Vatican library: open source for long-term preservation
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The combination of open source and open standards ensures long-term preservation of electronic records and prevents IT vendor lock-in, says Luciano Ammenti, head of the IT department at the Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) in Vatican City.
NYT By JONATHAN ZITTRAINMAY 14, 2014 The Opinion Pages A right to be forgotten? "THE European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Europeans have a limited “right to be forgotten” by search engines like Google. According to the ruling, an individual can compel Google to remove certain reputation-harming search results that are generated by Googling the individual’s name. The court is trying to address an important problem — namely, the Internet’s ability to preserve indefinitely all its information about you, no matter how unfortunate or misleading — but it has devised a poor solution."
Marshall, C.C., Bly, S. and Brun-Cottan, F. (2006). Retrieved 13 July, 2006. Personal Archiving, how home computer users are creating, receiving and archiving their data.
Marshall, C.C. (2006). Personal Archiving. discusses the importance of the long term storage of personal digital information with regard to seven issues and then outlines some technological developments that may go some way to address these issues. The is
Techworld.com. A group of national libraries, research institutes, IBM and Microsoft has formed the PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services) consortium to avert a threatened digital black hole as electronic document file form
data grid software system being developed by the SDSC Storage Resource Broker team, , is a project for building the next generation data management cyberinfrastructure.
books in google book project stored here. HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Partnership is open to all who share this grand vision.
Chronopolis is a digital preservation data grid framework being developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, the UC San Diego Libraries (UCSDL), and their partners
The California Digital Library (CDL), Portico, and Stanford University have received funding from the Library of Congress, under its National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) initiative, to collaborate on a two-year project to develop a next-generation JHOVE2 architecture for format-aware characterization.
Conduct an analysis of previous and current models for sustainable digital preservation, and identify current best practices among existing collections, repositories and analogous enterprises. Develop a set of economically viable recommendations to catalyze the development of reliable strategies for the preservation of digital information. Provide a research agenda to organize and motivate future work in the specific area of economic sustainability of digital information.
Library of Congress. National Film Preservation Board.Film Preservation Study (Film Preservation 1993). National Television/Videotape Preservation Study (1997).
The Digital Formats Web site provides information about digital content formats. The analyses and resources presented here will increase and be updated over time. The compilers, Caroline R. Arms and Carl Fleischhauer, invite feedback on the content.