The Database Preservation Toolkit allows conversion between Database formats, including connection to live systems, for purposes of digitally preserving databases. The toolkit allows conversion of live or backed-up databases into preservation formats such as DBML or SIARD, XML-based formats created for the purpose of database preservation. The toolkit also allows conversion of the preservation formats back into live systems to allow the full functionality of databases. For example, it supports a specialized export into MySQL, optimized for PhpMyAdmin, so the database can be fully experimented using a web interface.
Preservation and Access Technology The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Processes: A Structured Glossary of Technical Terms. CLIR
The SHAMAN project develops and tests a next generation, long term digital preservation framework including systems and tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives. It comprises the definition of the SHAMAN Theory of Preservation integrating the analysis, ingestion, management, access to and reuse of information objects across distributed repositories. The data preservation capabilities offered secure the authenticity and integrity of data objects through time.
Project Detail - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress). The GeoMAPP project is exploring ways to expand the capabilities of state governments to provide long-term access to geospatial data. The project is bringing together geospatial and archival staff in multiple states to identify, preserve, and make available temporal and superseded digital geospatial data with ongoing value. A key approach will include testing a geographically dispersed content-exchange network for the replication of state and local geospatial data among several states to promote preservation and access.
United Kingdom. Guidance organization providing training and practical expertise related to data curation. They offer an introduction to digital curation and resources.
Global. Consortial group advocating international collaboration in preserving content on the Internet. Offers open source software tools for web archiving. The mission of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is to acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.
National library applying cutting edge digital preservation research to its collections. Accepts and preserves electronic documents through its e-Depot system.
A list of digital preservation cost-models: Costing Digital Preservation, Digital Preservation Costing Initiatives, Significant Digital Preservation Costing Papers, General Costing Information
The DCC has developed a suite of tools to help UK HEI researchers and research support staff to better understand their particular data management and curation needs, assess current activity and infrastructure, and to plan for improvement.
DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is an automatic file format identification tool. It is the first in a planned series of tools developed by The National Archives under the umbrella of its PRONOM technical registry service.
wiki. UC Curation Center (UC3) is a creative partnership bringing together the expertise and resources of the University of California. Together we provide high quality and cost-effective solutions that enable campus constituencies — museums, libraries, archives, academic departments, research units, and individual researchers — to have direct control over the management, curation, and preservation of the information resources underpinning their scholarly activities.
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.