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D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
von Suchodoletz et al. |
Report on the First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies The International Conference on Digital Preservation is an established annual event bringing together practitioners and researchers in the digital preservation community, engaging individuals, organizations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in digital libraries.   |
D-Lib
January 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
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
Nov/Dec 2012
Joan E. Beaudoin |
Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects In discussions surrounding digital preservation, context -- those properties of an object related to its creation and preservation that make the object's origins, composition, and purpose clear -- has been identified as a critical aspect of preservation metadata. |
D-Lib
February 2002
Stewart Granger |
Digital Preservation and Deep Infrastructure Institutions should adopt both a pragmatic approach and a strategic approach to preservation of digital data. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Casad et al. |
Enduring Access to Rich Media Content: Understanding Use and Usability Requirements Through an NEH-funded initiative, Cornell University Library is creating a technical, curatorial, and managerial framework for preserving access to complex born-digital new media objects. |
D-Lib
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
March 2004
Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir |
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Vermaaten et al. |
Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment Digital preservation strategies, as well as the processes and tools that implement those strategies, are designed to secure the long-term future of digital materials. A successful digital preservation strategy must account for and mitigate the impact of various threats. |
D-Lib
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
Jan/Feb 2013
Webb et al. |
'Oh, you wanted us to preserve that?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australia's Digital Collections Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. |
D-Lib
January 2005
David S. H. Rosenthal et al. |
Transparent Format Migration of Preserved Web Content The design of digital preservation systems must anticipate obsolescence, and incorporate a strategy by which the content they preserve will still be understood by readers after multiple generations of formats have become obsolete. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Kulovits et al. |
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 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
February 2007
H.M. Gladney |
Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an Outsider Today's National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program is focused on cultural content similar to traditional research library holdings, with little attention to preserving practical information critical to most social infrastructure and of interest to most citizens. |
D-Lib
April 2002
Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date... |
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. |
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? |
D-Lib
November 2004
Andreas Stanescu |
Assessing the Durability of Formats in a Digital Preservation Environment: The INFORM Methodology Clearly, the process of measuring the preservation durability of digital formats is best done in collaboration with digital archives, global registries, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital format experts, software and hardware developers and researchers. |
D-Lib
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
MacKenzie Smith |
External Bits How can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory? The open-source DSpace project sees not only the problem of preserving the data, but also making it readable, playable or watchable many years later. |
D-Lib
May 2002
William G. LeFurgy |
Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories... |
D-Lib
February 2001
Kenneth Thibodeau |
Building the Archives of the Future Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration... |
D-Lib
April 2003
Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2000
Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland & Philip B. Eppard |
Preserving the Authenticity of Contingent Digital Objects: The InterPARES Project In the development of digital libraries and of digital information systems in general, increasing attention is being given to issues relating to the preservation and authenticity of digital objects in order to assure their long-term accessibility and physical and intellectual integrity |
D-Lib
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
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 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
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. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2016
Becker et al. |
The Benchmarking Forum at IPRES 2015 The International Conference on Digital Preservation, brought practitioners to discuss opportunities and challenges in adopting software benchmarking as a systematic tool for evaluating digital preservation tools. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Brian F. Lavoie |
The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation How do we ensure that digital preservation activities survive beyond the current availability of soft-money funding? |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007 |
Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services Distributed preservation services require further investigation about the interaction of service providers and client repositories. While there may be some emerging consensus on the range of services that may be needed, the primary requirement is for market testing conditions. |
D-Lib
September 2002
Green et al. |
Coming to TERM: Designing the Texas Email Repository Model This article explores access to and long-term preservation of digital records in state government settings using the Open Archival Information System Reference Model to design a repository for managing email records in the state of Texas. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
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
Sep/Oct 2011
Shaon & Woolf |
Long-term Preservation for Spatial Data Infrastructures: a Metadata Framework and Geo-portal Implementation The work presented in this article investigates the requirements for ensuring sustained access to environmental data from the perspective of a preservation-aware Spatial Data Infrastructure. |
D-Lib
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
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
May/Jun 2015
Nathan Brown |
Helping Members of the Community Manage Their Digital Lives: Developing a Personal Digital Archiving Workshop This article explores resources and methods that could be used in the development of a personal digital archiving workshop and how to best tailor it to your library audience. |
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
September 2003
Pinfield & James |
The Digital Preservation of e-Prints This article addresses the question of whether or not e-prints -- electronic versions of research papers -- should be preserved and then goes on to make some comments about the practical issues that arise from the suggested answer. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2013
Altman et al. |
NDSA Storage Report: Reflections on National Digital Stewardship Alliance Member Approaches to Preservation Storage Technologies To better understand ongoing storage practices of organizations committed to digital preservation, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance conducted a survey of member organizations. This article reports on the findings of the survey. |
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
April 2004
Dobratz & Neuroth |
nestor: Network of Expertise in Long-term STOrage of Digital Resources A Digital Preservation Initiative for Germany |
D-Lib
December 2008
Priscilla Caplan |
Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories. |
D-Lib
April 2006 |
In Brief The DIDET Project - bringing digital libraries into the classroom for Design Engineering students... Modular Emulation... CLOCKSS: Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe - Large Dark Archive Initiative... etc. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Cassella & Calvi |
ECDL 2009 Enhancing digital libraries users' experience. |
D-Lib
April 2004
Brian F. Lavoie |
Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2004
Seamus Ross |
The Role of ERPANET in Supporting Digital Curation and Preservation in Europe While Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network (ERPNET) plans to continue playing a part in satisfying the need for reliable knowledge about digital preservation methods and practices and high quality research, the team recognises that many more organisations of this kind are needed for the development of effective preservation capabilities across public, commercial, and consumer sectors. |
D-Lib
November 2005
Aschenbrenner, Brandt & Strodl |
Report on the 5th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) In addition to web arching-related issues, the workshop discussed the broad topic of digital preservation. |
