publications in the National Library of Norway
Rustad, Kjerste (Date Created: 01 May 2006) (Norway)
This paper describes how the National Library of Norway collects net publications under the Norwegian Legal Deposit Act and how they may be made accessible to users. It considers the limitations of the existing legislation.
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/dam/journal/v2/n3/abs/3650032a.html
Available in Journal of Digital Asset Management ISSN1743-6559 (2006) 2, 172-177
Our Digital Heritage as Source Material to End-users: Collection of and Access to Net Publications in the National Library of Norway
Rustad, Kjersti (Date Created: Apr 2006) (Norway)
This article provides an overview of the collection and access of Web documents at the National Library of Norway. It reviews end user access in the light of the legislative framework.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/01604950610677567
Collection Building ISSN 0160-4953, 25/3 (2006) pp:89-94
Historical PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) and Safekeeping
Hanley, Marian (Date Created: Feb 2004) (Australia)
This report looks at the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Safekeeping Project; a project that has evolved from the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) initiative. The PADI website is a subject gateway to international digital preservation resources and its Safekeeping Project aims to identify, select and archive the most important of these resources, thus ensuring their long-term availability. An explanation of PANDAS, the NLA’s in-house web archiving system used to archive the Safekept resources, is also discussed.
http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/9/papers/2/
Available in High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, Issue 9, March 2004, ISSN 1424-2729
PADICAT : Realitat i Reptes 3 Anys de L'arxiu Web de Catalunya
Cócera, Daniel; Llueca, Ciro (Date Created: May 2008) (Spain)
This paper (in Spanish) given at 11es Jornades Catalanes d'Informació i Documentació, Barcelona (Spain), 22-23 May 2008 provides an overview and update of the operation of Padicat, the web archive project of the Library of Catalonia.
http://eprints.rclis.org/13562/1/llueca_padicat_jornades_2008.pdf
In Actes 11es Jornades Catalanes d’Informació i Documentació, 2008 pp 163-178 http://www.cobdc.org/jornades/11JCD/actes11jcid/comunicacions/pag_163.pdf
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PANDORA Digital Archiving System (PANDAS): Managing Web Archiving in Australia : A Case Study
Koerbin, Paul (Date Created: 16 Sep 2004) (Australia)
This is a detailed case study of the processes and workflows of the PANDORA and how they are supported by the underlying PANDAS digital archiving system. Processes examined include metadata, access restrictions, harvesting, quality assurance, reporting and archiving. The paper also includes a section on future directions for PANDAS and web archiving in Australia.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1236/15
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Historical PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive, And The Digital Archiving System That Supports It
Phillips, Margaret E In: DigiCULT.Info Newsletter (Date Created: Dec 2003) (Australia)
This article looks at Australia’s Web Archive, PANDORA – led by the National Library of Australia in co-operation with eight other partners - and its supporting digital archiving system, PANDAS. The article not only explores the role of national libraries in relation to web harvesting and describes their different approaches, but provides an overview of the selection criteria used for PANDORA, the processes of digital archiving and the main functions of the PANDAS software. Future directions of PANDAS as well as digital archiving initiatives, such as the “Deep Web”, are also discussed.
http://www.digicult.info/downloads/dc_info_issue6_december_20031.pdf
PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive. How Much Metadata is Enough?
Koerbin, Paul; Philips, Margaret E. (Date Created: 2007) (Australia)
This article discusses the development of the PANDORA Web Archive, policy and practices and metadata workflows and issues.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a909291621~db=all~ord
er=page
Journal of Internet Cataloging, Feb 2004 (NB: Cover date 2004, published 2007), Vol 7, no 2 p. 19-33
PANDORA: Collecting in a Digital World - Where is the Artefact?
Koerbin, Paul (Date Created: 10 Oct 2007) (Australia)
This paper was given at the The ALIA Acquisitions and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library Symposium: The Acquisition of Cultural Artefacts October 10, 2007, Bradley Forum, Hawke Building, University of South Australia. It discusses whether the Web and archived web pages can be considered as cultural artefacts.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/documents/artifacts_symposium_pandora.pdf
Paradigm : Workbook on Digital Private Papers
University of Oxford Bodleian Library and the University of Manchester John Rylands University Library (Last Updated: 2007) (United Kingdom)
Paradigm was a two-year exemplar project, from January 2005 to February 2007, to explore the issues involved in the long-term preservation of digital private papers, using the digital papers of politicians as a testbed. The workbook iwas issued in installments over the life of the project. It covers collections policy, accessioning, appraisal, preservation metadata, cataloguing, preserving media and digital objects and legal issues and provides useful guidance for creators of digital personal archives.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook/index.html
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Historical Paradigma Project
van Nuys, Carol In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Apr 2003) (Norway)
Project Paradigma is designed to collect and preserve Norway's digital cultural heritage. The Project began in August 2001 and is scheduled to end in December 2004. Its goals are to develop and establish routines for the selection, collection, description, identification, and storage of all types of digital documents and to give users access to these publications in compliance with the Legal Deposit Act. The article provides an overview of the Project, including selection criteria, legal and technical issues. The article also provides a background of legal deposit in Norway, especially in regard to digital publications.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file1
651.html#feature2
Historical Paradigma Project and its Quest for Metadata Solutions and User Services
Albertsen, Ketil; Nuys, Carol van; Pedersen, Linda; Stenstad, Asborg (Date Created: 22 Aug 2004) (Norway)
A paper examining the National Library of Norway’s Paradigma Project, which was presented at the 70th IFLA Conference in Buenos Aires in August 2004. The initiative (which is engaged in the harvesting and archiving of the Norwegian domain as part of the NLN’s legal deposit responsibilities) is described, and its work in exploring appropriate metadata solutions is analysed. Other topics surveyed include the incorporation of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model into the archive design, and the implementation of a proposed authentication service for document verification.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/papers/009e-Nuys.pdf
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Historical Part of Our Culture is Born Digital : On Efforts to Preserve it for Future Generations
Aschenbrenner, Andreas ; Rauber, Andreas (Date Created: Jun 2001) (Austria)
This English version of a paper presented at the 'Knowledge Networking in Cultural Studies' conference in May 2001, examines the challenges for the long-term preservation of digital cultural heritage. The authors discuss some of the main technical issues involved in archiving the Internet, and evaluate possible solutions such as emulation and migration of data. The paper concludes with a report on the AOLA pilot project to create an Austrian On-Line Archive.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/%7Eaola/publications/trans10.html
Published in Trans - Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, 10. Nr. / Juni 2001
Historical PDF-A : a New Digital Preservation Format
LeFurgy, William G. (Date Created: May 2003) (United States of America)
Since 2002, a committee of government, business, and academic representatives has been exploring an approach to long-term preservation of text-based digital documents and working to establish an archival standard for Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). Known as PDF-A, the potential standard intends to specify a limited, stable subset of PDF that must remain valid for a number of years. PDF-A is designed to meet three basic requirements: the needs of document producers, document users and archivists, while excluding features that hinder archival viability. The committee is sponsored by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (NPES).
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/gov/newsletters/May2003.asp#digita
l
in Government Record News : the newsletter of the Government Records Section of the Society of American Archivists, May/June 2003
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Historical PDF/A: Developing a File Format for Long-Term Preservation
LeFurgy, William G In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Dec 2003) (United States of America)
This article looks at current developments in the USA into the long-term preservation of text-based digital documents. A working group has prepared a draft preservation standard for Adobe's Portable Format Document (PDF). Known as PDF/A, the standard intends to specify the use of PDF in a manner that is specifically geared to long-term management and use. PDF/A would be ideally suited for documents whose content and appearance must remain stable over long periods of time.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
491.html#feature1
Historical Perils of Digital Preservation
Ford, Piers (Date Created: 10 Jan 2003)
In this news article the author uses the example of the BBC's Domesday Project to illustrate the costs, software and hardware issues and rights management problems of a digital preservation project. He suggests that it is problematic and inefficient to preserve retrospectively and that digital preservation planning and strategies should be incorporated into the overall management of the data from its creation onwards.
http://www.vnunet.com/features/1137956
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Historical Permanent Access Technology for the Virtual Heritage : the Endeavour for Continuous Rendering
van der Hoeven, Jeffrey (Date Created: May 2004)
This research report focuses on the preservation of static digital objects on a primarily technical level. It does not include internet content or software applications. Within this context, the report discusses digital preservation strategies and issues such as encapsulation, migration, the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC) and XML. International digital preservation initiatives such as PREMIS, Cedars, InterPARES and DARE are also discussed.
http://jeffrey.famvdhoeven.nl/dd/Researchtask%20IBM%20TU%20Delft%20-%2
0J.R.%20van%20der%20Hoeven.pdf
Historical Permanent Archiving Of Electronic Publications
Steenbakkers, Johan F. (Date Created: Mar 2003) (Netherlands)
This article looks at the Koninklijke Bibliotheck (KB) - the National Library of the Netherlands’- approach to the development and implementation of a permanent archive for electronic publications. As well as highlighting the history of the Library’s deposit policies, the article explores the Library’s development of an electronic archive system with IBM Global Services, in accordance with the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) archival standard. The article further explores the KB’s relationship with Elsevier Science (ES), a major science publisher. ES have signed an archiving agreement with the KB, agreeing to deposit all electronic publications for permanent archiving. The implications of such an agreement have also been addressed.
http://serials.uksg.org/link.asp?id=xah3bele72plt86r
In Serials for the International Serials Community, ISSN 0953-0460, Vol. 16, No. 1 March, 2003.
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Historical Permanent Archiving of Electronic Publications : Research & Practice
Steenbakkers, Johan F. (Date Created: 2003) (Netherlands)
This paper discusses strategies implemented by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands) to permanently archive scientific digital research material. In order to enable long-term preservation of electronic publications in general KB has developed an electronic deposit, ‘e-Depot’, and in order to be able to legally access and copy scientific material the Library has signed archiving agreements with major science publishers. Although the e-Depot had addressed the preservation concerns, permanent access to the stored information has remained an issue and is currently being addressed by ’Permanent Access Toolbox for the digital Cultural Heritage’ (PATCH) initiative, comprising of various depository and archiving institutions, as well as companies interested in cooperative approach.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/summerscho
olticer2003.pdf
Paper presented at the International Summer School on the Digital Library 2003, Course 3 - Libraries, Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing
Permanent Digital Legal Information : Disappearing URLs and Preservation of Digital Objects Cited in Court Decisions
Skenderija, Sasha (Date Created: 16 Jul 2008) (United States of America)
This paper examines the implications of increasing citation of digital resources by courts and the problem of the impermanence of these digital resources . It considers the challenges for law libraries and librarians to ensuring future availability.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/157-Skenderija-en.pdf
World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council, Quebec, 10-14 Aug 2008
Personal & SOHO Archiving
Motlik, Florian; Rauber, Andreas; Stadler, Kevin; Strodl, Stephan (Date Created: Jun 2008) (Austria)
This paper presented at JCDL 2008 ( June 16–20, 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) analyses the requirements and challenges of preservation solutions for private users and SOHOs (Small Office/Home Office). It also presents a software prototype Hoppla (Home and Office Painless Persistent Long Term Archiving), which is an archival system designed for home use.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~strodl/paper/fp077-strodl.pdf
Personal Curation of Digital Objects: A Lifecycle Approach
Willliams, Peter; John, Jeremy Leighton; Rowland, Ian (Date Created: Jan 2009) (United Kingdom)
This paper considers the primary stage of personal digital archive development and reviews literature on personal information management emphasising digital collections and a lifecycle approach.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?contentType=A
rticle&Filename=/published/emeraldfulltextarticle/pdf/2760610401.pdf
Aslib Proceedings New Information Research, ISSN 0001-253X, Vol 61, No. 4, 2009, pp. 340-363
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Historical Playing History with Games : Steps Towards Historical Archives of Computer Gaming
Lowood, Henry (Date Created: 14 Jun 2004)
The unique problems of preserving computer games arise because they are both dynamic and interactive and function on a variety of platforms, including hand held devices, mobile phones, cartridges and desk top computers. This article describes the development of the Machinima Archives and some of the challenges in long term preservation of computer games. The article describes the nature of computer games, in terms of technology and as performance, the challenges for preservation and some curatorial models. It also notes several projects, such as CLASP (Classic Software Preservation Project) at the Internet Archive, working on emulation, game software reformatting or conservation of games artifacts.
http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/library/pdf/lowood/Lowood-EMG2004.pdf
Presented at the Electronic Media Group, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, AIC Annual Meeting 2004, Portland, Oregon, 14 June 2004.
Historical Political Communications in Web Archiving : a Proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from the Centre for Research Libraries
Reilly, Bernard F. (Date Created: 26 Jul 2002) (United States of America)
This proposal describes the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) project to develop effective methodologies for the systemic, sustainable preservation of web based political communications. The project covers three main areas of political Web communications archiving- curatorship, technology and long-term resource management. The project has a fifteen month time-frame. Web based political communications has been identified as lacking preservation strategies. Yet this area provides an important source of information about political trends, attitudes and activities.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/research/WebPolCom.pdf
Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition
Thompson, Dave In: Ariadne (Date Created: 30 Apr 2010) (United Kingdom)
This article sets out the pragmatic approach to preferred file formats for long-term preservation used at the Wellcome Library. It explains the reasoning and principles behind the decision to not explicitly specify preferred file formats for long-term preservation and factors considered in the acquisition and selection of born digital archival material.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue63/thompson/
Historical PREMIS : Preservation Metadata - Implementation Strategies Update 1: Implementing Preservation Repositories for Digital Materials: Current Practice and Emerging Trends in the Cultural Heritage Community
Caplan, Priscilla In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2004)
This article, the first of a series, reports on the PREMIS survey Implementing Preservation Repositories for Digital Materials : Current Practice and Emerging Trends in the Cultural Heritage Community : a Report by the PREMIS Working Group. This is a survey of cultural heritage institutions who are developing or planning a preservation repository. General observations are made of some of the results such as metadata practices and the need for metadata standards. Proposed future activies of PREMIS are also canvassed.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
195.html#article2
Historical Preservation Functionality in a Digital Archive
Oltmans, Erik; van Diessen, Raymond; van Wijngaarden, Hilde (Date Created: 2004) (Netherlands)
This paper describes the design, rationale and use of the Preservation Manager, a component of the e-Depot digital archiving system at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands. The function of the Preservation Manager is to define and manage the technical environments needed to support digital resources stored in the e-Depot.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/996350.996416
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=996350.996416&coll=portal&dl=ACM
&
type=series&idx=996350&part=Proceedings&WantType=Proceedings&titl
e=International%20Conference%20on%20Digital%20Libraries
Paper presented at the International Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004. Full text available via subscription from the ACM Portal - http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm?CFID=26225830&CFTOKEN=69467023
Preservation of and Permanent Access to Electronic Information Resources : a System Perspective
Hodge, Gail (Date Created: 2005)
This paper describes a framework for archiving and preservation called the Open Archival Information System Reference Model (OAIS RM) which can be used to evaluate requirements for local implementations. The framework includes production and creation of electronic information, acquisition and collection development, metadata for preservation, formats for preservation and preservation planning. The paper then identifies several currently available systems.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1239251.1239257&coll=GUIDE&dl=GU
IDE&CFID=683036&CFTOKEN=28991428
Information Services & Use; ISSN 0167-5265, 2005, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p47-57. and by subscription online at www.ebscohost.com
Historical Preservation of Databases
Ashley, Kevin (Date Created: Jun 2004)
This article provides an overview of the underlying concepts as well as issues facing institutions undertaking long term preservation of databases. Specifics of various types of databases such as dynamic and static systems are briefly discussed. Unique issues pertaining to proprietary GIS systems such as the lack of standards in storing data are also canvassed. Two technical approaches to preservation are discussed, XML and emulation.
http://oberon.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410551075
Also available in pdf version and in VINE, Digital Preservation and Libraries, Part Two Vol. 34, no. 2, 2004, pp. 66-70. ISSN 0305-5728
Historical Preservation of Digital Objects
Galloway, Patricia (Date Created: 2004)
This article provides an overview of issues and international projects that have been undertaken in the area of digital preservation. It looks at practical examples of ongoing digital preservation; the roles of library, archives and museums in the preservation of digital objects; a summary of research on the preservation of digital objects since the year 2000; different record keeping standards; genre-specific preservation problems (such as web pages, databases); repository standards, preservation methods (such as emulation, migration and serial conversion); preservation metadata standards, as well as future directions for digital preservation.
In: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Vol 38, 2004 pp. 549-590 (Chapter 11), ISSN 0066-4200, ISBN 1-57387-185-0 http://www.asis.org/Publications/ARIST/
Preservation of Electronic Scholarly Publishing : an Analysis of Three Approaches
Honey, Sadie L. (Date Created: Jan 2005)
This paper analyses three approaches to the preservation and archiving of scholarly publishing - the caching approach, the moving wall approach and the dark archive approach. The strengths and weakness of each approach is analysed by a set of criteria including shared costs, incentives, economic sustainability and technological integrity.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v005/5.1
honey.html
Portal : Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 5, no. 1(January 2005), E-ISSN1530-7131. Article also available in PDF.
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Historical Preservation of Scientific Serials : Three Current Examples
Arms, William Y. In: JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing (Date Created: Dec 1999)
This paper examines three journals in digital form: the ACM Digital Library, the Internet RFC series, and D-Lib Magazine and discusses the measures which can be taken today to preserve access to the information contained within these journals. The solutions proposed are "partly technical and partly organizational". The author proposes three levels of preservation: preserving the "look-and-feel" of the document; preservation of access, which entails maintaining both the underlying material and an effective system of access; and preservation of content. The role of publishers in archiving is discussed.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0005.202
Journal of Electronic Publishing, Volume 5, Issue 2
Preservation of TeX/LaTeX Documents
Barnes, Ian (Date Created: 21 Jul 2006)
TeX is a mathematical typesetting programme language and LaTeX is based on TeX. The report addresses the suitability of TeX/LaTeX as a preservation format. The author maintains that in the long term these documents should be converted to an XML format such as Doc Book XML with embedded MathML.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/LaTeX-preservation.pdf
Historical Preservation of the Electronic Assets of a University
Oxford University Computing Services; Reid, T. Alex (Date Created: Sep 1997) (United Kingdom)
This article describes how Oxford University approached the management, storage and preservation of its electronic assets in the mid-1990s.
http://www.eunis.org/events/congresses/EUNIS97/papers/052202.html
Preservation of Word Processing Documents
Barnes, Ian (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This report addresses the issues of what are suitable file formats for the long term storage of word processing documents and how can these documents be converted to a suitable format. Several case studies are used to illustrate approaches to the problem. A prototype application, the Digital Scholar's Workbench, which implements some of the approaches in the report, is discussed. The report ends with a proposed preservation strategy for word processing documents which distinguishes between lecacy documents and those documents not yet created.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/preservation_of_word_processing_do
cuments.html
Also available as pdf
Historical Preservation Problem : Collaborative Approaches
Morris, Sally (Date Created: 2002)
This article briefly looks at aspects of digital preservation challenges from a collaborative rather than technical perspective. Various examples of collaboration are described, including initiatives and projects such as LOCKSS, JSTOR, CEDARS and the DPC. The author concludes that communication between the myriad of international and regional initiatives is very important so as not to duplicate research and work in an area where resources are limited.
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/88p5ug82wbxm9vq5/?p=59e694ae3c6c
4f0b98b634d01c88160d&pi=11
Available in Information Services and Use, vol. 22, issue 2/3, (2002), ISSN 0167-5265
Preservation Research and Sustainable Digital Libraries
Hedstrom, Margaret; Ross, Seamus In: International Journal on Digital Libraries (Date Created: Aug 2005)
"The National Science Foundation and DELOS , the European Commission sponsored Network for Digital Libraries, supported a working group to define a research agenda for digital archiving and preservation (DAP-WG) within the context of digital libraries. The report of this group, Invest to Save, has laid out a range of research challenges that need to be addressed if we are to make progress in the development of sustainable digital libraries. DAP-WG considered archiving and preservation needs and the research that had been conducted to address these. It concluded that research in this domain could benefit from being expanded and refocused—new research communities must be engaged, the approaches to conducting the research must be made more rigorous, and a significant shift in what was being researched needed to be taken. The Group identified twenty-two key research activities worthy of investigation."
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/47875
Also available online by subscription at http://www.epnet.com/
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Historical Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources: Virtual Remote Control in Cornell's Project Prism
Botticelli, Peter; Entlich, Richard; Kenney, Anne R; Lagoze, Carl; McGovern, Nancy Y; Payette, Sandra In: D-Lib magazine (Last Updated: 21 Jan 2002) (United States of America)
This article provides an overview of Project Prism at Cornell University, through which a non-custodial, distributed model for archiving is being explored. Among its aims is to use automated strategies to monitor and validate resource integrity, in a risk-based preservation management program.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/kenney/01kenney.html
D-Lib Magazine , Vol. 8, No. 1
Preserving Access to Government Websites : Development and Practice in the CyberCemetery
Hoffmann, Starr (Date Created: 26 May 2008) (United States of America)
This paper delivered at World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council (10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada) provides an overview of the development of the CyberCemetery and the process of identifying, capturing, and publishing content in the archive. The Cybercemetery is a collaboration between the University of North Texas Library and the US Government Printing Office.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/130-Hoffman-en.pdf
Also available in French translation http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/130-Hoffman-trans-fr.pdf
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Historical Preserving Digital Information : Final Report and Recommendations
Garrett, John (co-chair); Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information; Waters, Donald (chair) (Date Created: 20 May 1996)
This report arose from a decision at the end of 1994 by the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) to create a Task Force charged with investigating and recommending means to ensure "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form." This was a watershed exercise which generated thoughtful discussion on this topic worldwide.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/digpresstudy/final-report.pd
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Preserving Digital Information at the BnF: The SPAR Project
Ledoux, Thomas (Date Created: Aug 2008) (France)
This article provides an overview of the context, infrastructure and preservation elements of SPAR, the distributed and preservation system developed at the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF).
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn45.pdf
International Preservation News No. 45, August 2008, pp. 25-26.
Historical Preserving Digital Libraries : Determining 'What' Before Deciding 'How'
Deken, Jean Marie (Date Created: 29 Nov 2004)
"Preservation of digital libraries is a complicated process that must begin with an appraisal of what is to be preserved before it moves on to the question of how to best preserve it. In order to fully understand the nature and attributes of digital documents and digital libraries, it is necessary to place them in the context of some of the other types of cultural artifacts that have been preserved over time, and to look at how the issues of fixity (stability) and durability (longevity) of these other artifacts have been addressed. Efforts to define digital documents and digital libraries are at the root of current research into the best ways of preserving both, and have been deeply affected by the blurred boundaries between parts, processes, and products; by the continually changing nature of digital entities; and by the entities' low fixity and low durability. Current research projects into the preservation of digital entities have concluded that a necessary first step is the appraisal of the 'significant properties' of digital objects."
http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J122v25n01_14
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a903520764~db=all~ord
er=page
Science & Technology Libraries Vol 25, no. 1/2 Dec 2004. Online via subscription from http://www.haworthpressinc.com/web/STL/. Simultaneously published as Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment
Historical Preserving Electronic Publications
Steenbakkers, Johan F. (Date Created: 2002) (Netherlands)
In co-operaton with IBM and the British Library, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, National Library of the Netherlands) has been developing an OAIS (Open Archival Information System) compliant deposit system since 2000. The project of creating the DNEP (Deposit Netherlands Electronic Publications), is envisaged to be completed by 2002, but with limited functionality as far as long term access to electronic publications is concerned. The KB will be looking for partners to continue working on this essential preservation issue.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/isu350.pdf
Information Services & Use, Vol. 22 (2002), pp. 89-96.
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Historical Preserving Electronic Records From Database-Driven Information Systems
Boudrez, Filip In: DigiCULT.Info Newsletter (Date Created: Oct 2003) (Belgium)
The DAVID Project (Digital Archiving in Flemish Institutions and Administrations) has developed “an electronic record-keeping system for dynamic and interactive information systems”. This article examines its implementation at the City Archives of Antwerp (the archival partner in the DAVID Project) and looks at the main structure, principles and concepts of the record-keeping system for both dynamically created records and office documents such as spreadsheets and emails; XML preservation of records and metadata.
http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicultinfo_issue5_october_2003.pd
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Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals : Portico
Fenton, Eileen In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2006)
Portico is a not for profit archive of born digital scholarly E-journals maintained by Ithaka Harbors Inc. This article gives an overview of Portico and then discusses issues including assessing and sustaining the archive and future plans.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/fenton/
Preserving Government and Political Information : The Web-At-Risk Project
Glenn, Valerie D. In: First Monday (Date Created: Jul 2007) (United States of America)
This article describes the Web–at–Risk Project to harvest & preserve born–digital government and political information and analyses the issues, tools and services involved in web harvesting.
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/1917/1799
Historical Preserving Information Forever and a Call for Emulators
Gilheany, Steve (Date Created: 17 Mar 1998)
This paper reviews some of the issues associated with planning to store information indefinitely. Long-term preservation must include a plan for preserving metadata as well as data. This paper also discusses the need for emulators to permanently preserve the functionality of the computer.
http://www.archivebuilders.com/aba010.html
Presented at the Digital Libraries Conference and Exhibition The Digital Era: Implications, Challenges and Issues, 17-20 March 1998, Singapore
Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility
Boyle, Frances; Eveleigh, Alexandra; Needham, Heather (Date Created: Jan 2009) (United Kingdom)
This article in Ariadne describes recent digital preservation initiatives in the UK local authority archives sector including a survey regarding Digital Preservation in Local Authority Archive Services undertaken in September 2008 to collect a snapshot of current preparedness which was promoted on the Digital Preservation Coalition website and a follow up Open Consultation Day held at the National Archives in mid-November.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/boyle-et-al/
Ariadne Jan 2009 Issue no. 58
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Historical Preserving Scholarly E-Journals
Flecker, Dale In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Sep 2001) (United States of America)
In this article, Dale Flecker, of the Harvard University Library, provides an overview of questions raised by the Mellon Foundation / CLIR initiative for the long-term preservation of scholarly electronic journals. Such questions include those of relationships between publishers, archives and subscribers, access conditions, content, long-term preservation formats and funding.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/flecker/09flecker.html
Historical Preserving Software: Why and How
Zabolitzky, John G (Date Created: 13 Sep 2002)
In this article the author highlights the importance of preserving both hardware and software developments so that future generations have a greater knowledge and understanding of computer history. As well as providing an overview of why it is necessary to preserve software and how such preservation can be achieved, the author stresses that the preservation of source code format software should be an immediate goal of organizations and suggests ways for this to be achieved such as the creation of a list of national heritage software.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/zabolitzky.html
Available in Iterations: An Interdesciplinary Journal of Software History., 1, 13 September 2002, pp. 1-8, ISSN 1541-843X. Also available in PDF version
Preserving State Government Digital Information : Issues and Opportunities : Report of the Library of Congress Convening Workshops with the States
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) (Date Created: Oct 2005) (United States of America)
During 2005, the Library of Congress, as part of its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), convened three meetings with all the states to discuss the issues and current practice with the digital preservation of state and local government based information. The report discusses the themes and issues emerging from the workshops, including roles and responsibilities, building partnerships, preservation priorities and organisational and technical infrastructure.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/pubs/docs/preserv
ing_state_gov_info2005.pdf
Historical Preserving the Chinese Internet: The DACHS Project
Lecher, Hanno In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2003)
A brief overview of the Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS) project at the University of Heidelberg, which aims to identify, archive and ensure long-term access to Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies, including resources drawn from the Chinese web.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/01inbrief.html#LECHER
Historical Preserving the Digital Heritage : Building a Digital Archive for UK Government Records
Brown, Adrian (Date Created: Dec 2003) (United Kingdom)
This paper gives an overview of the digital preservation strategies of the UK National Archives. Resources discussed include PRONOM, a database of software information and file formats ; the Archive's in-house digital archive system and strategies for archiving government web sites.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/brown.pdf
Paper part of the Online Information 2003 proceedings
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Historical Preserving the Present for the Future : Strategies for the Internet : Proceedings
Denmark's Electronic Research Library (Date Created: 22 Jun 2001) Has papers: Legal Deposit from the Internet in Denmark : Experiences with the Law from 1997 and the Need for Adjustments ; Cyberculture, Cultural Asset Management, and Ethnohistory : Preserving the Process and Understanding the Past
Papers from the Preserving the Present for the Future : Strategies for the Internet conference, held at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, 18-19 June 2001.
http://www.deflink.dk/eng/arkiv/dokumenter2.asp?id=695
Preserving the Scholarly Side of the Web
Green, Cody; Leggett, John; Maslov, Alexey; Mikeal, Adam; Phillips, Scott (Date Created: 26 Oct 2006) (United States of America)
This paper given at LA Webb 2006 (4th Latin American Web Conference, 25-27 October 2006, Puebla Cholula Mexico), presents results of a case study (migration of the Journal of Digital Information- JoDI hosted by the Texas Digital Library) addressing the issues around preservation in a digital library. It focuses on issues applying to the preservation of scholarly articles encoded in current web standards, discusses emulation and migration, and compares the strengths and weaknesses of automatic and manual migration.
http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/5680/LA%20WEB%202006%2
0Paper.pdf?sequence=1
Historical Preserving Tomorrow's Memory: Preserving Digital Content For Future Generations
Smith, Bernard (Date Created: May 2003)
This article was originally presented at a seminar on digital preservation of the record of science organised by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information on 14-15th February 2002. This article is based on issues identified in recent reports, publications and other documents relating to the long-term preservation of “born digital” materials. The author provides an overview of the challenges and problems of digital preservation facing cultural institutions; looks at policy and strategy considerations; and considers possible areas of recommendations and future actions - such as policy development, costs, networking, technical and research issues.
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn29.pdf
In International Preservation News, No. 29, May 2003, pp. 4-9
Historical Preserving Web History
Mitchell, Robert L (Date Created: 08 May 2002) (United States of America)
Focusing on the USA, this article looks at the challenges faced by a number of companies in relation to website archiving. With companies having statutory and legal obligations to preserve records of past transactions and activities, the need to preserve information on websites has posed a number of difficulties for these organisations. The article also includes a case study of web archiving techniques employed at Corporate Express Inc in the USA.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1965761530
Available in Computerworld, Vol 36, Issue 32, 8 May 2002, pp. 26-28, ISSN 00104841
Proceed With Caution: How Digital Archives Have Been Left in the Dark
Knutson, Alyssa N. (Date Created: 2009) (United States of America)
This copyright note (38 p.) reviews the role and legal obstacles facing digital archives using the Internet Archive and Google Book project lawsuits as examples. It considers the current state of archives, the legal risk archives are exposed to, and the difficulties imposed by current statutes.
http://www.btlj.org/data/review/24-437-473.pdf
Berkeley Technology Law Journal 24:1 (2009) pp. 437-473
Proceedings of the International Web Archiving Workshop 2006 : IWAW 06
(Date Created: Oct 2006) (Spain)
The IWAW workshop was held at the University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, 21-22 September 2006. The proceedings (189 p. 5.3 MB) include presentations on the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of digital objects for long-term access, web archiving and studies on effective usage of this type of archives.
http://www.iwaw.net/06/PDF/iwaw06-proceedings.pdf
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Historical PRONOM : a Practical Online Compendium of File Formats
Darlington, Jeffrey In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2003) (United Kingdom)
PRONOM is a database established by the National Archives (UK) that stores and provides information on file formats and the software applications needed to read them. This article provides an overview of the purpose, content development strategies and future development plans for PRONOM. The latest version, the web-enabled PRONOM 3, is also described.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
925.html#feature2
Proposal on the Collection and Preservation of UK Offline and Microform Publications and UK Online Publications : Available Free of Charge and Without Access Restrictions
Department for Culture Media and Sport (Date Created: Dec 2009) (United Kingdom)
This public consultation document sets out the recommendations made by the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel (LDAP) to the Secretary of State for Culture on the legal deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications that are available to the public free of charge and accessible without restriction. A separate consultation is planned for commercial and protected online publications. Options for harvesting over the web are canvassed. Consultation period is 8 December 2009 to 1 March 2010.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/6506.aspx
Document available in PDF and RTF versions.
Prototypes Related to IIPC Access Working Group Use Cases
IIPC Access Working Group (Date Created: May 2006)
This report develops prototypes encompassing the functional requirements as suggested by the use studies in the companion report Use Cases for Access to Internet Archives. The prototypes were used to ascertain what interfaces may be required in the development of a common architecture for web archives.
http://netpreserve.org/publications/iipc-r-004.pdf
Historical Prowling The Ruins Of Ancient Software
Williams, Sam (Date Created: 30 Jun 2003) (United States of America)
This article looks at the growing concerns related to the obsolescence of software programs. Many software specialists are claiming that losing software history can be referred to as the “digital dark age” and liken the roles of software preservation specialists as archaeologists. In order to overcome these concerns, a seminar on software archaeology and preservation at the newly reopened Computer History Museum in California, USA is discussed. The Museum seeks to preserve the artefacts and interview the developers of software programs for the benefit of future generations.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/30/software_archaeology/
index_np.html
Historical Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation : an Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System
Jantz, Ronald In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Nov 2003) (United States of America)
This article describes the Eagleton Archive Project, a partnership between the Scholarly Communication Centre (SCC) at Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) and Eagleton Centre for Public Interest Polling. The Fedora management system provides the basic technological infrastructure for digital preservation for the Eagleton Archive Project. This article provides an overview of the Fedora management system including the digital preservation framework and archiving processes, the archiving philosophy of the RUL and management issues.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november03/jantz/11jantz.html
Historical Publishing in the Knowledge Economy: Competitiveness Analysis of the UK Publishing Media Sector
Pira International (Date Created: 2002) (United Kingdom)
This report (141 p.) is an e-commerce impact assessment of the UK publishing media commissioned by the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and co-managed by the DTI and UK Publishing Media (UKPM). Chapter 17 (pp 111-118) concerns digital media and recommends that the archiving of digital research should be organised at national level by the government. The whole report, individual chapters, or an executive summary were available for download in PDF.
http://www.publishingmedia.org.uk/download/02dti_competitive_analysis.
pdf
Quantitative Evaluation of Dissemination-Time Preservation Metadata
Nelson, Michael L.; Smith, Joan A. (Date Created: 15 Sep 2008) (United States of America)
This paper presented at ECDL 2008 (Aarhus, Denmark 14-20 September 2008) discusses the feasibility of using a web server for just in time preservation metadata generation and selection of utilities to improve performance.
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/pubs/ecdl-2008/preservation-metadata-ecdl-2
008.pdf
Also available in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5173/2008, pp 346-357
Quest for a Digital Strategy - Quixotic or realistic?
Watson, David (Date Created: 2007) (Australia)
This article provides a rationale for the Australian National Film & Sound Archives digital strategy. It discusses the challenges audiovisual archives have in providing online access, digitisation of collections and ongoing preservation.
http://www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/docs/NFSAJournal_V2N1_web.pdf
Available in NFSA Journal, Vol 2, No. 1 2007, pp.6-10
Recent Developments in Digital Archiving and Preservation
Gatenby, Pam (Date Created: Nov 2006) (Australia)
This paper which was prepared for the CDNL Meeting, Seoul, 23 August 2006 provides an overview of developments in digital archiving and preservation of interest to National Libraries in particular the National Library of Australia.
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1079
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Historical Report of the Digital Preservation Policy Working Group on Establishing a Central Depository for Preserving Digital Image Collections, Part 1: Responsibilities of Transferee
Kenney , Anne R. ; Rieger, Oya Y. (Date Created: Mar 2001) (United States of America)
The Digital Preservation Policy Working Group of Cornell University Library's plan for establishing a central depository as part of a digital preservation solution for Cornell's digital image collections is based on two recommendations: the formation of such a centralised depository for ensuring continuing access to the collections, and collaboration with transferees to provide both access and security to deposited files. This report, in PDF format, represents the first part of that plan and defines requirements for transfer of materials to the central depository and indicates the depository's possible roles and responsibilities.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/imls/image%20deposit%20guidelines.pdf
Historical Report of the Workshop on Opportunities for Research on the Creation, Management, Preservation and Use of Digital Content
Barnett, Bill; Bishoff, Liz; Borgman, Christine; Caplan, Priscilla; Hamma, Ken; Lynch, Clifford (Date Created: Sep 2003) (United States of America)
Based on a workshop titled “Opportunities for Research on the Creation, Management, Preservation and Use of Digital Content” held in Washington DC on 16-18 March 2003, this report “summarises the results of the workshop and presents suggestions for useful areas of research”. Suggested research areas on the preservation of digital content include models for digital repositories, the need for cooperative repositories, economic models for preservation and risk analysis. The report also includes a handout on the “Preservation Breakout Session” workshop.
http://www.imls.gov/pdf/digitalopp.pdf
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Historical Report on Senior Executive Fellowship to Research Digital Archiving in National Libraries
Gatenby, Pam (Date Created: 09 Dec 2002)
A report prepared by the National Library of Australia's Assistant Director-General, Collections Management, of a digital archiving research trip undertaken in August-September 2002. Her observations of digital archiving initiatives at the national libraries of Denmark, Sweden and Canada, the Library of Congress, and the Online Computer Library Center in Ohio are described, and the differing approaches are compared. In conclusion, the implications for the National Library of Australia's own archiving responsibilities are also discussed.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1269/15
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Historical Report on the Cedars Final Workshop
CEDARS Project; Day, Michael; Jones, Maggie (Date Created: 22 Apr 2002) (United Kingdom)
This invitation-only workshop was the final event hosted by the Cedars project before it closed. The workshop had a focus primarily on the work of Cedars but also included the work of CAMiLEON. The purpose of the workshop was to highlight the work of Cedars over the preceding four years, to provide a forum for debate and discussion on what the project had achieved and what should happen next, and to bring together the main beneficiaries of the project (CURL librarians) with representatives from the publishing community and other key decision makers.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050410120000/http://www
.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/pubconf/umist/finalWorkshopRep.html
Archived by the UK Web Archive
Historical Report on the Sixth European Conference on Digital Libraries
Buchanan, George (Date Created: Oct 2002)
A report on the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002), held in Rome, 15-18 September, 2002. A greater focus on the technical aspects of digital libraries is noted, with web archiving, architecture, standards and usability included as major topics.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/buchanan/10buchanan.html
Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages
Caplan, Priscilla In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Nov 2008) (United States of America)
This article reviews the use cases for repository to repository transfer, existing transfer projects and formats and introduces the Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR) Project. TIPR is a 2 year demonstration project of the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA), Cornell University and New York University and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services which commenced in Fall 2008.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november08/caplan/11caplan.html
Historical From Rescue to Long-Term Maintenance: Preservation as a Core Function in the Management of Digital Assets
Cordeiro, Maria Ines (Date Created: Jan 2004)
Intended as an introductory article for the journal VINE (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and libraries), this article provides an overview of the main issues, current research, projects and initiatives being undertaken in relation to digital preservation. The article outlines challenges facing digital preservation, digital preservation techniques, metadata and the main components of the OAIS (the Open Archival Information System). Also included is an extensive and useful bibliography.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03055720410530933
http://oberon.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410530933
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 6-16, ISSN 0305-5278 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
Historical Research Agendas Set Course for Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation
Hedstrom, Margaret In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Dec 2003)
This article provides overviews of two recent reports - "It's About Time" and " Invest To Save". Both reports centre on the increasing role that digital information plays in most sectors of society and have identified research agendas for digital preservation researchers in the area of long-term digital preservation.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
491.html#feature2
Historical Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation
Hedstrom, Margaret (Date Created: Jun 2003)
This paper was delivered at Wave of the Future : the NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop in June 2003. The paper examines the future impediments to research created by the deficiencies in current digital archiving and preservation practices. The author highlights several areas requiring significant investment in the development of digital archives, including the development of software repositories and research on software and dynamic database preservation, the development of self-sustaining storage systems requiring little human intervention, cost benefit analyses into the performance of storage systems over time, and development of new tools, decision models and scalable infrastructures.
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/paper_hedstrom.html
Historical Response to "Preserving Software: Why and How"
Kaplan, Elisabeth (Date Created: 13 Sep 2002) (United States of America)
This article briefly explores the measures that have been undertaken in the USA to ensure that software is preserved, including the activities of institutions in the 1980s and 1990s. The article also stresses stresses the lack of national software archives. Instead, many institutions in the USA - such as the Smithsonian and Stanford University - have started to collect, not the software itself, but the documentation of the software development such as personal papers, oral histories and audiovisual materials, as it was considered a more economically viable option.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/kaplan.html
Available in Iterations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Software History, 1, 13 September, 2002, pp. 1-3, ISSN 1541-843X. Also available in PDF version.
Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1: Four Challenges from the Field
Marshall, Catherine C. In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Mar 2008)
This article identifies 4 issues with relevance to personal digital archiving. 1) Digital stewardship;2) Distributed assets; 3) Value and accumulation and 4) Retrieval from long-term storage.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt1.html
Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 2 : Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions
Marshall, Catherine C. In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Mar 2008)
This article explores the implications of the four challenges for personal digital archiving identified in Part 1- (1) accumulation, (2) distribution, (3) digital stewardship, and (4) long-term access - in terms of four basic questions: 1) What to keep?; 2) Where?; 3) How to maintain it?; and 4) How to find and access it?
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt2.html
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Historical Risk Management for Web Resources : a Case Study on Southeast Asian Web Sites
Botticelli, Peter In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Feb 2003)
This contribution to Project Prism is a case study of 54 web sites of political and non-profit organisations in Southeast Asia. The sites were selected for their value as candidates for long term preservation. One year was spent identifying and studying risk management issues. The article discusses the problems encountered in monitoring the web sites, how the sites were monitored and the danger signs indicating content loss.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file5
81.html#feature2
Historical RLG Forum at Emory University Looks at Digital Preservation and Archiving Issues
Marsh, Sue (Date Created: Aug 1999)
Review of forum held May 20-21, 1999 at Emory University on Aspects of Digital Preservation and Archiving.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070503/viewer/file1
073.html
in RLG Focus issue 39 August 1999
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Historical RLG Open Forum: Converging, Emerging Standards for Digital Preservation
Research Libraries Group (Date Created: Jun 2002) (United States of America)
This page provides links to presentations made at the RLG Open Forum held on June 16, 2002, as part of the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Altanta, Georgia, USA. Topics include standards work in preservation metadata for various media, the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) and work with the Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) model.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/09/28/0000073852/viewer/file5
46.html
Robust Technologies for Automated Ingestion and Long-term Preservation of Digital Information
JaJa, Joseph (Date Created: 2006)
Description from abstract - this is an overview of the DIGARCH project and report on a number of significant advances achieved thus far. In particular, we highlight our contributions to the development of a novel architecture for the Global Digital Format Registry, the design of a highly reliable and scalable deep archive, and the development of the underpinnings of a policy-driven management of preservation processes. Challenges and future plans are briefly outlined.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1146598.1146674
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 151, Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Digital government research. Available via subscription.
RODA and Crib: A Service-Oriented Digital Repository
Barbedos, Francisco; Castro, Rui; Corujo, Luis; Faria, Luis; Ferreira, Miguel; Ramalho, Jose Carlos (Date Created: 30 Sep 2008) (Portugal)
This paper presented at iPres 2008 (29-30 September 2008, British Library Conference Centre) describes how the integration of RODA a project of the Portuguese National Archives and CRiB a project of the University of Minho may provide a standards based digital preservation solution. CRiB delivers a set of preservation services in the planning and execution of migration-based preservation interventions and may fulfill the preservation planning requirements for RODA.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/37_Ramalho.pdf
Role and Justification of Web Archiving by National Libraries: A Questionnaire Survey
Eisenschitz, Tamara ; Shiozaki, Ryo (Date Created: Jun 2009)
This article present the findings of a survey of 16 national libraries (Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Swiss, Netherlands, UK, USA, Japan) into how they justify their web archiving programs. The cost benefits and legal justifications are considered.
http://lis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/2/90
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (UK) ISSN 0961-0006 Jun 2009 Vol 41 No 2 pp:90-107
Historical Role of Audit and Certification in Digital Preservation : Workshop Report
ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network) In: Audit and Certification in Digital Preservation : ERPANET Workshop (Date Created: 14 Apr 2004) (Belgium)
This report summarises the papers given at the ERPANET workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 14-16, 2004. It includes the organisational and practical issues in the implementation of audit and certification procedures.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2004/antwerpen/Workshop_Antwerpen_report
.pdf
Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories
McHugh, Andrew; Ross, Seamus In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This article discusses the role of edvidence in the certification process; identifies various types of evidence such as documentary, observational, and testimonial evidence; and discusses the use of evidence against which a repository audit can be measured and checklist criteria validated.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/ross/07ross.html
Safe keeping
The Economist Newspaper Limited (Date Created: 20 Sep 2001)
A brief article appearing in the Economist, focussing on the threat to the digital historical record, the efforts being put towards the design of digital archive repositories and the building of the Stanford Archival Vault (SAV).
http://www.economist.com/
This article is available from the website of The Economist at: http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=779564
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Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy
IASA Technical Committee (Last Updated: Dec 2005)
This paper (14 p.) identifies problem areas and proposes recommended practices for sound and AV archives for today's technical environment. These recommendations are a balance between the ideal situation and the real world that we inhabit. They are intended to help the reader to focus on the various issues relating to responsible audio archiving practice.
http://www.iasa-web.org/content/safeguarding-audio-heritage-ethics-pri
nciples-preservation-tc03
Third ed. available in PDF in English, German, French Swedish, Spanish and Italian language versions from http://www.iasa-web.org/content/special-publications. Also order in hardcopy.
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Historical Safekeeping: A Cooperative Approach to Building a Digital Preservation Resource
Berthon, Hilary; Thomas, Susan; Webb, Colin (Date Created: Jan 2002)
This article describes a project to cooperatively build a persistent distributed collection of digital resources from the field of digital preservation. All resources have been selected from the PADI subject gateway. The article describes some early findings and outcomes.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/berthon/01berthon.html
D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2002
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Historical Sampling the Umich.edu Domain
Lyle, Jared (Date Created: Sep 2004) (United States of America)
The article compares sampling methodologies, such as systematic and random sampling, to the approaches of whole domain and selective downloading as an appraisal mechanism for web archiving. The author uses the whole domain of umich.edu as an example. He argues that sampling methodologies would provide a less biased and more manageable approach to web archiving. Some disadvantages of this method are also briefly discussed.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/Lyle.pdf
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, September 2004.
Historical Scarcity or Abundance? : Preserving the Past in a Digital Era
Rosenzweig, Roy (Date Created: Jun 2003)
This article is written from an historian's perspective. It gives details of several approaches to digital preservation and their implications for current and future historical research.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/108.3/rosenzweig.html
in American Historical Review, Vol. 108, Issue 3, June 2003, pp735-762
Historical Scholarly Publishing Exists on the Web: We don't need CD-ROMs
Boyce, Peter (Last Updated: 12 Nov 1998)
The author advocates scholarly publishing on the web. He discusses archiving issues and cites examples from the American Astronomical Society.
http://www.aas.org/~pboyce/epubs/jasp-r.html
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Historical Scholars as Partners in Digital Preservation
Marcum, Deanna B. In: CLIR issues (Date Created: Mar 2001)
This article discusses the role of scholars in the selection of materials for digital archiving. It is argued that a number of benefits can flow from involving scholars in the decision-making process.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues20.html#scholars
Historical Scientific Data and Information : Report of the CSPR Assessment Panel
Committee on Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR) (Date Created: Dec 2004)
The ICSU (International Council for Science) is a non-government organisation representing over 100 international scientific bodies. This report (43 p.) by the CSPR (Committee on Scientific Planning and Review) assesses the strategic issues in scientific data and information and reviews the ICSU's current activities. This report is wide-ranging, covering all aspects of the data and information lifecycle including the need for long-term management and preservation.
ISBN: 0930357604
http://www.icsu.org/Gestion/img/ICSU_DOC_DOWNLOAD/551_DD_FILE_PAA_Data
_and_Information.pdf
Security of Digital Collections: The BnF Distributed Archiving & Preservation System (SPAR) Operating Safety & Reliability
Chilloh, Adoté (Date Created: Aug 2008) (France)
This article describes operating safety, reliability and risk management applied to SPAR, the distributed archiving and preservation system developed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn45.pdf
International Preservation News No. 45 August 2008 pp 21-24
Historical Selection, Appraisal and Retention of Digital Scientific Data : Final Report
ERPANET (Date Created: 10 Feb 2004)
The seminar, held from 15th-17th of December 2003 at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon, brought together more than sixty-five researchers, data managers, information specialists, archivists, and librarians from thirteen countries to discuss the issues regarding the long-term preservation of the scientific record. One of the major aims for this seminar was to provide an international forum to exchange information about data archiving policies and practices across different scientific, institutional, and national contexts. The seminar also highlighted some conceptual hurdles to overcome before effective collaboration between the diverse communities can take place.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2003/lisbon/LisbonReportFinal.pdf
Final report of the ERPANET CODATA Workshop held at Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, December 15-17, 2003
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Historical Selection, Appraisal and Retention of Digital Social Science Data
Beedham, Hilary; Donakowski, D.; Gutmann, M.; Schurer, K. (Date Created: 30 Dec 2004)
The volume of social science data means that not everything can be preserved. The stages of the preservation process including selection criteria, appraisal processes and issues in the long term accessibility of data are illustrated using the situation at two data archives in the US and the UK.
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/3/0/209/_pdf
Data Science Journal, ISSN 1683-1470, Vol. 3, December 2004, pp 209-221.
Historical Selective Archiving of Web Resources : A Study of Acquisition Costs at the National Library of Australia
Phillips, Margaret E. In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 16 Jun 2005) (Australia)
This article examines the costs of maintaining PANDORA : Australia's web archive at the National Library of Australia. In outlining the costs, the article also describes the purpose, history, activities and staffing of PANDORA. It finds that acquiring Web publications is considerably more expensive than printed publications and describes ways in which the costs could be reduced.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file5
58.html#article0
Selective Archiving of Web Resources: A Study of Processing Costs
Buzina, Tanja; Holub, Karolina; Milinovic, Miroslav; Topolšcak, Nebojša; Willer, Mirna; Zajec, Jasenka (Date Created: 2008) (Croatia)
This article describes a study undertaken at the National and University Library of Croatia to assess cost of web archiving of Croatian web resources. The results were compared to the results of a similar exercise undertaken at the National Library of Australia.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mcb/280/2008/00000042/00000004/a
rt00001
Program: electronic library & information systems, Volume 42, Number 4, 2008 , pp. 341-364(24)
Self-Archiving in Practice: What do the Researchers Say and is There Any Pain Alleviation?
Björklund, Carin; Eriksson, Jörgen; Linde, Peter; Svensson, Aina (Date Created: 11 Jun 2009) (Sweden)
This paper given at ELPUB 2009 (10-12 June 2009, Milan Italy) describes a study aimed at increasing self-archiving of scientific articles in Swedish open archives and to identify obstacles in the process based on interviews with researchers. It provides recommendations on reducing the difficulties for researchers undertaking self-archiving.
http://conferences.aepic.it/index.php/elpub/elpub2009/paper/view/87/38
Historical SemanticLIFE : a Framework for Managing Information of a Human Lifetime
Ahmed, M. (Date Created: 2004)
This paper gives an overview of the SemanticLIFE project which aimed to develop a framework for the management of personal information over a human lifetime using ontologies as a basis for the representation of its content.
http://www.schatten.info/pub/iiwas/iiwas2004.pdf
Semi-Automated Preservation and Archival of Scientific Data Using Semantic Grid Services
Choudhury, Sharmin; Hunter, Jane (Date Created: May 2005)
This paper was presented at the International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid in 2005. It presents arguments for the use of PANIC as a solution to long term preservation of large scale collections of scientific data. PANIC is based on preservation metadata, software and format registries and semantic Grid services.
http://metadata.net/panic/Papers/SIGAW2005_paper.pdf
Paper presented at the Semantic Infrastructure for Grid Computing Applications Workshop at the International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid 2005. Cardiff, UK. May 2005
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Identifying the Key Elements in the NLA .au Domain Harvest
Fellows, Geoff; Harvey, Ross; Lloyd, Annemaree; Pymm, Bob; Wallis, Jake (Date Created: Sep 2008)
This paper by the Charles Sturt University's POA (Preservation for Ongoing Accessibility) research group describes the 2006 National Library of Australia whole domain harvest and uses the example of blogs to address how to identify material within the harvest and determine issues that need further investigation.
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailm
ini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ814499&ERICExtSearc
h_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ814499
Australian Academic & Research Libraries, v39 n3 p137-148, Sep 2008 in print to subscribers only.
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Historical Setting Up an Institutional E-print Archive
Gardner, Michael; MacColl, John; Pinfield, Stephen In: Ariadne (Date Created: 16 Apr 2002)
Based on the experiences at the universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham in setting up pilot e-print servers, this article provides an account of several practical issues, including document types and formats, submission procedures, metadata standards and digital preservation issues, as well as encouraging user participation in the archive.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/
Historical Shall We Play a Game : Thoughts on the Computer Game Archive of the Future
Lowood, Henry (Date Created: Oct 2002)
This article begins by describing the history and nature of computer games. Digital games are unique because they are both dynamic and interactive. The author proposes that in order to successfully archive this material, a collaboration between industry and institutional organisations such as games developers, archivists, museums and institutional repositories should be developed. The author also discusses several possible initiatives including the development of emulation test-beds, game performance archives and archives of documentation and source codes.
http://www.stanford.edu/%7Elowood/Texts/shall_game.pdf
BITS OF CULTURE: New Projects Linking the Preservation and Study of Interactive Media, Stanford University, 7 Oct. 2002.
Historical SHERPA and Institutional Repositories
Hubbard, Bill (Date Created: May 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article provides an overview of the SHERPA project (Securing A Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) in the UK. The main aim of the project is to set up open-access institutional e-print repositories within the Higher Education community. The article explores the issues that have arisen in the construction and use of the repositories, and notes key issues that need to be addressed including collection, copyright and preservation policies.
http://serials.uksg.org/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0953-0460&volum
e=16&issue=3&spage=243
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community, Vol. 16. No. 3, November 2003, pp. 243-247, ISSN 0953-0460
Historical SHERPA DP Project
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: Nov 2005)
This is the first of a series of reports on member projects of the Digital Preservation Coalition. The SHERPA project is investigating a sustainable, repository-independent model for preservation. Maggie Jones of the DPC interviews Andrew Wilson of the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) about SHERPA.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20091216111816/http://www
.dpconline.org/graphics/join/sherpa.html
Archived by the UK Web Archive
Historical Significant Property: Digital Preservation at the British Library
Woodyard, Deborah (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United Kingdom)
This article focuses on the role of the British Library in relation to the preservation of digital materials. The author provides an overview of various projects currently being undertaken both within the Library itself, and collaboratively with other national and international institutions. Included are descriptions of the how the Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Sound Archive are dealing with digital objects, its Web Archiving and Digital Object Management (DOM) Programmes and the Library’s involvement in the SHERPA project.
http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentTy
pe=Article&contentId=862526
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 17-20, ISSN 0305-5728, (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One)
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Historical Solving Long Term Access for Electronic Publications
Nieuwenburg, Betty In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Nov 2001) (Netherlands)
This article presents a brief historical overview of the DNEP-i project (Deposit of Netherlands Electronic Publications - implementation ) between the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the national library of The Netherlands, and IBM-Netherlands, including links to related resources.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november01/11inbrief.html
Historical Standard for the Legal Deposit of Online Publications
Bergamin, Giovanni (Date Created: 4 Jun 1999)
Abstract in English; abstract in Italian available at: http://www.aib.it/aib/commiss/cnur/dliberga.htm
http://www.aib.it/aib/commiss/cnur/dleberga.htm
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Historical Stanford Archival Repository Project : Preserving Our Digital Past
Cooper, Brian F.; Crespo, Arturo; Garcia-Molina, Hector (Date Created: 2003) (United States of America)
This article discusses the infrastructure required to create a reliable digital archive. Objects are replicated among cooperating digital archives so that if any particular archive fails, the digital objects will still be accessible. The article also discusses the prototype archiving system, the Stanford Archival Vault (SAV), and ArchSim, a simulation tool for use in designing archive systems.
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~crespo/publications/lirn.pdf
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Historical State of the Art and Practice in Digital Preservation
Lee, Kyong-Ho ; Lu, Richang ; McCrary, Victor ; Slattery, Oliver ; Tang, Xiao (Date Created: Jan 2002)
This paper published in the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 93-106, Jan-Feb 2002) is a survey of ideas and practice in digital preservation as of late 2001. It first elaborates the various proposed strategies for digital preservation (including emulation and migration) before introducing a number of projects from Australia, Europe and North America. A final section recommends the development of preservation standards based on XML, and outlines some critical issues that still need to be resolved.
http://nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/jres/107/1/j71lee.pdf
Historical STM Members and Digital Archiving
Hunter, Karen (Date Created: 2002)
This article discusses the development and issues of digital archiving generally, and journal archiving in particular, from the perspective of the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). The article discusses various projects involving STM, including collaborative projects such as the Yale-Elsevier Science Project and LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe). The article also examines the cost issues of journal archiving to publishers and discusses various economic models and collaborative activities that could be used to reduce the problem.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=639445.639452&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUID
E&CFID=67986868&CFTOKEN=28028247
Available in Information Services and Use, vol. 22, iss 2/3, 2002, ISSN 0167-5265 ; and online by subscription at www.ebscohost.com
Historical Storing E Text For Centuries
Economist (Date Created: 19 Jun 2003)
This newspaper article discusses how the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system works to ensure preservation and access to electronic academic journals. It also briefly discusses some challenges the system faces.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=184101
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Available by subscription to the Economist.
Strategies and Approaches to Building Thematic Collections in WebArchiv
Coufal, Libor; Žabička, Petr (Date Created: Nov 2007) (Czech Republic)
This paper delivered at InFuture 2007 describes experiences of building thematic collections in WebArchiv, a joint web-archiving project run by the National Library of Czech Republic in cooperation with the Moravian Library and Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University in Brno. It also considers the potential use of web based alerting systems and presents findings of a preliminary study.
http://en.webarchiv.cz/files/dokumenty/konference/InFuture07.pdf
InFuture 2007, 7-9 Nov 2007, Zagreb
Historical 'Superarchives' could hold all scholarly output
Jeffrey R. Young (Date Created: 05 Jul 2002)
Discusses creation of online 'institutional repositories' to preserve and provide access to the intellectual output of institutions like universities. Models discussed (briefly) include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's DSpace project, the California Institute of Technology's digital repository, the University of California's Scholarly Repository, Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank, and the University of Southhampton's eprint.org initiative. While the article serves only as a brief introduction to the issues, it does have links to all the projects.
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm
Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 July 2002. Available by subscription.
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions
Carpenter, Leona In: Ariadne
This article describes a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) program which is intended to raise awareness of digital preservation issues in the Higher and Further Education sectors of the UK. A series of eleven projects were funded, involving nineteen institutions and varying in length from six to twenty-four months. The projects will have been completed by 2007. The program is designed to foster closer integration of digital preservation and asset management and is developed around three themes - Institutional Management Support and Collaboration, Digital Preservation Assessment Tools and Institutional Repository Infrastructure Development.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue43/carpenter/
Survey of Record-Keeping Practices of Photographers using Digital Technology
Bushey, Jessica (Date Created: 28 Aug 2005)
This survey is part of the InterPARES 2 focus area on artistic activities. Digital photography is used in many areas including for artistic, industrial, scientific, medical and e-government purposes. The survey’s objectives are to gather data relating to the types of records that are produced by professional photographers using digital technology, their assumptions regarding the access to their records over the long-term and the nature and variety of digital imagery and record-keeping systems they use. The analysis of the data will provide the basis for the production of guidelines for digital photography which will be written by InterPARES.
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2_digital_photo_recor
dkeeping_report.pdf
Surveying the E Journal Preservation Landscape
Kenney, Anne
This article is about a study to survey ten e-journal archiving initiatives. The purpose of the study is to discuss strategies and options for e-journal archiving. CLIR will publish a report on the findings in August 2006.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/ejournal.htm
CLIR Bulletin no. 23 (March 23, 2006)
Historical Sustainable Preservation of Digital Assets in a University
University of Glasgow (Date Created: 11 Feb 2005) (United Kingdom)
This is a report of the Espida workshop held in February 2005. The aim of the workshop was to launch Espida and to create awareness of the need for sustainable digital preservaton.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/events/Initial%20workshop/espida_report_fi
nal.pdf
Report of a workshop held on 11th February 2005 at Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
Task Force on Digital Repository Certification
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: Dec 2005) (United States of America)
A joint task force created by RLG and NARA, as part of ongoing work with the OAIS reference model. The Task Force was charged to consult regarding standards, criteria, and mechanisms for certification, identify certifiable elements, create a standard certification process or framework, develop a certification plan and identify the conditions for revocation of certification. In 2005 the task force published a draft checklist for certifying digital repositories and invited public comment. The final report is available from the Center for Research Libraries.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/repositorycert.htm
Techniques to Audit and Certify the Long-term Integrity of Digital Archives
Song, Sangchul; Ja Ja, Joseph (Date Created: Dec 2009)
This article describes a new methodology to address the long-term integrity of digital archives using rigorous cryptographic techniques. The use of a prototype system ACE in the Chronopolis project is described.
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~joseph/IJDL_published.pdf
International Journal of Digital Libraries, 1432-5012, v. 10 , Issue 2-3 (December 2009), pp123-131
Historical TechNotes -- The Internet Archive: an End to the Digital Dark Age
Panos, Patrick (Date Created: 22 Mar 2003) (United States of America)
A short introduction to the Internet Archive with details of how to use the "Wayback Machine." Concludes that it could be important tool for social work education research and that it may assist many social work authors in keeping their Internet references valid and alive.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-23714134_ITM
Journal of Social Work Education, 39(2), 343-347.
Terminology Evolution in Web Archiving: Open Issues
Iofciu, Tereza; Niederee, Claudia ; Risse, Thomas; Siberski, Wolf; Tahmasebi, Nina (Date Created: 18 Sep 2008)
This paper given at IWAW 2008 (18-19 September, Aarhus Denmark) discusses the problem of terminology evolution in web archive queries and potential solutions for dealing with long term "semantic" accessibility.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Tahmasebi.pdf
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Test Bed Taxonomy for Crawler
Boyko, Andrew (Date Created: Jul 2004)
This paper reports on the problems and issues that automated archival web crawlers encounter in the surface web within the context of harvesting, content retrieval and link detection and presentation. The 15-page document covers issues such as non-typical URIs, cookies and forms, as well as synthetic and non-HTML content and links.
http://netpreserve.org/publications/iipc-r-002.pdf
Version 1
For the Record : Assessing the Impact of Archiving on the Archived
Crook, Edgar In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Aug 2006) (Australia)
The article describes a study on the effect of PANDORA archiving on digital publishers and publications. The study was based on a survey and supplemented by a selected range of archived material which was examined to discover publication patterns pre- and post-archiving. Publications examined include blogs, e-journals and commercial websites. The broad conclusion of this study is that PANDORA had not had a detrimental effect on publications.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
438.html#article0
Historical On the Web, Research Work Proves Ephemeral
Weiss, Rick (Date Created: 24 Nov 2003) (United States of America)
Using citations and footnotes as examples, this article reports on a recent study of scientific journals that found that that after 27 months of publication, 13 per cent of internet references were inactive. With many scholarly articles now citing Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) in their footnotes and references, there is a growing concern amongst scientists and scholars that this medium is becoming increasingly more ephemeral than archival in nature. The article also highlights the continual importance of the work of the Internet Archive and the development of the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system – which traces a web page, even if it has moved to a new URL - in helping to make web pages permanently available for future generations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8730-2003Nov23?language=prin
ter
Also available in hardcopy.
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Historical And Then There's the Rest of the Stuff : the Role of the PANDORA Archive
Koerbin, Paul (Date Created: 13 May 2004) (Australia)
This paper gives an overview of the PANDORA Archive at the National Library of Australia. It describes PANDORA and its management system, PANDAS, and the advantages and disadvantages of selective archiving, as well as various technical and legal issues. Specific problems relating to the harvesting and archiving of multimedia, sound and video are also briefly examined.
http://192.102.239.53/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1242/15
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Paper given at the Australasian Sound Recording Association 2004 Conference 'Sounding Out a Cultural Heritage'
Thinking Nationally with the Web: A Medium-Specific Approach to the National Turn in Web Archiving
Weltevrede, Esther (Date Created: 10 Apr 2009) (Netherlands)
This masters thesis from the University of Amsterdam introduces a new way to think about Web space as ordered technical arrangements including "national Webs" based on ordering content by users along national or linguistic lines. It also uses a comparison of the Internet Archive with the Web archive of the Royal Library of the Netherlands (the KB) to discuss the effect of the time of emergence and institutional context on the development of web archives.
http://dare.uva.nl/en/scriptie/308472
PDF available for download
Historical Three Manufacturers form PASS Group to Safeguard Files
Digital Photography Review (Date Created: 27 Sep 2004)
Konica Minolta, Fuji Film and Eastman Kodak have formed the Picture Archiving and Sharing Standard (PASS) Group.This press release outlines this important step in the development of a set of storage standards which will enable viewing of digital photos that are saved on CDs, DVDs and other media in the long term. Although initially aimed at the consumer market, the standard could have implications for all sectors.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04092705pass_group.asp
Tomorrow's File Endings : On Archiving Principles and Archiving Formats
Uneson, Marcus (Date Created: 2005) (Sweden)
This paper discusses general digital archiving principles, such using open standards and text based formats, particularly in regard to the archiving of scientific and scholarly publications. The efficacy of using various file formats in an archival setting are also discussed. These formats include pdf, pdf-a, tex/latex and xml.
http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/31/3
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Towards an Open Source Repository and Preservation System: Recommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archive and Preservation System and on Related Software Development
Blackall, Chris; Bradley, Kevin; Lei, Junran (Date Created: Jun 2007)
This report was commissioned by the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Sub Committee on Technology to survey Open Source Repository and Preservation Software, to analyse existing gaps and to make recommendations for the development and packaging of an Open Source Digital Preservation System. The document defines the requirements for a digital archive and preservation system using standard hardware and describes a set of open source software that could be used to implement it.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/24700/11824297751towards_open_sou
rce_repository.doc/towards_open_source_repository.doc
Available for download from http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24700&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Historical Towards Continuous Web Archiving: First Results and an Agenda for the Future
Masanès, Julien In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Dec 2002) (France)
As part of its Web archiving activities, the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) has investigated various ways in which the crawler programs used for the automatic collection of Web pages can be improved. In particular, the BnF initiative has tried to implement and evaluate sophisticated crawler programs that use the link structure of the Web to provide an automatic estimation of a Web page's importance. This paper describes the result of experiments whereby the automatic ranking of a sample set of Web sites (using Xyleme's ranking algorithm) was compared with manual evaluations of the same sites by librarians. There was a sufficient level of correlation from these to suggest that automatic importance evaluation could help national libraries build large-scale collections of Web resources.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/masanes/12masanes.html
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Towards Electronic Persistence Using ARK Identifiers
Kunze, John A. (Date Created: Jul 2003)
This paper available from the ARK (Archival Resouce Key website describes how the ARK differs from other persistent identifier schemes and how the California Digital Library is using ARKs for the digital objects it controls. The full ARK specification is available.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/ark/arkspec.pdf
Historical Towards format repositories for web archives
Christensen, Niels H. (Date Created: Aug 2004) (Denmark)
This paper was presented at the International Web Archiving Workshop in 2004 and describes the challenges of file formats for web archives.
http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/FormatRepositories-2004.pdf
Transferring Old Analog Videotapes to a New Digital Medium
Wheeler, Jim (Date Created: Jan 2006)
The paper focusses on archiving video.
http://www.wheelertapeforensics.com/ArchivePaper.pdf
Historical Treasuring the Digital Records of Science: Archiving E-Journals at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Steenbakkers, Johan F In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Apr 2004) (Netherlands)
This article addresses the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, National Library of the Netherlands) activities in relation to preserving electronic publications. It discusses the Library's formal archiving agreements with several major science publishers, whereby such publishers have agreed to deposit all electronic publications for permanent archiving. The article looks at a publisher and library's view of the agreement and also provides a description of the background, developments and infrastructure of the Library's e-Depot, including the OAIS-compliant DIAS (Digital Information Archiving System).
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
645.html#article0
Trends in Web Characteristics
Gomes, Daniel; Miranda, Jo˜ao (Date Created: 11 Nov 2009) (Portugal)
This paper given at LA_WEB 2009, (the 7th Latin American Web Congress, Yucatan Merida, Mexico, 9-11 November 2009) analyses trends in web content characteristics between 2003 and 2008 using the Portuguese Web as a case study. Metrics were derived from the comparison of a crawl performed by the Portuguese Web Archive in 2008 with previous studies.
http://arquivo-web.fccn.pt/about-the-archive/trends-in-web-characteris
tics
Historical Trusted Digital Repositories for Cultural Heritage
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; ERPANET (Date Created: 17 Nov 2003)
This is the final report of the ERPANET workshop held in Rome in November 2003. The aim of the workshop was to identify and discuss key technical, management and policy issues affecting the implementation of repositories.The report features discussions on storage and repositories, emerging technologies and applications, capturing data for preservation, and quality standards.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2003/rome/RomeFinalReport.pdf
UK Government Web Continuity : Persisting Access Through Aligning Infrastructures
Pullinger, David; Sheridan, John; Spencer, Amanda; Thomas, David (Date Created: Dec 2008) (United Kingdom)
This paper given at the 4th International Digital Curation Conference (December 2008) describes a study by a working group established by the UK Cabinet Office to ensure that parliamentarians would be able to access information referenced by URLs particularly those referenced in Hansard in perpetuity. The Web Continuity solution was developed after investigation, analysis and comparison of options. In November 2008 The National Archives began comprehensive archiving of the government Web Estate.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100215105236/http://www
.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/programme/papers/UK%20Government%20Web%20Co
ntinuity.pdf
Archived by UK Web Archive
UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) Project
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: Mar 2006) (United Kingdom)
Maggie Jones of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) interviews Philip Beresford, Web archiving project manager for the UK Web Archiving Consortium. The interview covers various aspects of the UK Web Archiving Consortium, including project partners, funding and what is being collected.
http://www.dpconline.org/members/ukwac.html
UKWAC : Building the UK's First Public Web Archive
Bailey, Steve; Thompson, Dave In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2006) (United Kingdom)
This article describes the UK Web Archiving Consortium project. This project consists of six UK institutions who aim to establish a test bed for the selective archiving of UK web sites. The article discusses the background, methodology, benefits and issues arising as the project develops.
http://dlib.org/dlib/january06/thompson/01thompson.html
Historical Uncertain Fate of Scholarly Artifacts in a Digital Age
Carlson, Scott (Date Created: 30 Jan 2004) (United States of America)
This article looks at the challenges facing scholars in preserving digital objects for future generations. With a growing number of research materials such as novels, poems, letters, notes and artwork being produced electronically, there is an increasing concern amongst scholars that much of this information will become obsolete. The article debates whether society is entering a “digital dark age” or whether these technological changes will mean a new era for scholarship.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i21/21a02501.htm
Volume 50, Issue 21. Available by subscription.
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Historical Uncovering Information Hidden in Web Archives: A Glimpse at Web Analysis Building on Data warehouses
Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Bruckner, Robert M.; Kaiser, Max; Rauber, Andreas; Witvoet, Oliver In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Dec 2002)
Web archives hold a wealth of information that can be used to analyse various aspects of the Web. In order to investigate this, the authors established a data warehouse as a key to this information in the context of the Austrian On-Line Archive (AOLA). This made it possible to analyse the characteristics of the Web in a flexible and interactive manner using on-line analytical processing (OLAP) techniques. Specifically, these were used to investigate technological aspects of the archive, e.g. the operating systems and Web servers used, the variety of file types, forms or scripting languages encountered, as well as the link structure within domains. These can then be analysed to infer the characteristics of technology maturation and impacts on community structures. [Description edited from original abstract].
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/rauber/12rauber.html
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Historical Unsettled State of Archiving
Beebe, Linda; Meyers, Barbara In: JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing (Date Created: Jun 1999) (United States of America)
This article discusses roles and responsibilities for archiving, with particular emphasis on the impact electronic publishing is having on the publishing industry. It includes the results of a survey, conducted by the authors, of publishers' attitudes towards archiving.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0004.406
Updated Portrait of the Portuguese Web
Miranda, Jo˜ao; Gomes, Daniel (Date Created: 13 Oct 2009) (Portugal)
This paper given at EPIA 2009 (14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aveiro, Portugal, 12-15 October 2009) presents an updated characterization of the Portuguese Web based on a crawl conducted in March 2008. The analysis considers: URL length and depth; Media types and sizes; Dynamically generated contents; Duplication; Site sizes, Successful responses; Sites per IP address; and Domains.
http://arquivo-web.fccn.pt/sobre-o-arquivo/an-updated-portrait-of-the-
portuguese-web
Updating DAITSS - Transitioning to a Web Service Architecture
Chou, Carol; Fischer, Randall; Lazzarino, Franco (Date Created: 30 Sep 2008) (United States of America)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Centre, 29-30 Sept. 2008) describes the major changes planned for the DAITSS software developed by the Florida Digital Archive (FDA) to perform ingest, archival storage, data management and dissemination. The DAITSS 2 project will rewrite the application based on a distributed Web services model which should be easier to configure and operate.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/35_Fischer.pdf
Historical Upgrade and Archive : The Ongoing Threat of Data Extinction
Hook, Brian R. (Date Created: 28 Aug 2003)
This news article briefly discusses some of the issues and approaches to digital preservation, including conversion of file formats and archiving of hardware as well as software.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31436.html
in E-Commerce Times, 28 August 2003
Historical Uppity Bits: Coming To Terms With Archiving Dynamic Electronic Journals
Baudoin, Patsy (Date Created: Mar 2003) (United States of America)
This article primarily focuses on the issues relating to the preservation of dynamic electronic journals. As well as providing a definition and highlighting the main characteristics of dynamic e-journals, the author argues that developments need to be made to ensure the long-term preservation of, not only the static elements, but also the dynamic elements of dynamic e-journals. The author briefly assesses the three main areas of digital preservation – migration, emulation and archaeological approaches – and states that more research is needed in the area of emulation, maintaining that this approach has the potential to preserve and capture the dynamic elements of electronic journals.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a903992740~db=all~ord
er=page
In The Serials Librarian, ISSN 0361-526X , Vol. 43, No. 4, 2003, pp. 63-72
Use Cases for Access to Internet Archives
IIPC Access Working Group (Date Created: May 2006)
This report develops a number of use case scenarios for a web archive. The scenarios include cases relating to data usage, user interface, data mining and presentation.
http://netpreserve.org/publications/iipc-r-003.pdf
Using Page Histories for Improving Browsing the Web
Jatowt, Adam; Kawai, Yukiko; Tanaka, Katsumi (Date Created: Sep 2008)
This paper given at IWAW 2008 (International Workshop on Web Archiving, Aarhus Denmark 18-19 Sept, 2008), outlines and classifies interaction methods with web page histories with a view to improving browsing in web archives.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Jatowt.pdf
Using the Papers of Contemporary British Politicians as a Testbed for the Preservation of Digital Personal Archives
Martin, Janette; Thomas, Susan (Date Created: Apr 2006) (United Kingdom)
The article places the Paradigm (Personal ARchives Accessible in DIGital Media) project in the broader framework of digital preservation initiatives in the UK and abroad, introduces the key aims of Paradigm and outlines some of the project's initial findings. These initial findings relate to how archivists might select, acquire, process, store, preserve and provide access to the digital archives of individuals for the use of future researchers. The article fuses archival and digital curation theory with the practicalities of working in a testbed situation with the personal digital collections and papers of British politicians. It also analyses the implications of exponential growth in the creation of personal digital collections — from digital images, and music files to personal websites and blogs — and concludes with a discussion of what this may mean for the wider archival profession.
http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&eissn=
1465-3907&volume=27&issue=1&spage=29
Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 27, No. 1 (April 2006)
Historical Using XML for Long-term Preservation : Experiences from the DiVA Project
Andersson, Stefan; Hansson, Peter; Klosa, Uwe; Muller, Eva; Siira, Erik (Date Created: May 2003) (Sweden)
This paper describes the DiVA (Digitala vetenskapliga arkivet) Project which originated at Uppsala University in Sweden. The goal of the project is to create a searchable archive (DiVA Archive) for the long term preservation of those documents which are published in an electronic form such as theses, essays and working papers. This paper includes discussion of XML as a long term preservation format, the DiVA document format and the use of URN (uniform resource names) as persistent identifiers.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/hansson-peter/HTML/index.html
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Historical VERS: Building a Digital Record Heritage
Quenault, Howard (Date Created: Feb 2004) (Australia)
The Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) is “a framework of standards, guidance and practical implementation projects centred around the goal of reliably and authentically archiving electronic records created or managed by the Victorian government”. The article provides an overview into the background and vision of the program, the VERS Centre of Excellence, developing the digital archive and future directions of the program.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/13Quena.PDF
Vertrauenswürdige und abgesicherte Langzeitarchivierung multimedialer Inhalte
Jäschke, Gerald; Jäschke, Jana; Oermann, Andrea (Date Created: Aug 2009) (Germany)
This report in German (156 p., 4.66 MB) considers the requirements for trustworthy and secure digital repositories for the long term preservation of multimedia collections, and the state of existing repositories such as music archives, broadcast archives, university media centres and multimedia e-Learning-collections.
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0008-2009081423
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VI European Conference on Archives: Archives between past and future
Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana (Date Created: Jun 2001)
Abstracts of VI European Conference on Archives: Archives between past and future
http://www.anai.org/conferenza%20europea/
VidArch: Preserving Video Objects and Context: Final Report
Marchionini, Gary; Tibbo, Helen (Date Created: 11 Sep 2009) (United States of America)
This is the final report of the VidArch Project, supported by NSF and the Library of Congress NDIIPP. The project contributed to development of policies and tools to facilitate preservation of digital video from the internet (such as YouTube) and explored context related aspects of curation. Tools include ContextMiner, TubeKit and VidArch Exchange.
http://sils.unc.edu/research/publications/reports/TR-2009-01.pdf
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Historical Virtual Remote Control : Building a Preservation Risk Management Toolbox for Web Resources
Buckley, Ellie; Entlich, Richard; Kehoe, William R.; Kenney, Anne R.; McGovern, Nancy Y. In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Apr 2004) (United States of America)
Importance of Internet archiving was brought to public attention after material archived by the Wayback Machine was accepted in the US court. Cultural institutions face legal as well as technical challenges when they attempt to archive the Internet and much of the content is therefore lost. Cornell University Library's Virtual Remote Control (VRC) initiative differs from most web archiving projects by its emphasis on monitoring websites over time, with capture being used only as a last resort. The process is envisaged to be fully automated in the future via a Toolbox software that is being developed, but at present considerable human input is necessary.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april04/mcgovern/04mcgovern.html
Ways to deal with complexity
Keitel, Christian (Date Created: 30 Sep 2008) (Germany)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Centre, 29-30 Sept. 2008) discusses ways that digital archives can deal with complexity and traditional and digital archivists can cooperate. The author suggests that two ways are reduction of complexity and through cooperation. The development of DiMag (Digitales Magazine) by the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg during 2005-2009 is given as an example of a repository that was developed by following this approach.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/45_Keitel.pdf
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Historical Web Archive Activities in Denmark
Christensen-Dalsgaard, Birte In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Jun 2004) (Denmark)
This article outlines the history of development of legal deposit for digital material in Denmark. It included the gradual change in the legislation influenced by the conference on the topic, harvesting experiments, Parliament hearing and a resulting report followed by government funding. Harvesting experiments are examined in detail, including: their selection policy, hybrid strategy (involving bulk harvesting four times a year combined with selective harvesting of approximately 80 sites, combined with 2-3 yearly event-based harvests), harvesting tools used, testing different archive formats for storing the data, preservation issues, various other technical issues, as well as making sure that 'look and feel' of the archived material is retained.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
628.html#article0
Web Archiving
Ball, Alex (Date Created: 01 Mar 2010)
This Digital Curation Centre Technology Watch report (34 p.) provides an overview of the state of the art of web archiving at the start of 2010. It discusses: the motivations for and challenges of web archiving; large-scale and small-scale web archiving; the archiving of difficult content (including blogs, virtual worlds and institutional sites); and web archive interfaces.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/technology-watch-papers
/web-archiving
DCC Technology Watch Paper. Available for download as PDF.
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Historical Web Archiving : a Feasibility Study for JISC and the Wellcome Trust
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (Date Created: 09 Mar 2003) (United Kingdom)
An overview of a feasibility study by UKOLN into web archiving. The aims of the study were to provide both the JISC and the Wellcome Trust with an analysis of existing web archiving arrangements and how they address the needs of the UK research community, plus recommendations on how the JISC and the Wellcome Trust could develop web archives initiatives. This site includes links to two PDF reports, "Collecting and Preserving the World Wide Web" and "Legal Issues Relating to the Archiving of Internet Resources in the UK, EU, US and Australia".
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=project_webarchiving
Web Archiving at BnF
IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (Date Created: Dec 2006) (France)
This article in International Preservation News describes web archiving activities at the Bibliotheque nationale de France.
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn40.pdf
Available in International Preservation News, Vol no 40 December 2006 pp. 27-34 in English with summary in French & Spanish
Web Archiving at the National Library of New Zealand
Lala, Vanita; Joe, Susanne (Date Created: Oct 2006) (New Zealand)
This paper given at the LIANZA Conference 2006 (8-11 October 2006, Wellington, NZ) discusses web archiving at the National Library of New Zealand and the changes resulting from the 2003 National Library of New Zealand Act that extended legal deposit to electronic publications. It illustrates it with a case study on the selection, harvesting and appraisal of websites and blogs in the 2005 election.
http://opac.lianza.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=113
Web Archiving at the National Library of New Zealand
National Library of New Zealand (Date Created: Nov 2009) (New Zealand)
This article provides a brief update on web archiving by the National Library of New Zealand.It mentions the New Zealand Legal Deposit legislation, the New Zealand Web Archive, and the 2008 Harvest.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/cdnlao/newsletter/066/663.html
CDNLAO Newsletter no. 66, November 2009
Web Archiving in a Web 2.0 World
Crook, Edgar (Date Created: Sep 2008) (Australia)
This paper delivered at ALIA Biennial Conference, 2-5 September 2008, Alice Springs Australia gives an update on the activities of the PANDORA Archive, the current state of web archiving in Australia and adaption to web 2.0 applications.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13910/20080930-1156/conferences.alia.org
.au/alia2008/pdfs/124.TT.pdf
Web Archiving in Denmark August 2009: A Fact Sheet
Netarchive.dk (Date Created: Aug 2009) (Denmark)
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of web archiving activities in Denmark in August 2009 by Netarchive.dk (Netarkivet.dk). Included are brief details of the organization's resources, strategies, statistics and access details.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/Fact%20sheet%20Webarchiving%20in%20
Denmark%202009.pdf
Web Archiving in the National Diet Library
(Date Created: Nov 2009) (Japan)
This article gives a brief update on web archiving activities in the National Diet Library, Japan. It includes a summary of number of collections gathered through the Web Archiving Research Project (WARP) as at August 2009.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/cdnlao/newsletter/066/661.html
CDNLAO Newsletter no. 66, November 2009
Web Archiving in the UK: Cooperation, Legislation and Regulation
Tuck, John (Date Created: Dec 2008) (United Kingdom)
This article in Liber Quarterly provides an overview of web archiving in the UK since 2001. It considers the international context, collaboration and the impact of the 2003 legal deposit legislation.
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000258/article.pdf
Liber Quarterly ISSN 1435-2005, Vol 18 (2008) Issue 3/4
Web Archiving Internationally: Interoperability in the future?
Jacobsen, Grethe (Date Created: 14 May 2007)
This paper delivered at the World Library and Information Congress: 73RD IFLA General Conference and Council (Durban South Africa, 19-23 August 2007) reports the results of a questionnaire sent to 95 National Libraries regarding their web archiving activities and intentions. Partnering was considered of key importance. Legal Deposit, copyright and other legislation important challenges.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/073-Jacobsen-en.pdf
Text also available in Spanish and French from coference website
Web Archiving Programme at National Library Singapore
Chellapandi, Sharmini; Siow Lian San (Date Created: Nov 2009) (Singapore)
This article provides a brief update on web archiving activities by National Library Singapore. It mentions the Legal Deposit framework, describes collection of websites through the Web Archive Singapore (WAS) programme and notes that public access is not automatic but is provided to selected sites.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/cdnlao/newsletter/066/664.html
CDNLAO Newsletter no. 66, November 2009
Web Archiving System of the National Library of Korea : OASIS
National Library of Korea (Date Created: Mar 2007)
This article describes the National Library of Korea's Online Archiving & Searching Internet Sources (OASIS) system which was developed in 2005 to preserve online web resources . The NLK OASIS project is developing a selective collection approach and the basic workflow and future developments are outlined.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/cdnlao/058/583.html
CDNLAO Newsletter: Forum for the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania No 58, March 2007
Web Archiving: Issues and Problems in Collection Building and Access
Jacobsen, Grethe (Date Created: Dec 2008) (Denmark)
This article in Liber Quarterly, focuses on collection-building and access issues based on the experiences of web archiving by Netarkivet.dk in Denmark since 2005.
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000273/article.pdf
Liber Quarterly ISSN 1435-2005, Vol 18 (2008) Issue 3/4
Web Archiving: Organizing Web Objects into Web Containers to Optimize Access
JaJa, Joseph; Song, Sangchul (Date Created: 2007)
This technical report (14 p.) considers the problem of archiving a linked set of web objects into web containers such as WARC so as to minimize the number of containers accessed during a typical browsing session.
https://wiki.umiacs.umd.edu/adapt/images/c/cd/OrganizingWebObjects_UMI
ACS-TR-2007_42.pdf
Technical Report UMIACS-TR-2007-42
Web at Risk : a Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation's Political Cultural Heritage
California Digital Library (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
Following a grant from the NDIIPP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program), the California Digital Library and its partners are developing a distributed approach to preserving political and government web pages. The 4 and a half year project is developing open source web archiving tools to capture, curate, and preserve collections of web-based government and political information. The project has four key areas - Content identification and selection, Content acquisition, Content retention and transfer and Partnership building. Major outcome is the development of WAS (Web Archiving Service).
http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/partners/webatrisk.html
Web Curator Tool
Beresford, Philip In: Ariadne (Date Created: Jan 2007) (New Zealand; United Kingdom)
This paper describes the development of the Web Curator Tool, a Web harvesting management system by the National Library of New Zealand, British Library and Sytec.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue50/beresford/
Web Harvesting for Nuclear Knowledge Preservation
International Atomic Energy Association (Date Created: 21 May 2008)
This technical report (50 p.) provides a contemporary technical overview of activities in the domain of web harvesting, document archiving and Internet access technology and its relevance to the preservation of online publications and documents in the nuclear field as background for a pilot project. The document considers the need for web archives and roles for nuclear knowledge organisations such as the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), methods for distributed access facilitation, international examples of ongoing web archiving initiatives, web harvesting technologies, and makes recommendations for project management.
ISBN: 9789201112071
http://www.iaea.or.at/inisnkm/nkm/documents/publ_web_harvesting.pdf
IAEA Nuclear Energy Series, ISSN 1995–7807, No. NG-T-6.6
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Web Harvesting Survey
Ashenfelder, Michael; Boyko, Andrew ; Marill, Jennifer (Date Created: Jul 2004)
This survey rates the harvestability of various types of web documents and websites within both the surface and deep web. The results are presented in tabular form and include types of documents, examples, formats, and difficulty ratings for harvest in terms of acquisition, parsing and presentation. More detail on problems in harvesting may be found in the complementary document, Test Bed Taxonomy for Crawler.
http://netpreserve.org/publications/iipc-r-001.pdf
Version 1
Web Harvesting White Paper
(Date Created: 14 Feb 2007) (United States of America)
The white paper reports on the context of the results of the EPA Web Publication Harvesting Pilot Project, lesson learned about automated web publication discovery and harvesting technologies and planned further steps.
http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/doc_details/543-web-harvesting-whi
te-paper
Web Information Continuity Research Report: Strategic Approaches, New Zealand Case Studies and International Overview
Clarke, Stephen; Crooks, Anna; Patterson, Alice; de Roo, Katie (Date Created: 21 Aug 2009) (New Zealand)
This report (37 p.) discusses web information as digital records and web recordkeeping and archiving strategies. It presents New Zealand case studies and a brief overview of international web continuity programmes, web management policies and Australasian web management guidance. It includes an annotated bibliography.
http://archives.govt.nz/sites/default/files/Microsoft_Word_-_Web_Infor
mation_Continuity_Research_Report.pdf
Web Not For All: A Large Scale Study of Web Accessibility
Lopes, Rui; Gomes, Daniel; Carriço, Luís (Date Created: 26 Apr 2010) (Portugal)
This paper was presented at the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A2010 Communications, 26-27 April 2010 held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA). It reports on a study of web accessibility in a sample of 30 million pages from the Portuguese Web Archive.
http://193.136.192.37/sobre-o-arquivo/web-not-for-all-a-large-scale-st
udy-of-web
Historical Web Preservation Projects at Library of Congress
Grotke, Abigail; Jones, Gina (Date Created: 15 Mar 2003) (United States of America)
This paper, presented at the Museums and the Web 2003 conference, provides an overview of the Library of Congress (LC) web preservation projects to date. It reports on various aspects the LC's web harvesting activities including selection, capturing, cataloguing and access using topic based collections as examples, including September 11, 2002 Winter Olympics and the 2002 presidential election collections.
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/papers/grotke/grotke.html
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Historical Web Resources as Cultural Heritage : International Symposium on Web Archiving : Proceedings
National Diet Library (Japan) (Date Created: 30 Jan 2002)
The proceedings of the symposium held on January 30, 2002 features a keynote speech from Brewster Kahle, a report on MINERVA and papers on Australian, Danish and Japanese web archiving activities.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/proceedings/index.html
Historical Web Site Archiving : an Approach to Recording Every Materially Different Response Produced by a Website
Fitch, Kent (Date Created: 2003) (Australia)
This paper, presented at the AusWeb 2003 conference, discusses an approach to archiving dynamically generated responses on a web site. The approach is based on archiving the end results of changes to content and content generation systems, inspecting and archiving materially different responses as they are delivered by a web site. The author argues that response archiving is feasible because only a small amount of responses are unique.
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw03/papers/fitch/
Web Spam: A Survey with Vision for the Archivist
Benczúr, András A.; Bíró, István; Fekete, Zsolt; Siklósi, Dávid; Szabó, Jácint (Date Created: Sep 2008)
This paper delivered at IWAW '08 (September 18–19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark) discusses the problem of web spam in web archives, reviews the state of the art in web spam filtering and envisions a shared solution for web archives based on work of the Living Web Archives project (LiWA).
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Benczur.pdf
Web-at-Risk at Three: Overview of an NDIIPP Web Archiving Iniative
Seneca, Tracy (Date Created: Jun 2009) (United States of America)
This article reviews the development and progress of the Web-at-Risk web archiving project.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/summary/v057/57.3.seneca.h
tml
Library Trends,Vol 57, no. 3 Winter 2009 pp. 427-441 DOI: 10.1353/lib.0.0045
WebArchiv : A Digital Archive of Czech Documents Published on the Internet
National Library of the Czech Republic (Date Created: 2007) (Czech Republic)
This brochure provides an introduction to WebArchiv - archive of Czech web resources, a collaboration between the National Library of the Czech Republic, Moravian Library and the Institute of Computer Science at Masaryk University. It outlines the history of WebArchiv, its content and searching.
http://en.webarchiv.cz/files/dokumenty/letak/letak07_eng.pdf
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Historical Webarchivierung : Eine Aufgabe für Nationalbibliotheken ?!
Rauber, Andreas ; Schmidt, Alfred (Date Created: 14 May 2001) (Austria)
This report, which was presented to the May 2001 meeting of the Federal Internet Advisory Board, discusses the challenges of archiving the Internet for the Austrian National Library. The legal deposit implications for the collection and control of online materials are also examined in the paper.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications/InternetBeirat_14-5-01_
1.doc
Webarchiving Internationally: Interoperability in the Future? Results of a Survey of Webarchiving Activities of National Libraries, March 2007.
Jacobsen, Grethe (Date Created: Sep 2007) (Denmark)
This paper is a revised version of a paper published on IFLANET prior to the World Library & Information Congress 73rd IFLA General Conference August 2007. It presents the results of a survey of national libraries in March 2007 on the interoperability of web archives and considers some of the associated challenges.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/InteroperabilityInTheFuture_IFLA200
7.pdf
Historical Webarian
Mackintosh, Hamish (Date Created: 21 Feb 2002)
An interview with Brewster Kahle about the Internet Archive published in The Guardian of 21 February 2002.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4359816,00.html
Historical Webarkivering
Henriksen, Birgit (Date Created: Apr 2005) (Denmark)
'This paper describes web archiving as a discipline and Netakivet as a project.' This article is in Danish.
http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/webarkivering-webarchiving.pdf
Historical Webwatch : Surfing Historical UK University Websites
Kelly, Brian In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article is a description of a survey of archived university web sites in the Internet Archive accessed using the WayBack Machine. An automated view and comparison of the earliest and latest sites is available by a "Web Tour". The article also notes problems in automatically capturing the sites over time, frequent occurrences of images not displaying, accessibility issues caused by sites being designed for a specific browser and third party content not being functional on the archived version of the website.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/web-watch/
Historical What is a Library Anymore, Anyway?
Herkovic, Andrew C. ; Keller, Michael A.; Reich, Victoria A. In: First Monday (Date Created: May 2003)
Using the LOCKSS system as an example, this article discusses the need for libraries to control persistent access locally to enable long-term preservation and accessibility of digital collections. Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity. The LOCKSS system and protocol and similar technologies allow libraries to create, manage and maintain persistent caches of electronic journal content to which they subscribe with minimal cost so that libraries get to retain their role of acquiring, retaining, preserving and building means of access to collections.
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/1053/973
Historical What Should We Preserve : the Question for Heritage Libraries in the Digital World
Phillips, Margaret E. (Date Created: Jun 2005) (Australia)
This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches to web archiving - whole domain harvesting, the hybrid approach and selective archiving. The National Library of Australia's PANDORA archive is discussed in detail as an example of the selective approach.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lib/summary/v054/54.1phillips.html
Also available in pdf. Library Trends, E ISSN 1559-0682, Vol. 54, no.1 (Summer 2005)
White Paper on Digital Repositories
Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Kaiser, Max (Date Created: Mar 2005)
reUSE was a cooperative project of libraries and universities from Austria, Estonia, Germany and Slovenia funded through the European Commission eContent Programme (June 2004 to June 2006). This extensive paper (90 p) provides an overview of current activities and trends in digital repositories internationally as well as a detailed analysis of the activities of the reUSE project whereby digital master files are preserved and managed as well as the corresponding hardcopy versions. The paper covers the Projects' partners, stakeholders, interoperability and digital preservation, reUSE demonstrators, and voluntary deposit agreements.
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/reuse/docs/reuse-d11_whitepaper_10.pdf
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Historical The WWW and Our Digital Heritage - The New Preservation Tasks of the Library Community
Mannerheim, Johan (Last Updated: 22 Aug 2000)
In this paper, presented at the 66th IFLA Council and General Conference in Jerusalem, Israel, in August, 2000, Johan Mannerheim of the Royal Library of Sweden provides an overview of the scope, responsibilities and challenges of archiving the web, plus preservation of digital information in general.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla66/papers/158-157e.htm
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Historical XML for Digital Preservation : XML Implementation Options for E-Mails
Potter, Maureen (Date Created: 11 Oct 2002) (Netherlands)
This article reports on progress at the Digital Preservation Testbed (Testbed Digital Bewaring) of the Netherlands in using XML as a preservation approach. It notes the advantages and disadvantages of XML for archival preservation and discusses three implementation options for conversion or provision of emails in XML. The article is in PDF format.
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/docs/email-xml-imp.pdf
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Historical Yale Electronic Archive - One Year of Progress: Report on the Digital Preservation Planning Project
Yale University Library (Date Created: Feb 2002) (United States of America)
A report on the progress of the collaborative planning effort between Yale University Library and Elsevier Science for the archiving of electronic journals, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The planning project sought to "understand better the scope and scale of digital journal preservation" and "identify practical next steps" for a large collection of commercially published journals. The report recognises the need for co-operative efforts and standards and relationships between publishers and archivers, and discusses the building of a prototype archive. The report is available in PDF format, either as sections or as a complete document.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/yea/
Year of selective Web Archiving With the Web Curator at the National Library of New Zealand
Joe, Susanna; Lala, Vanita; Lee, Gillian; Paynter, Gordon In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: May 2008) (New Zealand)
This article describes the Web Curator Tool and its use for selective archiving at the National Library of New Zealand in its first year.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may08/paynter/05paynter.html
Historical YLE Digital Sound Archive
Frilander, Jouni; Gronow, Pekka; Home, Petri; Petaja, Markku; Salosaari, Pekka ; Vihonen, Lasse In: DigiCULT.Info Newsletter (Date Created: Aug 2003) (Finland)
This article looks at the challenges and issues faced by Yleisradio (YLE) - Finland’s public service broadcaster - in relation to the establishment of a digital sound archive of broadcast materials. Areas explored include the background and different types of collections in the archive; the main goals, functions and components of adopting a digital system and aims for the radio archive's digital preservation plan.
http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_newsletter_issue4_highres.
pdf
Are You Ready? Assessing Whether Organisations are Prepared for Digital Preservation
Billeness, Clive; Duckworth, James; Farqhuar, Adam; Humphreys, Jane; Jardine, Lewis; Keen, Ann; Sharpe, Robert; Sinclair, Pauline (Date Created: Oct 2009)
This paper presented at IPRES 2009 (5-6 October, 2009, San Francisco) discusses a survey undertaken by the Planets project in early 2009 of over 200 European national libraries, archives and content holders. The survey was aimed at assessing participating organisations' digital preservation activities and readiness, and the ability of Planets services to assist in meeting their needs.
http://planets-project.eu/docs/papers/Sharpe_AreYouReady_iPres2009.pdf
Your Data at Risk : Why You Should be Worried About Preserving Electronic Records
National Council on Archives (Date Created: Sep 2005) (United Kingdom)
This document was launched at the Society of Archivists Conference 2005 in Norwich. It explains the main issues concerning digital preservation and its urgency, and suggests strategies to help establish a digital preservation capability. It also lists sources of further help and assistance. The document is aimed at managers and administrators.
http://www.ncaonline.org.uk/materials/yourdataatrisk.pdf

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Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past: Towards a Robust Strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation
Stijn Hoorens; Jeff Rothenberg; Constantijn van Oranje; Martin van der Mandele; Ruth Levitt (Date Created: 2007) (Netherlands)
This report prepared for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek reviews the history of digital preservation, the role of National Libraries and publishers and discusses the dynamic environment of scholarly publishing. The report considers the strategy implications for the KB and its e-Depot archive.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/
Summary and Full document in PDF available for download from http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/ also available for sale. RAND (Technical ) Report TR-510-KB
Archiving Websites : A Practical Guide for Information Management Professionals
Brown, Adrian (Date Created: Jul 2006)
Drawing on the author’s experience of managing the National Archives’ web archiving programme, together with lessons learned from other international initiatives, this book provides a comprehensive overview of current best practice. It assumes only a basic understanding of IT and web technologies, but also offers much to more technically-oriented readers. Contents include the development of web archiving, selection policies, collection methods, quality assurance, preservation, delivery to users, optimizing websites for archiving, legislation, managing a web archiving programme and future trends. [description from abstract]
ISBN: 1856045536
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=553-7
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Archiving Websites : General Considerations and Strategies
Brugger, Niels (Date Created: Jan 2005)
The topic of this monograph is the micro archiving of websites. Micro archiving is defined as small scale archiving by individuals who have limited space, such as a desk top computer, and require the archiving for study or research. Other topics covered include the testing of currently available archiving software and the development of micro archiving strategies. The website associated with the electronic version of this monograph has additional information including detailed test descriptions and results, recommendations for using individual programmes and links to resources.
ISBN: 8799050706
http://cfi.au.dk/fileadmin/www.cfi.au.dk/publikationer/archiving_under
side/archiving.pdf
Also available as an identical electronic verson from http://cfi.imv.au.dk/pub/boeger/bruegger_archiving.pdf
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Historical Audiovisual Archiving : Philosophy and Principles
Edmondson, Ray (Date Created: Apr 2004)
This document (83 p.) provides a broad introduction to the basic concepts and issues in audiovisual archives and archiving, and includes an overview of the technical and management issues in preserving audiovisual material.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001364/136477e.pdf
2nd edition
Historical Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment
Besek, June M. (Date Created: Jan 2003)
This CLIR report discusses the copyright issues involved in the creation of a nonprofit digital archive. Current US copyright law is covered. The report discusses how the processes of data collection and access conditions effect the both the end users and copyright holders.
ISBN: 1887334971
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub112abst.html
Available online as full text or PDF, or for purchase in print CLIR pub112
Digital Archiving in the 21st century: Archives Domain Discussion Paper
Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities ; National Archives of Australia (Date Created: Sep 2006) (Australia; New Zealand)
This discussion paper was prepared for the Collections Council of Australia Digital Collections Summit 2006. Written by the the National Archives of Australia for and on behalf of the Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authotities. It describes what has been done, the challenges, hurdles and potential strategies for preservation of digital records in Australia, the capability of the Archives Domain and urgent need for coordinated action and advocacy.
ISBN: 1920807470
http://www.caara.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DigitalArchiving21C
.pdf
Available online as PDF
Digital Lives : Legal & Ethical Issues
Charlesworth, Andrew (Date Created: 14 Oct 2009) (United Kingdom)
This detailed discussion paper (92 p.) was prepared for the Digital Lives Research Project led by the British Library, in partnership with University College London and the University of Bristol, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The paper examines a range of legal and ethical issues relating to personal digital archives and their collection, preservation and access in UK repositories. While the discussion largely relates to the legal context of the UK, the discussion on ethics and recommendations for digital archivists is widely applicable.
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/files/digital-lives-legal-ethical.
pdf
Digital Lives Research Paper
Digital Lives. Personal Archives for the 21st Century - An Initial Synthesis. Digital Lives Research Paper, Beta Version 0.2
Dean, Katrina; John, Jeremy Leighton; Rowlands, Ian; Wiliams, Peter (Date Created: 03 Mar 2010) (United Kingdom)
This document issued for comment (259 p.) provides a detailed account of the Digital Lives Research Project 2009, which examined the theoretical and practical aspects of curating personal digital objects over the archival lifecycle.
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/files/digital-lives-synthesis02-1.
pdf
Historical Digital Preservation: ICSTI/CODATA/ICSU Seminar on Preserving the Record of Science, 14-15 February 2002, UNESCO, Paris, France
IOS Press (Date Created: Dec 2002)
"Preservation or 'permanent availability' of the record of science as represented by scientific information is one of the processes which is dramatically affected by the change to an all digital world.Preservation is now a matter of...keeping track of the technology so that the item can be read in the future despite obsolescence of ther technology changes. This work covers the viewpoints of various technologies which are important in the preservation process." ISBN 9781586033170/ 1586033174
ISBN: 1586033174
Book edition of Information Services & Use, Volume 22, Nos. 2,3 (2002), ISSN 0167-5265.
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Historical Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities : The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment
Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland In: CLIR Reports (Date Created: Feb 2000) (United States of America)
This report examines how the archival perspective can be useful in addressing problems faced by those who design, manage, disseminate, and preserve digital information. The author reviews several recent and ongoing projects in which the archival community has provided leadership in setting the agenda or integrating the archival perspective.
ISBN: 1-887334-74-2
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub89/contents.html
Historical Ghost in the Machine : Traditional Archival Practice in the Design of Digital Repositories For Long Term Preservation
Lazorchak, William M. (Date Created: May 2004) (United States of America)
This masters thesis (139 p.) provides a solid introduction into requirements for digital preservation from the perspective of archival science. Existing frameworks (e.g. OAIS) and systems (e.g. DSpace) in digital preservation are reviewed in the light of these requirements, in what is a comprehensive though rather US-centred survey.
http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2991.pdf
Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server
Smith, Joan A. (Date Created: Aug 2008) (United States of America)
This PHD thesis submitted to Old Dominion University, presents research in which preservation functions have been integrated into the web server itself to produce archive-ready versions of the website’s resources. It considers current practices in digital preservation, roles of the web server and search engines, enumeration problems, and resource description including the CRATE model for self description.
http://www.joanasmith.com/node/47
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Historical JISC/NPO Studies on the Preservation of Electronic Materials: A Framework of Data Types and Formats, and Issues Affecting the Long Term Preservation of Digital Material
Bennett, John C. (Last Updated: 23 May 1999) (United Kingdom)
This study is part of a wider program of studies funded by JISC and guided by the (UK) Digital Archive Working Group. The report attempts to develop a framework to assist in the management of the resolution of issues associated with long-term digital preservation. One of the study's recommendations is a scorecard approach to reduce the complexity of preservation decisions and to help initiate solutions.
ISBN: 0 7123 3312 6
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/supporting/pdf/rept011.pdf
British Library Research and Innovation Report No. 50
La gestion de l'information et des archives électroniques en Europe : réalisations et nouvelles directions Actes de la Ve conférence du DLM-Forum (Toulouse, 10, 11 et 12 décembre 2008) : Information and Electronic Records Management in Europe: Achievements and new Directions:
Archives de France (Date Created: 30 Apr 2009) (France)
Proceedings of the 5th DLM-Forum Conference are available in two volumes. Sessions included: E-governments and standards; Managing and accessing e-information; From records management to archives - developing strategies for transferring records; Long term preservation; Certification; Strategies for records management and archiving services; Roundtable on "Are archives ready for the digital world ?"; and workshops on: MoReq2; Protection of personal data and the archival requirements; File formats for long term preservation; and, Long term preservation strategies.
ISBN: 9782860003391
http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/gerer/publications/actes/
Moving Images and Sound Archiving Study
Anderson, Sheila; Beer, Emma; Polfreman, Malcolm ; Tanner, Simon; Wilson, Andrew (Date Created: Jun 2006) (United Kingdom)
The report (130 p.) is part of a series of feasibility studies produced by the AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) which aim to assess the preservation risk and retention criteria for digital content. The Moving Images and Sound Archiving Study forms part of the feasibility study programme and has been funded to understand more fully the preservation challenges of digital moving image and sound files, to scope the preservation requirements and to determine archiving methodologies and future research directions. Issues that relate to moving images and sound that are explored include their properties, preservation methods, metadata, life cycle models and assessment of preservation costs. The study was conducted from September 2005 to May 2006
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/Moving%20Images%20and%20Sound
%20Archiving%20Study1.doc
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Historical National Digital Preservation Initiatives: An Overview of Developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and of Related International Activity
Beagrie, Neil (Date Created: Apr 2003)
This report, copublished by CLIR and the Library of Congress, examines national and international preservation initiatives in Australia, France, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Although the report focuses on libraries, other organisations are also examined. The information was gathered over January and February 2002 by interviews, questionnaires and research. The report identifies underlying trends influencing preservation worldwide and includes several recommendations from national libraries to the NDIIPP.
ISBN: 1932326006
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub116abst.html
Available online as full text or .pdf, or for purchase in print
nestor Handbuch: Eine kleine Enzyklopädie der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung. Version 2.0
nestor (Date Created: 04 Jun 2009) (Germany)
This handbook in German (8.5 MB) is a detailed guide to concepts, issues and strategies in long term archiving of digital materials in Germany. Chapters include State of the art- activities in Germany, OAIS Reference Model, Formats, Strategies, Hardware, Metadata, Technical workflows, Tools, Access, Organisation and Rights.
ISBN: 9783940317483
http://nestor.sub.uni-goettingen.de/handbuch/
Available for download as whole book and individual chapters and for sale as print from VWH.
Networking for Digital Preservation : Current Practice in 15 National Libraries
Verheul, Ingeborg (Date Created: Mar 2006)
In 2004-2005, The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) conducted for the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) a survey on the use and development of standards in digital archiving within the international library world. The survey resulted in this report. The report examines the 'state of the art of digital repositories, preservation strategies and current projects in the national libraries of Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. '
ISBN: 9783598218477
http://archive.ifla.org/V/pr/saur119.htm
IFLA Publications; 119
Historical New Model Scholarship : How will it survive?
Smith, Abby (Date Created: Mar 2003)
This CLIR report (55 p.) discusses the issues in preserving digital scholarly resources. 'New model scholarship' is defined as those resources that are born digital, such as web sites, that will be of use to future researchers. The report looks at organisational approaches to preserving digital content and includes, as appendices, a review of organisational models for digital archiving and a survey of current research, practices and understanding of digital preservation in the United States.
ISBN: 1887334998
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html
Available online as full text or PDF, or for purchase in print
New Skills for a Digital Era: A Colloquium: Proceedings
Davis, Susan E.; Pearce-Moses, Richard (Date Created: 2008) (United States of America)
This colloquium was sponsored by NARA, Society of American Archivists and the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Office and held 31 May-2 June 2006, Washington DC. The proceedings (143p., 2.4MB) consider the knowledge and skills required by archivists in the digital era for acquisition, preservation, storage, reference and management.
http://www.archivists.org/publications/proceedings/NewSkillsForADigita
lEra.pdf
Available as PDF
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project : Interim Report
Morris, Steven P.; Zsolt, Nagy; Tutttle, Jim (Date Created: 01 Jun 2008) (United States of America)
This detailed document (140 pp) reports on the progress of the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/documents/NCGDAP_InterimReport_June2008
.pdf
PoWR : The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook : Digital Preservation for the UK HE/FE Web Management Community
JISC-PoWR (Date Created: Nov 2008) (United Kingdom)
This handbook was produced by the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources ) project and is based on information gathered at the JISC-PoWR workshops held in 2008 and expertise of team members. The handbook deals with web resource management, capture, selection, appraisal and preservation, institutional drivers and policies for web archiving.
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/files/2008/11/powrhandbookv1.pdf
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Historical Preserving and Sharing Statistical Material
Royal Statistical Society; UK Data Archive (Date Created: 2002) (United Kingdom)
This booklet is aimed at promoting the preservation and sharing of electronic data. it also discusses what should be preserved and includes the RSS Code of Best Practice on the Preservation and Sharing of Statistical Material.
ISBN: 0-906805-02-3
http://www.rss.org.uk/PDF/Archiving.pdf
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Historical Preserving Digital Information : Challenges and Solutions : Workbook
Howell, Alan (Last Updated: 01 Apr 2007)
Since 2001, Alan Howell, former Manager, Preservation and Storage at the State Library of Victoria has been presenting digital preservation workshops for CAVAL (Cooperation Action for Victorian Academic Libraries). The 1 day workshop for which the workbook was designed focuses on digital preservation in archives, libraries and museums. It provides an introduction to challenges and practical solutions, preservation planning and resources on digital preservation. It mainly deals with digital preservation from a management perspective, although technical aspects are briefly covered. The workbook was also intended as a reference book for planning and implementing digital preservation programs.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/49633/20050620-0000/www.alanhowell.com.a
u/papers/pdi_wkb.pdf
Archived by PANDORA, Australia's web archive
Historical Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. Proceedings
Springer (Agosti, M; Thanos, C (Eds.)) (Date Created: Sep 2002)
Contains links to abstracts and papers presented at ECDL 2002 in areas of web archiving, e-book and web technologies, navigation, information and audiovisual retrieval, multimedia, preservation, classification and metadata. Access to the table of contents and abstracts is free-of-charge. (Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 2458)
ISBN: 3-540-44178-6
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0302-9743&vol
ume=2458
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Historical Setting up a Deposit System for Electronic Publications, the Nedlib Guidelines
Steenbakkers, Johan; Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Date Created: Nov 2000) (Netherlands)
This paper summarises the findings of a NEDLIB project that explored a joint approach towards the management and maintenance of electronic publications. The key objective was to produce a common model and terminology for the deposit system for electronic publications. The paper compares the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) with the NEDLIB model and discusses issues such as storage, preparing electronic publications for deposit and setting up a deposit system. It was found that more standards and technology are needed in the area of digital preservation.
ISBN: 9062591493
http://nedlib.kb.nl/results/NEDLIBguidelines.pdf
Report No. 5 in NEDLIB report series
Strategies for Preservation of Web Based Content: Intellectual Property Barriers to Building the Sudan Web Archive
Ibrahim, Gafar Ali Fadol (Date Created: Apr 2010) (Africa)
This PhD thesis (399 p.) explores issues related to the proposed development of a web archive in Sudan and advocates for the establishment of a Web legal deposit in that country. It reviews international web archiving efforts and investigates the impact of intellectual property rights on preservation of web based content. The study included a survey of international libraries and archives undertaken in 2007.
http://etd.uofk.edu/admin/upload/art2007617.pdf
Web Archiving
Masanes, Julien (Date Created: 2006)
In this book Julien Masanes, Director of the European Archive, has edited contributions from computer scientists and librarians on tools, tasks and processes used in web archiving. This book is for practitioners, researchers and students interested in methods, tools, standards and issues in web archiving.
ISBN: 9783540233381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46332-0
Book available in print can be ordered from www.springer.com
Web Modelling for Web Warehouse Design
Gomes, Daniel Coelho (Date Created: May 2007) (Portugal)
This PHD thesis (240 p.) explores requirements for developing a "Web Warehouse" an archive for the portuguese web. It uses the case study of the Tomba project but also gives an overview of web characterisation, web crawling and other web archive projects.
http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/daniel/docs/papers/webModellingWebWarehouse.pdf
WWW as a Challenge and as a Chance for Parliamentary and Party Archives : Beiträge der Tagung: SPP/ICA: Annual Meeting 2.-4.11.2006 in Bonn
Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Date Created: 2008) (Germany)
This interesting conference proceedings (161 p.) includes papers and presentations on political archives on the internet, the standards for structuring descriptive information on archival holdings, dealing with copyright for archives on the internet and as an appendix Guidelines for Archiving Websites in German, French and English.
ISBN: 9783898929387
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/adsd/05657.pdf
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Events

15th International Congress on Archives 2004 : Archives, Memory and Knowledge
23 - 29 Aug 2004 , Austria Center, Vienna (Austria)
One of the themes of this conference is preserving virtual memory.
http://www.wien2004.ica.org/fo/index.php
Some presentations and full text of papers available from website. Selected papers available in ICA Journal, Comma published 2005.
2006 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2006)
19 - 20 Oct 2006 , Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, (Taiwan)
Topics include digital archive technologies for enhancing multimedia delivery and presentation; system collaboration and interoperability' and multimedia information retrieval. Presentations available from the website (under Conference menu)
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ICDAT06/
2007 Atlantic Workshop on Long Term Knowledge Retention (LTKR)
12 - 13 Feb 2007 , University of Bath
UKOLN, University of Bath
(United Kingdom)
This workshop was a forum for information and archival specialists, domain knowledge experts from manufacturing and product engineering, and other stakeholders, to share knowledge and experience from different projects and disciplines. Projects and items discussed included LOTAR, STEP, MIMER, progress with format registries, the CASPAR Testbed, preservation of digital engineering artefacts and processes including CAD. Presentations available from the programme link and workshop summary/proceedings available from the proceedings link.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/ltkr-2007/
2008 Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists : Archives: Discovery and Exploration 2008
08 - 09 Aug 2008 , Perth, Western Australia (Australia)
'The Conference theme 'Archives: Discovery and Exploration' expresses the Conference Committee's aim to blend Australasian and international experiences of Archives, and to discover and explore synergies between archives theory and practice.' Some papers available from the ASA website online store, free to members, and purchase for non-members.
http://www.archivists.org.au/onlinestore/conference-papers-digital-2/2
008-confernce-papers
2009 National Digital Forum Conference : Being Online Now: Culture Creativity and Community
23 - 24 Nov 2009 , Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (New Zealand)
This conference will explore opportunities for the creative and cultural sectors to cross traditional boundaries and collaborate on solutions to address issues facing communities being online now and also how creating and accessing New Zealand digital content benefits all parts of society: business, education, cultural organisations, local communities. Outputs of the forum (video, links to presentations - keynotes & forums) available from the website.
http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm
2010 27th Annual Australian Society of Archivists National Conference. Future Proof: Resilient Archives 2020 and Beyond
12 - 17 Oct 2010 , Melbourne
Australian Society of Archivists
(Australia)
This conference has broad themes technological, environmental and generational change in archives. Of particular interest are sessions on digital archives, digitisation, and digital recordkeeping,
http://www.archivists.org.au/about/annual-conference/2010-conference
2010 International Conference on Digital Archives and Digital Humanities
29 Nov - 30 Oct 2010 , International Convention Center, Tsai Lecture Hall, College of Law, National Taiwan University
Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University
(Taiwan)
This conference organised by the Research Center for Digital Humanities, NTU National Taiwan University Library aims to enhance communication of humanities research and information technology in the light of mass digitisation and interdisciplinary connection.
http://www.dadh.digital.ntu.edu.tw/index.php?LangType=en&His=Y10k2
2010 Society of Archivists Conference. We Are What We Keep: Challenging Tradition in Appraisal and Acquisition
01 - 03 Sep 2010 , Manchester, UK
Society of Archivists
(United Kingdom)
This conference is focused on appraisal and acquisition in archives. It includes a Colloquium on appraisal & management of digital records.
http://www.archives.org.uk/thesociety/conference2010.html
Historical 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving - in conjunction with the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002)
19 Sep 2002 , Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Italy) Reviewed by: 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving ; ECDL 2002 Workshop Report: Web Archiving
An overview, programme and links to presentations given at the Workshop are available. Presentations include - Saving the Web ; Archiving the Deep Web ; Using METS for Web Archiving ; Domain UK : Britain and the Web.
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2002/index.html
Historical 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives : in Conjunction with the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003)
21 Aug 2003 , Trondheim, Norway (Date Created: Aug 2003) (Norway) Reviewed by: 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving Has papers: Implementing Preservation Strategies for Complex Multimedia Objects
An overview, programme and links to presentations given at the Workshop. The full Workshop proceedings are available as a PDF file. Individual papers available in word format from the website include- Nordic Web Archive by Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson and Sverre Bang ; Building Thematic Web Collections : Challenges and Experiences from the September 11 Web Archive and the Election 2002 Web Archive by Steven M. Schneider, Kirsten Foot, Michele Kimpton and Gina Jones ; Paradigma Web Harvesting Environment by Ketil Albertsen ; Characterization of the Portuguese Web by Daniel Gomes and Mário J. Silva ; Political Communications Web Archiving by Bernard Reilly ; Archiving the Czech Web : Issues and Challenges by Petr Žabicka; Identification of Network Accessible Documents: Problem Areas and Suggested Solutions (based on the Paradigma Project) by Carol van Nuys, Ketil Albertsen.
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/index.html
4th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW 04)
16 Sep 2004 , University of Bath, England (United Kingdom) Reviewed by: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop Has papers: Language Engineering Techniques for Web Archiving ; Archiving the Greek Web ; PANDORA Digital Archiving System (PANDAS): Managing Web Archiving in Australia : A Case Study ; Dominos : a New Web Crawler's Design ; New Data Storage and Service Model of China Web InfoMall ; Introduction to Heritrix : an Open Source Archival Quality Web Crawler ; Sampling the Umich.edu Domain ; Archiving the Slovenian Web : Recent Experiences
This workshop was part of the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries. The conference website contains links to the presented papers.
http://www.iwaw.net/04/
Historical 9th Publishing and the Internet Seminar : Archiving - Whose Problem is it?
29 Nov 2002 , City Conference Centre, London.
The Associaciation of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
(United Kingdom)
This seminar explored the issues in maintaining access to digital resources over time through the viewpoints of the different elements of the scholarly/information chain Some Powerpoint presentations are available.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061003184743/http://www.alpsp.org/events/
previous/s291102.htm
ACA 2008 Annual Conference: Stemming the Tide: Archives and the Digital World
12 - 14 Jun 2008 , Fredricton, New Brunswick
Association of Canadian Archivists
(Canada)
The 2008 Association of Canadian Archivists annual conference focused on digital archiving, digital electronic records and digitization of archival content.
http://archivists.ca/content/past-conferences
Papers &/or presentations of speakers willing to share their work with ACA membership are posted to the ACA Members Only web site.
ACA@UBC 2010 International Symposium - Preserving the Memory of the World
12 Mar 2010 , University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Association of Canadian Archivists at University of British Columbia
(Canada)
This one day symposium organised by the Association of Canadian Archivists UBC students chapter was inspired by UNESCO's Memory of the World program. It includes talks on sound preservation and digital archives.
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/people/students/student-groups/aca/symposium20
10/index.html
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei/ERPANET Workshop on Trusted Digital Repositories for Cultural Digital Heritage
17 - 19 Nov 2003 , Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei, Rome (Italy) Has papers: Trusted Digital Repositories for Cultural Heritage
Presentations and final report of the workshop- Trusted digital repositories for cultural heritage is available from the ERPANET website.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2003/rome/
AMIA Annual Conference 2003
18 - 22 Nov 2003 , Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
Includes sessions on data migration and authenticity.
http://www.amianet.org/events/pastcons/2003.pdf
Archiving 2006
23 - 26 May 2006 , Library Archives of Canada, Ottawa (Canada)
The 2006 IS&T Archiving Conference program topics included file formats for digital archiving, electronic archiving and & content management, storage technologies and case studies.
http://www.imaging.org/ist/store/physpub.cfm?seriesid=28&pubid=735
Proceedings (ISBN 0-89208-261-5)
Archiving 2008
Jun 2008 , Berne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
This conference is the fifth archiving conference sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. It will bring together experts in digital archiving, imaging, and digital preservation.
http://www.imaging.org/ist/store/physpub.cfm?seriesid=28&pubid=878
Online abstracts available and full papers and proceedings available for purchase from http://www.imaging.org/store/physpub.cfm?seriesid=28&pubid=878.
Archiving 2010
01 - 04 Jun 2010 , Koninklijke Bibliotheek, This conference Den Haag, Netherlands
Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology
(Netherlands)
This IS&T conference to be held at the Koninlijke Bibliotheek will focus on creating and managing digital collections, technical processes imaging and workflows, and long-term access stratregies.
http://www.imaging.org/IST/conferences/archiving/
Archiving Web Resources : Issues for Cultural Heritage Institutions : International Conference
09 - 11 Nov 2004 , National Library of Australia, Canberra (Australia) Reviewed by: Conference report : Archiving Web Resources International Conference: Issues for Cultural Heritage Organisations
Links to presentations are available from the website.
http://www.nla.gov.au/webarchiving/
AusWeb 2004
03 - 07 Jul 2004 , Seaworld Nara Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland (Australia)
Includes some papers on web archiving, repositories
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw04/papers/index.html
Some full text papers and presentations available from conference website.
Best Practices Exchange 2010: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Era
29 Sep - 01 Oct 2010 , Phoenix, Arizona
Arizona State Library and Archives
(United States of America)
This conference sponsored bythe Library of Congress, National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) will allow attendees to present their projects and experiences, successes, failures and lessons learned around managing and preserving digital assets. Presentation themes include; New ways of working; New tools; New Media; Policy and Administration; and other topics. Four of the NDIIPP States Initiatives projects will also be featured. The conference will be preceded by a one day Digital Preservation Management Workshop.
http://www.bpexchange.org/2010/index.php
Computer Forensics and Cultural Heritage Meeting
14 May - 15 Apr 2010 , University of Maryland, College Park
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
(United States of America)
This invitational meeting hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities was held in support of an upcoming publication Computer Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections which is to be published by CLIR in late 2010. The meeting and report are both funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The co-authors of the report, and co-organizers of the meeting, are Matthew Kirschenbaum (Maryland), Richard Ovenden (Bodleian), and Gabriela Redwine (Harry Ransom Center), with assistance from Rachel Donahue (Maryland). Presentations slides and audio are available.
http://mith.info/forensics/
DC 2006: Joint Annual Meeting of NAGARA (National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators), COSA (Council of State Archivists) and SAA (Society of American Archivists)
30 Jul - 05 Aug 2006 , Hilton Washington, Washington D.C. (United States of America)
Abstracts available from the Schedule at a glance.
http://www.archivists.org/conference/dc2006/dc2006aboutProgram.asp
DCC and DPC Joint Workshop : OAIS Five Year Review
13 Oct 2006 , Wolfson Suite, Edinburgh University Library
Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
(United Kingdom)
This workshop enabled preparation of a joint comment, on behalf of members of the DCC Associates Network and members of the DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition), for submission to the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model Five Year Review. The workshop was open to members of both organisations who are familiar with details of the standard and actively implementing or preparing to implement an OAIS. Program and comment available from the website.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/workshops/joint-dccdpc-workshop-oais-five-
year-review
DELOS: Appraisal in the Digital World
15 - 16 Nov 2007 , Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) (Italy)
This conference provided an opportunity to rethink appraisal in the context of the changes brought about by digital technology and the globalization of our society, to network with colleagues, learn about current developments and research, discuss their own experiences, and identify risks and challenges that are likely to emerge from each possible choice."
http://www.dpc.delos.info/rethinking_appraisal/
Digital Archive Fever :CHArt Twenty-third Annual Conference
08 - 09 Nov 2007 , Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD (United Kingdom)
Programme and abstracts available.
http://www.chart.ac.uk/chart2007/index.html
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Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and E-Science
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (United Kingdom) Reviewed by: Digital Curation: digital archives, libraries and e-science seminar
This web page contains links to the Meeting Report and individual presentations given at an invitational seminar sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the British National Space Centre on October 19, 2001. Sessions included the OAIS Reference Model and digital archive certification, data curation and the grid, and curation of digital collections.
http://www.dpconline.org/events/digital-curation.html
Digital Lives Research Seminar: Authenticity, Forensics, Materiality, Virtuality and Emulation Advances in the Curatorship and Scholarship of Personal Digital Archives
05 Jul 2010 , Centre for Conservation British Library
British Library
(United Kingdom)
This one day seminar organised by the Personal Digital Manuscripts Project at the British Library will explore and review recent advances in personal digital archiving and curation and research in the archival context. It will be of interest to professionals working with personal digital archives, as well as digital preservation specialists and information scientists.
Contact Jeremy Leighton John at the British Library jeremy.john@bl.uk
Digital Preservation Summit
, Indiana State University Indiana State University (United States of America)
http://library.indstate.edu/digital/
DLM Forum 2005 Conference Proceedings : Electronic Records Supporting e-Government and Digital Archives
05 - 07 Oct 2005 , Budapest, Hungary (Date Created: Dec 2005)
Includes papers and presentations at various sessions including e-government and e-governance, standards and interchange, preservation and digital archives, education and cost benefits and impacts and demands on records management. Papers presented at the preservation and digital archives session include Keeping electronic records accessible - How the Federal Archives of Germany is preserving the digital heritage of the East German Republic; a case study ; A Digital Repository for the Rotterdam Municipal Archives: learning by experience ; Towards a National Digital Repository ; The PRONOM service: a technical registry to support long-term preservation ; The eDAVID digital preservation strategy: motivation and implementation ; The ArchiSafe Project - legally secure and scalable long-term record keeping.
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/archival_policy/dlm_forum/proceed2005
_en.htm
Papers are in pdf format. Individual papers from the preservation and digital archives session are also catalogued individually in PADI.
DPC Forum on Web Archiving
12 Jun 2006 , British Library Conference Centre, London (United Kingdom)
This one day forum showcased the UK Web Archiving project as well as some European initiatives (IIPC and European Web Archive). Technical solutions and legal issues were examined and debate and discussion centered around different strategies and methodologies. Presentations in PDF are available from the website.
http://www.dpconline.org/events/web-archiving-forum.html
E-Government and Digital Archives Workshop
11 Sep 2008 , Munich (Germany)
This workshop will be held as part of the German Computer Science Conference Informatik 2008.Topics may include models and standards for long term archiving, workflows, file formats, metadata, cooperation between communities and experiences with digital archives.
http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv.hessen.de/egovda
ECA 2010: 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving : 8. Europäische Konferenz über digitale Archivierung
28 - 30 Apr 2010 , International Conference Centre, Geneva
Swiss Federal Archives
(Switzerland)
This conference organised by the Swiss Federal Archives and European Regional Branch and Professional Associations Section of the Inter-national Council on Archives (ICA) is in the series European Conference on Archives and will focus on digital archiving. Topics include: 1. Archival profile: professional competence in the digital age; 2.What to keep: how to mirror the information society; 3.E-Archiving: reorganisation of processes and business models; and, 4. Online access: solutions and implications. Video of keynotes and presentation slides are available from the website.
http://www.bar.admin.ch/eca2010/
First Digital Lives Conference : Personal Digital Archives for the 21st Century
09 - 11 Feb 2009 , British Library
Digital Lives Research Project
(United Kingdom)
This conference will explore how repositories can assist people to secure, preserve and organise their personal digital archives for their own and future use.
http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives/confintro.html
Forum DLM 2008 : Information and Records Management in Europe : Achievements and New Directions : La gestion de l'information et des archives électroniques en Europe : réalisations et nouvelles directions
10 - 12 Dec 2008 , Toulouse (France)
This conference jointly organised by the Archives de France (part of the French Culture and Communication Ministry) and the Association des Archivistes Français, was focused on European achievements and new directions in the field of digital records and archives management. It included sessions on long term preservation strategies, file formats, certification, e-governments and standards etc. Links to presentations and proceedings from page for Vth triennial confrence.
http://www.dlmforum.eu/index.php?option=com_jotloader&view=categories&
cid=8_583f98fcd12c1ea580097ba50b84244c&Itemid=75&lang=en
Proceedings (ISBN 978-2-86000-339-1) available online 30 April 2009 from http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/gerer/publications/actes/
Future of Today’s Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley
25 Jul 2009
Georgetown Law Library
(United States of America)
This one day symposium held at the Georgetown Law Library focused on the research value of blogs, the reliability of legal documents uploaded to blogs , and blog preservation. It concluded with a session on guidelines for working with blogs now and in the future for librarians, bloggers, preservationists and researchers. Video webcasts and presentations available from the schedule link.
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ftls/
Future Perfect: Digital Continuity Conference 2010
03 - 05 May 2010 , Wellington, New Zealand
Archives New Zealand
(New Zealand)
This conference dedicated to the theme of digital continuity, preservation and long-term public sector information issues will include conference papers, workshops and masterclasses with international presenters from Australasia, North America and Europe.
http://www.archives.govt.nz/advice/digital-continuity-programme/future
-perfect-digital-continuity-conference-2010
Germany 2007 Presidency of the European Union: The Challenge: Long-Term Preservation - Strategies and Practices of European Partnerships
20 - 21 Apr 2007 , Deutsche Nationalbibliothek , Frankfurt am Main
NESTOR
(Germany)
This conference was organised to coincide with the German EU presidency to discuss current issues and assess the prospects for long-term digital preservation. Presentations available - see under EU Konferenz: Herausforderung - Digitale Langzeitarchiverung. Strategien und Praxis Europaischer Kooperation.
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/publikationen/praesentationen/veran
staltungen.htm
Historical ICCC/IFIP Fourth International Conference on Electronic Publishing : Electronic Publishing in the Third Millennium
17 - 19 Aug 2000 , Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk, Russia
Kaliningrad State University/ICCC/IFIP
(Russia)
This conference explored the socio-economic aspects of electronic publishing including presentations of projects on electronic libraries, archives, information systems etc., as well as their implementation in educational, cultural and health care institutions, and prospective technologies of electronic publishing, file formats, protocols, networking, retrieval techniques etc. Abstracts available.
http://www.albertina.ru/elpub2000/
IIPC Open day: Active Solutions for Preserving Internet Content
07 Oct 2009 , California Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, California
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)
(United States of America)
This open day to be held in conjunction with IPRES 2009 (5-6 October, San Francicsco, California) is organised by the the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) will highlight areas of interest to the IIPC and work on web archiving solutions. Presentations available.
http://netpreserve.org/events/about.php
InDP 2009: First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation
19 Jun 2009 , Austin, Texas
JCDL 2009
(United States of America) Has papers: Addressing Digital Preservation: Proposals for New Perspectives
This one day workshop is organized in collaboration with JCDL 2009 (ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) and will provide a forum for discussion of innovations in digital preservation using non-traditional methods. Topics may include personal and web archiving, solutions for small institutions, preservation actions, disaster recovery, preserving electronic art, etc. Papers available from the schedule
http://cs.harding.edu/indp/
International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities
01 - 02 Dec 2009 , Taipei, Taiwan
Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University
(Taiwan)
This conference organised by the Research Center for Humanities, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Library, aims to explore the ways and methodologies IT impacts and may enhance scholarship in the humanities disciplines. Topics may include: digitalization for preservation and access to cultural heritage; creation of digital collections; cultural impacts of digital archives; applications of text mining; acquisition and analysis of digital data; GIS; and computer based studies in art, music, literature culture and heritage.
http://www.digital.ntu.edu.tw/DADH/indexEN.php
International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES) 2005
15 - 16 Sep 2005 , Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude (ZHG), Room 103, 1st floor, Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5, 37073 Goettingen, Germany (Germany)
Focus areas of the conference were preservation policies, technical workflows and web archiving as well as recent developments. Links to abstracts, slides and video streams of the presentations are now available from programme link.
http://rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de/conferences/ipres05/home
IWAW 05 : International Web Archiving Workshop and Digital Preservation
22 - 23 Sep 2005 , Vienna (Austria)
This was held in conjunction with the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries. There are links to full papers on the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium), digital preservation, audio and video web archiving and current projects and issues.
http://www.iwaw.net/05/
IWAW 2007: 7th International Web Archiving Workshop
23 Jun 2007 , Vancouver, Canada (Canada)
Held in conjunction with ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, this workshop included papers on web archiving, access and case studies. It also included updates and demonstrations from the Internet Archive, The California Digital Library and Hanzo Archive.
http://www.iwaw.net/07/
Papers and presentations available from the conference web site.
IWAW 2008 : 8th International Web Archiving Workshop
18 - 19 Sep 2008 , Aarhus Denmark (Denmark) Has papers: Legal Deposit of the French Web: Harvesting Strategies for a National Domain ; Identification and Archiving of the Czech Web Outside the National Domain ; Ethical Issues in Web Archive Creation and Usage - Towards a Research Agenda ; Developing National Taiwan University Web Archiving System ; Introducing the Portuguese Web Archive Initiative ; Terminology Evolution in Web Archiving: Open Issues ; Using Page Histories for Improving Browsing the Web ; Web Spam: A Survey with Vision for the Archivist ; Fast Browsing of Archived Web Contents
Workshop held in conjunction with ECDL 2008 to provide "a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the acquisition, maintenance and preservation of digital objects for long-term access, with a particular focus on web archiving and studies on effective usage of this type of archives". Papers and presentations are available from the website.
http://www.iwaw.net/08/
IWAW 2009: 9th International Web Archiving Workshop
30 Sep - 01 Oct 2009 , Corfu (Greece)
This workshop was held in conjunction with ECDL 2009 (13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, September 27 to October 2 2009,Corfu Greece) and aimed to provide a cross domain overview on active research and practice in all domains concerned with the preservation of the Web. Proceedings (PDF, 56, p. 3.8 MB) available.
http://iwaw.net/09/
IWAW 2010: 10th International Web Archiving Workshop
22 - 23 Sep 2010 , Vienna, Austria (Austria)
Workshop to be held in conjunction with IPRES 2010 (Vienna , Austria), which will provide a cross domain overview on active research and practice in Web preservation, exploitation of and accessibility to Web archives, as well as temporal Web analytics.
http://iwaw.europarchive.org/10/index.html
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Historical Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference : Guidelines for Digital Imaging : Conference Papers
28 - 30 Sep 1998 , University of Warwick, Scarman House
Research Libraries Group
(Last Updated: 3 Mar 1999) (United Kingdom) Has papers: Issues and Approaches to Preservation Metadata ; Guidelines vs. Guidance for Digital Imaging: The Opportunity Before Us ; Canadian Overview ; Guidelines for Image Capture ; Guidance for Selecting Materials for Digitisation
Page has links to Conference papers.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file2
391.html
This URL is for index to past publications click on link
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites
19 - 20 Jan 2006 , Wellcome Library, London (United Kingdom)
Key themes include an overview of international curation and preservation activities; tools and techniques to create and persistently identify website content for curation and preservation; and examples of real-life experiences in web archiving. Powerpoint presentations available from conference web page.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/fpw-2006/
Kuala Lumpur 2008 : 16th ICA Congress in Kuala Lumpur :Archives, Governance and Development: Mapping Future Society
21 - 27 Jul 2008 , National Archives of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
International Council of Archives
(Malaysia)
http://www.kualalumpur2008.ica.org/
LOCKSS Programme Kick-off meeting
06 Apr 2006 , Scarman House, Warwick Conference Centre, Warwick
Digital Curation Centre
(United Kingdom)
This event launches the UK LOCKSS Pilot. Key themes will be roles and responsibilities in the UK, LOCKSS Pilot Programme progress, issues and risks and support and community building
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/lockss-warwick-2006/
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Managing and Archiving Records in the Digital Age : the Same Discipline or a Difficult Partnership of Two Different Professions?
25 - 26 Oct 2004 , Bern
ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network)
(Date Created: 2004)
This provides a desciption, list of participants and expected outcomes of an invitational workshop held in Bern in October 2004. There are also links to public lectures including 'New Organisational Structures Responding to New Challenges: The Digital Curation Centre in the UK' by Seamus Ross and 'Electronic Records Archives Program' by Ken Thibodeau.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2004/bern/
Memories for Life Network Workshop
11 Dec 2006 , British Library, London (United Kingdom)
Memories for Life (M4L) is a group of scientists funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to explore the relationship between the science and technology of memory, including digital memory. Overview of sessions and presentations available from the website.
http://www.memoriesforlife.org/workshop06.php
NARA : 18th Annual Preservation Conference : Preservation Reformatting : Digital Technology vs. Analog Technology
27 Mar 2003 , National Archives at College Park, Maryland
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (NARA)
(United States of America)
Contains links to conference proceedings. These papers all tend to debate the choices associated with making digital copies of analogue materials and relate the difficulties associated with maintaining the digital duplicates.
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2003/index.html
NDAP 2008 International Conference
18 - 20 Mar 2008 , Taipei, Taiwan
National Digital Archives Program Taiwan
(Taiwan)
This conference by the National Digital Archives Program of Taiwan " provides a forum to encourage and facilitate the interaction, collaboration, and dialogues among the specialists in digital archives from different countries." It included sessions on digital preservation, and digital archives. PDFs of presentations available by selecting "detail" for individual days from the program link.
http://www.ndap.org.tw/96AnnualExhibition/InternationalConference/enHo
me.htm
PICNIC 06 : Avoiding the Digital Memory Loss
27 Sep 2006 , Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
A half day seminar held in conjunction with PICNIC 06.
http://www.europarchive.org/picnic06.php
Historical Practical Experiences in Digital Preservation
2 - 4 Apr 2003 , Public Record Office, Kew (United Kingdom)
Includes conference proceedings in audio format and ppt, keynote speech given by Ms Rosie Winterton, MP and Parliamentary Secretary along with the conference report and photographs.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/news/proceedings.htm
Present Becomes the Past: - Harvesting Archiving, Presenting Today’s Digitally Produced Newspapers: IFLA Newspapers Conference at the National Library of Sweden
19 - 20 Aug 2009 , National Library of Sweden, Stockholm
Kungliga Biblioteket (Sweden)
(Sweden)
This two day conference is organised by the IFLA Newspapers Section and the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket). It aims to share knowledge about how libraries can tackle the challenges of harvesting, archiving and presenting today’s digitally produced newspapers, and to open up opportunities for libraries, librarians and associated publishing industry players to interact and develop suitable partnerships to improve the provision of newspaper services at libraries. It will consider born digital newspaper production and newspapers on the web.
http://www.kb.se/english/about/news/Present-past/
Preservation of Born-Digital Art
08 Oct 2004 , Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow, Scotland
Contains links to a briefing paper, bibliography and digital art preservation sites.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2004/glasgowart/index.php
PV 2005 : Ensuring Long-term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical data
21 - 23 Nov 2005 , Royal Society, Edinburgh, (United Kingdom) Has papers: Advancing Geospatial Data Curation
Papers are available from the conference website.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/pv-2005/
Historical RLG Forum - To Have and To Hold: Metadata and Institutional Repositories
Research Libraries Group (Date Created: Dec 2003) (United States of America)
As part of a one day forum held at the Library of Congress and the Chicago Historical Society on 9 & 12 December respectively, these powerpoint presentations, not only deal with metadata standards, but also cover issues relating to digital respositories, open source software such as DSpace and FEDORA, as well as digital preservation options of various RLG members.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/09/28/0000073852/viewer/file1
027.html
Saving Our Present for the Future: Personal Archiving 2010
16 Feb 2010 , Internet Archive, San Francisco (United States of America)
This small conference hosted by the Internet Archive, brought together practitioners in the field of personal digital archiving to discuss examples of current practice, developing recommendations for institutions and individuals and a research agenda. digital archiving Conference notes and presentation slides available.
http://www.personalarchiving.com/conference/
Shared Concerns and Responsibility for University Records and Archives : 2006 Seminar of the International Council on Archives Section on University and Research Institution Archives
13 - 20 Sep 2006 , Reykjavík, Iceland
University of Iceland
(Iceland)
The annual seminar of the Section on University and Research Institution Archives. The seminar covered issues affecting the appraisal, preservation and use of institutional records. Papers available from the proceedings link.
http://www.hi.is/page/ica_suv_seminar_2006
Society of Archivists 2009 Conference : Fast Forward: Preservation and Access in a Digital World
01 - 04 Sep 2009 , Bristol Marriott City Centre, Bristol
Society of Archivists
(United Kingdom)
This conference for archivists, records managers and conservation professionals in the UK has tracks on Archives in the 21st century, Digital futures 21st century collecting and Conservation. Papers of particular interest to film and audiovisual archives were included. Twitter, blog and abstracts are available.
http://www.archives.org.uk/content.asp?id=1670
Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork : From Creation to Archive and Back
04 - 06 Dec 2006 , PARADISEC, Transient Building F12, University of Sydney, New South Wales (Australia)
Many academic disciplines depend on analysis of primary data captured during fieldwork. Increasingly, researchers today are using digital methods for the whole life cycle of their primary data, from capture to organisation, submission to a repository or archive, and later access and dissemination in publications, teaching resources and conference presentations. This conference and workshop will showcase a number of projects that have been developing innovative and sustainable ways of managing such data. Presentations available from Papers
http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=11
Proceedings available in print for purchase from University of Sydney Press & in repository http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1160
Towards Trusted Digital Archives for Social Science and Humanities Data
30 Jan 2009 , NWO JAVA building, The Hague
DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services
(Netherlands)
This workshop is organised by DANS with Digital Preservation Europe (DPE), Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) and the Data Seal of Approval Assessment-International Board (DSAA IB). It focuses on guaranteeing the quality and trustworthiness of digital archives for the social sciences and humanities research data. The Data Seal of Approval guidelines will be considered as a starting point for a discussion on trusted digital archives and other certification processes. Presentations and reports available.
http://www.datasealofapproval.org/?q=node/3
VII European Conference on Archives : Archivist: The Profession of the Future in Europe
18 - 20 May 2006 , Warsaw (Poland)
This conference addressed the archive profession in the digital world, looking at education, competencies, standards and tools. Presentations also available.
http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/lang-en/events/7th-european-conference-on-ar
chives-main.html
Presentation slides available from conference web site.

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Organisations and Websites

2004 Presidential Term Web Harvest
National Archives and Records Administration (Date Created: Jan 2005) (United States of America)
This web archive project conducted by the National Archives and Records Administration documents United States government web sites at the time of the ending of the Presidential term 2004/2005. The approximately 75 million web pages in the archive were gathered between October and November 2004.
http://www.webharvest.gov/collections/peth04/
Historical 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving - in conjunction with the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002)
19 Sep 2002 , Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Italy) Reviewed by: 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving ; ECDL 2002 Workshop Report: Web Archiving
An overview, programme and links to presentations given at the Workshop are available. Presentations include - Saving the Web ; Archiving the Deep Web ; Using METS for Web Archiving ; Domain UK : Britain and the Web.
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2002/index.html
Historical 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives : in Conjunction with the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003)
21 Aug 2003 , Trondheim, Norway (Date Created: Aug 2003) (Norway) Reviewed by: 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving Has papers: Implementing Preservation Strategies for Complex Multimedia Objects
An overview, programme and links to presentations given at the Workshop. The full Workshop proceedings are available as a PDF file. Individual papers available in word format from the website include- Nordic Web Archive by Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson and Sverre Bang ; Building Thematic Web Collections : Challenges and Experiences from the September 11 Web Archive and the Election 2002 Web Archive by Steven M. Schneider, Kirsten Foot, Michele Kimpton and Gina Jones ; Paradigma Web Harvesting Environment by Ketil Albertsen ; Characterization of the Portuguese Web by Daniel Gomes and Mário J. Silva ; Political Communications Web Archiving by Bernard Reilly ; Archiving the Czech Web : Issues and Challenges by Petr Žabicka; Identification of Network Accessible Documents: Problem Areas and Suggested Solutions (based on the Paradigma Project) by Carol van Nuys, Ketil Albertsen.
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/index.html
aDORe Archive
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library (Date Created: 18 May 2006) (United States of America)
The aDORe Archive is a write-once/read-many storage approach for Digital Object datastreams. The archive uses a combination of two file based storage systems- XML based files and ARC files. The aDORe software was developed by the LANL (Los Almos National Laboratory) Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team and was partly funded by an NDIIP grant from the Library of Congress. The website includes a tutorial and links to articles on the aDORe archive software.
http://african.lanl.gov/aDORe/projects/adoreArchive/
Archive-it
Internet Archive (Regularly Updated)
Archive-it is a subscription service established by the Internet Archive together with various partners from state archives and university libraries. It allows subscribers to build, manage and search their own unique web archive containing only the content they are interested in harvesting. This allows these collections to be more in depth and focussed on a particular area than the general Web archive. Archive-It collections have more functionality as they can be searched in full text, whereas the Internet Archive via the Wayback Machine, cannot be searched in this way. The website provides tours of the user interface and applications, an extensive list of FAQs and access to the archived collections of the pilot partners.
http://www.archive-it.org/
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Historical Archivierung Digitaler Medien
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austria)
The Austrian National Library's electronic archiving web page. The text emphasises that permanent archiving of electronic publications is dependent on the enactment of effective legal deposit legislation. Links are made to the 2000 amendment to legal deposit law (the Novelle zum Mediengesetz), which extended the scope of the legislation to include offline media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs. The complications associated with the deposit and control of online publications are also addressed.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.onb.ac.at/about/projekte/arch-
el-medien.htm
Site archived by the Internet Archive. Also see http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.onb.ac.at/about/lza/
Archiving the Web Sites of Political Parties in Germany : a Joint Project of the Archives of Political Foundations Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : Politisches Internet Archiv
Archiv de sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Date Created: 2006) (Germany)
Although this site is mostly in German there are some links to English reosources and similar projects.
http://www.fes.de/archiv/spiegelung/default.htm
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica (Austria)
This organisation has several purposes, including the Ars Electronica Center, which is a Museum of the Future, a research and development facility, Ars Electronica Futurelab, a Laboratory for Future Innovations, and the Ars Electronica Archive. The Ars Electronica Archive features 25 years of digital media art.
http://www.aec.at/index_en.php
Audio Preservation
PARS Recording and Photographic Media Committee. Contributing Editor: Hannah Frost In: CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals (Regularly Updated)
A bibliography of resources on the preservation of sound recordings maintained on the Conservation Online (CoOL) website. The bibliography includes resources on care, handling and restoration of recorded materials, and best practice guidelines and standards for their preservation, including creation and preservation of digital audio recordings.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/audio/
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Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
Scholarly Technology Services, Australian National University (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This project, funded by the Australian Dept. of Education, Science and Training (Jan 2004 to 2007), has five partners - the Australian National University, National Library of Australia, University of Queensland, University of Sydney and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing. The aim of the project is to act as a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format. The project consists of four interlinked programs - digital continuity and sustainability, International linkages program, National Services Program and Practices and Testbed.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/index.html
BOA: Baden-Württembergisches Online-Archiv
(Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Established in 2006, the Baden-Württemberg Online Archive (BOA), collects and catalogues web resources on the German State of Baden-Württemberg, comprising a large collection of government websites. All resources are available online. The system is run by the Bibliotheksservice- Zentrum (Library Service Centre) Baden-Württemberg (BSZ), a support institution for libraries and archives. Two state libraries the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, and the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, and the archive Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg cooperate in archiving websites in this system.
http://www.boa-bw.de
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Historical Capturing Unstable Media
V2_ Organisation (Date Created: 2003) (Netherlands)
Developed by the V2_ Organisation, this project used two electronic art projects as case studies to focus on ways to capture and preserve electronic art independent of medium, including documentation, metadata and interoperability aspects. The project has resulted in a series of recommendations, including documentation guidelines and a formal model (ontology). The results of the project were added to the website in March 2004.
http://capturing.projects.v2.nl/
Collecting, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Design Data
Fallon, Kristine (Last Updated: Oct 2007) (United States of America)
Initiated by the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and undertaken by Kristine Fallon and Associates, with funding from the Schiff Foundation and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts the purpose of the study was to examine the collection, archiving, and uses of digital design data produced by architects and industrial designers. The results of the study are extensive and are divided into 25 files. Section two is of most relevance as it deals with archiving digital design data: practices and technology, including preparing, collecting, and processing the data and its cataloguing, storage, and preservation. The study's final recommendations cover the life cycle of a digital work of art, including: types and classification of data appropriate for collection; indexing and metadata; data formats (archival, native, and derivative); format registration; storage; long-term maintenance; periodic migration; format updates and disaster recovery provisions for digital originals; and techniques for and opportunities to provide digital archive access to a broader community. The project was finalised in Spring 2007 and it was decided to make the software which was developed DAArch software version 1.0 open source.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/depts/architecture/ddd.html
Commonwealth Records Management Web Pages
National Archives of Australia (Last Updated: 2007) (Australia)
The Records Management web pages provide information on the National Archives of Australia's policy and procedures for appraising, sentencing, transferring and disposing of Commonwealth government records. They also give advice on records management procedures, preservation issues and outsourcing work for all record formats including digital.
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/index.aspx
CyberCemetery
Government Documents Dept., University of North Texas Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website was established in 2000 as a partnership between the University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office. It aims to provide permanent public online access to the web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions. The site is arranged alphabetically and by category.
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/
Da Blog (ULCC Digital Archives Blog)
University of London Computer Centre Digital Archives Department (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This blog by the University of London Computer Centre Digital Archives Department includes discussion on recent developments and events and thoughts on digital preservation and archiving.
http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/
DANS : Data Archiving and Networked Services
DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) (Regularly Updated) (Netherlands)
DANS is a Dutch national organisation which is responsible for the long term storing and access to data in the humanities and social sciences. Established in 2005, DANS is a joint initiative of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/
Historical DAREnet (en) - Digital Academic Repositories
Digital Academic Repositories (Last Updated: 2008) (Netherlands)
This website provided information relating to the Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) program - a joint initiative between the Dutch Universities, as well as the National Library of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research. Initiated to preserve and provide access to the results of Dutch academic research from a range of institutions, this website included information on DARE, provided a list of participants and included the latest news relating to the project. In April 2008 DAREnet was incorporated into NARCIS and its records have became a subset.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070619040506/www.darenet.nl/en/page/langu
age.view/search.page
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Database of Virtual Art
Humboldt University, Berlin (Regularly Updated)
This database, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF), has been developed to document and provide access to digital installation art. Its documentation system focuses on information about technical requirements, installation settings, software and hardware configurations. The web interface also allows artists to input this information themselves. Although mostly in German, this database represents an important development in ensuring continuing access to this art.
http://www.virtualart.at/database.html
Historical DAVA : Digital Audiovisual Archiving
Media Matters (Last Updated: Nov 2006)
This weblog, maintained by Media Matters, was updated weekly and featured news and announcements on topics related to the digital transformation and preservation of audiovisual materials. The blog intended to list upcoming conferences and workshops pertinent to archives and digital libraries, as well as links to metadata resource sites and other digital archiving resources.
http://av-archive.blogspot.com/
DCC: Digital Curation Centre
Digital Curation Centre (DCC) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
Consisting of four partner institutions - the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN at the University of Bath, and the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils - the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) aims to support UK institutions to store, manage and preserve digital data for long-term access. The website includes links to information about the Digital Curation Centre, a definition of digital curation, DCC aims and objectives, and an overview of the DCC research agenda.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
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Historical Digital Continuity Forum: Presentations
Swinburne University of Technology (Last Updated: 05 Dec 2001) (Australia)
This web page provides links to 6 presentations given at the Digital Continuity Forum at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, on November 19, 2001 (see http://www.swin.edu.au/lib/DigCon2001.htm )
http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-49718-20050714-www.swin.edu.au/lib/digcontfo
rum/presentations.htm
Archived by PANDORA
Digital Game Archive
DiGA (Digital Game Archive) (Regularly Updated) (Germany)
The DiGA (Digital Game Archive) aims to preserve computer and video games and make them available and accessible in the long term. The site includes description of the Archive's aims and proposed strategies and provides links to related resources. DiGA is a partner of the Berlin based Computer Game Museum Computerspiele Museum.
http://www.digitalgamearchive.org/home.php
Digital Production Centre
Digital Production Centre (Regularly Updated) (Netherlands)
Established at the University of Amsterdam, the Digital Production Centre assists scientists and organisations create, access and archive their online publications. The Centre builds on the outcomes of EUDUBA sponsored projects, and collaborates with the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan and Amsterdam University Press.
http://www.uba.uva.nl/digital_production_centre/home.cfm
DLM Forum 2005 Conference Proceedings : Electronic Records Supporting e-Government and Digital Archives
05 - 07 Oct 2005 , Budapest, Hungary (Date Created: Dec 2005)
Includes papers and presentations at various sessions including e-government and e-governance, standards and interchange, preservation and digital archives, education and cost benefits and impacts and demands on records management. Papers presented at the preservation and digital archives session include Keeping electronic records accessible - How the Federal Archives of Germany is preserving the digital heritage of the East German Republic; a case study ; A Digital Repository for the Rotterdam Municipal Archives: learning by experience ; Towards a National Digital Repository ; The PRONOM service: a technical registry to support long-term preservation ; The eDAVID digital preservation strategy: motivation and implementation ; The ArchiSafe Project - legally secure and scalable long-term record keeping.
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/archival_policy/dlm_forum/proceed2005
_en.htm
Papers are in pdf format. Individual papers from the preservation and digital archives session are also catalogued individually in PADI.
Documenting Internet2 : a Collaborative Model for Developing Electronic Records Capabilities in the Small Archival Repository
Charles Babbage Institute (United States of America)
This 18 month project, which began in January 2004, administered by the Charles Babbage Institue (CBI) in conjunction with the University of Minnesota (UMN) and supported by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the funding arm of the National Archives. The purpose of the project was to develop feasible methods for selection, description, and long term preservation of historically significant born-digital records in the subject area of history of information technology. Internet2 is a non-profit consortium of over 200 universities working with industry and government to provide high speed networking capabilities to the research community, and relies heavily on electronic media. The final report was issued in March 2006 and is available from this website.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/documentinginternet2/index.html
DSpace
Hewlett-Packard Company; MIT Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Purpose : The purpose of the DSpace digital repository system is to capture, store, index, preserve, and distribute digital research material. Version 1.5.2 of DSpace is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ . Originally, the MIT Dspace initiative was established with Hewlett-Packard to create a web-based electronic archive of the intellectual output of MIT and other federated partners.
Documentation : The DSpace wiki http://wiki.dspace.org/ provides documentation on resources, other collaboration tools and obtaining the source code.
http://www.dspace.org//
Electronic Collection: A Collection of Digital books and journals
Library and Archives Canada (Regularly Updated) (Canada)
Library and Archives Canada provides access to archived versions of Canadian online material. This site includes links to information about the electronic collection, its history and tips on archiving an online publication, deposit and citation guidelines and a search facility.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/electroniccollection/index-e.html
European Archive
European Archive (Regularly Updated)
The European Archive, based in Amsterdam and Paris, is a non profit initiative. It is a digital library of European material such as sound, motion pictures and web pages. It provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The European Archive is developing a large-scale archiving architecture and infrastructure for the storage, access and preservation of digital objects. The European Archive has a partnership with the Internet Archive.
http://www.europarchive.org/
Federal Web Harvests
U.S. National Archives & Records Adminstration (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This site currently has links to the web harvests of the United States 110th Congress (2008), 109th Congress (2006) and the Presidential Term 2004. NARA's intention is to harvest Federal web sites at the end of each presidential term (4 years) and each Congress (2 years).
http://www.webharvest.gov/collections/
Getting to Disk-based Loss-less Digital Video Preservation
National Library of Medicine
This website includes the presentations and summary notes from an event held on 1 August, 2005, at Maryland (U.S.). Sessions include prospects and challenges of migrating to digital moving image archives, video preservation workflows, motion JPEG 2000 and video archiving.
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/
Conference held at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland (US) on 1 August, 2005.
Government of Canada Web Archive
Library and Archives Canada (Regularly Updated) (Canada)
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) launched this website in Fall 2007. The website allows searching of web pages harvested since December 2005 from the web domain of the Federal Government of Canada.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/index-e.html
English and French versions available.
IIPC Member Archives: Archive List
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) (Date Created: Dec 2009)
This registry lists web archives of members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). It provides a detailed description of each web archive, including information about the collecting institution, the harvesting methods (domain, selective, or thematic), the language of the user interface, methods for accessing the archived content, and whether there are any access restrictions that researchers need to be aware of.
http://netpreserve.org/about/archiveList.php
IMAP : Independent Media Arts Preservation
IMAP (Independent Media Arts Preservation Inc.) (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Independent Media Arts Preservation, Inc. (IMAP) is a United States based non-profit service, education, and advocacy organisation that focuses on preservation of non-commercial electronic media that is stored outside of large archiving institutions. Although mostly concerned with electronic material, IMAP also assists groups dealing with the preservation of film, performance, interdisciplinary, and multimedia work. IMAP provides various services to facilitate digital preservation and access to collections, including preservation education, cataloguing and training.
http://www.imappreserve.org/
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Forming part of the University of Michigan, the ICPSR acquires and preserves social science data on behalf of 400 member colleges and universities in the US and abroad. To ensure continuing access to the archived records, the Consortium uses migration methods to keep abreast of technological change.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html
Internet Archive
Kahle, Brewster (Last Updated: 3 Mar 1998) (United States of America)
A non-profit commercial venture, the Internet Archive is collecting and storing public materials from the Internet such as the World Wide Web, Netnews, and downloadable software which have been donated by Alexa Internet. This collection will include all publicly accessible World Wide Web pages, the Gopher hierarchy, the Netnews bulletin board system, and downloadable software. Archived web pages may be accessed using the Wayback Machine interface. Also preserved at this site is access to films documenting 20th century North American life and culture, digitised from the Prelinger Archives of ephemeral films in San Francisco.
http://www.archive.org/
Israeli Internet Sites Archive
Jewish National & University Library (Regularly Updated) (Israel)
This project is part of a research project at the Department of Information Studies of Bar-Ilan University and is supported by the Jewish National & University Library of Israel (JNUL). The first phase of the Pilot Project utilised the selective approach to archiving the Israeli web. Approximately twenty sites were initially selected and these sites were captured monthly between December 2003 and May 2004 by using off-the-shelf capturing software. The results will form the basis of a larger scale pilot which will include selection guidelines and concentrate on providing long term access to these archived sites. A second collection the 17th Knesset Elections 2006 has been added.
http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/IA/ArchivedSites/IA/firstpage.html
IWAW 05 : International Web Archiving Workshop and Digital Preservation
22 - 23 Sep 2005 , Vienna (Austria)
This was held in conjunction with the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries. There are links to full papers on the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium), digital preservation, audio and video web archiving and current projects and issues.
http://www.iwaw.net/05/
JHOVE : JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment : Digital Format Specific Validation
Harvard University Library; JSTOR (Last Updated: Dec 2007)
Purpose : JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is a project to automate the identification and validation of file formats.This process is based on the file itself rather than the filename extension.
Documentation : Access to tutorials, use cases and downloadable modules are available. Project followed by the JHOVE2 project.
http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/index.html
JISC-PoWR : Preservation of Web Resources : A JISC-sponsored project
JISC-PoWR (Date Created: 23 Apr 2008) (United Kingdom)
This blog was set up to support the JISC-PoWR project which was initiated by the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee and ran from April to September 2008. It was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at Bath University and ULCC Digital Archives department. The project aimed to “organise workshops and produce a handbook that specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community”. Links to the handbook and presnetations at events which were held June, July & September 2008 are included. The blog has continued after the finalisation of the project with posts relevant to the the project aims.
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
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Historical KB/IBM Long Term Preservation Study
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Date Created: Dec 2002) (Netherlands)
This website documents the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's Long Term Preservation Study, which was undertaken as part of the Project Depot van Nederlandse Elektronische Publicaties (DNEP) in association with IBM. The Study, which ran from November 2000 to December 2001, examined issues relating to the long term preservation of digital objects, particularly as they impact upon the DNEP (the KB's deposit system for electronic materials which is currently under construction). In December 2002 six reports describing the results of the study were published - The Long-Term Preservation Study of the DNEP Project - an Overview of the Results ; Authenticity in a Digital Environment ; Preservation Requirements in a Deposit System ; The UVC: a Method for Preserving Digital Documents – Proof of Concept ; Managing Media Migration in a Deposit System ; Archiving Web Publications. All are available from the website.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_onderzoek/dnep_ltp_study-en.html
Reports also available from the IBM website - http://www-5.ibm.com/nl/dias/preservation.html
KOST - Koordinationsstelle für die dauerhafte Archivierung elektronischer Unterlagen : CECO - Centre de coordination pour l'archivage à long terme de documents électroniques
KOST-CECO (Regularly Updated) (Switzerland)
This initiative of the Swiss archives community is a centre coordinating the long term archiving of electronic documents. It includes a format registry with recommendations as to suitability for long term archiving, regular newsletter and details of projects.
http://kost-ceco.ch/
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Legal Deposit
National Library of Scotland (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The Legal Deposit web pages of the National Library of Scotland. Links are provided to documentation about the deposit of UK non-print publications, including a 1999 Revised Version of the Code of Practice for the Voluntary Deposit of Non-Print Publications and related explanatory notes (effective January 2000). Reference is made to the deposit of both offline and online electronic publications, the latter of which are excluded from the voluntary arrangement and are instead subject to experimental deposit testing.
http://www.nls.uk/professional/legaldeposit/index.html
Long Now Foundation
Long Now Foundation (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website focuses on the Long Now Foundation and includes information on the foundation’s goals, past events and a summary of current projects. The Projects section of the site lists projects being undertaken in relation to the preservation of digital materials, with information on the Long Server Project, the Digital Dark Age Project and the LongMail projects.
http://www.longnow.org/
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Culture and Media Science
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (Date Created: 2005) (Austria)
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute is based in Linz, Austria. The purpose of the institute is to develop strategies for the documentation, description and preservation of digital artworks and media art, particularly the digital artworks of the Ars Electronica Archive. This project is expected to run for seven years and other partner institutions include the University of Art and Industrial Design, Ars Electronica Center and Lentos Art Museum based in Linz.
http://media.lbg.ac.at/
MathArc : Ensuring Access to Mathematics Over Time : Cooperative Management of Distributed Digital Archives
Cornell University Library; Göttingen State and University Library (Regularly Updated)
This is a collaborative project of Cornell University Library and Göttingen State and University Library. The purpose of this project is to create a distributed, interoperable system for the long-term preservation and dissemination of digital serial literature in mathematics and statistics.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/MathArc/web/index.html
MetaArchive
MetaArchive Services Group (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Beginning as a project in 2004, MetaArchive was aimed at the preservation of digital content with the subject focus of southern United States culture and history. The original project had six partner institutions in collaboration with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and Library of Congress. The goals of the project included the creation of a conspectus of digital content held by partner sites, a harvested body of the most critical content to be preserved, development of a model cooperative agreement for ongoing collaboration and the implementation of a distributed preservation network infrastructure based on the LOCKSS system. The type of content to be preserved included digital masters of scanned images, research databases and websites. Since 2007 the MetaArchive Cooperative membership was extended and was "responsible for preserving Member organizations’ content in a decentralized, distributed preservation network comprised of subject-based archives (e.g., Southern Digital Culture, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, etc.), as well as maintaining and extending its methodology and approach to distributed digital preservation." In December 2009 the independent and international Cooperative received additional funding from NDIIPP as a continuing partner.
http://www.metaarchive.org/
Historical MINERVA : Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive
Library of Congress (Date Created: 2001) (United States of America)
The MINERVA Web Preservation Project, developed by the US Library of Congress, was established to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve primary resources that were'born digital' and not available in any other format. It was the early development project for the Library of Congress Web Archives. The final report was issued in 2002.
Previously available at http://www.loc.gov/minerva/
mod_oai
Old Dominion University (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Mod-oai is a joint project of the Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was funded by the Mellon Foundation (2004-2005) and Library of Congress (2007-2009). The aim of the project is to make the content from Apache Web servers accessible via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Web servers and Web crawlers would be able to selectively harvest from data repositories, for instance data gathering could be limited to files of a certain mimetype. The website provides an overview of the project including links to relevant organisations and describes members of the project team.
http://www.modoai.org/
MRC Data Sharing and Preservation Initiative
Medical Research Council (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The Medical Research Councill (MRC) in the UK is a taxpayer funded organisation that provides grants for medical research programs and infrastructure. As part of the MRC's Data Sharing and Digital Preservation initiative several documents and guidelines have been produced. These include a policy statement on data sharing and preservation, a report on practical guidance on data preservation, promotion and development of data sharing tools, development of a set of principles in using personal information in medical research and commissioning a report of access to collections of data for health research.
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Ourresearch/Ethicsresearchguidance/Datasharingini
tiative/index.htm
NARA : 18th Annual Preservation Conference : Preservation Reformatting : Digital Technology vs. Analog Technology
27 Mar 2003 , National Archives at College Park, Maryland
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (NARA)
(United States of America)
Contains links to conference proceedings. These papers all tend to debate the choices associated with making digital copies of analogue materials and relate the difficulties associated with maintaining the digital duplicates.
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2003/index.html
The National Archives : Digital Preservation
The National Archives (UK) (Date Created: Apr 2003) (United Kingdom)
On April 2 2003, the Public Record Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) in the UK joined together to form a new organisation: The National Archives (TNA). This area of TNA's web site provides information on various digital preservation conferences, projects and activities such as the Domesday Project and the UK government digital archive.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/digital.htm
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The NHPRC has funded much research on long-term preservation of and access to electronic records. Their website provides a list of current projects and links to project reports. Of particular interest is the section on Electronic Records Projects.
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/
NDAD: UK National Digital Archive of Datasets
The National Archives (UK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
NDAD is part of The National Archives (TNA). It contains archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies. The system has been available since March 1998 and provides open access to the catalogues of all its holdings, and free access to open datasets following a simple registration process. It is operated by ULCC (University of London Computer Centre) for TNA.
http://www.ndad.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Netpreserve.org : International Internet Preservation Consortium
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) (Regularly Updated)
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) began in July 2003 with a group of twelve members including the national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive (USA) and was coordinated by the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The membership has since expanded to include additional libraries, archives, museums and cultural institutions from around the world. The Consortium goals include advocacy for internet archiving initiatives and legislation, fostering development of common standards and internet archiving tools, and raising international awareness of internet preservation issues.
http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php
NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite
National Centre for Biotechnology Information (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
A suite of XML Document Type Definitions created by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information. This DTD suite is intended to preserve the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which the content was originally delivered. It provides a common format by which publishers and archives can exchange journal content. Complete documentation is available at the site and the suite of modules is available for download by FTP.
http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/
Historical NWA : Nordic Web Archive
Nordic Web Archive (NWA) (Last Updated: 31 Aug 2005)
The Nordic Web Archive (NWA) was a cooperative venture between the Nordic National Libraries to develop open source software to access archived web documents. The article includes links to more detailed descriptions of WERA (which replaced the NWA toolset) and Nutchwax search engine.
http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/nwa.nb.no/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
OASIS (Online Archiving & Searching Internet Sources)
National Library of Korea (Regularly Updated) (Korea)
Website of the National Library of Korea's web archive, OASIS.
http://www.oasis.go.kr/
OLAC (Open Language Archives Community)
Open Language Archives (Regularly Updated)
OLAC (Open Language Archives Community) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources; and, developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources.
http://www.language-archives.org/index.html
Historical Open Archives Forum
Open Archives Forum (Date Created: 2003)
The Open Archives Forum (OAF) website was a valuable resource providing and promoting information and support to activities relating to open archives in Europe, particularly the Open Archives Initiative. The website includes information and reviews on technical issues relating to open archives, such as a resource database (no longer available) which listed services, repositories, projects, software, organizations and metadata schemes; materials on the Open Archives Workshop Series, as well as other relevant reports and presentations. Also included is an online tutorial introducing the beginner to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting . The forum is no longer active.
http://www.oaforum.org/index.php
Open Content Alliance
Open Content Alliance (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Administered by the Internet Archive, participants in the Open Content Alliance (OCA) include cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world. The purpose of the Alliance is to build a permanent freely-searchable archive of multilingual digitized full text and multimedia content. Yahoo is also participating in the Alliance by indexing the content. The Alliance is governed by a set of principles one of which is concerned with the long term availability of the contents.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
openARMS
openARMS Project (Regularly Updated) (Norway)
The openARMS (open-source Archival Resource Management System) project seeks to use the concepts of OAIS, including the information architecture and functional entities, to ensure long-term preservation of digital information objects. OpenArms is an XML-application, coded in Java. The first version of the program will concentrate on digital information objects migrated from proprietary database applications, as well as document repositories. The openARMS project is currently publicly funded in Norway and is in an early phase of development. Currently the website is in Norwegian only.
http://www.ikamr.no/content/view/full/385
OpenDOAR : Directory of Open Access Repositories
University of Nottingham, UK and the University of Lund, Sweden (Regularly Updated)
Developed by the University of Nottingham, UK and the University of Lund, Sweden, OpenDOAR is a directory of open access institutional and subject-based research repositories and archives. Each entry has several categories including country, subjects covered, content type and description.
http://www.opendoar.org/
Our Digital Island: A Tasmanian Web Archive
State Library of Tasmania (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
Our Digital Island provides access to Tasmanian Web sites that have been preserved for posterity by the State Library of Tasmania, as required by the legal deposit provisions of the Libraries Act 1984. It includes sections on: Selection policy, Metadata development, and a description of the project.
http://odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/
Ourmedia : the Global Home for Grassroots Media
Ourmedia (Regularly Updated)
Ourmedia is a an open source personal digital archive project that hosts audio, video, text and images. The alpha version was released in 2005. Its partners include the Internet Archive, Bryght, Creative Commons and Wikipedia. Ourmedia is a free service, the only proviso in using this facility is that contributed works are made available globally. Ourmedia resources will be archived and stored on the Internet Archive so they will be guaranteed permanence and future access.
http://ourmedia.org/
Historical PAD : Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination Project
Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) (Date Created: 2002)
PAD is intended to complement existing archiving research by filling a gap that has been identified by a survey. The gap identified is that electronic literature is not yet the focus of any major preservation effort, and many important aspects of preserving this type of work - such as how to maintain conditional sequencing of files delivered to the reader across different technical platforms - is not being addressed adequately. PAD proposes to fill this gap by adopting technologies and standards already in development and extending them in ways that will allow works of electronic literature (and other kinds of digital art objects) to have a long lifespan in a form as close to the original as possible and as useful material for scholarship.
http://www.eliterature.org/programs/
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PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia
National Library of Australia (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
PANDORA began as a project initiated by the National Library of Australia to investigate strategies and implement procedures for the capture, storage, preservation and access to digital data by creating an electronic archive of library materials. It is interested in capturing the full range of materials published online in Australia - including serials, newspapers and books, as well as unique online formats such as homepages (see also Digital Services Project). PANDORA is Australia's web archive managed by the Library with contributions from partners.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
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Historical PANIC (Preservation and Archival New Media and Interactive Collections) Project
MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) (Last Updated: Jul 2005) (Australia)
This research project, undertaken by MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) had several objectives including using case studies to compare various approaches to multimedia preservation, investigating ways to ensure the longevity of access to multimedia digital objects, determining optimum media formats and developing guidelines and metadata schemas for multimedia creators. Results of investigations include a set of test cases and a preservation metadata schema and input tool, based on METS and MODS and informed by the work of the Variable Media Initiative.
http://www.metadata.net/panic/
Paradigm : Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media
University of Oxford Bodleian Library and the University of Manchester John Rylands University Library (Date Created: Apr 2005) (United Kingdom)
This is a two-year exemplar project, from January 2005 to December 2006, to explore the issues involved in the long-term preservation of digital private papers. Using the digital papers of contemporary United Kingdom politicians, the project will test digital preservation tools and digital repositories, and produce an online Workbook on Digital Private Papers which includes template policies and procedures.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/
Personal Archiving: Preserving Your Digital Memories
Library of Congress (Date Created: 01 May 2010) (United States of America)
This set of web pages set up by the Library of Congress' NDIIPP provides introductory guidance on personal digital archiving including photos, email, video, audio, personal digital records, and websites.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/
Portico
Ithaka (Regularly Updated)
Formerly known as e-Archive, the Portico initiative was launched in 2005. Portico is a not for profit archive of born digital scholarly E-journals maintained by Ithaka Harbors Inc. One of the main goals of Portico is to ensure that electronic resources remain accessible in the future and it aims to do this by developing an economic model as the basis of long term sustainability; developing relationships with publishers who will deposit their publications in the archive; and develop a production and technological infrastructure that will support preservation and accessibility.
http://www.portico.org/
Historical Presidential Electronic Records Pilot System (PERPOS)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory, Georgia Tech. Research Institute (Last Updated: Nov 2005) (United States of America)
The PERPOS project aimed to find ways of gaining archival control of electronic records which are deposited with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The initial project was to conduct research that would aid archivists in gaining intellectual and physical control of the user-created files contained on the George H. W. Bush PC hard drives. The second phase PERPOS II is modifying the tools that were developed for use with other projects.
http://perpos.gtri.gatech.edu/
PrestoSpace
PrestoSpace Consortium (Last Updated: 2008)
This project, funded by the EU (from 1/2/04 for 40 months), built upon earlier projects such as Presto, and sought to establish a framework for the digital preservation of audio-visual materials. The aim of the Project was to build ‘preservation factories’ which would provide an affordable infrastructure for institutions such as libraries and museums in order to manage, reduce costs, standardise processes and to provide access to their digital audio visual assets. It was followed on by the PrestoPRIME project.
http://prestospace.org/
PRONOM
National Archives (UK) (United Kingdom)
PRONOM is a database system that stores and provides information about file formats and the application software needed to open them. It stores detailed descriptions of software applications, including what file formats an application can read and write to, any dependencies that may exist in order to run the application
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/
reUSE
Universität Innsbruck (Last Updated: Jun 2006)
reUSE was a cooperative project of libraries and universities from Austria, Estonia, Germany and Slovenia funded through the European Commission eContent Programme (June 2004 to June 2006). The reUSE partners focussed on the publications of public sector institutions such as government, universities and research institutions. Printed material and the digital originals will be collected, preserved and made available. Part of the project included four demonstrator services which were designed to operate permanently after the project itself was completed. Reports and publications including the final evaluation report are available.
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/reuse/
RODA : Repositorio de Objectos Digitais Autenticos
National Archive Institute of Portugal (Regularly Updated) (Portugal)
This project, undertaken by the National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT), aims to develop the processes, tools and resources that will enable Portuguese public administration institutions to preserve their digital data. A prototype will be developed which will serve as the basis for development of a fully functional solution capable of ingesting and managing digital objects. A demonstration prototype of the open source digital repository was publicly released in June 2009 and the source code made available in August 2009.
http://portal.roda.dgarq.gov.pt/pt
SaveMyMemories.org
International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) (Date Created: 2007)
This web site developed by the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) provides guidance for preservation, storage and archiving of personal digital photos.
http://www.savemymemories.org/Default.aspx
Historical SORRT : Sustainable Object Repositories for Research and Teaching
University of Sydney Library (Date Created: 2004) (Australia)
Coordinated by the University of Sydney, SORRT is the Practices and Testbed project of APSR (Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories).
http://sorrt.library.usyd.edu.au/
STORS : Long Term Storage of Tasmanian Electronic Documents : Stable Tasmanian Open Repository Service
State Library of Tasmania (Australia)
STORS – the Stable Tasmanian Open Repository Service is an open jurisdictional repository for published electronic material (individual documents not websites) which operates within the legal deposit provisions of Tasmania (Australia) which was developed by the State Library of Tasmania. Further information on its development is available in D-Lib article (Sokvitne & Lavelle, June 2004).
http://www.stors.tas.gov.au/logon.do
Historical Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories
Austrian Literature Online ; Humboldt University, Berlin; Sun Microsystems; XiCrypt (Last Updated: Dec 2006)
The Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories is a joint project between Humboldt University (Germany), Austrian Literature Online (ALO), XiCrypt (Austria) and Sun Microsystems (USA). The Center of Excellence is based on the previous work and implementations of the partners, such as the Humboldt University document and publication server, the Xades implementation for long-term preservation of digital signatures developed at XiCrypt, and the digital repository software implemented by ALO. The Center will develop a framework to handle preservation mechanisms within a trusted digital archive, a user interface for accessing the trusted digital archives and methods to apply digital signatures and time stamps to the digital documents.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.coe.hu-berlin.de/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries
International Council for Science, Committee on Data for Science and Technology (Regularly Updated)
Established in 2002, and originally called the Task Group on Preservation and Archiving of Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries the objectives of the Task Group include the "promotion and understanding of the particular conditions in developing countries with regard to long-term preservation, archiving, and access to scientific and technical (S&T) data; the advancement of improved archiving procedures, technologies, standards, and policies; the provision of an interdisciplinary forum and mechanisms for exchanging information about S&T data archiving requirements and activities, with particular focus on the concerns of developing countries; and the dissemination of the results of these efforts." The Task Group regularly convenes conferences and workshops. Task Group name changed in May 2005 to Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries.
http://www.codata.org/taskgroups/TGpreservation/index.html
Ten Thousand Year Blog
Mattison, David (Regularly Updated)
This blog (web log) was created in June 2003 and is owned and maintained by an archivist, David Mattison. The blog includes comments and links to news and resources on digital preservation, digital libraries, digital records, intellectual property rights and e learning. The site also provides commentary on current trends in online information preservation and management. Both email and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) subscriptions are available for the Blog's updates. The archived version of the blog for the period June 2003 to September 2008 is available.
http://digitalarchivist.wordpress.com/
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Testbed Digitale Bewaring / Digital Preservation Testbed
Digitale Duurzaamheid (Last Updated: 11 Apr 2002) (Netherlands) Has papers: XML and Digital Preservation ; From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Preserving Spreadsheets ; From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Preserving Text Documents ; From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Costmodel ; From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence : Preserving Databases ; E-Mail-XML Demonstrator: Technical Description
Part of a wider Digitale Duurzaamheid (Digital Longevity) programme, the Digital Preservation Testbed was established by the Dutch Government to research approaches for the long-term preservation of archival records. It is experimenting with a range of document formats in researching migration, emulation and the use of XML as approaches to long-term preservation and aims to examine the effectiveness, limitations, costs and potential for application of each approach. The Testbed pages in either Dutch or English may be accessed by following the Testbed Digitale Bewaring link from the main page.
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/home.cfm
Historical Time and Bits : Discussion and Proceedings
(Last Updated: Apr 2000) (United States of America)
Although somewhat dated now, this website includes links to background papers, discussion and articles arising out of the Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity conference sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Information Institute, in collaboration with the Long Now Foundation in February 1998.
http://www.longnow.org/projects/conferences/time-and-bits/
Tomba : Portuguese Web Archive
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (Regularly Updated) (Portugal)
This prototype was developed as a research project at the University of Lisbon. The tumba! search engine has been crawling the Portuguese web since 2002. Tomba archives and provides access to all new pages and the different versions of previous pages.
http://tomba.tumba.pt/index_en.html
Towards a New Meta Standard for Long Term Digital Video Preservation
Pearson, Glenn (Date Created: 12 Dec 2005)
This is a series of links to documents for consideration about ways to encourage lossless video encoding for preservation, with a particular interest in JPEG 2000 frame encodings.
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/follow-on.html
UK Government Web Archive
The National Archives (UK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This archive started as a one year project comprised of a selection of 50 UK government websites archived since August 2003 at varying intervals by the Internet Archive on behalf of The National Archives. Evaluation of the results of the project were used to inform policy and best practice for future archiving of government websites by The National Archives. Since 2005 archiving has been undertaken by contract to the European Archive. In November 2008 a program to archive UK central government websites 3 times per year was started. Additionally sites reflecting topical themes and issues of public interest have been collected into themed collections.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/archivedwebsites.htm
UK Web Archive
UK Web Archive (Date Created: Jun 2004) (United Kingdom)
The UK Web Archive has been collecting since 2004 and was initiated by the UK Web Archiving Consortium. It is provided by the British Library in partnership with the National Library of Wales, JISC and The Wellcome Library. Previously The National Archives and National Library of Scotland were involved.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/
UK Web Archiving Consortium
United Kingdom Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) (Date Created: Jun 2004) (United Kingdom)
The UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) originally comprised 6 UK institutions including the British Library, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), National Archives, Wellcome Trust and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales > It initiated development of the UK Web Archive, which began with a 2 year project aimed at collecting and archiving approximately 6,000 websites using the National Library of Australia's PANDAS software to carry out the archiving process. The purpose of the project was to collect and archive web sites relevant to the Consortium’s interests, and also to develop compatible selection policies and to investigate the complex technical challenges involved in collecting and archiving web material.
http://www.dpconline.org/advice/web-archiving-ukwac.html
Vefsafn.is
National and University Library of Iceland (Date Created: 30 Sep 2009) (Iceland)
The Icelandic Web Archive owned and maintained by the National and University Library of Iceland, has been collecting snapshots of Icelandic websites since 2004. It was opened for public access in September 2009. Access to the collection is via a Wayback Machine like the one used by the Internet Archive.
http://vefsafn.is/index.php?page=english
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Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) : Version 2
Public Record Office Victoria (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This web site has links to the standard "Management of Electronic Records", its supporting specifications and the explanatory advices, which were revised in July 2003. The five supporting specifications include system requirements for preserving electronic records, metadata, standard electronic record format, long term preservation formats and export of electronic records to PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). Specification 4 was updated to include PDF/A,JPEG, JPEG-2000, MPEG-4 in Aug 2006 and Specification 5 was updated for the PROV's new digital Archive.
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/standard/version2.asp
Video Preservation
Frost, Hannah (ed.) In: CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals (Regularly Updated)
A bibliography of resources on the preservation of video recordings, maintained on the Conservation Online (CoOL) website. The bibliography includes resources on video media and formats, care and preservation best practice guidelines, as well as resources on digital video formats and organisations involved in video preservation.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/video/
Historical Virtual Data Center (VDC)
Harvard-MIT Data Center (Last Updated: 2006) (United States of America)
The Virtual Data Center (VDC) was developed by the Harvard-MIT Data Center and the Harvard University Library. The VDC was an open-source digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange and citation of quantitive data. It was updated and maintained through Sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/thedata. Features include data format conversion, persistent naming and metadata harvesting. This project ran from 1999 to 2006 and was succeeded by the Dataverse Network Project.
http://thedata.org/vdc/
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Historical Virtual Remote Control
Cornell University (United States of America)
Virtual Remote Control (VRC) was a research initiative to develop a risk management approach to providing access to Web resources over time, including setting up a model, framework as well as identifying tools that can help institutions deal with the web material. VRC model can include the capturing of web sites, but that is not its essential component, since organisations using it may wish only to monitor web sites due to possible legal technical and other limitations. Site includes evaluations of available web tools. VRC emerged from Cornell University's participation in Project Prism.
http://irisresearch.library.cornell.edu/VRC/index.html
WARP
National Diet Library (Japan) (Regularly Updated) (Japan)
This is a National Diet Library of Japan project. WARP began as an experimental project that collects and preserves Japanese websites and online periodicals on the Internet. Most of the information is available in Japanese only. A brief update on progress is available in CDNLAO newsletter November 2009.
http://warp.ndl.go.jp/
Web Archive Collection Service (WAX)
Harvard University Library (Date Created: 04 Feb 2009) (United States of America)
The Web Archive Collection Service ( WAX) at Harvard University Library began as a pilot service in 2006 and became a production service in February 2009. The service supports the collection of selected web content to ensure its long term preservation and accessibility for teaching and research. Harvard libraries, museums and archives are eligible to use the WAX Service. The public service was made available September 2009. More information available from http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/wax
http://wax.lib.harvard.edu
Web Archive Singapore (WAS)
National Library Board Singapore (Regularly Updated) (Singapore)
The website of Web Archive Singapore was officially launched in October 2006 by the National Library Board of Singapore. Phase 1 of the project was aimed at archiving .sg websites meeting selection criteria of national and historical significance, authoritative and research value and social and cultural significance.
http://was.nl.sg/
Web Archivering / Web Archiving
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands)
This web site describes the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's web archiving program. The KB began selective archiving in 2006. The project is described, and there are links to information about selection, technical and legal aspects and related documents.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index.html
Available in Dutch and English versions (http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index-en.html)
Web Archives : Yesterday's Web; Today's Archives
California Digital Library (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website (which was opened to the public in July 2009) includes web archives created with the California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service, and includes web archives and documents from the State of California archived by ten institutions.
http://webarchives.cdlib.org/
Web Archiving
Library of Congress (Date Created: May 2006) (United States of America)
This web site, developed and maintained by the Library of Congress, includes information on its program to capture and preserve historically important Web sites such as US congressional website, Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. The website has links to technical information, guidelines for the harvesting process, FAQs and the Project partners. The Web Archiving Program, formerly called the Web Capture Program, and its partners are developing a common set of Web capture tools in four areas: curator selection, verification and permissions; acquisition; collection storage and maintenance; and access.
http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/
Web Archiving @ the University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This is the University of Melbourne's web site which describes its corporate web archiving activities. Included are links to related policies, an overview of the program, technical aspects and a search facility for available content.
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/records/web-archiving/
Web InfoMall
Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory , Beijing University (Regularly Updated) (China)
InfoMall is the Chinese web archiving project. It currently holds 0.7 billion pages (10.6 terabyte) together with 5 terabyte of digital web resources other than web pages. It has a storage capacity to hold more than 10 billion pages (150 terabytes). Its main tasks are to permanently collect web pages into a repository, provide free access to the archived data and provide an open testbed to encourage multidisciplinary study. Most of the site is in Chinese, although the search interface has an English version.
http://www.infomall.cn/index-eng.htm
WebArchiv - Archive of the Czech Web
National Library of the Czech Republic (Regularly Updated) (Czech Republic)
The Archive of Czech web resources, known as WebArchiv, was established to selectively archive the Czech domain based on a voluntary deposit agreement with authors and publishers. There are links to documentation (mainly in Czech) and selection criteria.
http://en.webarchiv.cz/
WebArchivist.org
University of Washington and SUNY Institute of Technology (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology this organisation focuses on research and software development. The organisation develops tools and strategies for studying the ephemeral Web.
http://www.webarchivist.org/about.htm

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Online tutorial

Creating an Institutional Repository : LEADIRS Workbook
Barton, Mary R. ; Waters, Margaret M. (Date Created: 2005)
This extensive document (134 p.) from the LEarning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminar program (LEADIRS) and available from DSpace covers all aspects of building institutional repositories such as planning, choosing repository software platforms, including digital preservation considerations, legal and regulatory environmental and policy development and cost modeling. Each section has associated worksheets and key questions. There are many references to case studies which are used to highlight approaches to the various issues in developing an institutional repository.
http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/leadirs.pdf
SaveMyMemories.org
International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) (Date Created: 2007)
This web site developed by the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) provides guidance for preservation, storage and archiving of personal digital photos.
http://www.savemymemories.org/Default.aspx
Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM)
International Records Managment Trust (Date Created: Jun 2009)
The Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) programme was developed by the International Records Management Trust as part of the "Fostering trust and transparency in governance: Investigating and addressing the requirements for building integrity in public sector information systems in the ICT environment" (2006 to 2008) project. It consists of a series of five training modules on electronic records management plus related resource materials (Glossary, Route Maps, Best Practice Indicators). Modules include: 1. Understanding the context of electronic records management; 2. Planning and managing an electronic records management programme; 3. Managing the creation, use and disposition of electronic records; 4. Preserving Electronic Records; and 5. Personnel Records as the information base for human resources and payroll management.
http://www.irmt.org/researchReports.html
The training materials plus case studies and reports from the project are available from this url.
Training in Electronic Records Management: Module 4: Preservation of Electronic Records
Brown, Adrian; Katuu, Shadrack; Sebina, Peter; Seles, Anthea In: Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) (Date Created: Jun 2009)
This module of the Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) programme developed by the International Records Management Trust, provides an introduction to key concepts and ideas including the challenges of preserving electronic records. Topics include: Understanding key concepts in digital preservation; Basic digital preservation practices; Preserving electronic records in a trusted digital repository; and, Current research and future directions.
http://www.irmt.org/documents/educ_training/term%20modules/IRMT%20TERM
%20Module%204.pdf
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Policies, Strategies & Guidelines

Historical Archival Preservation of Smithsonian Web Resources: Strategies, Principles, and Best Practices
Dollar Consulting (Last Updated: 18 Oct 2001) (United States of America)
Commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution Archives, this report provides guidelines to help ensure the capture, management and long-term preservation of Smithsonian Institution web sites. Incorporating an integrated records life cycle process model, it provides a set of recommendations for best practice and follow up, plus appendices on documentation of web sites and a preservation metadata model.
http://siarchives.si.edu/pdf/dollar_report.pdf
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Historical Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data : a Guide to Good Practice
Bewley, Robert; Donoghue, Danny; Gaffney, Vince; Wise, Alicia; van Leusen, Martijn In: AHDS Guides to Good Practice (Date Created: 1998) (United Kingdom)
This guide discusses best practice in the creation, management, preservation, and re-use of remotely collected data including aerial photography such as optical and infrared imagery, and satellite and airborne remote sensing.
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/apandrs/
Historical Archiving Smithsonian Websites : an Evaluation and Recommendation for a Smithsonian Institution Archives Pilot Project
Smithsonian Institution Archives Records Management Team (Date Created: May 2003) (United States of America)
This report outlines a proposal for a pilot project to archive Smithsonian websites and is the result of the evaluation and testing of Dollar Consulting's report Archival Preservation of Smithsonian Web Resources: Strategies, Principles, and Best Practice Archival Preservation of Smithsonian Web Resources: Strategies, Principles, and Best Practice, published in 2001. It includes proposed recommendations for archival management, access to archived websites, processing dynamic websites and cost estimates, and notes the results of test migrations of HTML to XHTML, which were based on Dollar Consulting's earlier recommendations.
http://siarchives.si.edu/pdf/websitepilot.pdf
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Archiving Web Resources : a policy for keeping records of web-based activity in the Commonwealth Government
National Archives of Australia (Last Updated: Jan 2001) (Australia)
A document setting out the National Archives of Australia's policy on the status and management of Commonwealth Government online resources, including websites, as Commonwealth records. It includes Best Practice recommendations plus listings of additional sources to assist Commonwealth agencies in establishing mechanisms for creating, managing and retaining web-based records. Ver 2 revised Jan 2001 re-endorsed 2007.
ISBN: 06423442213
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/Archiving-web-po
licy.aspx
PDF of ver. 2 available from this URL
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Archiving Web Resources: Guidelines for keeping records of web-based activity in the Commonwealth Government
National Archives of Australia (Date Created: Mar 2001) (Australia)
The companion guidelines to the policy "Archiving Web Resources: A policy for keeping records of web-based activity in the Commonwealth Government", this document offers specific strategic and technical advice to help Australian Commonwealth agencies establish good record-keeping strategies for web-based activities.
ISBN: 06423442213
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/publications/Archiving-web-gu
idelines.aspx
Available as a .pdf from this URL
Assessment of UKDA and TNA Compliance with OAIS and METS Standards
Beedham, Hilary; Missen, Julie; Palmer, Matt; Ruusalepp, Raivo (Date Created: 2005) (United Kingdom)
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) under its Institutional Digital Preservation and Asset Management Programme, this extensive report compares the current practices of the UKDA (UK Data Archive) and TNA (UK National Archives) with the OAIS reference model and the METS standard. The OAIS reference model (ISO 14721) is the major international standard for digital archives. This report is also designed to be used by other institutions to help gauge their compliance to this standard. The assessment was undertaken by the UKDA, The National Archives and the Estonian Business Archive.
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/oaismets.pdf
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Historical Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: 01 Aug 2001) (United States of America)
This joint RLG-OCLC draft report was available for public comment until 12th October 2001. The report contains information and recommendations on developing and implementing a certified long-term digital information repository based on the OAIS functional model and extensive library and archival community discussion. Appendix B provides useful glossary of terms used in the report. The final report (also listed on PADI) is available at http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/trustedrep/repositories.pdf
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Historical Audiovisual Archiving : Philosophy and Principles
Edmondson, Ray (Date Created: Apr 2004)
This document (83 p.) provides a broad introduction to the basic concepts and issues in audiovisual archives and archiving, and includes an overview of the technical and management issues in preserving audiovisual material.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001364/136477e.pdf
2nd edition
Historical Audit Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories : Draft for Public Comment
Research Libraries Group (Date Created: 31 Aug 2005)
This draft paper was compiled by the RLG-NARA Task Force on Digital Repository Certification. The paper identifies the audit and certification criteria repositories must meet in order to reliably store, migrate and provide access to digital collections. The criteria include organisational aspects, such as sustainability; repository functions and processes such as ingest, storage and management; usability, such as descriptive metadata; and technologies and technical infrastructure. The audit instrument is also included in the document.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070101054320/http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/r
lgnara-repositorieschecklist.pdf
Historical CAD: A Guide to Good Practice
Damien Robinson; Harrison Eiteljorg II; Jeremy Huggett; Kate Fernie (Date Created: 2002) (United Kingdom)
"The Guide is based on the premise that many organisations create and use computer aided design (CAD) software for archaeological and architectural projects. Increasingly CAD files comprise a component of project archives which are born digital, used digitally and which may not fully be re-produced on paper. The CAD guide is aimed at those who create CAD files, at project managers and at those considering the management of CAD archives. The guide offers a description of CAD software with a discussion of its use in a variety of situations, methods of data capture and good practices in the preparation of CAD models including consideration of layer naming schemes, drawing conventions and file formats. The guide provides an invaluable source of information about the management of digital data both during the project life-cycle and for its long-term preservation, archiving and effective data re-use. As a result it emphasises the importance of adhering to standards and of documentation essential information to support the re-use of the resource. The CAD Guide to Good Practice is of use to academic researchers, staff in national heritage agencies and local authorities, project field-workers, illustrators and others who are using CAD files as the foundation on which to build mapping applications and virtual reality models."
ISSN: 1463-5194
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/cad/
Historical Canadian Digital Information Strategy. Draft Consultation Version, October 2007
Library and Archives Canada (Date Created: Oct 2007) (Canada)
The Draft consultation version of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy (October 2007) put forward three broad opportunities: strengthening digital content; ensuring preservation for ongoing access; and maximising access and use. Specific objectives and proposed actions were outlined. Collaboration within a common framework was recommended. Responses were due by 23 November 2007. The HTML and PDF versions as at 22 November 2007are available from the Canadian Government Web Archive. Latest information available from Library and Archives Canada Canadian Digital Information Strategy webpages.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20071114183825/http://w
ww.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cdis/index-e.html
Available online as full text and PDF. comments due by 23 Nov 2007
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Historical Cedars Guide To: The Distributed Digital Archiving Prototype
The Cedars Project (Date Created: Mar 2002) (United Kingdom)
This report describes the Cedars Distributed Digital Archiving Prototype System, which was created by CEDARS to test the concept of digital preservation. The process of preserving a digital resource is described, including the management of Representation Networks. It provides some information on the development and procurement of digital preservation systems.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050410120000/http://www
.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/cdap/index.html
Archived by the UK Web Archive
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Centre for Archaeology Digital Archiving Strategy
Brown, Adrian (Last Updated: Oct 2002) (United Kingdom)
This document describes the strategy which the Centre for Archaeology has developed for managing its digital archives. This strategy is intended to establish best practice for the preservation of, and provision of access to, the full range of digital archaeological data of long-term value for which CfA is responsible. It is designed to be used together with the Digitial Archiving Programme: Preservation Management Procedures Manual.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/dap_manual_archiving.pdf
Collecting, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Design Data
Fallon, Kristine (Last Updated: Oct 2007) (United States of America)
Initiated by the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and undertaken by Kristine Fallon and Associates, with funding from the Schiff Foundation and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts the purpose of the study was to examine the collection, archiving, and uses of digital design data produced by architects and industrial designers. The results of the study are extensive and are divided into 25 files. Section two is of most relevance as it deals with archiving digital design data: practices and technology, including preparing, collecting, and processing the data and its cataloguing, storage, and preservation. The study's final recommendations cover the life cycle of a digital work of art, including: types and classification of data appropriate for collection; indexing and metadata; data formats (archival, native, and derivative); format registration; storage; long-term maintenance; periodic migration; format updates and disaster recovery provisions for digital originals; and techniques for and opportunities to provide digital archive access to a broader community. The project was finalised in Spring 2007 and it was decided to make the software which was developed DAArch software version 1.0 open source.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/depts/architecture/ddd.html
Collection Development Policy for the National Geospatial Digital Archive
National Geospatial Digital Archive (Date Created: Nov 2006) (United States of America)
The Collection Development Policy of the U.S. National Geospatial Digital Archive outlines the material that will be collected, format, language, metadata and collaboration with other agencies.
http://www.ngda.org/research/Collections/NGDA_Collection_Development_P
olicy_11_06_final.doc
Collection Development Policy for UK Websites
British Library (Date Created: 03 Sep 2004) (United Kingdom)
This document outlines the British Library's policy for collection of UK websites including the context, the aims and how the aims will be achieved.
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/pdfs/modbritcdpwebsites.pdf
Collections Policy Statement : Web Capture & Archiving
Library of Congress (Date Created: 09 Mar 2004) (United States of America)
This is the US Library of Congress collections development policy on web sites. It provides a broad overview of aspects of collection development including definitions, scope, criteria for selection and retention.
http://www.loc.gov/acq/devpol/webarchive.html
Commonwealth Records Management Web Pages
National Archives of Australia (Last Updated: 2007) (Australia)
The Records Management web pages provide information on the National Archives of Australia's policy and procedures for appraising, sentencing, transferring and disposing of Commonwealth government records. They also give advice on records management procedures, preservation issues and outsourcing work for all record formats including digital.
http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/index.aspx
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Corporate Policy on Electronic Records
Public Record Office (Date Created: Sep 2000) (United Kingdom)
This is the Public Record Office's official policy for the management of electronic records. As well as detailing standards for handling and access to digital materials, the policy includes a section which examines the preservation of electronic documents in the long-term.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/rm_corp_pol.pdf
Historical Creating and Using Virtual Reality : a Guide for the Arts and Humanities
Fernie, Kate (editor); Richards, Julian D. (editor) (Date Created: 2002)
This AHDS guide to good practice includes sections on archiving virtual reality projects and resources discovery. It includes information on metadata, formats, access and documentation of Virtual Reality projects. The Guide concentrates on accessible desk-top virtual reality which may be distributed and viewed on-line via the World Wide Web. It is concerned with the variety of virtual reality models that may be produced and how to ensure that these can be delivered successfully to users and preserved for future reuse. Funding for AHDS ceased in 2008.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20061003230000/http://vad
s.ahds.ac.uk
Site archived by the UK Web Archive.
Creator Guidelines : Making and Maintaining Digital Materials : Guidelines for Individuals
InterPARES 2 Project (Date Created: 2006) (Canada)
These guidelines (10 p.) developed by the InterPARES 2 project provide practical advice to individuals on the creation and management of digital materials to ensure accessibility over time.
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2(pub)creator_guideli
nes_booklet.pdf
Definition of an Event in Terms of Net Harvesting
Netarchive.dk (Date Created: Apr 2007) (Denmark)
This document provides guidelines for NetArchive.dk undertaking harvesting of internet materials, covered by the Danish Legal Deposit Law. NetArchive.dk uses three strategies: 1. Snapshot harvesting (all relevant domains) quarterly; 2. Selective harvesting (appr. 80 domains) – frequency from one hour to 1 month; and 3. Event harvesting. This document provides a definition of what constitutes an event.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/Event-definition-final.pdf
Historical Developing Linguistic Corpora : a Guide to Good Practice
Arts and Humanities Data Service In: AHDS Guides to Good Practice (Date Created: 2005) (United Kingdom)
The purpose of this AHDS guide to good practice is to provide an introductory guide to creating a corpus of language data in electronic form for the purpose of linguistic research. It includes a chapter on archiving, distribution and preservation of linguistic corpora. NB: Funding for AHDS ceased in 2008.
ISSN: 1463 5194
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080430164322/http://ahd
s.ac.uk/creating/guides/linguistic-corpora/index.htm
Site archived by the UK Web Archive.
Historical Diffuse: Guide to Archiving
IST Diffuse; TIEKE (Last Updated: May 2002)
A data archiving guide developed within the Diffuse project (3 year project funded from 1 Feb 2000) of the EU IST program. Discussed are the major requirements to be considered, links to key standards, specfications, best practice examples and white papers appropriate for public record archiving.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031205165553/http:/www.diffuse.org/archiv
e_guide.html
Archived by the Internet Archive
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Historical Digital Archives from Excavation and Fieldwork : Guide to Good Practice : 2nd Edition
Arts and Humanities Data Service In: AHDS Guides to Good Practice (Date Created: 2000)
This guide discusses best practice in the creation, management, preservation and re-use of digital records produced during the various phases of archaeological projects.
ISSN: 1463-5194
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080423145606/http://ads
.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/excavation/
Site archived by the UK Web Archive.
Digital Archiving in the 21st century: Archives Domain Discussion Paper
Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities ; National Archives of Australia (Date Created: Sep 2006) (Australia; New Zealand)
This discussion paper was prepared for the Collections Council of Australia Digital Collections Summit 2006. Written by the the National Archives of Australia for and on behalf of the Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authotities. It describes what has been done, the challenges, hurdles and potential strategies for preservation of digital records in Australia, the capability of the Archives Domain and urgent need for coordinated action and advocacy.
ISBN: 1920807470
http://www.caara.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DigitalArchiving21C
.pdf
Available online as PDF
Digital Continuity Action Plan
Archives New Zealand (Date Created: Aug 2009) (New Zealand)
This action plan is an all of New Zealand public sector program to assist and support agencies overcome issues with storing, accessing, using and reusing the digital information they produce. Implementation is led by Archives New Zealand.
http://continuum.archives.govt.nz/digital-continuity-action-plan.html
Available in print, PDF and html.
Digital Preservation Guidance Note 1 : Selecting File Formats for Long-Term Preservation. Issue 2.
Brown, Adrian (Date Created: Aug 2008) (United Kingdom)
This guidance note issued by The National Archives (TNA) Digital Preservation Department sets out a range of criteria t to help data creators and archivists make informed choices about file format issues and selecting file formats for use.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/selecting-file-formats.pd
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DPGN-01 Available in PDF and RTF version from http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/advice/digital.htm
Historical Digital Preservation Guidance Note 1: Selecting File Formats for Long-Term Preservation
Brown, Adrian (Date Created: 19 Jun 2003) (United Kingdom)
Produced by the Digital Preservation Department of the National Archives (UK) as part of its series of guidance notes on issues relating to the preservation of electronic records, this document focuses on the selection of file formats for long-term preservation. It describes various criteria that need to be considered when dealing with file format issues and selection. Superseded by Version 2 August 2008.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/selecting_file_formats.pd
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This document is the first in a series of guidance notes developed by the Digital Preservation Department, National Archives, UK. It is also available as an RTF document.
Digital Preservation: Illuminating the Past, Guiding the Future
National Archives of Australia (Date Created: Jun 2006) (Australia)
This brochure (15 p.) describes the challenges of digital preservation and the approach of the National Archives of Australia to preserving Commonwealth Government electronic records. It briefly introduces the Xena software.
ISBN: 1920807454
http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/XENA_brochure%5B1%5D_tcm2-918.pdf
Available online as PDF.
Digital Record Export Standard. ADRI Submission Information Package (ASIP). Ver. 1.0, 31 July 2007
Australian Digital Records Initiative (Date Created: 31 Jul 2007) (Australia; New Zealand)
This standard prescribes the physical representation of electronic records that are to be transferred to an archive. It specifies mandatory and optional metadata transferred with each record or file and the way the record (metadata and content) is physically represented as an XML document.
http://www.adri.gov.au/products/ADRI-2007-01-v1-0.pdf
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Digital Repositories Roadmap : Looking Forward
Heery, Rachel; Powell, Andy (Date Created: 07 Apr 2006) (United Kingdom)
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), this discussion document provides information on current practices, future plans and individual roadmaps for various types of repository material such as geospatial data, academic papers and learning material for 2006-2010. The content of the roadmap was made by contributors from academic and research organisations in the UK.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/rep-roadmap-v15.doc
Distributed Archiving and Preservation System Bibliothèque nationale de France: SPAR Analysis
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Last Updated: 10 May 2007) (France)
This document defines the core of the Distributed Archiving and Preservation System or Système de Préservation et d'Archivage Réparti (SPAR) being developed by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It provides a conceptual model, use case models and description of the modules.
http://bibnum.bnf.fr/spar/CCTP_SPAR-REA_Annexe1-en.pdf
Historical Draft DCC Approach to Digital Curation
Digital Curation Centre (Date Created: 27 Aug 2004) (United Kingdom)
This 19 p. document is a draft andintended for further update. It features a detailed definition and discussion of the concept of digital curation, particularly as it is applied by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). Also discussed is the OAIS Reference Model as the basis of Centre's digital curation approach. The document also identifies key services that the DCC can research, develop and supply to facilitate digital curation, including the creation of a Registry/Repository of Representation Information, including information about formats, software and standards.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100215095100/http://www
.dcc.ac.uk/docs/phase-1/DCCApproachtoDigitalCuration-20040827.pdf
Archived by the UK Web Archive
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e-Depot and Digital Preservation
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands)
This web page is an introduction to, and the entry point for, the e-Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, via which the KB aims to preserve and provide long-term access to Dutch electronic publications. There are also links to the broader topic of digital preservation.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/index-en.html
Espida: Making it Happen by Getting Real
University of Glasgow (Last Updated: Jan 2007) (United Kingdom)
The espida model project (An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Assets) was completed in January 2007. The project web site describes the process, staff etc and has documents that can be downloaded including a handbook. Originally developed for digital preservation activities, the documents can be used to present business cases, evaluate proposals and compare change decisions using cost and value templates which articulate both financial and non-financial benefits or impacts.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/index.shtml
Historical Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
IMLS Forum (Date Created: Dec 2001)
This report, by members of the IMLS Forum, offers a framework for the development of good digital collections, based on sets of principles for 4 entities: collections, objects, metadata and projects. Principles include a strong collection development policy base, interoperability, sustainability of both collections and the objects themselves, use of persistent identifiers, appropriate metadata and respect for intellectual property rights. A typology of object formats is also presented. The 2nd edition was published in 2004 and the 3rd ed. in Dec 2007.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041230095142/http://www.imls.gov/pubs/for
umframework.htm
Archived by the Internet Archive
Historical GIS : Guide to Good Practice
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) In: AHDS Guides to Good Practice (Date Created: 1998) (United Kingdom)
This guide deals with creating, documenting and archiving archaeological Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The role of the Archaeological Data Service (ADS) in preserving and providing long term access to the archaeological datasets is discussed. Migration and data refreshing as digital preservation approaches are also discussed.
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis/index.html
Guidance for Creators of Personal Papers
PARADIGM Project (Date Created: Jan 2008) (United Kingdom)
This guidance document (12 p.) produced by the PARADIGM project provides practical advice for the creators of personal digital archives on the management of their digital materials for ongoing access. Included are tips on file organisation and naming, email management, file format and software choice, backing-up etc.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/guidanceforcreators/guidance-for-creators-of
-personal-digital-archives.pdf
Also available in HTML version from http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook/appendices/guidelines-tips.html
Guide to Developing Recordkeeping Strategies For Websites : Record Keeping Guide G20.
Archives New Zealand (Last Updated: Jun 2006) (New Zealand)
"This guide provides best practice advice for public offices and local authorities to develop strategies to manage their websites as public or local authority records. It articulates key principles for managing websites as records and, based on an analysis of website technology, assesses a range of recordkeeping strategies that organisations can use."
ISBN: 0478182120
http://continuum.archives.govt.nz/files/file/guides/g20/g20-introducti
on.html
Available in HTML and as PDF (2.9 MB)
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Historical Handling File Formats
Clausen, Lars. R. (Date Created: May 2004) (Denmark)
This report describes a part of “Internetbevaringsprojektet” (the Internet preservation project), which is a joint project between Statsbiblioteket (The State Library) and Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) in Denmark. The aim of the project is to archive the Danish part of the Internet. As part of this project, this report specifically deals with strategies in handling file formats to ensure long term preservation and accessibility. Some of the main ways to preserve access to information stored as digital objects are discussed, including capture, sequential conversion to new formats, conversion on demand, emulation and hardware preservation. The report concludes with a suggested strategy for dealing with file formats in an archival system, file preservation workflows and general recommendations for handling file formats.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/FileFormats-2004.pdf
Highways Agency Web Archive Policy : Implementation of Web Archive Policy for the Highways Agency
Highways Agency (Date Created: 2008) (United Kingdom)
This report explores archiving requirements for information published on the UK Highways Agency corporate website. It was produced in response to guidance from The National Archives in 2006 and Freedom of Information legislation requirements.
http://www.highways.gov.uk/aboutus/documents/Highways_Agency_Web_Archi
ve_Policy.pdf
Historical How to Deposit Digital Data
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) (Last Updated: 2001) (United Kingdom)
This web page provides links to guidelines for deposit of digital material with service providers for the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), including advice on appropriate documentation and methods. Funding for AHDS ceased in April 2008.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080430164237/http://ahd
s.ac.uk/depositing/how-to-deposit.htm
Site archived by the UK Web Archive.
Ingest Guide for University Electronic Records
Tufts University and Yale University (Date Created: 25 Sep 2006) (United States of America)
This guide is a product of the Preservation of University Records grant project (NHPRC 2004-083) which was a collaboration between Tufts and Yale Universities . It describes the actions for a trustworthy ingest process and presents a detailed description of the complex ingest workflow step by step. It is based on the work of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) and builds upon its OAIS framework.
http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/reports/ingest/index.html
Also avilable for download in PDF from this website.
Historical Ingest Technologies
ERPANET (Date Created: Sep 2004)
This ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network) guidance tool is a brief introduction to ingest and its role in the development of a digital repository system. The appendix contains a companion guide and checklist when defining and/or selecting an ingest strategy, presenting a survey of the factors required for consideration.
http://www.erpanet.org/guidance/docs/ERPANETIngestTool.pdf
ERPA guidance note
Investment in an Intangible Asset
Hunter, Laurie In: Curation Reference Manual (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This installment of the Digital Curation Manual provides strategies in presenting effective arguments for funding bodies on the merits of digital preservation and digital curation. Risks associated with loss of data are identified and the benefits associated with preserving access to data are also discussed. Models for long-term maintenance and sustainability and collaborative approaches to developing models are detailed.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual/completed-cha
pters/investment-intangible-asset
Available in pdf or html
ISO 28500:2009 - Information and Documentation - WARC File format
International Organization for Standardization (Date Created: 13 May 2009)
This standard specifies the WARC file format which is an extension of the ARC format which has been used since 1996 to store files harvested on the web. The WARC format enables the recording of HTTP request headers, the recording of arbitrary metadata, the allocation of an identifier to every contained file, the management of duplicates and migrated records and the segmentation of the records. WARC files are intended to store every type of digital content, either retrieved by HTTP or another protocol.
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm
?csnumber=44717
Information, Maintenance & Drafts available from the BnF at http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/index.html
ISO Archiving Standards : Overview
NASA (Regularly Updated)
This site contains links and background information to the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) and other archival standardization efforts.
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/overview.html
Kriteriji odabira obveznog primjerka mrežne građe za obradu i arhiviranje
Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu (Croatia)
Selection guidelines by the National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.nsk.hr/DigitalLib.aspx?id=83
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Historical Managing the Digitisation of Library, Archive and Museum Materials
National Preservation Office (UK) (Date Created: 10 Dec 2001) (United Kingdom)
This leaflet by the National Preservation Office of the United Kingdom provides library, archive and museum professionals with an introduction to the management of digitisation projects and digital image archives. Topics covered include the project development, justification and scope, material selection, project planning, and management of the project and the digital images, including preservation.
http://www.bl.uk/npo/pdf/digitisation.pdf
Printed copies are also available by contacting the National Preservation Office
MRC Data Sharing and Preservation Initiative
Medical Research Council (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The Medical Research Councill (MRC) in the UK is a taxpayer funded organisation that provides grants for medical research programs and infrastructure. As part of the MRC's Data Sharing and Digital Preservation initiative several documents and guidelines have been produced. These include a policy statement on data sharing and preservation, a report on practical guidance on data preservation, promotion and development of data sharing tools, development of a set of principles in using personal information in medical research and commissioning a report of access to collections of data for health research.
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Ourresearch/Ethicsresearchguidance/Datasharingini
tiative/index.htm
NARA Guidance on Managing Web Records
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (Date Created: Jan 2005) (United States of America)
These guidelines are intended to assist U.S. agencies manage web records.
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/policy/managing-web-records-index
.html
Available in HTML and also in PDF.
National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) Act 2003
New Zealand Government (Date Created: May 2003) (New Zealand)
As part of the legal deposit provisions of this revised legislation, the definition of public documents was extended to include Internet documents, including the whole or parts of web sites. As such the National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ) is authorised to obtain copies of Internet documents as part of its wider responsibility to collect and preserve New Zealand documentary heritage.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/files/Act03-19.pdf
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Historical National Preservation Office Digital Remit
National Preservation Office (Date Created: 2001) (United Kingdom)
The Digital Remit of the National Preservation Office, which set out the NPO's official responsibilities for digital archiving and preservation in the United Kingdom. Featuring amongst the assigned tasks were the assembly of best practice guidelines, the coordination of national digital preservation policy, and the creation of an appropriate comprehensive communication strategy. An important additional responsibility involved the establishment and administration of the Digital Archiving Working Group, to advise the NPO Management Committee.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030402231216/http://www.bl.uk/services/pr
eservation/remit.html
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
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Historical Networked Electronic Publications: Policy and Guidelines
National Library of Canada (Date Created: Oct 1998) (Canada)
This policies and guidelines statement deals with the processes of identifying, locating, acquiring, reporting, storing and preserving networked electronic publications at the National Library of Canada.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/nlc-bnc/networked_epubs-ef/9/8/in
dex-e.html
NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite
National Centre for Biotechnology Information (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
A suite of XML Document Type Definitions created by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information. This DTD suite is intended to preserve the intellectual content of journals independent of the form in which the content was originally delivered. It provides a common format by which publishers and archives can exchange journal content. Complete documentation is available at the site and the suite of modules is available for download by FTP.
http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/
OCLC Digital Archive Preservation Policy and Supporting Documentation
OCLC (Last Updated: 08 Aug 2006) (United States of America)
This set of documentation provides an outline of OCLC’s approach to digital archive preservation. As the policy is a component of OCLC’s digital preservation program, it is dynamic in nature with regular updates. The policy aims to define operational activities involved in digital preservation such as service levels and preservation activities, data format risk assessment, and also includes a preservation action plan. A major component of the policy is the supporting documentation. These include papers on data integrity, digital archive risk assessment and accepted formats and access environments.
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/digitalarchive/preservationp
olicy.pdf
OCLC Digital Archive System Guides: Digital Archive Metadata Elements
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc (Last Updated: 2003)
This document (44 p.) provides an explanation of the metadata elements of the OCLC (Online Computer Library Centre) Digital Archive. Each element is explained and an example of usage given. The OCLC Digital Archive offers long-term preservation for 'born digital' materials.
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/pdf/da_metadata_elements.pdf
Our Cultural Commonwealth. The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences
American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences (Date Created: 13 Dec 2006) (United States of America)
This report makes recommendations to support the development of a cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and social sciences.
http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/OurCulturalCommonwealth.pdf
Print copies can be ordered from http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/
Personal Archiving: Preserving Your Digital Memories
Library of Congress (Date Created: 01 May 2010) (United States of America)
This set of web pages set up by the Library of Congress' NDIIPP provides introductory guidance on personal digital archiving including photos, email, video, audio, personal digital records, and websites.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/
Preservation of Web Resources
Pinsent, Ed (Date Created: 24 Mar 2009) (United Kingdom)
This JISC briefing paper outlines the need for preservation of web resources by UK higher and further education institutions including institutional web sites, collections of learning objects, blogs and wikis. It considers who is and should be undertaking web preservation activities in the UK and the need for preservation policies and coordination between web and digital preservation activities.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/bpwebpreservation.aspx
Also available as PDF JISC Briefing Paper. Document no. 529 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/bpwebpres.pdf
Preserver Guidelines Preserving Digital Records : Guidelines for Organizations
InterPARES 2 Project (Date Created: 2006) (Canada)
These guidelines (12 p.) developed by the InterPARES 2 Project provide practical advice to organisations responsible for long-term preservation of digital records on the management of, and establishing and maintaining the authenticity of digital records.
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2(pub)preserver_guide
lines_booklet.pdf
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Historical Preserving and Sharing Statistical Material
Royal Statistical Society; UK Data Archive (Date Created: 2002) (United Kingdom)
This booklet is aimed at promoting the preservation and sharing of electronic data. it also discusses what should be preserved and includes the RSS Code of Best Practice on the Preservation and Sharing of Statistical Material.
ISBN: 0-906805-02-3
http://www.rss.org.uk/PDF/Archiving.pdf
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Historical Preserving the Memory of the World in Perpetuity: A Joint Statement on the Archiving and Preserving of Digital Information
IFLA and IPA (International Publishers Association) (Last Updated: 12 Aug 2002)
A joint statement by IFLA and the International Publishers Association (IPA) advocating seven principles and recommendations for the long term preservation of digital materials. Both organisations recognise the need for action and will seek to make long term preservation a key agenda item internationally and the focus of standards development, research and support. Libraries are considered best placed to take responsibility for long term preservation; arrangements with publishers, and joint initiatives are forecast.
http://archive.ifla.org/V/press/ifla-ipa02.htm
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Historical PRESTO - IST-1999-20013: Key Links System Specification Document
PrestoSpace Consortium (Last Updated: 26 Jun 2001)
A 135 page report developed from the findings of a preservation survey of audio-visual materials in European Broadcast Archives. Included is information on the system requirements, technological improvements, processing methodologies and metadata specifications for digitally archiving film, audio and video. There is also a useful glossary.
http://presto.joanneum.ac.at/Public/D32.pdf
Recordkeeping Strategies for Websites and Web Pages : State Records Guideline No. 15
Archives Office of Tasmania (Date Created: 14 Dec 2005) (Australia)
"This guideline articulates key principles for managing records of websites, webpages (public or internal) and supporting records and provides a range of recordkeeping strategies that agencies can use to manage these as State records." in Tasmania.
http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/legislative/staterecords/guidelines_lis
t/guideline_15
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Historical Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyber-Infrastructure : Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
Atkins, Daniel E. (Chair); CISE (Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering) (Date Created: Jan 2003) (United States of America)
This report discusses a new approach to data curation and scientific collaboration which will enable the development of an advanced national cyberinfrastructure. This would involve interagency partnerships and collaboration between the various science disciplines. It will create a long term platform for data sharing which would avoid major problems such as data incompatibility, lack of interoperability and permanent loss of observational data due to lack of well-curated, long-term archives. The new cyberinfrastructure would "ensure that the exponentially growing amounts of data are collected, curated, managed, and stored for broad, long-term access by scientists everywhere."
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/sci/reports/atkins.pdf
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Safeguarding Australia's web resources: guidelines for creators and publishers
National Library of Australia (Date Created: Dec 2000) (Australia)
"The guidelines provide advice on creating, describing, naming and managing web resources to facilitate their ongoing use. The practices that are recommended will make it easier to carry out future preservation actions, which may be necessary in the longer term to maintain continued access to important resources."
http://www.nla.gov.au/guidelines/webresources.html
Historical Scientific Data and Information : Report of the CSPR Assessment Panel
Committee on Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR) (Date Created: Dec 2004)
The ICSU (International Council for Science) is a non-government organisation representing over 100 international scientific bodies. This report (43 p.) by the CSPR (Committee on Scientific Planning and Review) assesses the strategic issues in scientific data and information and reviews the ICSU's current activities. This report is wide-ranging, covering all aspects of the data and information lifecycle including the need for long-term management and preservation.
ISBN: 0930357604
http://www.icsu.org/Gestion/img/ICSU_DOC_DOWNLOAD/551_DD_FILE_PAA_Data
_and_Information.pdf
Selection Criteria for Web Resources
WebArchiv (Date Created: 2008) (Czech Republic)
This page sets out the selection criteria for web resources collected by WebArchiv, web archive of the Czech Republic.
http://en.webarchiv.cz/criteria/
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Historical Setting up a Deposit System for Electronic Publications, the Nedlib Guidelines
Steenbakkers, Johan; Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Date Created: Nov 2000) (Netherlands)
This paper summarises the findings of a NEDLIB project that explored a joint approach towards the management and maintenance of electronic publications. The key objective was to produce a common model and terminology for the deposit system for electronic publications. The paper compares the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) with the NEDLIB model and discusses issues such as storage, preparing electronic publications for deposit and setting up a deposit system. It was found that more standards and technology are needed in the area of digital preservation.
ISBN: 9062591493
http://nedlib.kb.nl/results/NEDLIBguidelines.pdf
Report No. 5 in NEDLIB report series
Standards Framework
The National Archives (UK) (United Kingdom)
This webpage includes The National Archives (UK) Standard for Record Repositories and Standards Framework which comprises a range of standards and best practice guidelines in all aspects of record keeping. It also includes guidance on the preservation of digital and electronic records and best practice guidance.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives/framework.htm
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Historical Statement on the Development and Establishment of Codes of Practice for the Voluntary Deposit of Electronic Publications
Conference of European National Librarians (Date Created: 2000)
Official joint statement by the Conference of European National Librarians and the Federation of European publishers on the development of voluntary deposit arrangements for electronic publications. A draft Code of Practice, to facilitate the drafting of locally-endorsed voluntary deposit arrangements, is included in the paper.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030816225756/http://www.kb.nl/gabriel/pro
jects/pages/code-of-practice.html
Historical Strategies for Digital Data : Findings and Recommendations from Digital Data in Archaeology : A Survey of User Needs
Condron, Frances; Richards, Julian; Robinson, Damian; Wise, Alicia (Date Created: 1999) (United Kingdom)
Archaeology Data Service Report. Following an analysis of a survey into the creation, archiving, use and re-use of digital data in archaeology in the United Kingdom, is a set of recommendations.
ISBN: 0 9536043 0 6
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/strategies/
Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM)
International Records Managment Trust (Date Created: Jun 2009)
The Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) programme was developed by the International Records Management Trust as part of the "Fostering trust and transparency in governance: Investigating and addressing the requirements for building integrity in public sector information systems in the ICT environment" (2006 to 2008) project. It consists of a series of five training modules on electronic records management plus related resource materials (Glossary, Route Maps, Best Practice Indicators). Modules include: 1. Understanding the context of electronic records management; 2. Planning and managing an electronic records management programme; 3. Managing the creation, use and disposition of electronic records; 4. Preserving Electronic Records; and 5. Personnel Records as the information base for human resources and payroll management.
http://www.irmt.org/researchReports.html
The training materials plus case studies and reports from the project are available from this url.
Training in Electronic Records Management: Module 4: Preservation of Electronic Records
Brown, Adrian; Katuu, Shadrack; Sebina, Peter; Seles, Anthea In: Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) (Date Created: Jun 2009)
This module of the Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) programme developed by the International Records Management Trust, provides an introduction to key concepts and ideas including the challenges of preserving electronic records. Topics include: Understanding key concepts in digital preservation; Basic digital preservation practices; Preserving electronic records in a trusted digital repository; and, Current research and future directions.
http://www.irmt.org/documents/educ_training/term%20modules/IRMT%20TERM
%20Module%204.pdf
Available as PDF and print copy
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Historical Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities
(Date Created: May 2002) (United States of America)
This joint RLG-OCLC report is the result of a working group that was created to establish attributes of a digital repository for the long-term preservation of and access to research materials in digital form. It discusses seven attributes of 'trusted digital repositories' and is intended for cultural institutions who have traditional or legal responsibilities for the preservation of cultural heritage.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/trustedrep/repositories.pdf
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Historical VERS: Building a Digital Record Heritage
Quenault, Howard (Date Created: Feb 2004) (Australia)
The Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) is “a framework of standards, guidance and practical implementation projects centred around the goal of reliably and authentically archiving electronic records created or managed by the Victorian government”. The article provides an overview into the background and vision of the program, the VERS Centre of Excellence, developing the digital archive and future directions of the program.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2004/2004pdfs/13Quena.PDF
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Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) : Version 2
Public Record Office Victoria (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This web site has links to the standard "Management of Electronic Records", its supporting specifications and the explanatory advices, which were revised in July 2003. The five supporting specifications include system requirements for preserving electronic records, metadata, standard electronic record format, long term preservation formats and export of electronic records to PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). Specification 4 was updated to include PDF/A,JPEG, JPEG-2000, MPEG-4 in Aug 2006 and Specification 5 was updated for the PROV's new digital Archive.
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/standard/version2.asp
Web-At-Risk Web Collection Plans
Web-At-Risk, California Digital Library (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This page on the Web-at-Risk Wiki contains a links to a variety of web collection plans or statements for various organisations. The statements give an overview of the mission & scope, selection acquisition, description, metadata, preservation and access intentions for web harvesting for particular collections.
https://wiki.cdlib.org/WebAtRisk/tiki-index.php?page=WebCollectionPlan
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Website Archiving Policy : National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia (Date Created: 23 Jan 2004) (Australia)
This document describes the strategies used to ensure that the content accessible through the National Library of Australia's websites is archived in accordance with government policy and guidelines. The strategies cover content made accessible through the Library's public website, intranet, websites hosted by the Library and websites mirrored by the Library. The document also includes the web record archiving workflow.
http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/webarchive/archstrat.html

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Projects and Case Studies

Adapt : an Approach to Digital Archiving and Preservation Technology
Institute for Advanced Computer Study, University of Maryland (Date Created: 2004) (United States of America)
The ADAPT project operates within the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). The Project's partners include the National Archives, San Diego Supercomputing Center and Fujitsu Laboratories of America. The Adapt approach comprises a distributed archive infrastructure based on Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, using grid technologies and web services and operating on several levels of abstraction. This collaborative approach offers cost savings, resource sharing, infrastructure support and risk mitigation.
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/research/adapt/index.html
Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past: Towards a Robust Strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation
Stijn Hoorens; Jeff Rothenberg; Constantijn van Oranje; Martin van der Mandele; Ruth Levitt (Date Created: 2007) (Netherlands)
This report prepared for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek reviews the history of digital preservation, the role of National Libraries and publishers and discusses the dynamic environment of scholarly publishing. The report considers the strategy implications for the KB and its e-Depot archive.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/
Summary and Full document in PDF available for download from http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/ also available for sale. RAND (Technical ) Report TR-510-KB
AIMS Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship
University of Virginia (Date Created: Oct 2009) (United States of America)
This project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a partnership between the University of Virginia, Stanford University, the University of Hull, and Yale University. It will run from October 2009 to October 2011. It aims to process 13 born digital collections of notable individuals or organisations and make them available via a Hydra or Fedora based solution. It is also intended to foster the development of the digital archivist community and share the lessons learned from processing and preserving a varied range of born-digital collections.
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims/
Historical It Always Hurts the First Time: Experiences with Transferred Electronic Records
van Dijk, Marcel In: Cultivate Interactive (Date Created: Feb 2003) (Netherlands)
This case study notes the problems of transferring electronic records to the Amsterdam Public Record Office from a government agency. The study covers issues such as project planning, metadata, various file formats such as e-mails and text files.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue9/amsterdammro/
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's e-Journal archives project
Digital Library Federation (DLF) (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
A web-site linking projects undertaken by 7 major American libraries on the digital archiving of electronic journals. Each project is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and uses the minimum requirements for the digital archiving of electronic journals developed by the DLF, CLIR and CNI in early 2000.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/ejp.htm
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Historical AOLA : Austrian On-Line Archive
Department of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology (Regularly Updated) (Austria)
Website of the AOLA (Austrian On-Line Archive) pilot project, a joint initiative of the Austrian National Library and the Technical University of Vienna's Department of Software Technology. AOLA is being constructed as an archive of snapshots of Austrian webspace, based upon periodic harvesting of publicly available websites. The project was established to investigate the challenges associated with the collection and archiving of online publications, which were not covered by the 2000 amendments to legal deposit legislation. This pilot project ran 2001-2002
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/
ARCHIPOL : Archive of Web Sites of Political Parties in the Netherlands
ARCHIPOL (Date Created: 2003) (Netherlands)
The aim of this project was to archive the web sites of political parties in the Netherlands. There are links to project information such as software and progress reports. The project was designed as a pilot study so that the results could be used to develop a model to help other institutions archive web sites. Included are parties websites for 2002, 2003 and 2006.
http://www.archipol.nl/english/index.html
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Historical Archival Digital Libraries Repositories
Stanford University Database Group (Last Updated: Jan 2003) (United States of America)
This exploratory project, supported by the National Science Foundation (09/15/1998 – 08/31/2001), aimed to implement and design a Digital Library Repository (DLR) that “will permanently store the digital objects that make up a library”. The DLR will allow organizations to work together in a shared repository. In order to achieve these goals, research will be undertaken by the project team into such areas as the identification of digital objects, metadata management, the replication of digital objects for archival purposes and the development of architecture and interfaces for a DLR.
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~crespo/archivalrep/
Historical Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) : Final Report
Shirky, Clay (Date Created: Jun 2005) (United States of America)
The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was designed to test a proposed preservation architecture. The test had two phases; phase one tested the transfer from the donating archive and data handling within local systems; phase two tested export and import between the participants. The participants of the project were the Library of Congress, Stanford University, Old Dominion University, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University Library. A common data set, the George Mason University 9/11 archive, provided the data for the test.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/aiht/high/ndiipp_aiht_fina
l_report.pdf
ArchivePress
ULCC (University of London Computer Centre) (Date Created: Jun 2009) (United Kingdom)
This joint project by ULCC (University of London Computer Centre and the British Library is financed by JISC (1 June 2009 to 30 Nov 2009). It will explore practical issues around the archiving of weblog content and will test the viability of using RSS feeds and blog APIs to harvest blog content (including comments, embedded content and metadata) instead of web crawling & harvesting techniques.
http://archivepress.ulcc.ac.uk/
Historical Archiving Smithsonian Websites : an Evaluation and Recommendation for a Smithsonian Institution Archives Pilot Project
Smithsonian Institution Archives Records Management Team (Date Created: May 2003) (United States of America)
This report outlines a proposal for a pilot project to archive Smithsonian websites and is the result of the evaluation and testing of Dollar Consulting's report Archival Preservation of Smithsonian Web Resources: Strategies, Principles, and Best Practice Archival Preservation of Smithsonian Web Resources: Strategies, Principles, and Best Practice, published in 2001. It includes proposed recommendations for archival management, access to archived websites, processing dynamic websites and cost estimates, and notes the results of test migrations of HTML to XHTML, which were based on Dollar Consulting's earlier recommendations.
http://siarchives.si.edu/pdf/websitepilot.pdf
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Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Date Created: 2001) Reviewed by: Museums Seek Methods for Preserving Digital Art ; How to Preserve Digital Art
Archiving the Avant Garde is a collaborative project to develop, document, and disseminate strategies for describing and preserving non-traditional, intermedia, and variable media art forms, such as performance, installation, conceptual, and digital art.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/avantgarde
Archiving the Web Sites of Political Parties in Germany : a Joint Project of the Archives of Political Foundations Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : Politisches Internet Archiv
Archiv de sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Date Created: 2006) (Germany)
Although this site is mostly in German there are some links to English reosources and similar projects.
http://www.fes.de/archiv/spiegelung/default.htm
Historical ARNO project (Academic Research in the Netherlands Online)
Amsterdam University Library (UBA) (Last Updated: Sep 2003) (Netherlands)
A cooperative project, ARNO was established to link the document servers of the University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University and the University of Twente, to make their academic output electronically accessible. The initiative build on the outcomes of earlier IWI projects and Open Archives Initiative, and aimed to connect the universities to international digital archives and the Dutch information network.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071208005458rn_1/www.uba.uva.nl/projecten
/object.cfm?objectid=1A103F4F-A900-4FCF-9BA16965AAE3D75E
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Arquivo Da Web Portuguesa : Portuguese Web Archive
Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional (Date Created: Jan 2008) (Portugal)
The Portuguese Web Archive is a project of the National Foundation for Scientific Computing - Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional (FCCN) in Portugal. The first stage of development began in January 2008 and it is expected to to finish within two years. It was preceded by the Tomba project which collected sites from 2002-2006.
http://arquivo-web.fccn.pt/
Assessment of UKDA and TNA Compliance with OAIS and METS Standards
Beedham, Hilary; Missen, Julie; Palmer, Matt; Ruusalepp, Raivo (Date Created: 2005) (United Kingdom)
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) under its Institutional Digital Preservation and Asset Management Programme, this extensive report compares the current practices of the UKDA (UK Data Archive) and TNA (UK National Archives) with the OAIS reference model and the METS standard. The OAIS reference model (ISO 14721) is the major international standard for digital archives. This report is also designed to be used by other institutions to help gauge their compliance to this standard. The assessment was undertaken by the UKDA, The National Archives and the Estonian Business Archive.
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/oaismets.pdf
Australasian Digital Theses Program
University of New South Wales (Regularly Updated) (Australia; New Zealand)
The aim of the project was to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at participating Australian institutions. Originally called the the Australian Digital Theses Program, it was extended and renamed in December 2004 and now includes theses from New Zealand as well as Australian universities that are members of CAUL. The theses are available via the web from this website.
http://adt.caul.edu.au/
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Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
Scholarly Technology Services, Australian National University (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
This project, funded by the Australian Dept. of Education, Science and Training (Jan 2004 to 2007), has five partners - the Australian National University, National Library of Australia, University of Queensland, University of Sydney and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing. The aim of the project is to act as a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format. The project consists of four interlinked programs - digital continuity and sustainability, International linkages program, National Services Program and Practices and Testbed.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/index.html
BOA: Baden-Württembergisches Online-Archiv
(Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Established in 2006, the Baden-Württemberg Online Archive (BOA), collects and catalogues web resources on the German State of Baden-Württemberg, comprising a large collection of government websites. All resources are available online. The system is run by the Bibliotheksservice- Zentrum (Library Service Centre) Baden-Württemberg (BSZ), a support institution for libraries and archives. Two state libraries the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, and the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, and the archive Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg cooperate in archiving websites in this system.
http://www.boa-bw.de
Building a Digital Archive : a Dutch Experience
Horsman, Peter; Pompe, Klaartje In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Dec 2005) (Netherlands)
This article describes a project to develop a digital repository for the long term preservation of the digital contents of the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam. The project is a collaboration between the Archives and the Netherlands Archives School. The article outlines the processes and objectives over 2 years, including the project management technique of 'time boxing'; migration of documents to XML; system design; and testing DSpace. The article ends with some observations on open source software.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
502.html#article2
Building a Digital Repository: A Practical Implementation
Boudrez, Filip (Date Created: 30 Aug 2008) (Belgium)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Centre, 29-30 Sept. 2008) provides a case study for the implementation of a digital repository at the Antwerp City Archives. Organisational issues and the importance of aligning record-keeping and digital archiving practices are emphasised.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/42_Boudrez.pdf
Business Plan Archive
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Launched in 2002, this thematic archive is a companion to the Dot.Com archive. It is a non-profit research project developed at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. The repository includes business plans, marketing plans, venture presentations and audio files from the dot.com era in the 1990s. The University of Maryland researchers received a grant from the Library of Congress to develop a digital repository to preserve these records from both successful and unsuccessful business ventures. Since 2008 public access to the archive is no longer permitted. The archive now supports non-commercial academic research and education only. Intending researchers need to contact the administrator.
http://www.businessplanarchive.org/
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Historical CAMiLEON : Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds : Emulating the Old on the New
Hedstrom, Margaret (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom; United States of America) Has papers: CAMiLEON Project : Legal Issues Arising From the Work Aiming to Preserve Elements of the Interactive Multimedia Work Entitled "The BBC Domesday Project"
Project CAMiLEON (Creative Archiving at Michigan & Leeds : Emulating the Old on the New) examined issues relating to the implementation of technology emulation as a digital preservation strategy. The project recognised emulation's potential to retain the functionality and 'look and feel' of digital objects created on now obsolete systems. It hoped to develop tools, guidelines and costings for emulation as compared to other digital preservation options. The project ran until 2003.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080408134751/http://www
.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/
Archived by UK Web Archive
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Historical Capturing Unstable Media
V2_ Organisation (Date Created: 2003) (Netherlands)
Developed by the V2_ Organisation, this project used two electronic art projects as case studies to focus on ways to capture and preserve electronic art independent of medium, including documentation, metadata and interoperability aspects. The project has resulted in a series of recommendations, including documentation guidelines and a formal model (ontology). The results of the project were added to the website in March 2004.
http://capturing.projects.v2.nl/
Case Study: Digital Preservation at the National Library of New Zealand
Sun Microsystems (Date Created: May 2008) (New Zealand)
This document describes the hardware and software architecture underpinning the National Digital Heritage Archive and its development through a partnership between the National Library of New Zealand and commercial vendors Sun Microsystems and Ex Libris.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/library-documents/sun-microsystem
s-case-study
CASPAR : Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Knowledge Preservation for Access and Retrieval
CASPAR Consortium (Date Created: 01 Apr 2006)
This project commenced in April 2006 and is due to be completed in October 2009. It is coordinated by the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, UK and is partly funded by the European Union. It is a large scale project which will develop a methodology for digital preservation activities across a disparate range of data types coming from the sciences, arts and culture.
http://www.casparpreserves.eu/
From Casual History to Digital Preservation
Davidow, Ari (Date Created: 31 Mar 2007) (United States of America)
This paper given at Museums and the Web 2007 (April 11-14, 2007, San Francisco, California) considers the digital preservation issues surrounding the .Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) "Katrina's Jewish Voices" Project and the lessons learned.
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/davidow/davidow.html
Available in J. Trant & D. Bearman (eds.) Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings.
Center For Information as Evidence
(Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The CIE is located within the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, and serves as an interdisciplinary forum addressing the ways in which information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative, scientific, social, cultural and historical evidence. Recent projects of digital preservation interest include, Building the Future of Archival Education and Reserch, InterPARES 1&2 and Record/Replay.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie/
Historical Center for Research Libraries : Certification of Digital Archives Project
Center for Research Libraries (Date Created: May 2005) (United States of America)
This project which was funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, ran from May 2005 to October 2006. This project had three phases to establish a methodology for auditing digital archives and repositories. Other information about the project such as background, timetable, metrics and terminology, participating archives and project outputs is available from the website.
http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/past-projec
ts/cda
Chesapeake Project : Legal Information Archive
(Date Created: 2007) (United States of America)
The Chesapeake Project began in early 2007 as a two year (2007-2008) digital preservation program established to preserve and provide ongoing access to legal information available on the World Wide Web. It began as a collaboration between the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA), an independent organization of law libraries supported by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and three LIPA-member libraries: the Georgetown Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia. The 3 libraries have expanded the program beyond the pilot phase.
http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/
Chronopolis Digital Preservation Demonstration Project
San Diego Supercomputer Center (Date Created: 2007) (United States of America)
Chronopolis is a datagrid framework being developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the University of California at San Diego Libraries and their partners at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado and the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies in College Park. It is a demonstration project of NDIIPP, using datagrid technologies to develop best practices for data packaging and transmission among different digital archive systems, and develop alliances.
http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/
Classic Software Preservation Project (CLASP)
Internet Archive (Date Created: 2004)
This project is funded by the Internet Archive and commenced in January 2004. The aim of the project is to permanently archive classic, obsolete retail software from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Although the software is not publicly available due to copyright restrictions, there is a database of information on the archived software. The project will also collaborate with the Classic Amiga Preservation Society on developing universal standards for software archiving.
http://www.archive.org/details/clasp
CLOCKSS : Controlled Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
LOCKSS Program (Date Created: Jan 2006)
CLOCKSS (Contolled LOCKSS) began as a two year project of the LOCKSS Program (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) based at Stanford University in early 2006. The project aimed to 'test the LOCKSS technology and social model to support a large dark archive that is both fail safe and has an acceptable process for providing continuing access for orphaned materials.' The project replicated a representative portion of material from publisher members using a version of LOCKSS within a network of long-standing institutions and libraries and was accountable to a joint board from the library, publishing and learned society sectors. In mid 2008 the resulting archive was transitioned from prototype to production going live in early 2009.
http://www.lockss.org/clockss/
Collecting, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Design Data
Fallon, Kristine (Last Updated: Oct 2007) (United States of America)
Initiated by the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and undertaken by Kristine Fallon and Associates, with funding from the Schiff Foundation and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts the purpose of the study was to examine the collection, archiving, and uses of digital design data produced by architects and industrial designers. The results of the study are extensive and are divided into 25 files. Section two is of most relevance as it deals with archiving digital design data: practices and technology, including preparing, collecting, and processing the data and its cataloguing, storage, and preservation. The study's final recommendations cover the life cycle of a digital work of art, including: types and classification of data appropriate for collection; indexing and metadata; data formats (archival, native, and derivative); format registration; storage; long-term maintenance; periodic migration; format updates and disaster recovery provisions for digital originals; and techniques for and opportunities to provide digital archive access to a broader community. The project was finalised in Spring 2007 and it was decided to make the software which was developed DAArch software version 1.0 open source.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/depts/architecture/ddd.html
Historical DAAT : Digital Asset Assessment Tool
AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) (Date Created: 20 Jul 2004) (United Kingdom)
This project began in October 2004 and scheduled to be completed by May 2006. The purpose of the project was to develop and produce a digital preservation assessment tool aimed at the research and higher education sectors but also capable of being deployed in other sectors such as archives and national libraries. The tool was aimed at identification and assessment of preservation risk to digital assets. Reports and deliverables available from the ULCC project website. Funding for AHDS ceased in 2008.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080430164023/http://ahd
s.ac.uk/about/projects/daat/index.htm
Site archived by the UK Web Archive.
DACHS: Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg (Regularly Updated)
Operating since August 2001 and based at the University of Heidelberg, DACHS "aims at identifying, archiving and making accessible Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies, with special emphasis on social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet." Collected resources include websites, discussion boards, journals, newsletters and single documents. On overview of the archive's collection policy, workflow and technical infrastructure is available.
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS)
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is funded by an award from the Library of Congress to acquire and preserve data from opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys, and other social science studies. The three-year project is a broad-based partnership between the several major American social science data archives and the National Archives and Records Administration. The project will concentrate on four areas - content identification and selection, content acquisition, partnership building and content retention and transfer. Funding was extended for a further 18 months in 2007. The website includes a shared catalogue search facility and links to presentations and publications.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DATAPASS/
Dataverse Network Project
King, Gary (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This project builds on the Virtual Data Center Project but uses new software developed in 2006. It allows publishers and individuals to set up dataverses (self-contained data archives hosted virtually on the Dataverse Network website) with special citation mechanisms that act as a persistent identification system.
http://thedata.org/
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Historical DAVID: Digitale Archivering in Vlaamse Instellingen en Diensten (Digital Archiving in Flemish Institutions and Administrations)
City Archives of Antwerp (Last Updated: 10 Jan 2003)
The DAVID Project was a 4 year collaboration of the City of Antwerp Archives and ICRI to research digital durability in a governmental environment which ended in December 2003. It sought to develop best practices for archiving electoral and population data, emails and websites and produced a manual on electronic archiving (last updated January 2006).
http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/davidproject/
Historical Developing a Trusted Digital Repository: the OCLC Experience
Lawson, Dawn; Spies, Phyllis B (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United States of America)
This article focuses on the OCLC’s (Online Computer Library Centre) experience in developing a digital archive. The development of standards for digital archiving and preservation metadata with RLG (Research Libraries Group) in defining the main attributes of a trust digital repository is described, as are the main tools and functions of the archive including the harvest, ingest and dissemination of archived objects. The Connecticut State Library’s use of OCLC’s Web archiving tools is also discussed.
http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410530960
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 27-32, ISSN 0305-5278 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
Historical Digital Archives Attributes Working Group
Research Libraries Group (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
A joint OCLC/RLG initiative, the Digital Archives Attributes Working Group was engaged in defining the elements of a sustainable digital archive for large general research collections. Drawing on the efforts of international experts, outcomes of the research were inted to be of assistance to research institutions building archival systems.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070101051700/http://www.rlg.org/longterm/
attribswg.html
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Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (Last Updated: 2005) (United States of America)
The United States Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Expert Committee (CSTB) assessed the digital archiving needs of the National Archives and Records Administration. The CSTB assessed technologies for long-term digital archiving and preservation, developed a picture of what was available commercially and what should be in the near term, as well as the feasibility of commercializing new ideas from research. The project produced a report in 2004 with recommendations for initial development, and a final report at the end of the project in 2005 recommending long-term strategies which are available from this website.
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cstb/CompletedProjects/CSTB_042357
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
DIAMM (Regularly Updated)
A collaborative project of the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, the Digital Archive of Medieval Music has been established as a permanent electronic archive of European medieval polyphonic music. Also developed in consultation with the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the DIAMM project outcome emphasises the permanent preservation of digital images.
http://www.diamm.ac.uk/
Historical Digital Preservation in Practice: The e-Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Oltmans, Erik; van Wijngaarden, Hilde (Date Created: Jan 2004) (Netherlands)
This article describes the Koninklijke Bibliotheek’s (KB – Netherlands’ National Library) partnership with IBM in relation to the long-term preservation of digital materials. Both parties have developed a standard-based deposit system called the e-Depot. This article not only provides an overview of the main functions of the e-Depot, but describes further developments by the KB/IBM team, including a preservation manager for the storage and use of technical metadata within the e-Deport and an access tool, the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03055720410530951
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 21-26, ISSN 0305-5728 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
Digital Preservation In Radiology : Ensuring Long Term Accessibility of Digital Medical Images
Kulovits, Hannes; Rauber, Andreas (Date Created: 31 Mar 2009)
This Digital Preservation Europe briefing paper outlines the preservation requirements of digital imaging in European medical practices and suggests that additional efforts may be required to establish trusted repositories through risk assessment and compliance auditing.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/digital_pr
eservation_in_radiology.pdf
Digital Preservation Europe Briefing Paper
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Digital Services Project
National Library of Australia (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
In 1998, the National Library of Australia identified a requirement for robust, high performance systems to manage its present and future digital collections and to support shared access to digital collections in cooperation with other institutions. To this end it commenced the Digital Services Project. The Library defined digital services to mean services exploiting digital technologies to provide access to traditional documentary resources and to ensure the long-term preservation of, and access to, documents available only in digital form. The project was reviewed in 2006.
http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/
Documenting Internet2 : a Collaborative Model for Developing Electronic Records Capabilities in the Small Archival Repository
Charles Babbage Institute (United States of America)
This 18 month project, which began in January 2004, administered by the Charles Babbage Institue (CBI) in conjunction with the University of Minnesota (UMN) and supported by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the funding arm of the National Archives. The purpose of the project was to develop feasible methods for selection, description, and long term preservation of historically significant born-digital records in the subject area of history of information technology. Internet2 is a non-profit consortium of over 200 universities working with industry and government to provide high speed networking capabilities to the research community, and relies heavily on electronic media. The final report was issued in March 2006 and is available from this website.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/documentinginternet2/index.html
DotcomArchive
(Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This archive began in 2002. It is a thematic archive that collects and preserves digital documents from technology companies that did not survive the dot.com boom in the 1990's. The Dot.Com archive includes corporate documents such as PowerPoint demonstrations, emails and business plans. It is a non-profit research project developed at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. It includes the Business Plan Archive a research database for researchers interested in studying high-tech entrepreneurship in the Dot Com Era. From 2008 the Business Plan Archive is available to academic researchers by signed research agreement.
http://dotcomarchive.org/
Double Bind of E-journal Collections
Fox, Robert (Date Created: 2007) (United States of America)
This article compares and contrasts the philosophies and technical underpinnings of LOCKSS and Portico, two different approaches used for e-journal archiving and preservation of born digital material.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/10650750710720739
Also available in PDF and in OCLC Systems and Services: International Library Perspectives ISSN 1065-075X Vol 23, Issue 1, 2007, pp21-29
DSpace@Cambridge Project
Cambridge University Library (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
This project was a 3-year collaboration between Cambridge University Library (CUL) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries, to establish a digital institutional repository for Cambridge University. Expected deliverables included the development of improved digital preservation functionality in the DSpace software platform. The project ended and it became a strategic service on 1 July 2006. The Repository website is available at http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
ECHO DEPository Project
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Exploring Collaborations to Harness Objects in a Digital Environment for Preservation (ECHO DEPository) Project began as a three-year partnership (Fall 2004 to Fall 2007) with the Library of Congress under its National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The project will concentrate on four areas - selection rationale development, including developing a methodology for selecting digital materials for preservation; tools development involving building software to facilitate selection and preservation of digital materials; repository evaluation; and long term preservation research which involves researching the problems in preserving the authenticity and semantic meaning of digital resources. Extended to Phase 2 for 2008-2009.
http://www.ndiipp.uiuc.edu/
Historical Economics of Digital Preservation : a Project of OCLC Research
OCLC (Date Created: 2002)
This site provides an overview of the economic issues associated with digital preservation and proposes a project which will investigate foundational issues associated with the economics of digital preservation. It provides information on the scope and methodology of the project, including a link to the white paper 'The Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials: Roles, Scenarios, and Economic Decision-Making' by Brian Lavoie, which is the first major step in this project.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/digipres/economics.shtm
Embracing the Future: Embedding Digital Repositories in the University of London
Hoorens, Stijn; van Dijk, Lidia Villalba; van Stolk, Christian (Date Created: Oct 2008) (United Kingdom)
This report prepared for the SHERPA-LEAP Consortium investigated the potential benefits of digital repositories, barriers to embedding digital repositories and how barriers can be overcome. The study was conducted through an assessment of current awareness and attitudes of stakeholders regarding digital repositories in three case study institutions in the UK Higher Education sector (London School of Economics LSE Research Online, UCL Eprints and Birkbeck ePrints).
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR625/
RAND Technical Report . Full report and summary available for downlod in PDF
Espida: Making it Happen by Getting Real
University of Glasgow (Last Updated: Jan 2007) (United Kingdom)
The espida model project (An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Assets) was completed in January 2007. The project web site describes the process, staff etc and has documents that can be downloaded including a handbook. Originally developed for digital preservation activities, the documents can be used to present business cases, evaluate proposals and compare change decisions using cost and value templates which articulate both financial and non-financial benefits or impacts.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/index.shtml
Espida: Making It Happen By Getting Real
University of Glasgow (Last Updated: 31 Jan 2007) (United Kingdom)
The Espida (An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Assets) project was funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and based at the University of Glasgow. The project began in October 2004 and focused on developing a model of digital preservation that encompasses sustainable institutional management of digital assets. The model features relationships, roles and responsibilities, costs, benefits and risks. The project completed in January 2007 and produced a model and handbook which provides a guide to developing a business case for digital preservation within an organisation.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/index.shtml
EVA: The Acquisition and Archiving of Electronic Network Publications
Helsinki University Library (Last Updated: 15 Dec 1997) (Finland)
The central aim of the project is to create methods and tools to collect, register and archive electronic publications distributed on the Internet and to investigate conditions for long-term preservation of them in libraries. EVA, coordinated by Helsinki University Library, is a joint project by libraries, publishers and expert organisations, being part of the Finnish Ministry of Education's strategy program: Education, Training and Research in the Information Society. See also: 'EVA - The Acquisition and Archiving of Electronic Network Publications In Finland' by Kirsti Lounamaa and Inkeri Salonharju in Tietolinja News.
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/eva/english.html
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Historical Experiences and Conclusions From a Pilot Study : Web Archiving of the District and County Elections 2001 : Final Report for the Pilot Project "netarkivet.dk"
Brugger, Niels; Carlsen, Soren Vejrup ; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Birte; Finnemann, Niels Ole; Fonss-Jorgensen, Eva; Hendriksen, Birgit; von Hielmcrone, Harald (Date Created: Feb 2003) (Denmark)
This is the final report of a project which began in 2001. The report discusses the issues arising from using existing software to harvest and test material relating to Danish elections, including costs and financing, storage and archiving, methods of harvesting and legal issues.
http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/webark-final-rapport-2003.pdf
Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project
Dockins, Robert; Glick, Kevin; Wilczek, Eliot In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2006) (United States of America)
This article provides an overview of the recently completed Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project being undertaken by the Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University and Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University. The project aimed at combining electronic records preservation research and theory and digital library research and practice. The article discusses recordkeeping systems and preservation activities, and the two of the products of the project the Ingest Guide and Maintain Guide.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file2
514.html#article0
Florida Digital Archive and DAITSS: A Model for Digital Preservation
Caplan, Priscilla In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010) (United States of America)
This article describes the Florida Digital Archive (FDA) and the DAITSS (Dark Archive in the Sushine State) preservation repository application used by FDA in the context of various models for implementing digital preservation.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047631
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 224-234
futureArch
Oxford University Library Services (Date Created: Dec 2008) (United Kingdom)
This project of the Bodleian Library (2008-2011) which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is aimed at transforming the Library's capacity to manage its digital archives and manuscripts. Through the project adjustments will be made to curatorial practices, policies, systems and workflows. A new service the Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts (BEAM) which will act as a trusted digital repository for digital archives will be developed, the backlog of born-digital material in existing collections will be addressed, and improvements made for access to the digital collections.
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/beam/projects/futurearch
Historical GPO LOCKSS Pilot Project
United States. Government Printing Office. (Date Created: 20 Jun 2005) (United States of America)
This article describes the United States Government Printing Office 12 month pilot project using LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) as a means to manage, disseminate, and preserve access to Web-based Federal Government e-journals that are within the scope of the FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) and the IES (International Exchange Service).
http://web.archive.org/web/20070608001124/http://www.access.gpo.gov/su
_docs/fdlp/lockss/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Historical Hybrid Archives Project : Towards an Extensible Model for Depositing Institutional Assets
Arts and Humanities Data Service (Last Updated: Jul 2004) (United Kingdom)
Hybrid Archives (formerly Partial Deposit) Project, lead by the AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service) from the UK was aimed at addressing two key issues facing JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) information environment: first, it looked into institutional barriers to depositing collections with data services and second, into shortcoming of the OAI harvesting methodology for disclosing metadata for searching at a rich level of granularity, as well as the lack of provision for the long-term preservation of deposited material. The project aimed at establishing a flexible cooperative approach between the depositing institution and the deposit archive, with both being involved in management, long-term preservation and funding of the deposited digital collections. The project ran until July 2004. NB: Funding for AHDS ceased in 2008.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080430164019/http://ahd
s.ac.uk/about/projects/hybrid-archives/index.htm
Site archived by the UK Web Archive.
IIPC Member Archives: Archive List
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) (Date Created: Dec 2009)
This registry lists web archives of members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). It provides a detailed description of each web archive, including information about the collecting institution, the harvesting methods (domain, selective, or thematic), the language of the user interface, methods for accessing the archived content, and whether there are any access restrictions that researchers need to be aware of.
http://netpreserve.org/about/archiveList.php
Implementing PREMIS: A Case Study of the Florida Digital Archive
Conway, Paul; Donaldson, Devan Ray In: Library Hi Tech Volume 28 Issue 2. Special Issue: Technology and Digital Preservation (Date Created: Jun 2010) (United States of America)
This article describes the PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) implementation process within the Florida Digital Archive (FDA) in an attempt to better understand the implementation process and potential organisational barriers to wider PREMIS uptake.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831011047677
Library Hi Tech, Vol 28 No. 2, 2010, pp. 273-289
Historical InterPARES 2: Experimental, Interactive and Dynamic Records
Luciana Duranti (Last Updated: 31 Dec 2006) (Canada)
The website of the InterPARES 2 Project, the second phase of the originating InterPARES project, which was funded for 2002-2006. Details are given of the scope of the project, international participants and research output produced. It was succeeded by the third phase InterPARES 3.
http://www.interpares.org/ip2_index.cfm
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Historical JERRI: Ohio's Joint Electronic Records Repository Initiative
Arp, Charles (Last Updated: 10 Jul 2001) (United States of America)
JERRI was a joint project between the Ohio Historical Society, the State Library of Ohio, the Ohio Supercomputer Centre and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services to maintain public access to state electronic records and web-based publications of enduring historical value via an electronic archive. Work is continuing through a partnership with OCLC's digital collection management and preservation project. Final Report issued in June 2001.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ohiojunction.net/jerri/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
JHOVE : JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment : Digital Format Specific Validation
Harvard University Library; JSTOR (Last Updated: Dec 2007)
Purpose : JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is a project to automate the identification and validation of file formats.This process is based on the file itself rather than the filename extension.
Documentation : Access to tutorials, use cases and downloadable modules are available. Project followed by the JHOVE2 project.
http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/index.html
JISC Final Report – Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory Project
Abbott, Daisy (Date Created: Jul 2008) (United Kingdom)
This is the final report of the Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory Project funded by JISC July 2007 to June 2008. The project aimed to identify every repository of digital content that is free (non-commercial) to UK Higher Education institutions and hosted within the UK, and to examine the technical infrastructure and preservation environment of the content.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitalrepositories/d
rai-end-project-report.doc
JISC-PoWR : Preservation of Web Resources : A JISC-sponsored project
JISC-PoWR (Date Created: 23 Apr 2008) (United Kingdom)
This blog was set up to support the JISC-PoWR project which was initiated by the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee and ran from April to September 2008. It was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at Bath University and ULCC Digital Archives department. The project aimed to “organise workshops and produce a handbook that specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community”. Links to the handbook and presnetations at events which were held June, July & September 2008 are included. The blog has continued after the finalisation of the project with posts relevant to the the project aims.
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
JSTOR (Journal Storage): The Scholarly Journal Archive
JSTOR Journal Storage (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
One of JSTOR's aims is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Back issues of paper journals have been converted into electronic formats allowing savings in space (and in capital costs associated with that space) while simultaneously improving access to the journal content. It is also hoped that the project may offer a solution to preservation problems associated with storing paper volumes.
http://www.jstor.org/
JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment (JHOVE)
Donnelly, Martin (Date Created: Mar 2006)
JHOVE is an open source framework for the identification, validation and characterisation of various file formats, including html. xml, gif, tiff, jpeg2000, and wave. The article looks at how formats are identified, validated and characterisated as well as system development, standards and legal factors. Also included are sample records.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/109
DCC Case Studies and Interviews, ISSN 1749-8767
KB e-Depot Digital Archiving Policy
Oltmans, Erik; van Wijngaarden, Hilde (Date Created: 2006) (Netherlands)
This paper discusses the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's policy and ambitions for digital archiving of electronic publications. It provides an overview of the KB's e-depot repository and the requirement and potential for collaboration.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07378830610715464
Also available in PDF and from Library Hi Tech ISSN 0737-8831 ; Volume: 24 Issue: 4; 2006 pp. 604-613
Keeping Electronic Records Accessible : How the Federal Archives of Germany Preserves the Digital Heritage of the German Democratic Republic : a Case Study
Hanger, Andrea (Date Created: May 2006) (Germany)
The author introduces this case study by generally discussing the issues for the Federal Archives of Germany in the acquisition, preservation, accessibility, authenticity and reliability of electronic records. The case study which considers factors affecting the preservation of 200 data sets created in the German Democratic Republic between 1970 and 1990 and now stored in the Federal Archives of Germany digital repository. It is used to illustrate the importance of archivists being involved early in the record life cycle to encourage data producers to supply complete and accurate documentation and comprehensive audit trails. The author also concludes that METS may be a good way to preserve records over the long term.
http://archiwa.gov.pl/images/stories/file/7th-ecaa/A_Hanger_Keeping_El
ectronic_Records.pdf
Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Archives, Warsaw, 18-20 May, 2006
Kopal : Kooperativer Aufbau eines Lanzeitarchivs digitaler Informationen : Co-operative Development of a Long-Term Digital Information Archive
Rechtssinne die Niederachsische Staats und Universitatsbibliothek Gottingen (Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Kopal, a three-year project, has as its objective the practical testing and implementation of a long-term preservation system for digital information, developed and operated in a cooperative manner. The project started in July 2004 and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project partners, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB), the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), IBM Deutschland GmbH and the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) will implement a cooperatively run and reusable solution for the long-term archiving of digital data, hosted at the scientific computer center GWDG in Göttingen. The technical realization will be based on DIAS (Digital Information and Archival System), jointly devised by IBM and the Koninklijke Bibliothek in The Hague, the National Library of the Netherlands. The customization and further development of DIAS into a cooperatively run system will be administered by IBM. The software developed by the project partners DDB and the SUB Göttingen for the import and export of data will be released under an open-source license.
http://kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de/
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Kulturarw3
National Library of Sweden (Regularly Updated) (Sweden)
The aim of this project, inaugurated by the The National Library of Sweden, was to test methods of collecting, preserving and providing access to Swedish electronic documents which are accessible online. The original project site included brief descriptions of the scope of collecting and collecting methods, preservation and access considerations, and progress of the Kulturarw3 Heritage Project. Under Swedish law, the web archives are only available within the Library.
http://www.kb.se/english/find/internet/websites/
The Internet Archive has archived earlier web pages see http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kb.se/kw3/
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Large Scale Archival Storage of Digital Objects
Linden, Jim; Martin, Sean; Masters, Richard; Parker, Roderic (Date Created: Feb 2005) (United Kingdom)
This report on mass archival storage was based on the practical experience in developing the Digital Object Management system in the British Library. The authors are part of the British Library's Digital Object Management (DOM) Programme. The report includes an overview of general issues related to building a large secure data storage system, including storage management, emerging technologies and software. Although based on the British Library's experience, many of the issues discussed are applicable to any institution planning or engaged in secure long-term storage of large volumes of digital materials.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/dpctw04-03.pdf
DPC Technology Watch series report 04-03
Latin American Government Documents Archive, LAGDA
Latin American Network Information Center at The University of Texas at Austin (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA) seeks to preserve and facilitate access to a wide range of ministerial and presidential documents from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The Archive contains copies of the Web sites of approximately 300 government ministries and presidencies. Capture of sites began on multiple dates in 2005 and 2006, and will continue with regularly scheduled captures. Content in the Archive includes not only the full-text versions of official documents, but also original video and audio recordings of key regional leaders. Archive contents include thousands of annual and "state of the nation" reports; plans and programs; and speeches by presidents and government ministers. Content can be accessed via full-text search (search help), or by browsing by country or by specialized sample collection, such as "Presidential Messages" or "Ministerial Documents." LAGDA is a joint project of the University of Texas Libraries, The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, and the Latin American Network Information Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Web archiving services are provided by the Internet Archive's Archive-It service.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
Legal Deposit of the French Web: Harvesting Strategies for a National Domain
Lasfargues, France; Oury, Clément; Wendland, Bert (Date Created: Sep 2008) (France)
This paper delivered at IWAW '08 (September 18–19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark) describes the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) web harvesting activities in the context of the French Copyright Law August 1 2006, which extended legal deposit to the Internet. It compares the .fr domain harvests conducted over the last four years and discusses collaboration with the Internet Archive.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Lasfargues.pdf
LiWA - Living Web Archives
LiWA - Living Web Archives (Regularly Updated)
This three year project is aimed at developing the next generation of web archives through creation of innovative methods and services for web content capture, preservation, analysis and enrichment. This European funded project is led by the LS3 Research Center, University of Hanover and brings together researchers, industrial users and archiving organisations.
http://www.liwa-project.eu/
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LOCKSS
Stanford University Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Stanford Libraries is building "persistent access" software for libraries. The project is called: LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) and provides tools which use local, library controlled computers to safeguard readers' long-term access to web based journals. The system ensures that hyperlinks to material it is safeguarding continue to resolve and deliver the appropriate content to their readers even if in the Internet at large the links no longer resolve and the content is no longer available.
http://www.lockss.org/
Long Now Foundation
Long Now Foundation (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website focuses on the Long Now Foundation and includes information on the foundation’s goals, past events and a summary of current projects. The Projects section of the site lists projects being undertaken in relation to the preservation of digital materials, with information on the Long Server Project, the Digital Dark Age Project and the LongMail projects.
http://www.longnow.org/
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Historical Long-Term Preservation of Digital Material - Building an Archive to Preserve Digital Cultural Heritage from the Internet
Aschenbrenner, Andreas (Date Created: Dec 2001) (Austria)
Submitted as a Diploma thesis, this report presents a detailed case study of the Austrian On-Line Archive and a prototype for automatic retrieval of interactive online documents. A review of long-term digital archiving initiatives, issues and proposed strategies in digital preservation are also included.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications/thesis-ando/
Also available in PDF or gnu-zipped PostScript ( http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications.html ).
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Historical Long-term Retention of Digital Research Materials
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: 9 Jun 2000) (United States of America)
This page (which was frozen in 2004) describes the Research Libraries Group's long-term retention initiative to develop a digital archiving model, fine-tuned for preserving RLG members' collections. Elements of this initiative included: Defining digital archives and needed preservation metadata, Building selection policies and tools, and Expanding linked international gateways to digital preservation resources.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file2
800.html
Historical Making of America II
(Last Updated: 26 Jan 1999) Has papers: Making of America II Testbed Project White Paper Version 2.0
This was a Digital Library Federation project to continue and extend research and demonstration projects that have begun to develop best practices for the encoding of intellectual, structural, and administrative data about primary resources housed in research libraries.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/
Historical Management of Networked Electronic Publications: A Table of Status in Various Countries
Martin, Elizabeth (Last Updated: Nov 2001)
A comparison of national libraries in sixteen countries (November 2001) on matters of deposit legislation and arrangements, approach and policy, plans, negotiations with publishers, access arrangements and implementation for networked electronic publications.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/consultation_online_publi
cations-ef/8/7/r7-100-e.html
Also available in PDF and RTF. Available in French at http://nlc-bnc.ca/obj/r7/f2/r7-100-f.pdf
MathArc : Ensuring Access to Mathematics Over Time : Cooperative Management of Distributed Digital Archives
Cornell University Library; Göttingen State and University Library (Regularly Updated)
This is a collaborative project of Cornell University Library and Göttingen State and University Library. The purpose of this project is to create a distributed, interoperable system for the long-term preservation and dissemination of digital serial literature in mathematics and statistics.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/MathArc/web/index.html
Memento Project
(Date Created: Nov 2009) (United States of America)
This project is a collaboration between the Prototyping Team of the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Computer Science Department of Old Dominion University and has been partially funded by Library of Congress under the NDIIPP program. The project aims to investigate ideas related to web archiving and is initially focused on the integration of archived resources in regular web navigation. The web site includes information on and tools developed for the Memento Solution a protocol based solution for seamless access to archived web resources.
http://www.mementoweb.org/
MetaArchive
MetaArchive Services Group (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Beginning as a project in 2004, MetaArchive was aimed at the preservation of digital content with the subject focus of southern United States culture and history. The original project had six partner institutions in collaboration with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and Library of Congress. The goals of the project included the creation of a conspectus of digital content held by partner sites, a harvested body of the most critical content to be preserved, development of a model cooperative agreement for ongoing collaboration and the implementation of a distributed preservation network infrastructure based on the LOCKSS system. The type of content to be preserved included digital masters of scanned images, research databases and websites. Since 2007 the MetaArchive Cooperative membership was extended and was "responsible for preserving Member organizations’ content in a decentralized, distributed preservation network comprised of subject-based archives (e.g., Southern Digital Culture, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, etc.), as well as maintaining and extending its methodology and approach to distributed digital preservation." In December 2009 the independent and international Cooperative received additional funding from NDIIPP as a continuing partner.
http://www.metaarchive.org/
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Historical Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
Cathy Nelson Hartman; Daniel Gelaw Alemneh; Samantha Kelly Hastings (Date Created: Aug 2002) (United States of America)
(Publisher abstract:) "Preserving long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing libraries and information centers today. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has entered into partnership agreements with federal and state agencies to ensure permanent storage and public access to a variety of government information sources. As digital resource preservation encompasses a wide variety of interrelated activities, the UNT Libraries are taking a phased approach to ensure the long-term access to its digital resources. Formulation of preservation policy and creation of preservation metadata for electronic files and digital collections are among the most important steps. This paper discusses the issues related to digital resources preservation and demonstrates the role of preservation metadata in facilitating the preservation activities in general. In particular, it describes the efforts being made by the UNT libraries to ensure the long-term access and preservation of various digital information resources."
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/981/902
Historical MINERVA : Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive
Library of Congress (Date Created: 2001) (United States of America)
The MINERVA Web Preservation Project, developed by the US Library of Congress, was established to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve primary resources that were'born digital' and not available in any other format. It was the early development project for the Library of Congress Web Archives. The final report was issued in 2002.
Previously available at http://www.loc.gov/minerva/
mod_oai
Old Dominion University (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Mod-oai is a joint project of the Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was funded by the Mellon Foundation (2004-2005) and Library of Congress (2007-2009). The aim of the project is to make the content from Apache Web servers accessible via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Web servers and Web crawlers would be able to selectively harvest from data repositories, for instance data gathering could be limited to files of a certain mimetype. The website provides an overview of the project including links to relevant organisations and describes members of the project team.
http://www.modoai.org/
Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Government Digital Information
Minnesota State Archives (Date Created: 2008) (United States of America)
Two year project led by the Minnesota State Archives and funded under NDIIPP to preserve state government digital information. The project will work with selected state legislatures in exploring methods to provide enhanced online access to legislative materials in digital form. Links to publications available from the website.
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/
MUSTICA : a Preservation Tool for Electro-Acoustic Music
Dept. of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (Date Created: 2005)
MUSTICA ia an international collaboration initiative to research issues of interactive digital music preservation. MUSTICA participants include the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), the University of British Columbia (InterPARES 2 Project), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Center for Information as Evidence). MUSTICA is also supported by the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). A demonstator version of the MUSTICA preservation tool is available from IRCAM . The website for this project also has a bibliography of papers and presentations on MUSTICA, research conducted during 2003 - 2004.
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette/MUSTICA.html
Historical NEDLIB : Networked European Deposit Library
National Library of the Netherlands (Last Updated: Feb 2001)
This site is the homepage of NEDLIB, a collaborative project consortium, which was headed by the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) and included eight other European national libraries, a national archive and three main publishers. The project finished on 31 January 2001.The main goal was to find ways to preserve access to both online and offline (physical format) digital publications. It aimed to construct the basic infrastructure upon which a networked European deposit library could be built. Project Technical Working Papers are available by following the link 'Working Papers' on the home page.
http://nedlib.kb.nl/
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netarchive.dk
Denmark's Electronic Research Library (Regularly Updated) (Denmark)
The netarchive.dk project is a joint-initiative of the Royal Library, The State & University Library and the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus in Denmark. It began as a year long study, running from August 2001 to July 2002, which examined the capture and archiving of Danish internet activity relating to the country's November 2001 municipal elections. Project reports were issued quarterly, and addressed some of the issues associated with the collection and preservation of dynamic and interactive resources. With the passing of a new legal deposit law in July 2005, netarchive.dk (also known as netarkivet.dk) continues to collect Danish websites.
http://netarchive.dk/index-en.php
Historical netarchive.dk : The Pilot Project
Netarchive.dk (Denmark)
This was the web page of the Netarchive.dk pilot project which was the first phase (2001-2002) investigating strategies for collecting and archiving Danish Internet materials. This initiative represented a cooperative effort between Danish Royal Library, The State and University Library, and the Centre for Internet Research. Project’s key recommendation was to harvest material by three methods including automatic ‘snapshot’ gathering, ‘selective’ detailed archiving, as well as ‘event-based’ collecting of web sites. The Pilot Project website also has links to the project reports. The second phase focused on provision of legal deposit for digital material. The new netarchive.dk website provides current information.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060301064321/http://netarchive.dk/pilot-i
ndex-en.php
Historical Nordic Web Archive
Helsinging yliopiston kirjasto; Kansalliskirjasto (Date Created: Sep 2000) (Scandinavia)
This article outlines the application for Nordunet2 project, which was submitted by five Nordic National Libraries and featured software developers at every participating National Library. Nordunet2 project was part of the Nordic Web Archive (NWA) initiative. The Nordic Web Archive was aimed at archiving the whole of the web space of Nordic countries, while the Nordunet2 part of it is focused on developing software for accessing web documents, that is it applies to defining and implementing the Access module and the interface between the Archive and the Access module. The Access module for the NWA purpose was to enable the users to search and retrieve documents in the Archive.
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/tietolinja/0100/nwa.pdf
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project : NCGDAP
NCSU Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This joint project of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis will focus on collection and preservation of government digital geospatial data resources such as GIS data, digital orthophotography, digital maps and tabular data. The project was conducted in collaboration with NDIIPP. The objectives of the project include: acquisition of at risk geospatial data, development of a digital repository architecture for geospatial data, using open source software tools such as DSpace, enhancement of existing geospatial metadata with additional preservation metadata, investigation of automated identification and capture of data resources using OpenGeospatial Consortium specifications and the development of a model for data archiving. Project period was initially Oct 2004 to September 2007 has been extended through March 2009.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/index.html
Open Archives Initiative
OAI (Regularly Updated)
The Open Archives initiative is a forum to discuss and solve matters of interoperability between author self-archiving solutions, as a way to promote their global acceptance. This includes the "Santa Fe Convention" which presents a simple technical and organizational framework to support basic interoperability among e-print archives. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.
http://www.openarchives.org/
Our Digital Island: A Tasmanian Web Archive
State Library of Tasmania (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
Our Digital Island provides access to Tasmanian Web sites that have been preserved for posterity by the State Library of Tasmania, as required by the legal deposit provisions of the Libraries Act 1984. It includes sections on: Selection policy, Metadata development, and a description of the project.
http://odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/
Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
PARADISEC (Australia)
PARADISEC provides a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region including Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. Participating researchers come from the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne and New England and the Australian National University. PARADISEC collaborates with other groups to promote good practice in field documentation and digital archiving of endangered languages: Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD), the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Network (DELAMAN) and the Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data Project (E-MELD). PARADISEC has initially focused on digitisation of audio tapes and has developed guidelines for deposit of other digital objects and models to ensure the archive can provide ongoing access to interested communities.
http://paradisec.org.au
Historical PAD : Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination Project
Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) (Date Created: 2002)
PAD is intended to complement existing archiving research by filling a gap that has been identified by a survey. The gap identified is that electronic literature is not yet the focus of any major preservation effort, and many important aspects of preserving this type of work - such as how to maintain conditional sequencing of files delivered to the reader across different technical platforms - is not being addressed adequately. PAD proposes to fill this gap by adopting technologies and standards already in development and extending them in ways that will allow works of electronic literature (and other kinds of digital art objects) to have a long lifespan in a form as close to the original as possible and as useful material for scholarship.
http://www.eliterature.org/programs/
PADICAT (Digital Heritage of Catalonia)
Biblioteca de Catalunya (Regularly Updated) (Spain)
The Biblioteca de Catalunya (www.bnc.cat), the National Library of Catalonia, as the institution responsible for compiling, processing and distributing the bibliographic heritage of Catalonia (Spain) initiated in 2005 a web crawling and access project: the Digital Heritage of Catalonia (PADICAT). It consists of collecting, processing and providing permanent access to the entire cultural, scientific and general output of Catalonia in digital format. The objective of PADICAT is to archive Catalan web sites.
PADICAT is based on the application of a number of computer programs that allow web pages published on the Internet to be collected, stored, organized, preserved and permanently accessed.
In accordance with the general trend among national libraries, the archive model used by BC is a hybrid system consisting of the following:
  • Mass compilation of open-access digital resources published on the Internet
  • Systematic archiving of the web site output of Catalan organizations
  • Fostering of lines of research through themed integration of the digital resources pertaining to specific events in Catalan public life
By 2009, BC should be in an optimum position, whereby this system -a pioneer in Spain and a benchmark in Europe- operates at full capacity, with quantitative indicators of 100,000 Web pages captured in different editions. This may include some 50 million files and 30 terabytes of data. Furthermore, cooperation agreements are scheduled to be signed with 300 institutions of all kinds and online open access to a considerable part of the collection will be available.
http://www.padicat.cat/en/index.php
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PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia
National Library of Australia (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
PANDORA began as a project initiated by the National Library of Australia to investigate strategies and implement procedures for the capture, storage, preservation and access to digital data by creating an electronic archive of library materials. It is interested in capturing the full range of materials published online in Australia - including serials, newspapers and books, as well as unique online formats such as homepages (see also Digital Services Project). PANDORA is Australia's web archive managed by the Library with contributions from partners.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
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Historical PANIC (Preservation and Archival New Media and Interactive Collections) Project
MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) (Last Updated: Jul 2005) (Australia)
This research project, undertaken by MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) had several objectives including using case studies to compare various approaches to multimedia preservation, investigating ways to ensure the longevity of access to multimedia digital objects, determining optimum media formats and developing guidelines and metadata schemas for multimedia creators. Results of investigations include a set of test cases and a preservation metadata schema and input tool, based on METS and MODS and informed by the work of the Variable Media Initiative.
http://www.metadata.net/panic/
Paradigm : Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media
University of Oxford Bodleian Library and the University of Manchester John Rylands University Library (Date Created: Apr 2005) (United Kingdom)
This is a two-year exemplar project, from January 2005 to December 2006, to explore the issues involved in the long-term preservation of digital private papers. Using the digital papers of contemporary United Kingdom politicians, the project will test digital preservation tools and digital repositories, and produce an online Workbook on Digital Private Papers which includes template policies and procedures.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/
Paradigm : Workbook on Digital Private Papers
University of Oxford Bodleian Library and the University of Manchester John Rylands University Library (Last Updated: 2007) (United Kingdom)
Paradigm was a two-year exemplar project, from January 2005 to February 2007, to explore the issues involved in the long-term preservation of digital private papers, using the digital papers of politicians as a testbed. The workbook iwas issued in installments over the life of the project. It covers collections policy, accessioning, appraisal, preservation metadata, cataloguing, preserving media and digital objects and legal issues and provides useful guidance for creators of digital personal archives.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook/index.html
Historical Paradigma : Preservation of Digital Material
Project of Paradigma (Norway)
Paradigma (Preservation, Arrangement & Retrieval of Assorted DIGital MAterials) was a three year project conducted by the National Library of Norway. The project began in August 2001and was scheduled to end on 31 December 2004. Paradigma's goal was to find the technology, methods and organization for the collection and preservation of electronic documents, and to give the National Library's users access to these documents in compliance with the Legal Deposit Act.
PARSE.Insight
PARSE:Insight (Date Created: Mar 2008)
This EU project (2008-2010) aims to give insight into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe. The project will focus on on the e-science infrastructure needed to support persistence and understandability of key information assets over the long term. The web site gives details of the milestones, deliverables and schedules.
http://www.parse-insight.eu/
Historical PAT Project : Persistent Archives Testbed
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) (Last Updated: 19 Jul 2004) (United States of America)
The PAT (Persistent Archive Testbed) project was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (2203-2006). The aim of the project was to use data grid technology for access and preservation of digital collections. The PAT researchers aimed to deploy and test a model for archiving electronic records using persistent archive technologies developed at the SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center), based on the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) data grid middleware.
Project web page previously available at http://www.sdsc.edu/PAT/
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Historical PDF Archive
Association for Information and Image Management, International (AIIM, International) (Last Updated: 2004)
A joint activity of the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (NPES) and the Association for Information and Image Management, International (AIIM, International), to develop an international standard defining the use of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) for archiving and preservation of electronic documents. The project aimed to address support of multipage documents featuring combinations of text and graphics and the requirements for reading devices to render archived documents. The project's web site contained presentations, meeting minutes and a draft standard for comment.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050406085337/www.aiim.org/standards.asp?I
D=25013
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
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Historical Political Communications Web Archive Project
Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) (Last Updated: Jun 2004)
This project was undertaken by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and is now completed. Its purpose was to ensure the long term availability of web documents by non-government political groups. The project attempted to establish a framework and methodologies on three aspects of archiving- long term resource management, curatorship and technology. This site includes links to the project proposal and final report.
http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/past-projec
ts/political-communications
Portico
Ithaka (Regularly Updated)
Formerly known as e-Archive, the Portico initiative was launched in 2005. Portico is a not for profit archive of born digital scholarly E-journals maintained by Ithaka Harbors Inc. One of the main goals of Portico is to ensure that electronic resources remain accessible in the future and it aims to do this by developing an economic model as the basis of long term sustainability; developing relationships with publishers who will deposit their publications in the archive; and develop a production and technological infrastructure that will support preservation and accessibility.
http://www.portico.org/
Preservation of Digital Material: the SPAR Project
Bibliothèque nationale de France (France)
This web page provides an overview of the SPAR Project at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). SPAR stands for "Système de Préservation et d'Archivage Réparti", meaning "Distributed Archiving and Preservation System".
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/version_anglaise/numerisation/num_spar_eng.htm
Preserving Digital Public Television
PTVDigitalArchive (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Funded by the Library of Congress, this project aims to develop an archive for the long term preservation of born digital video. It includes developing a repository, developing best practice guidelines, testing and ingesting material into the archive. The site has links to documents providing information on best practices surveys, focus group reports, appraisal criteria and metadata.
http://www.ptvdigitalarchive.org/
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Historical Preserving Presidential Websites
Gupta, Amarnath (Last Updated: 18 Jan 2001) (United States of America)
A San Diego Super Computer Centre Technical Report (SDSC TR-2001-3) on developing a persistent scalable infrastructure dependent store for the long-term accessibility of presidential websites, which captures the knowledge structure of the digital objects within the representation when archived.
http://legacy.sdsc.edu/TR/TR-2001-03.pdf
Historical Preserving Web History
Mitchell, Robert L (Date Created: 08 May 2002) (United States of America)
Focusing on the USA, this article looks at the challenges faced by a number of companies in relation to website archiving. With companies having statutory and legal obligations to preserve records of past transactions and activities, the need to preserve information on websites has posed a number of difficulties for these organisations. The article also includes a case study of web archiving techniques employed at Corporate Express Inc in the USA.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1965761530
Available in Computerworld, Vol 36, Issue 32, 8 May 2002, pp. 26-28, ISSN 00104841
Historical Presidential Electronic Records Pilot System (PERPOS)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory, Georgia Tech. Research Institute (Last Updated: Nov 2005) (United States of America)
The PERPOS project aimed to find ways of gaining archival control of electronic records which are deposited with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The initial project was to conduct research that would aid archivists in gaining intellectual and physical control of the user-created files contained on the George H. W. Bush PC hard drives. The second phase PERPOS II is modifying the tools that were developed for use with other projects.
http://perpos.gtri.gatech.edu/
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Historical PRESTO: Preservation Technology for Broadcast Archives
Project manager: Richard Wright, BBC (Last Updated: 02 Jan 2003)
The PRESTO project is one of the European Union Information Society Technology (IST) sponsored intiatives looking at a range of preservation issues and prospective outcomes for digital and analogue film, audio and video archival materials. The intial partners are several major European public broadcast archives and commercial research partners. The aims of the project are to evaluate the preservation status of collected audio-visual materials, to establish what resources and technologies are utilised or are required for cost-effective preservation, to develop a preservation process chain of automated copying and playback with the necessary quality control and metadata management and thirdly to evaluate and test the new methodologies and disseminate results. The project started in late 2000 has a lifetime until mid 2002. It was followed in 2004 by the PRESTO Space project.
http://presto.joanneum.ac.at/index.asp
PrestoSpace
PrestoSpace Consortium (Last Updated: 2008)
This project, funded by the EU (from 1/2/04 for 40 months), built upon earlier projects such as Presto, and sought to establish a framework for the digital preservation of audio-visual materials. The aim of the Project was to build ‘preservation factories’ which would provide an affordable infrastructure for institutions such as libraries and museums in order to manage, reduce costs, standardise processes and to provide access to their digital audio visual assets. It was followed on by the PrestoPRIME project.
http://prestospace.org/
PROTAGE
PROTAGE (Date Created: Nov 2007)
This three year European research project (2007-2010) (PReservation Organizations using Tools in AGent Environments) aims "to investigate and initiate complementary new approaches to digital preservation that make long-term digital preservation easy enough for users to be able to help preserving their own content, while reducing the cost and increasing the capacity of memory institutions to preserve digital information". Partners include: National Archives of Sweden, Luleå University of Technology, National Archives of Estonia, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, EASY Innova, University of Bradford, and Giunti Labs.
http://www.protage.eu/
Report of the East of England Digital Preservation Regional Pilot Project
East of England Regional Archive Council (Date Created: Jun 2006) (United Kingdom)
This is the final report (55 p., 3.1 MB) of the Digital Archive Regional Pilot (DARP). Participants included the UKDA (UK Data Archive) , MLA East of England, EERAC (East of England Regional Archive Council) and two county councils. The UKDA processed selected obsolete and near obsolete formats from the county councils digital records to ascertain the processes involved in creating and maintaining long term access to digital data. The information gleaned from this exercise has resulted in the development of costings and cost models and the creation of a business case on the preservation of digital material using the three scenarios of in-house processing, consortia and contracting the process out.
ISBN: 0955341000
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/darp2006.pdf
Report on the Whole Domain Harvest
Koerbin, Paul (Date Created: 10 Oct 2005) (Australia)
This is the report of the National Library of Australia's first whole Australian domain harvest which was conducted during June and July 2005. The crawl was undertaken by the Internet Archive on behalf of the Library. Approximately 185 million unique documents were crawled from 811,000 hosts. The total size of the harvested content is 6.69 terabytes. The main objectives of the project were to observe and analyse the performance of the Heritrix crawl robot, test the ability to automatically crawl a large web domain and analyse the success of the breadth and depth of the crawl, obtain content that could be used as a test bed for approaches to delivering access to content and development of a clear understanding the Australian web domain.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/documents/domain_harvest_report_public.pdf
reUSE
Universität Innsbruck (Last Updated: Jun 2006)
reUSE was a cooperative project of libraries and universities from Austria, Estonia, Germany and Slovenia funded through the European Commission eContent Programme (June 2004 to June 2006). The reUSE partners focussed on the publications of public sector institutions such as government, universities and research institutions. Printed material and the digital originals will be collected, preserved and made available. Part of the project included four demonstrator services which were designed to operate permanently after the project itself was completed. Reports and publications including the final evaluation report are available.
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/reuse/
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Historical RLG/OCLC Digital Archive Attributes Working Group
Bellinger, Meg; Dale, Robin (Last Updated: Aug 2001)
A joint initiative of the RLG and OCLC, the Working Group sought to define the characteristics of reliable digital archiving services for diverse research collections, and drew on expertise from a range of university and national libraries and research groups.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file2
879.html
RODA : Repositorio de Objectos Digitais Autenticos
National Archive Institute of Portugal (Regularly Updated) (Portugal)
This project, undertaken by the National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT), aims to develop the processes, tools and resources that will enable Portuguese public administration institutions to preserve their digital data. A prototype will be developed which will serve as the basis for development of a fully functional solution capable of ingesting and managing digital objects. A demonstration prototype of the open source digital repository was publicly released in June 2009 and the source code made available in August 2009.
http://portal.roda.dgarq.gov.pt/pt
Historical SHERPA DP : Creating A Persistent Preservation Environment For Institutional Repositories
Arts and Humanities Data Service
The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) announcement of SHERPA DP, a two year project (2005-2007) funded by JISC (The Joint Information Systems Committee). The project aimed to create a preservation service layer based on the OAIS reference model for managing the life cycle of the e-prints archive maintained by SHERPA project partners. In March 2006 the project had its own website (http://www.sherpadp.org.uk/) which has been archived by the UK Web Archive see http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/125265. NB Funding for AHDS ceased in 2008.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20080430164016/http://ahd
s.ac.uk/about/projects/sherpa-dp/index.htm
Site archived by the UK Web Archive.
SHERPA: Securing a hybrid environment for research, preservation and access
Project director, Stephen Pinfield (Date Created: 2002) (United Kingdom)
SHERPA began as a structured project funded by JISC to create "e-print archives" for leading UK research institutions (2002-2006). It has developed to investigate issues in the future of scholarly communication and development of of open access repositories in universities through involvement with additional projects (e.g. Sherpa Plus, Sherpa DP) and services (Romeo, Juliet, OpenDOAR) through a consortium of partners.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Historical Significant Property: Digital Preservation at the British Library
Woodyard, Deborah (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United Kingdom)
This article focuses on the role of the British Library in relation to the preservation of digital materials. The author provides an overview of various projects currently being undertaken both within the Library itself, and collaboratively with other national and international institutions. Included are descriptions of the how the Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Sound Archive are dealing with digital objects, its Web Archiving and Digital Object Management (DOM) Programmes and the Library’s involvement in the SHERPA project.
http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentTy
pe=Article&contentId=862526
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 17-20, ISSN 0305-5728, (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One)
Historical SORRT : Sustainable Object Repositories for Research and Teaching
University of Sydney Library (Date Created: 2004) (Australia)
Coordinated by the University of Sydney, SORRT is the Practices and Testbed project of APSR (Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories).
http://sorrt.library.usyd.edu.au/
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Historical Stanford Archival Repository Project : Preserving Our Digital Past
Cooper, Brian F.; Crespo, Arturo; Garcia-Molina, Hector (Date Created: 2003) (United States of America)
This article discusses the infrastructure required to create a reliable digital archive. Objects are replicated among cooperating digital archives so that if any particular archive fails, the digital objects will still be accessible. The article also discusses the prototype archiving system, the Stanford Archival Vault (SAV), and ArchSim, a simulation tool for use in designing archive systems.
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~crespo/publications/lirn.pdf
Historical Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories
Austrian Literature Online ; Humboldt University, Berlin; Sun Microsystems; XiCrypt (Last Updated: Dec 2006)
The Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories is a joint project between Humboldt University (Germany), Austrian Literature Online (ALO), XiCrypt (Austria) and Sun Microsystems (USA). The Center of Excellence is based on the previous work and implementations of the partners, such as the Humboldt University document and publication server, the Xades implementation for long-term preservation of digital signatures developed at XiCrypt, and the digital repository software implemented by ALO. The Center will develop a framework to handle preservation mechanisms within a trusted digital archive, a user interface for accessing the trusted digital archives and methods to apply digital signatures and time stamps to the digital documents.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.coe.hu-berlin.de/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Historical SVEP : Samording Av Den Svenska Högskolans Elektroniska Publicering
Kungliga Biblioteket (Sweden) (Last Updated: Dec 2005) (Sweden)
The mission of the SVEP Project was the coordination of academic electronic publishing in Sweden. It was a two year project, from 2003 to September 2005.The project was funded and coordinated by the Swedish Royal Library´s Department for National Co-ordination and Development, BIBSAM, and involved collaboration between nine Swedish university and university college libraries and the National Library of Sweden. It involved five work packages, one of which is long-term access and preservation. This work package provided recommendations on metadata supporting long term preservation, storage formats and the development and implementation of a preservation infrastructure. Most of the information is in Swedish although several documents are available in English.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070503233113/http://www.svep-projekt.se/
Archived by the Internet Archive
Historical Towards an Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories : a National Policy Infrastructure Development Proposal
Australian National University (Date Created: 23 Oct 2003) (Australia)
This proposal forms the basis of the establishment of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR). The proposal discusses the objectives of the APSR including adopting digital continuity, repositories and access platforms as an underlying theme, which will then be applied to the areas of eScience and eHumanities. The core programs of digital continuity and sustainability are also examined. The key objectives of the International Linkages program and the National Services program are discussed in detail. The proposal concludes with a discussion of the expected outcomes, benefits and a time line of the implementation plan of a National Repository Centre.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/documents/APSR.pdf
UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository
California Digital Library (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The UC (University of California) Libraries Digital Preservation Repository supports the long term use and retention of digital objects submitted by the 11 member libraries. The Repository is based at the California Digital Library. Each object submitted to the Repository is assigned a persistent identifier and is deposited with a METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) 'wrapper', in XML, which includes an inventory of the component file structure. Links to the Repository's technical specifications and FAQs are available.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/dpr/
UK Government Web Archive
The National Archives (UK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This archive started as a one year project comprised of a selection of 50 UK government websites archived since August 2003 at varying intervals by the Internet Archive on behalf of The National Archives. Evaluation of the results of the project were used to inform policy and best practice for future archiving of government websites by The National Archives. Since 2005 archiving has been undertaken by contract to the European Archive. In November 2008 a program to archive UK central government websites 3 times per year was started. Additionally sites reflecting topical themes and issues of public interest have been collected into themed collections.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/archivedwebsites.htm
UK Web Archive
UK Web Archive (Date Created: Jun 2004) (United Kingdom)
The UK Web Archive has been collecting since 2004 and was initiated by the UK Web Archiving Consortium. It is provided by the British Library in partnership with the National Library of Wales, JISC and The Wellcome Library. Previously The National Archives and National Library of Scotland were involved.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/
Historical Umich.edu Archives Project
University of Michigan. School of Information (Last Updated: Apr 2005) (United States of America)
The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the feasibility of archiving an entire website and providing access to the resulting archives. The project features a technical demonstration using Heritrix, Perl, MySQL, & PHP. There were also links to reports, papers, and presentations created by students of the School of Information related to this project (2004-2005)
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.si.umich.edu/mirror/
Archived by the Internet Archive
Variable Media Network
Guggenheim Museum (United States of America)
An intiative of the Guggenheim Museum that seeks to identify artist-approved strategies for preserving variable media artwork (installation, performance, interactive, digital). Artists are encouraged to define their work independent of medium and provide guidelines on how their work may be recast in new formats.
http://variablemedia.net/
VidArch at SILS
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina (Date Created: 2006) (United States of America)
This project was focused on developing a preservation framework for digital video context by initially applying it to two important digital video collections: the complete series of NASA broadcast educational videos and the complete set of juried ACM SIGCHI videos presented at annual conferences from 1983 to the present. Later focus was on the US Presidential Election of 2008 and Internet services such as YouTube. Bibliography of papers and demonstrations available from the site. This project was an NDIIPP demonstration project and supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/vidarch/
Web Archivering / Web Archiving
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands)
This web site describes the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's web archiving program. The KB began selective archiving in 2006. The project is described, and there are links to information about selection, technical and legal aspects and related documents.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index.html
Available in Dutch and English versions (http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index-en.html)
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Historical Web Archiving Strategy Project (WASP)
University of Melbourne (Last Updated: 27 Jul 2004) (Australia)
Instigated in 2003, this project was designed to develop a strategy to archive the University of Melbourne's web pages. The strategy included identifying web pages for short and long term retention, risk management, defining the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders and uniformity of metadata creation. It led to the development of the Web Archiving @ the University of Melbourne web site.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/49714/20050927-0000/www.unimelb.edu.au/w
eb-archiving/index.html
Website archived by PANDORA
Web at Risk : a Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation's Political Cultural Heritage
California Digital Library (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
Following a grant from the NDIIPP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program), the California Digital Library and its partners are developing a distributed approach to preserving political and government web pages. The 4 and a half year project is developing open source web archiving tools to capture, curate, and preserve collections of web-based government and political information. The project has four key areas - Content identification and selection, Content acquisition, Content retention and transfer and Partnership building. Major outcome is the development of WAS (Web Archiving Service).
http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/partners/webatrisk.html
Web Continuity Project
The National Archives (UK) (Date Created: Nov 2009) (United Kingdom)
This initiative of The National Archives (TNA) is aimed at improving access to UK government websites and official publications through a comprehensive program of website archiving and web link management. The project has developed software for UK government departments to automatically redirect traffic to the UK Government Web Archive if the original URL is no longer available and the site has been archived. The service was formally launched on 2 December 2009, following a pilot project with six departments.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webcontinuity/
Web Curator Tool Project
(Regularly Updated) (New Zealand; United Kingdom)
This is the Sourceforge web page for the Web Curator Tool Project, a Web harvesting management system. The project is a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library and was initiated by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). Software was developed by Sytec Resources.
http://webcurator.sourceforge.net/
Web Harvesting White Paper
(Date Created: 14 Feb 2007) (United States of America)
The white paper reports on the context of the results of the EPA Web Publication Harvesting Pilot Project, lesson learned about automated web publication discovery and harvesting technologies and planned further steps.
http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/doc_details/543-web-harvesting-whi
te-paper
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Historical Web Preservation Project : Final Report : a Report to the Library of Congress
Arms, William Y. (Date Created: 03 Sep 2001) (United States of America)
The objective of the Web Preservation project was to initiate a program to collect and preserve open access materials from the World Wide Web on behalf of the Library of Congress. The report discusses partnerships with other organisations as well as discussing the process by which the Library of Congress can select, organise and preserve web resources. Issues raised as a result of the Minerva prototype are also canvassed, including copyright, access, selection and the difficulties in cataloguing and indexing web sites.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041106155137/http://www.loc.gov/minerva/w
ebpresf.pdf
Archived by the Internet Archive.
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Web-Based Government Information : Evaluating Solutions for Capture, Curation and Preservation
Christenson, Heather; Colvin, Jennifer; Cruse, Patricia; Eckman, Charles; Greenstein, Daniel; Hutton, Cate; Kunze, John (Date Created: Nov 2003) (United States of America)
Set within the context of the USA, this project report addresses the roles of libraries and other memory institutions in preserving web-based government information. The report outlines the methodology employed by the project team, including an extensive literature review and analysis, a demographic review of the dot-gov domain and surveys of existing web-archiving initiatives around the world. It also addresses the challenges in the capture, curation, and persistent management of web-based materials; discusses a route map for service implementation and looks at cost elements.
http://www.cdlib.org/programs/Web-based_archiving_mellon_Final.pdf
Wide Field Astronomy Unit
Donnelly, Martin (Date Created: Dec 2005)
The Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU) at the University of Edinburgh is the subject of this case study. The study outlines data curation issues with which WFAU is involved, including interoperability and the transfer and reuse of data collected from disparate sources. The case study also covers other factors influencing data curation, including methodological development, standards and legal issues, evaluation, and human factors. A technical appendix outlines the technologies used in the development of the WFAU systems.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/case-studies/wfau
DCC Case Studies and Interviews, ISSN 1749-8767.
Historical Wine on the Web : Australian Wine Information on the Web and its Prospects for Long Term Preservation and Access
Smith, Wendy (Date Created: Jun 2004) (Australia)
This study investigates the web- based content of Australian wine makers over an 8 year time span. The study examines what is being created online and what is being preserved. The stability and reliability of 11 Australian winery websites during the time span is reported. The archiving strategies of National Library of Australia's PANDORA project and the US based Internet Archive are also compared and contrasted.
http://wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdfhtml/04324/q66uu/tsg.htm
in Australian Academic & Research Libraries, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2004), ISSN 0004-8623, pp. 111-128. Also available online by subscription at http://www.hwwilson.com/

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Bibliographies

Audio Preservation
PARS Recording and Photographic Media Committee. Contributing Editor: Hannah Frost In: CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals (Regularly Updated)
A bibliography of resources on the preservation of sound recordings maintained on the Conservation Online (CoOL) website. The bibliography includes resources on care, handling and restoration of recorded materials, and best practice guidelines and standards for their preservation, including creation and preservation of digital audio recordings.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/audio/
Digitisation Disposal Policy Toolkit: Further Resources
Queensland State Archives (Date Created: May 2010) (Australia)
This document (8 p.) is part of the Queensland State Archives' Digitisation Disposal Policy Toolkit. It lists details of a range of publications from Australia and overseas which Queensland public authorities may find useful in planning and implementing digitisation activity. These are listed under; General; Preserving digital records; File formats; Metadata; Policy; Quality; and Storage media.
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/government/files/Digitisation%20Disposa
l%20Policy%20Toolkit%20-%20Further%20resources.pdf
Eerste Hulp bij Website Archivering: Bibliografie Websitearchiering
Hokke, Erika (Date Created: Feb 2006) (Netherlands)
This is an in-depth bibliography on web site archiving. While the text is in Dutch many of the references are in English.
http://www.archiefschool.nl/onderzoek/onderzoeksprojecten/ehbw.pdf
Espida Bibliography
Espida (Last Updated: Jan 2007) (United Kingdom)
This bibliography was produced as part of the Espida (An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Assets) project. It has sections on cultural heritage & digital preservation, Economics, Knowledge management, risk, strategic & business management and value. The ESPIDA project was completed in January 2007.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/documents/espida_bibliography.pdf
New Tools for Preserving Web Resources: An Update on the Web-at-Risk NDIIPP Grant : Bibliography
Seneca, Tracy (Date Created: 28 Oct 2006)
This bibliography was prepared by the Web-at-Risk Project and provided at the LITA Forum 2006 (held 26-29 October 2006, Nashville Tennessee). It provides information about web archiving in general and the Web-st-Risk project specifically.
https://wiki.cdlib.org/WebAtRisk/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=170
Video Preservation
Frost, Hannah (ed.) In: CoOL Conservation OnLine : Resources for Conservation Professionals (Regularly Updated)
A bibliography of resources on the preservation of video recordings, maintained on the Conservation Online (CoOL) website. The bibliography includes resources on video media and formats, care and preservation best practice guidelines, as well as resources on digital video formats and organisations involved in video preservation.
http://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/video/
Historical Web Archiving Bibliography
Austrian Online Archive (Last Updated: Apr 2004) (Austria)
This bibliography features links to sites on international and national initiatives, articles, workshops, meetings and subject gateways.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/links/WebArchiving.html

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Glossaries

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Historical Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: 01 Aug 2001) (United States of America)
This joint RLG-OCLC draft report was available for public comment until 12th October 2001. The report contains information and recommendations on developing and implementing a certified long-term digital information repository based on the OAIS functional model and extensive library and archival community discussion. Appendix B provides useful glossary of terms used in the report. The final report (also listed on PADI) is available at http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/trustedrep/repositories.pdf
Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
Pearce-Moses, Richard (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
This is the latest edition of the Glossary. It contains over 2,000 entries and includes terms of relevance to digital preservation.
http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
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Historical PRESTO - IST-1999-20013: Key Links System Specification Document
PrestoSpace Consortium (Last Updated: 26 Jun 2001)
A 135 page report developed from the findings of a preservation survey of audio-visual materials in European Broadcast Archives. Included is information on the system requirements, technological improvements, processing methodologies and metadata specifications for digitally archiving film, audio and video. There is also a useful glossary.
http://presto.joanneum.ac.at/Public/D32.pdf
Training in Electronic Records Management : Glossary of Terms
International Records Management Trust In: Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) (Date Created: Jun 2009)
This glossary (64 p.) was developed by the International Records Management Trust as part of the Training in Electronic Records Management (TERM) programme. It is a consolidated glossary of relevant records management, electronic management, information technology and computer terms.
http://www.irmt.org/documents/educ_training/term%20modules/IRMT%20TERM
%20Glossary%20of%20Terms.pdf

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Journals & Newsletters

Curation Reference Manual
Digital Curation Centre (Regularly Updated)
This Digital Curation Centre manual comprises various instalments on topics related to digital curation. Each instalment is written (and peer reviewed) by experts in that particular field and is regularly revised to encompass new developments. The manual is designed to assist data creators and curators to better understand the challenges they face and the roles they play in creating, managing and preserving digital information. Originally called the Digital Curation Manual, the name was changed in 2010 to Curation Reference Manual.
ISSN: 1747-1524
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-reference-manual
Historical DigiCULT.Info Newsletter
DigiCULT Consortium (Last Updated: Oct 2005)
This newsletter, with its mix of news items, announcements and articles, provided a regular look into selected technology areas affecting the cultural domain, along with summarising the progress of DigiCULT Forum. DigiCult was an an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the period of 30 months (03/2002-08/2004).
http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php
Historical Digital Citizens
Coutts, John (Date Created: 10 Jul 2003) (United Kingdom)
This article from the Guardian discusses e-government and its implications for digital preservation. Digital data integrity is discussed within the context of public records such as births and deaths, and implications for local archives are also briefly discussed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2003/jul/10/onlinesupplement.epub
lic
in, Guardian Online
Digital Preservation : Finding Balance
Johns Hopkins University Press (Date Created: Dec 2005)
This special issue of Library Trends is devoted to digital preservation. The articles include - Exploring variety in digital collections and the implications for digital preservation by Mackenzie Smith; Web archiving methods and approaches: A comparative study by Julien Masanes; Digital archiving in the 20th century: practice at the National Library of the Netherlands by Johan Steenbakkers; What should we preserve : the question for heritage libraries in the digital world; Preservation metadata : the National Library of New Zealand experience by Steve Knight; Practical preservation : the PREMIS experience by Priscilla Caplan; Establishing a global digital format registry by Stephen Abrams; Prototype preservation environments by Reagan Moore; Building preservation partnerships : the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and preservation program by William Lefurgy.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib54.1.html
Library Trends, Vol. 54, no. 1 (Summer 2005)
High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine
HEPLW Team; HEPLW Team; HEPLW Team (Last Updated: Oct 2006)
Produced primarily by the CERN Scientific Information Service, this webzine discussed issues relevant to both information workers and clients of high energy physics libraries including document preservation and archiving.
http://library.web.cern.ch/library/Webzine/index.shtml
ISSN 1424-2729
LiWA News
LiWA - Living Web Archives (Date Created: 15 Jan 2009)
Newsletter of the Living Web Archives (LiWA), a project of the EU Seventh Framework Programme, provides news on the activities, goals and achievements of the project.
http://liwa-project.eu/index.php/newsletters/
Historical RLG DigiNews
Research Libraries Group (Regularly Updated)
RLG DigiNews was a bi-monthly newsletter from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) providing information on digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale, on image conversion and digital archiving projects, and current announcements. RLG DigiNews ceased with last issue 15 April 2007. Back issues are now available from OCLC.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/newsletters/diginews.htm

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Discussion Lists

Da Blog (ULCC Digital Archives Blog)
University of London Computer Centre Digital Archives Department (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This blog by the University of London Computer Centre Digital Archives Department includes discussion on recent developments and events and thoughts on digital preservation and archiving.
http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/
JISC-PoWR : Preservation of Web Resources : A JISC-sponsored project
JISC-PoWR (Date Created: 23 Apr 2008) (United Kingdom)
This blog was set up to support the JISC-PoWR project which was initiated by the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee and ran from April to September 2008. It was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at Bath University and ULCC Digital Archives department. The project aimed to “organise workshops and produce a handbook that specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community”. Links to the handbook and presnetations at events which were held June, July & September 2008 are included. The blog has continued after the finalisation of the project with posts relevant to the the project aims.
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
Ten Thousand Year Blog
Mattison, David (Regularly Updated)
This blog (web log) was created in June 2003 and is owned and maintained by an archivist, David Mattison. The blog includes comments and links to news and resources on digital preservation, digital libraries, digital records, intellectual property rights and e learning. The site also provides commentary on current trends in online information preservation and management. Both email and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) subscriptions are available for the Blog's updates. The archived version of the blog for the period June 2003 to September 2008 is available.
http://digitalarchivist.wordpress.com/
UK Web Archive Technology Watch
British Library (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This blog maintained by the British Library Digital Preservation Team and Web Archiving Programme is intended as an aid to monitoring changes in technology which supports the UK Web Archive. It will help to track changes that may impact on preservation, development, and use of the web archive.
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/ukwebarchive_techwatch/
Web Archiving Blog
Internet Archive Web Team (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Internet Archive's Web Team blog.
http://wa.archive.org/blog/
Web Curators Mailing List
International Internet Preservation Consortium (Regularly Updated)
This discussion list was established by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) for web curators and others interested in sharing experiences about web harvesting issues, curator tools and working with archived material.
http://netpreserve.org/about/curator.php
Web-archive at cru.fr
Comité Réseau des Universités (Regularly Updated) (France)
"This list is focused on on-line content archiving, from the technical, legal and organisational point of view... It is intended to facilitate exchanges between people involved in Web archiving projects around the world, whether they are governmental or private initiatives." Focus of the list includes web content archiving, legal deposit of online publications, and digital preservation.
http://listes.cru.fr/wws/info/web-archive

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Surveys

Historical CFP : Call For Preservation! : Results and discussion of a survey on the preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Libner, Kelsey (Date Created: 2003) (United States of America)
The first part of this paper discusses the results of a survey of 16 institutions regarding practices for the long term preservation of ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations). Data migration, preservation policies, electronic file backup and workflows are some of the areas surveyed. The second part of the paper discusses the file formats, particularly PDF and PDF/A. Areas requiring further investigation are also discussed.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/libner-kelsey/HTML/index.html
Digital Curation Centre : Externally Moderated Reflective Self-Evaluation : Report
Brophy, Peter; Frey, Jeremy (Date Created: Sep 2006)
The Digital Curation Centre was established in 2004. This report evaluates the activities, outputs and achievements of the Centre since then based on a model of self evaluation and moderated by independent external advisers. The report is based on information gathered from a staff survey, community survey, feedback from workshop participants, focus groups and interviews with experts. The report concludes that the DDC be retained and its activites expanded with the integration of changes suggested in the report.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100215095059/http://www
.dcc.ac.uk/docs/DCC_Evaluation_Report_Final.pdf
Archived by UK Web Archive
Directory of Digital Preservation Repositories and Services in the UK : 2nd ed.
Simpson, Duncan (Date Created: Jun 2005) (United Kingdom)
This is an updated version of the Directory first issued in 2004. It is a listing of predominately UK resources that provide services in digital storage and preservation. It includes public and not for profit resources and resources from the private sector. The type of resources include archives such as the UK Web Archiving Consortium, data services such as AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service), support services and consultancies. The entry for each resource includes location, scope of the service, volume and type of material held, and contact details.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/guides/directory.pdf
E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds : a Survey of the Landscape
Buckley, Ellie L.; Entlich, Richard; Hirtle, Peter B.; Kenney, Anne R.; McGovern, Nancy Y. (Date Created: Sep 2006)
This report (128 p.) describes the results of a review of 12 e-journal archiving programs. The review comprised of an interview and a survey. The survey was conducted by Cornell University Library and covered organisational issues, stakeholders, content, access, technology and resources. The organisations surveyed represented a variety of government supported, subscriber supported and consortia based organisations from around the world. The report makes recommendations to academic libraries, publishers and e-journal archiving programmes.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub138/pub138.pdf
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Historical E-Science Curation Report : Data Curation for E-Science in the UK : an Audit to Establish Requirements for Future Curation and Provision
Lord, Philip; Macdonald, Alison (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
This report (85 p.), prepared for the JISC Committee for the Support of Research (JCSR), endeavours to establish the current provision and future requirements for curation of digital primary research data generated within e-science in the UK. The report consists of strategic and policy level recommendations. Questionnaires and interviews were used to ascertain current provisions for data curation, in areas including such as repositories, libraries, funding, costs, preservation, and standards.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-ScienceReportFinal.pdf
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Historical Implementing Preservation Repositories for Digital Materials : Current Practice and Emerging Trends in the Cultural Heritage Community : a Report by the PREMIS Working Group
OCLC/RLG PREMIS Working Group (Date Created: Sep 2004)
PREMIS, an international working group jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, reports the findings of a survey focused on current implementations and preservation metadata management practices of digital preservation repositories. The survey was conducted between December 2003 and February 2004 and drew respondents from 48 libraries, archives and other institutions from Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The survey covered repository services, models and policies, as well as architecture, storage, preservation processes and metadata. The report summarises and analyses the range of responses and notes a number of trends emerging in practice.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/surveyreport.pdf
International Internet Preservation Consortium 2008 Member Profile Survey Results
Grotke, Abbie (Date Created: 16 Dec 2008)
This report details the results of a survey of members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) which was conducted in March and April 2008. The survey was conducted in two parts. Firstly looking at the members and their web archiving activities and secondly IIPC participation, contribution and expectations.
http://www.netpreserve.org/publications/reports.php?id=005
Historical Management of Networked Electronic Publications: A Table of Status in Various Countries
Martin, Elizabeth (Last Updated: Nov 2001)
A comparison of national libraries in sixteen countries (November 2001) on matters of deposit legislation and arrangements, approach and policy, plans, negotiations with publishers, access arrangements and implementation for networked electronic publications.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/consultation_online_publi
cations-ef/8/7/r7-100-e.html
Also available in PDF and RTF. Available in French at http://nlc-bnc.ca/obj/r7/f2/r7-100-f.pdf
Mind the Gap : Assessing Digital Preservation Needs in the UK
Sharpe, Robert; Waller, Martin (Date Created: Feb 2006) (United Kingdom)
This extensive report (40 p.) uses information gathered from surveys and interviews as well as existing sources of information to reveal a digital preservation 'state of the nation' . The survey covered many types of institutions including government, financial, scientific as well as archives and libraries. The report identifies the current state of practice, UK digital preservation needs and recommendations.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/reports/uknamindthegap.pdf
Perspektiven der Zusammenarbeit. Praxisbasierte Empfehlungen zur kooperativen Langzeiterhaltung digitalen Wissens – Ergebnisse einer Befragung
Beinert, Tobias; Jehn, Mathias; Naumann, Kai (Date Created: May 2009) (Germany)
This report (24 p. in German) of a survey undertaken by the nestor working group on cooperative long-term preservation considers the prospects for cooperation with practice-based long-term preservation of digital knowledge in German speaking countries.
http://files.d-nb.de/nestor/berichte/nestor-bericht_zusammenarbeit.pdf
Practice and Perception of Web Archiving in Academic Libraries and Archives
Gregory, Lisa A. (Date Created: Apr 2009) (United States of America)
This Masters thesis (58 p.) discusses the findings of a review of the literature and online survey (February 2009) into the web archiving activities of United States higher education libraries and archives and the perceptions of librarians and archivists towards those activities.
http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/3480.pdf
Preservation of e-Learning Materials: An Attitudinal Study
Conyers, Angela; Dalton, Pete (Date Created: Oct 2008) (United Kingdom)
This study (46 p.) was commissioned by JISC to investigate attitudes to curation and preservation of eLearning objects in the UK HE/FE sector and was conducted between May and October 2008. It includes an examination of existing resources considering the case for preservation, comparison with other types of material, reasons given for preservation, selection, location for long-term preservation, web resources and Web 2.0 developments. It then examines community and user views derived from face to face and telephone interviews and email surveys. Feedback was sought on decisions, reasons, policies and practices and where objects should be preserved.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/elopres.
pdf
Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility
Boyle, Frances; Eveleigh, Alexandra; Needham, Heather (Date Created: Jan 2009) (United Kingdom)
This article in Ariadne describes recent digital preservation initiatives in the UK local authority archives sector including a survey regarding Digital Preservation in Local Authority Archive Services undertaken in September 2008 to collect a snapshot of current preparedness which was promoted on the Digital Preservation Coalition website and a follow up Open Consultation Day held at the National Archives in mid-November.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/boyle-et-al/
Ariadne Jan 2009 Issue no. 58
Report on the Survey Regarding Digital Preservation in Local Authority Archive Services
Boyle, Francis (Date Created: Nov 2008) (United Kingdom)
This survey was aimed at collecting a snapshot of current preparedness for digital preservation within the UK local authority archive sector and was open during September 2008. A follow up Open Consultation day was held in mid- November at The National Archives. Presentations from that event are available on the DPC website.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/reports/digpressurvey08.pdf
Role and Justification of Web Archiving by National Libraries: A Questionnaire Survey
Eisenschitz, Tamara ; Shiozaki, Ryo (Date Created: Jun 2009)
This article present the findings of a survey of 16 national libraries (Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Swiss, Netherlands, UK, USA, Japan) into how they justify their web archiving programs. The cost benefits and legal justifications are considered.
http://lis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/2/90
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (UK) ISSN 0961-0006 Jun 2009 Vol 41 No 2 pp:90-107
Scoping Report to The National Archives on the Local Government Digital Continuity Requirement
Jeffery-Cook, Richard; Lord, Philip (Date Created: Apr 2010) (United Kingdom)
This report (49 p.) was commissioned by the National Archives (TNA) on the digital continuity risks of large local authorities in England. The survey (online questionnaire and interviews) and subsequent report were prepared by In-Form Consult Ltd and the Digital Archiving Consultancy. Digital continuity is defined as an ability to access and use digital information for as long as organisations need to, and is considered wider than preservation taking into account information management practices, knowledge, attitudes and commitment. The report makes a series of recommendations that my be helpful to local authorities.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/report-to-tna-on-local-au
thority-digital-continuity-v1-0.pdf
State of Electronic Record Keeping in a Selection of Typical Depositors to Local Archives Services : Report of the East of England Digital Preservation Regional Pilot Project Phase 2
Museums Libraries Archives East of England (Date Created: Jul 2008) (United Kingdom)
This report known as the DARP2 report follows the first report of the Digital Archive Regional Pilot published in 2006. Phase 2 was commissioned by the MLA East of England and carried out by Bedfordshire County Council over the period September 2007-June 2008. It surveyed the state of use of digital media for creating and managing documents and records in a selection of organisations which routinely deposit records in local authority archive services such as parish councils, schools and local businesses. The snapshot survey found great variability in the level of understanding and preparedness in small organisations in relation to long term archiving of their digital records.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20081215105807/http://www
.mlaeastofengland.org.uk/_uploads/documents/DARP2Report.pdf
Doucument archived by the UK Web Archiving Consortium.
Survey of Record-Keeping Practices of Photographers using Digital Technology
Bushey, Jessica (Date Created: 28 Aug 2005)
This survey is part of the InterPARES 2 focus area on artistic activities. Digital photography is used in many areas including for artistic, industrial, scientific, medical and e-government purposes. The survey’s objectives are to gather data relating to the types of records that are produced by professional photographers using digital technology, their assumptions regarding the access to their records over the long-term and the nature and variety of digital imagery and record-keeping systems they use. The analysis of the data will provide the basis for the production of guidelines for digital photography which will be written by InterPARES.
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2_digital_photo_recor
dkeeping_report.pdf
Survey on Comprehensive Collection, Storage and Archiving of Japanese Web Sites
National Diet Library (Japan) (Date Created: Jun 2006) (Japan)
The National Diet Library (Japan) has released an English outline of the results of its survey on the comprehensive collection, storage and archive of Japanese web sites. The survey outline includes information on web crawling, web archiving requirements, storing and archiving web data and browsing archived web data. The survey was conducted from October 2004 to March 2005 and as at March 2005 it was estimated that the total amount of web data was 18.4 TB.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/aboutus/bulkresearch2005index_e.html
Also available as pdf.
For the Record : Assessing the Impact of Archiving on the Archived
Crook, Edgar In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Aug 2006) (Australia)
The article describes a study on the effect of PANDORA archiving on digital publishers and publications. The study was based on a survey and supplemented by a selected range of archived material which was examined to discover publication patterns pre- and post-archiving. Publications examined include blogs, e-journals and commercial websites. The broad conclusion of this study is that PANDORA had not had a detrimental effect on publications.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
438.html#article0
Update 2007 : Collection and Preservation of Web-based Provincial/Territorial Government Publications
Hubbertz, Andrew (Date Created: Apr 2007) (Canada)
This document provides an update on a survey conducted in 2005 of programs and developments in the collection and preservation of web-based government documents across Canada.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/preservation/pdf/ah_report_update.pdf
Web Archiving Internationally: Interoperability in the future?
Jacobsen, Grethe (Date Created: 14 May 2007)
This paper delivered at the World Library and Information Congress: 73RD IFLA General Conference and Council (Durban South Africa, 19-23 August 2007) reports the results of a questionnaire sent to 95 National Libraries regarding their web archiving activities and intentions. Partnering was considered of key importance. Legal Deposit, copyright and other legislation important challenges.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/073-Jacobsen-en.pdf
Text also available in Spanish and French from coference website
Web Archiving User Survey
Ras, Marcel; van Bussel, Sara (Date Created: Jul 2007) (Netherlands)
This document describes the methodology and results of a survey undertaken to identify potential users of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's web archive and to establish those users requirements and preferences in designing the contents, search options and appearance of the web archive interface.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/documenten/KB_User
Survey_Webarchive_EN.pdf
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Web Harvesting Survey
Ashenfelder, Michael; Boyko, Andrew ; Marill, Jennifer (Date Created: Jul 2004)
This survey rates the harvestability of various types of web documents and websites within both the surface and deep web. The results are presented in tabular form and include types of documents, examples, formats, and difficulty ratings for harvest in terms of acquisition, parsing and presentation. More detail on problems in harvesting may be found in the complementary document, Test Bed Taxonomy for Crawler.
http://netpreserve.org/publications/iipc-r-001.pdf
Version 1
Webarchiving Internationally: Interoperability in the Future? Results of a Survey of Webarchiving Activities of National Libraries, March 2007.
Jacobsen, Grethe (Date Created: Sep 2007) (Denmark)
This paper is a revised version of a paper published on IFLANET prior to the World Library & Information Congress 73rd IFLA General Conference August 2007. It presents the results of a survey of national libraries in March 2007 on the interoperability of web archives and considers some of the associated challenges.
http://netarchive.dk/publikationer/InteroperabilityInTheFuture_IFLA200
7.pdf
Are You Ready? Assessing Whether Organisations are Prepared for Digital Preservation
Billeness, Clive; Duckworth, James; Farqhuar, Adam; Humphreys, Jane; Jardine, Lewis; Keen, Ann; Sharpe, Robert; Sinclair, Pauline (Date Created: Oct 2009)
This paper presented at IPRES 2009 (5-6 October, 2009, San Francisco) discusses a survey undertaken by the Planets project in early 2009 of over 200 European national libraries, archives and content holders. The survey was aimed at assessing participating organisations' digital preservation activities and readiness, and the ability of Planets services to assist in meeting their needs.
http://planets-project.eu/docs/papers/Sharpe_AreYouReady_iPres2009.pdf

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Tools

ARC Tools
A set of access and manipulation tools, parsers and writers, for Internet Archive ARC files. Available for download http://sourceforge.net/projects/archive-access
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/
DSpace
Hewlett-Packard Company; MIT Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Purpose : The purpose of the DSpace digital repository system is to capture, store, index, preserve, and distribute digital research material. Version 1.5.2 of DSpace is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ . Originally, the MIT Dspace initiative was established with Hewlett-Packard to create a web-based electronic archive of the intellectual output of MIT and other federated partners.
Documentation : The DSpace wiki http://wiki.dspace.org/ provides documentation on resources, other collaboration tools and obtaining the source code.
http://www.dspace.org//
Historical DSpace: An Institutional Repository from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Smith, MacKenzie In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. Proceedings
A paper presented at ECDL 2002, describing the rationale for institutional repositories, the DSpace system, and its implementation at MIT. Plans to release the system in open source to allow continued research in open scholarly communication and long-term preservation for digital materials are also discussed. The abstract is available free-of-charge online. The full article may be obtained in print form or online for a fee.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/8nkpt4nnwkpepbh8/?p=b085cd359d3f44
65835fa1bccd90abc6&pi=39
DSpace@Cambridge Project
Cambridge University Library (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
This project was a 3-year collaboration between Cambridge University Library (CUL) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries, to establish a digital institutional repository for Cambridge University. Expected deliverables included the development of improved digital preservation functionality in the DSpace software platform. The project ended and it became a strategic service on 1 July 2006. The Repository website is available at http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
Historical E-Archiving : an Overview of some Repository Software Management Tools
Prudlo, Marion In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2005)
This article examines three of the more popular repository management systems - LOCKSS, EPrints and DSpace. These tools are analysed in terms of functionality, costs, participants and required skills for use.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue43/prudlo/
JHOVE : JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment : Digital Format Specific Validation
Harvard University Library; JSTOR (Last Updated: Dec 2007)
Purpose : JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is a project to automate the identification and validation of file formats.This process is based on the file itself rather than the filename extension.
Documentation : Access to tutorials, use cases and downloadable modules are available. Project followed by the JHOVE2 project.
http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/index.html
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LOCKSS
Stanford University Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Stanford Libraries is building "persistent access" software for libraries. The project is called: LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) and provides tools which use local, library controlled computers to safeguard readers' long-term access to web based journals. The system ensures that hyperlinks to material it is safeguarding continue to resolve and deliver the appropriate content to their readers even if in the Internet at large the links no longer resolve and the content is no longer available.
http://www.lockss.org/
NutchWAX (Nutch with Web Archive eXtensions)
Purpose : This is a tool for indexing and searching web archives using the Nutch search engine and extensions for searching web archives. It was developed by the Internet Archive and the Nordic National Libraries and is sponsored by the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium. Current version: 0.12.18 (21 September 2009)
http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/nutch/
OLAC : Open Language Archives Community Suite
Open Language Archives Community (Regularly Updated)
Open Language Archives Community OLAC-Suite harvesting tools to support OLAC repositories. "OLAC is creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and developing a network of interoperating repositories and services."
http://sourceforge.net/projects/olac
Historical Virtual Data Center (VDC)
Harvard-MIT Data Center (Last Updated: 2006) (United States of America)
The Virtual Data Center (VDC) was developed by the Harvard-MIT Data Center and the Harvard University Library. The VDC was an open-source digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange and citation of quantitive data. It was updated and maintained through Sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/thedata. Features include data format conversion, persistent naming and metadata harvesting. This project ran from 1999 to 2006 and was succeeded by the Dataverse Network Project.
http://thedata.org/vdc/
Warrick
McCown, Frank (Date Created: 2006) (United States of America)
This tool is designed to assist recovery of a lost web site from an archived or cached version in the Internet Archive, Yahoo, Google or Livesearch. It was built as part of a research project at Old Dominion University.
http://warrick.cs.odu.edu/
Web Curator Tool Project
(Regularly Updated) (New Zealand; United Kingdom)
This is the Sourceforge web page for the Web Curator Tool Project, a Web harvesting management system. The project is a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library and was initiated by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). Software was developed by Sytec Resources.
http://webcurator.sourceforge.net/
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Xena : Open Source Digital Preservation Software from the National Archives of Australia
National Archives of Australia (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
Purpose : XENA (XML Electronic Normalising of Archives) tool, converts a range of file formats to XML representations for long term access. Released as open source software, the application uses a 'plug-in' architecture to convert a range of formats to XML packages. Supported formats include MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint, OpenOffice formats, Rich Text Format, several email formats, comma separated files, relational databases, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP, HTML and Web sites, and plain text.
Documentation : XENA 5.00 is available for download at sourceforge (Dec 2009).
http://xena.sourceforge.net/

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Evaluations

Historical Archives in the Digital Age : A Study for Resource
Barata, Kimberley (Date Created: Dec 2002) (United Kingdom)
This study (194 p. 1.06MB) describes the current situation in the United Kingdom in regard to the long term management of digital records, both born digital and created through digitisation programmes. The aim of the study is to provide information obtained by surveys and interviews to Resource, the UK Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, and to analyse the specific needs of the archives, with particular emphasis on archives run by local authorities.
http://research.mla.gov.uk/evidence/view-publication.php?dm=nrm&pubid=
4
Original MSWord document (3.63 MB), now PDF available for download (1.06MB).
Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive : First Year Pilot Project Evaluation
Chesapeake Project (Date Created: Apr 2008) (United States of America)
This evaluation describes the Chesapeake Project a two year pilot program to preserve born digital legal information published directly to the web and discusses the accomplishments and issues during the first year. It describes the management and workflows and provides statistics on documents harvested and archived.
http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/policies/LEGAL_FirstYearProjectEvaluation
.pdf
CODA-WEBB: Slutrapport
Lindbäck, Lena (Date Created: 05 May 2009) (Sweden)
This is the final report of the CODA WEBB project (60p) in Swedish which is in 3 parts: Strategy for archiving a website; A literature review of tools for web crawling; and a Review of "open repositories" to publish, store and give access to digital documents. Web crawlers evaluated for the LDB Centre Test platform project were HTTrack, Website Copier, Heritrix and PageNest. with Heritrix being selected.Open repository tools evaluated for the test platform were EPrints, DSpace, Fedora, Greenstone and DAITSS, with Fedora being selected.
https://ldb.project.ltu.se/main.php/ldb.project.ltu.se/main.php/projec
ts/portalproject/docs/Publikationer/Svenska%20publikationer/CODA-WEBB.
pdf?fileitem=7475400
DSpace@Cambridge Project
Cambridge University Library (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
This project was a 3-year collaboration between Cambridge University Library (CUL) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries, to establish a digital institutional repository for Cambridge University. Expected deliverables included the development of improved digital preservation functionality in the DSpace software platform. The project ended and it became a strategic service on 1 July 2006. The Repository website is available at http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
Historical E-Archiving : an Overview of some Repository Software Management Tools
Prudlo, Marion In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2005)
This article examines three of the more popular repository management systems - LOCKSS, EPrints and DSpace. These tools are analysed in terms of functionality, costs, participants and required skills for use.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue43/prudlo/
Eerste Fase Webarchivering Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Ras, Marcel (Date Created: Sep 2007) (Netherlands)
This report (28 p.) reviews and evaluates the first phase of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's web archiving project for December 2005 to June 2007.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/documenten/Beschri
jving_webarchivering.pdf
Two-Year Pilot Project Evaluation: Legal Information Archive The Chesapeake Project
Legal Information Archive, The Chesapeake Project (Date Created: Jun 2009) (United States of America)
This document (49 p.) provides a final evaluation and account of the accomplishments of the two year (February 2007- February 2009) pilot program of the Chesapeake Project's Legal Information Archive, a joint project of Georgetown, Maryland State and Virginia State Law Libraries. The goal of the project was to develop a pilot program to preserve born-digital legal information published directly to the Web.The report includes a project evaluation overview, quantitative and qualitative evaluations plus summaries. Of particular interest is a study on "Archived titles with inactive original urls" which looks at "link rot" -how quickly do Internet addresses no longer direct to the files that were originally archived from those URLs (pp31-38).
http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/policies/legal_twoyearprojectevaluation_j
une2009.pdf

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