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.
The goal for this working group is to identify, establish, and disseminate information about standards and practices for the digital reformatting of audio-visual materials by federal agencies. The effort will cover sound and video recordings and will consider the inclusion of motion picture film as the project proceeds. The main focus of the work is on older materials, with the formatting born-digital content to be considered where strong synergy exists. Topic areas include formatting, metadata, and related practices and methodology.
NDIIPP Project. The Minnesota Historical Society is working with representatives from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the California Digital Library (CDL), as well as representatives from the states of California, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Vermont who are involved in preserving and providing access to government information. The goal of working with these partners is to address common concerns in preserving state government digital information. The All Partners Meeting held in December 2008 was the first time that all of the representatives were brought together.
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Birth of the Dot Com Era Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) ECHO DEPository: Exploring Collaborations to Harness Objects with a Digital Environment for Preservation MetaArchive National Geospatial Digital Archive North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project Preserving Digital Public Television Web-at-Risk, etc.
a hierarchical file package format for the exchange of generalized digital content. A "bag" has just enough structure to safely enclose a brief "tag" and a payload but does not require any knowledge of the payload's internal semantics.
This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction.
The ADAPT project is developing technologies for building a scalable and reliable infrastructure for the long-term access and preservation of digital assets. Our approach uses a distributed object architecture that operates on different levels of abstractions built around grid technologies and web services. Major software components have been prototyped and are currently in use in a number of pilot projects such as the Transcontinental Persistent Archives Project and Chronopolis. Integrity Management (ACE) project. PAWN is a mature software platform that is extremely flexible in implementing centralized and distributed ingestion and processing workflows.
media.org is a is a collective of artists/architects, netizens fueled by a passion for the potential of the Internet. Co-founded by Carl Malamud and webchick, their goal for the organization is to push the Internet to greater heights through public works and activism. They also collaborate as the Internet Multicasting Service (IMS), the nonprofit group that helped pioneer some important early content on the World Wide Web.
Rescued Works, sites we have chosen to refurbish and republish on the Internet for posterity. The second is Living Works, sites we created that now have a life of their own and are maintained by someone else. And the third are what we call the World Wide Cobweb, sites that live on the net in their original state without any active maintenance.
Individual instalments authored by leading experts in the field of digital curation will cover a range of issues relating to digital curation. The Digital Curation Manual is designed to assist data creators, curators and re-users to better understand the challenges they face and the roles they play in creating, managing and preserving their digital information over time. Each instalment will place the topic in the context of digital curation by providing an introduction to the subject, an explanation of terminology used, suggestions for best practice and by providing real-life examples of the topic in action. To ensure that the Digital Curation Manual is as current as possible, authors will be required to review and update their individual instalments on an annual basis reflecting any major developments.
CyArk is a non-profit entity whose mission is to digitally preserve cultural heritage sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, digital modeling, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) has launched a new registry (http://netpreserve.org/about/archiveList.php) of its members’ web archives. Preserving the web is not a task of any single institution. It is a mission common to all IIPC members, and many practices and lessons are transferable.
NEDCC is a nonprofit, regional conservation center specializing in the preservation of paper-based materials. NEDCC serves libraries, archives, museums, etc. It provides the highest quality conservation treatment and reformatting services. The Imaging Services department specializes in digitization of photographs and other visual materials and preservation microfilming. Staff members are experienced in careful handling of fragile materials.
The preservation of databases poses unique problems compared to other digital formats. There are many types of databases and each is unique in its data, application and management. Dynamically generated databases pose further problems as the data within them changes frequently. Database preservation options include converting databases to XML or migrating databases to new systems.
The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System, or PeDALS, is a research project that has two technical goals. First, to develop a curatorial rationale to support an automated, integrated workflow to process collections of digital publications and records. Second, to implement "digital stacks" using an inexpensive, storage network that can preserve the authenticity and integrity of the collections.
Memento wants to make it as straightforward to access the Web of the past as it is to access the current Web. If you know the URI of a Web resource, the technical framework proposed by Memento allows you to see a version of that resource as it existed at some date in the past, by entering that URI in your browser like you always do and by specifying the desired date in a browser plug-in. Or you can actually browse the Web of the past by selecting a date and clicking away. Whatever you land upon will be versions of Web resources as they were around the selected date. Obviously, this will only work if previous versions are available somewhere on the Web. But if they are, and if they are on servers that support the Memento framework, you will get to them.
a set of open-source tools developed to support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format. The tools were created by Florida Center for Library Automation for the Library of Congress in 2009.
a filesystem hierarchy for holding objects that are located by mapping identifier strings to object directory (or folder) paths two characters at a time. Pairtrees have the advantage that many object operations, including backup and restore, can be performed with native operating system tools.
The CyberCemetery is an archive of government web sites that have ceased operation (usually web sites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report). This collection features a variety of topics indicative of the broad nature of government information. In particular, this collection features web sites that cover topics supporting the university’s curriculum and particular program strengths.
The Email Account XML Schema is now available. The schema was co-developed by the CERP and EMCAP project teams during the course of their separate grant projects to preserve historic email messages. We are pleased to make the schema, a brief introduction, and an RDDL diagram of the schema available. Please note that the current documentation for the schema is quite technical and will be most meaningful for those familiar with creating or evaluating schema code.
bibliography at Conservation OnLine. General resources, Technical resources, Standards, Specifications, Formats, Bibliographic resources, Resources at other sites
CoOL, an online resource operated by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. It is a growing online resource for conservators, collection care specialists, and other conservation professionals
Unless action is taken now, much of mankind’s documentary heritage may vanish - discarded as no longer of relevance or left to deteriorate beyond recovery. This website explains what the Endangered Archives Programme is, and how it can help.
The Center for Research Libraries is working with a small team from the California Digital Library's Discovery & Delivery group to develop a Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR). PAPR will support research library and consortial efforts to archive and manage critical print serial collections in an informed and cost-effective manner. PAPR will feature a searchable database of information about current print archiving programs and holdings worldwide, including characteristics such as retention period, archiving facilities and conditions, availability in digital repositories, level of content validation, and access provided.