Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery network (CTRnet), is a digital library network for providing a range of services relating to different kind of tragic events. Through this digital library, we collect and archive different types of CTR related information such as Web sites, videos, blogs and tweets. Various collections about school shootings and natural disasters have been developed from collaboration with the Internet Archive.
The TOTEM registry is used to record the complex hardware and software relationships which apply to digital objects, and to make them visible to the digital preservation community. TOTEM was created by the University of Portsmouth, Future Proof Computing Group
The pages referenced below form a network of Datasets, preservation and curation Issues with those Datasets, and Solutions to those Issues. As such, these pages capture information and requirements about concrete digital preservation and curation challenges, that are present in specific datasets and collections. The experiences of solving these Issues are written up on Solution pages. These in turn link to pages in the OPF Tool Registry, and to actual code that can be downloaded and re-used.
This is the wikispace for the SPRUCE Project (Sustainable PReservation Using Community Engagement), hosted by the Open Planets Foundation. SPRUCE is aiming to foster a vibrant and self-supporting community of digital preservation practitioners and developers
definition at Wikipedia. Online or Raptor codes can be useful when using distributed replicas of data to help with data recovery. they allow for a better chance of recovery even when individual replicas don't have complete copies of the entire digital object.
a list of resources about personal digital preservation for authors and creators including very recent (2012, 2011) documents and open source options most likely useful to content creators.
Preservation and Access Technology The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Processes: A Structured Glossary of Technical Terms. CLIR
Digitization as a Means of Preservation? European Commission on Preservation and Access, Amsterdam October 1997 Final report of a working group of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association)
Paul Conway. Digital imaging technologies are replacing the microfilm camera and photocopier as the primary mechanisms for reproducing print and graphic resources. Digitization practices do not necessarily accomplish preservation goals; only a portion of digitization programs in cultural heritage institutions produce preservation-quality results. In 2004, the Association of Research Libraries issued a position paper that supported the creation of preservation-quality digital images, citing the abundance of available standards and best practices. This course concentrates on the state-of-the-art of standards, techniques, metadata, and project requirements for the production of preservation-quality digital images. The course will consider such standards and practices within the larger context of the representation of information through technological remediation.
Planets, Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. The primary goal for Planets is to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets. Planets started on 1st June 2006. This website makes available project documentations and deliverables
The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors. jhove, droid, etc. The current tools used are: * Jhove (LGPL version 2.1 or any later version) * Exiftool (GPL version 1 or any later version; or the artistic license) * National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor (Apache Public License version 2) * DROID (BSD version 3.0) * FFIdent (LGPL) o Note that the live site for ffident (http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html) seems to have disappeared - we are now linking to Internet Archive's version of the ffident website. * File Utility (windows) (revised BSD)
the PLEDGE project, a collaboration between the MIT and UCSD Libraries and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. With funding from the National Archives and Records Administration we are conducting research and advanced development on prototypes for scalable, interoperable digital archives and preservation environments, working primarily with the DSpace digital repository platform and the SRB data grid middleware.
The GeoMAPP effort aims to address the preservation of “at risk” and temporally significant digital geospatial content. Geospatial data layers containing information about land parcels, zoning, roads, and jurisdictional boundaries change regularly. Existing copies of these data are often at risk of being overwritten when updates or changes are made and these superseded snapshots of data are then lost for future use and analysis.
This Wiki contains information and documents generated by the working group which is attempting to produce an ISO standard on which a full audit and certification of digital repositories can be based. The aim will be to take this work into ISO in the same way as the OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721), namely via ISO TC20/SC13, of which the working arm is CCSDS.
With SIARD (Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases), the Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) provides a sustainable solution for the long-term preservation of relational databases. This includes an open format for archiving of relational databases as well as a software package - "SIARD Suite" - for converting relational databases into the SIARD format. SIARD Suite is based on international standards such as XML, SQL:1999 and UNICODE. At present the application supports the following databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server und Microsoft Access. The Swiss Federal Archives distributes the SIARD Suite free of charge, according to the license agreement. database preservation. preservation of databases.
The Archivematica project is integrating a number of open source tools and applications to create a comprehensive digital archives system that is compliant with the ISO-OAIS standard and is able to implement media type preservation plans based on an analysis of significant properties. Archivematica is a comprehensive digital preservation system. Archivematica uses a micro-services design pattern to provide an integrated suite of free and open-source tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the ISO-OAIS functional model. Users monitor and control the micro-services via a web-based dashboard. Archivematica uses METS, PREMIS, Dublin Core and other best practice metadata standards. Archivematica implements media type preservation plans based on an analysis of the significant characteristics of file formats.
The UDFR is an initiative begun in April 2009 to build a single shared formats registry. UDFR builds on years of work performed by a number of institutions internationally, whether it was for PRONOM, the Global Digital Formats Registry (GDFR), or other format registry projects.
A. Rusbridge, and S. Ross. iPRES 2008 Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, British Library, (2008)Joining up and working: Tools and Methods for Digital Preservation, 29-30th September 2008, British Library, London..