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D-Lib
January 2003
Smith et al. |
DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository DSpace functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization.   |
D-Lib
January 2000
Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition... |
D-Lib
September 2005 |
StoneD: A Bridge between Greenstone and DSpace The clarification of the similarities and differences between Greenstone and DSpace, and a report on a new technical development that allows users to migrate their collections from Greenstone to DSpace and vice versa. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
Rimkus et al. |
Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another. |
D-Lib
November 2003
Muller et al. |
The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System DiVA, a publishing system, treats the electronic copy of a document as the "digital master" for both electronic and print versions and uses data originally entered by the document author as the basis for creation, reuse, and enhancement of all metadata. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013
April Younglove |
Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT's The Wallace Center The Digital Preservation Team looked at the repository's current performance and requirements for ensuring its future success, and examined four different approaches that are in use by research institutions today. |
D-Lib
September 2001
Dale Flecker |
Preserving Scholarly E-Journals For research libraries, the long-term preservation of digital collections may well be the most important issue in digital libraries. In certain ways, digital materials are incredibly fragile, dependent for their continued utility upon technologies that undergo rapid and continual change... |
D-Lib
Nov?Dec 2010
Noonan et al. |
PDF/A: A Viable Addition to the Preservation Toolkit We describe the format itself, the lessons learned as the authors investigated the tools readily available for creating PDF/A files and the design of the pilot to test implementation of the use of the format in The Ohio State University's repository, the Knowledge Bank. |
D-Lib
June 2005
Jantz & Giarlo |
Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories To ensure that current digital archives can be trusted to be available in the future, methods, practices, and standards need to be defined. |
D-Lib
November 2004
Andreas Stanescu |
Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: The INFORM Methodology Clearly, the process of measuring the preservation durability of digital formats is best done in collaboration with digital archives, global registries, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital format experts, software and hardware developers and researchers. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
Brad Reagan |
The Digital Ice Age The documents of our time are being recorded as bits and bytes with no guarantee of future readability. As technologies change, will our files be frozen in forgotten formats? |
Information Today
May 2009
Bill Greenwood |
Securing Your Digital Future A look at various industry standard data formats used for storing archival data, and strategies for physical storage. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2016
Nash & Wheeler |
Desktop Batch Import Workflow for Ingesting Heterogeneous Collections: A Case Study with DSpace 5 We describe a lightweight and easily adopted Python workflow for packaging heterogeneous collections in Simple Archive Format for batch ingest into DSpace. |
Searcher
May 2004
Miriam A. Drake |
Institutional Repositories Hidden Treasures Librarians are taking leadership roles in planning and building repositories now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets, intellectual output, and histories of institutions. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012
Lewis et al. |
SWORD: Facilitating Deposit Scenarios Digital Repositories have the ability to be integrated into the life blood of research. They can collect, manage, preserve, and make available research outputs. |
D-Lib
November 2003
Ronald Jantz |
Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System This article provides an overview of the Eagleton Poll Archive, the website and, more specifically, the underlying preservation framework |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2012
Jinfang Niu |
An Overview of Web Archiving This overview is a study of the methods used at a variety of universities, and international government libraries and archives, to select, acquire, describe and access web resources for their archives. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2015
Goethals et al. |
Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation Collaboratively: The Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group This article documents goals and activities of the IIPC Preservation Working Group, such as a survey about the current state of preservation in member web archives and a number of collaborative projects. |
D-Lib
December 2005
Clay Shirky |
AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was created with the idea that by giving a moderately complex digital archive to a variety of participants, we would be able to better understand which aspects of digital preservation were institution-specific, and which aspects were more general. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Sokvitne & Lavelle |
Implementing an Open Jurisdictional Digital Repository - the STORS Project This starting point program for the State Library of Tasmania has already allowed the acquisition of significant Tasmanian digital content that would otherwise have been lost. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011
Hense & Quadt |
Acquiring High Quality Research Data We discuss the differences between an electronic text publication and a data publication and the challenges that result from these differences for the data publication process. |
D-Lib
November 2004
Senserini et al. |
Archiving and Accessing Web Pages: The Goddard Library Web Capture Project To ensure continued availability of these knowledge assets to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) community, the GSFC Library is working closely with others in the area of preservation to determine how to preserve the captured web sites once they are no longer maintained by the current owners or curators. |
D-Lib
December 2005
DiLauro et al. |
The Archive Ingest and Handling Test: The Johns Hopkins University Report The Digital Knowledge Center used the AIHT to explore and evaluate content repositories as platforms for digital preservation. |
Financial Advisor
July 2009
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Formatting Fallacies For advisory businesses, choosing between TIFFs or PDFs for business records means understanding their pros and cons. |
D-Lib
December 2005
Abrams et al. |
Harvard's Perspective on the Archive Ingest and Handling Test Future plans for the Digital Repository Service (DRS) are to convert it to more of an institutional repository. The AIHT provides an excellent opportunity to investigate a number of issues that are expect in the future. |
D-Lib
May 2002
William G. LeFurgy |
Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories... |
D-Lib
April 2007
Davis & Connolly |
Institutional Repositories: Evaluating the Reasons for Non-use of Cornell University's Installation of DSpace Cornell's DSpace is largely underpopulated and underused by its faculty. |
D-Lib
November 2005
Rosenthal et al. |
Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach Work is under way to elaborate the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model with sufficient detail to allow systems to inter-operate on the basis of common specifications for ingesting and disseminating information. |
D-Lib
October 2000
Stewart Granger |
Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy Many libraries and archives are in the process of `going digital'. What are the issues with respect to emulation as a digital preservation strategy? |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2012
Jinfang Niu |
Functionalities of Web Archives The functionalities that are important to the users of web archives range from basic searching and browsing to advanced personalized and customized services, data mining, and website reconstruction. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Catherine C. Marshall |
Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving Part 2: Implications for Services, Applications, and Institutions Implications of accumulation, distribution, digital stewardship, and long-term access in digital archiving, and some promising technological directions and requirements for each of these four issues. |
D-Lib
December 2002
Rauber et al. |
Uncovering Information Hidden in Web Archives A glimpse at web analysis building on data warehouses |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Kuali OLE System Partners receive $882,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation... IMLS Congressional Justification Now Available... Wellcome Library's Digital Asset Player... |
D-Lib
January 2002
Anne R. Kenney |
Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources Virtual remote control in Cornell's Project Prism... |
Linux Journal
February 1, 2007
Marcel Gagne |
Cooking with Linux - Words, Words, Words... When it comes to being understood and sharing information, it's not just about open source, it's about open standards. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2004
Lavoie & Dempsey |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation Fulfilling the promise of integrated and readily accesible material requires the cultivation of stakeholder communities that meaningfully engage with digital information environments. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2013
Michael Rumianek |
Archiving and Recovering Database-driven Websites In this paper, a procedure is presented that overcomes the problems faced by archivists of database-driven websites. |
Information Today
May 1, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Introduces High-Priced Digital Archive Service The $750 a year minimum price tag for OCLC's Digital Archive service may make it vulnerable to challenges from the plummeting cost of large storage devices and "cloud computing" operations, such as Amazon Web Services. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009 |
In Brief File Information Tool Set (FITS): A new tool for digital preservation repositories... Meet RODA, an open-source repository for digital preservation... A compact for open-access publication... etc. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011
Li & Banach |
Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries Digital preservation is a significant problem facing libraries. Libraries are struggling with how to preserve the scholarly and cultural record now that this information is increasingly being produced in digital formats. |
D-Lib
February 2009
Wrenn et al. |
Institutional Repository on a Shoestring In this article, the authors describe the process of setting up and managing a digital repository: hardware and software selection; customizations; gaining campus support and other tasks. |
D-Lib
December 2005
Anderson et al. |
The AIHT at Stanford University: Automated Preservation Assessment of Heterogeneous Digital Collections Development and initial implementation of a methodology for automated preservation-risk assessment, results applying the methodology to the AIHT collection, and some general conclusions from our results and from the project as a whole. |
D-Lib
May 2001 |
In Brief The Variable Media Initiative at the Guggenheim... Digital Imaging South Africa... A Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML... Griffith Artworks CD-ROM Archival Project... Griffith University Art Collection on-line... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Ariel Bleicher |
A Memory of Webs Past The Web is a rollicking, revealing record of life in the 21st century. But preserving it for future historians is a monumental technical challenge |
D-Lib
January 2005
Foster & Gibbons |
Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories The availability of open-source institutional repository (IR) systems has encouraged a proliferation of IRs worldwide, particularly among academic and research institutions. Installing the software, however, is just the first step towards a successful IR. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013
Schopfel & Soukouya |
Providing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study from Togo The self-archiving of scientific work in an open access repository, is often considered as the choice for developing countries because of lower investment and operational costs. We will provide a review of relevant literature on the topic. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012 |
In Brief and In the News Grant Awards Announcement: Museums for America... VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative... EUscreen releases Online Exhibitions... |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2012 |
In Brief and In the News SPRUCE project tackles digital preservation challenges with hands on events... The TIMBUS project - timeless business processes and services... Orphan works and mass digitization: obstacles and opportunities... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
von Suchodoletz et al. |
Report on the First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies The International Conference on Digital Preservation is an established annual event bringing together practitioners and researchers in the digital preservation community, engaging individuals, organizations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in digital libraries. |
