Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives. Xena is a component of the Digital Preservation Software Platform (DPSP). Xena software aids digital preservation by performing two important tasks: * detecting the file formats of digital objects * converting digital objects into open formats for preservation.
DOTS is a true optical “eye-readable” method of storing digital files. With sufficient magnification, one can actually see the digital information. Our “Rosetta Leader™” specification calls for microfiche-scale human readable text at the beginning of each tape with instructions on how the data is encoded and instructions on how to actually construct a reader. Because the information is visible, as long as cameras and imaging devices are available, the information will always be recoverable.
The WARC (Web ARChive) format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archival file together with related information. The WARC format is a revision of the Internet Archive's ARC File Format [ARC_IA] format that has traditionally been used to store "web crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. The WARC format generalizes the older format to better support the harvesting, access, and exchange needs of archiving organizations. Besides the primary content currently recorded, the revision accommodates related secondary content, such as assigned metadata, abbreviated duplicate detection events, and later-date transformations.
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH presented at this website is developing and testing methods for measuring the severity of detectable errors in digitized books and validating the impact of error on the end-user. Here you will find information on the project, selected findings, and links to the project’s reports, presentations, publications, and products. HATHITRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY serves as a testbed of digitized books and serials for the project, which has three overlapping phases. Paul Conway, Associate Professor, PI.
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.
University of California. California Digital Library. Merritt is a cost-effective repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets the UC community manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content.
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.
Do you want to archive tweets from your conference? Maybe archive trending hashtags or keywords for historical or analysis purposes? Maybe save your own personal tweets? Twapper Keeper is here to help! How does it work? 1. Create a new Twapper Keeper archive based upon hashtag, keyword, or person 2. Tell your friends about the archive 3. Read, track, export, and analyze as much as you want!
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
Identification, Preservation, Data Description Tools, Management Software, Data Storage Tools, Digital Repository and Library Models, Documentation and Standards, Strategy Tools and Guidelines, Web Archiving Tools, Relevant Projects
The Library of Congress and its digital preservation Partner Tools and Publications from the federal, library, creative, publishing, technology, and copyright communities are working to develop a national strategy to collect, archive, and preserve digital content.
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.
Setting up ThinkUp takes a couple of minutes if you know how to install a web app. Once you're running, there's lots you can do!. e.g., Archive all of your social data for your Twitter and Facebook accounts in your own database and make it easy to search, sort and filter.
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.