Projects and Case Studies
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- Adapt : an Approach to Digital Archiving and Preservation Technology
Institute for Advanced Computer Study, University of Maryland
(Date Created: 2004)
(United States of America)
- The ADAPT project operates within the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). The Project's partners include the National Archives, San Diego Supercomputing Center and Fujitsu Laboratories of America. The Adapt approach comprises a distributed archive infrastructure based on Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, using grid technologies and web services and operating on several levels of abstraction. This collaborative approach offers cost savings, resource sharing, infrastructure support and risk mitigation.
- http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/research/adapt/index.html
- Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past: Towards a Robust Strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation
Stijn Hoorens; Jeff Rothenberg; Constantijn van Oranje; Martin van der Mandele; Ruth Levitt
(Date Created: 2007)
(Netherlands)
- This report prepared for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek reviews the history of digital preservation, the role of National Libraries and publishers and discusses the dynamic environment of scholarly publishing. The report considers the strategy implications for the KB and its e-Depot archive.
- http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/
- Summary and Full document in PDF available for download from http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/ also available for sale. RAND (Technical ) Report TR-510-KB
- Alternative File Formats for Storing Master Images
Gillesse, Robert; Rog, Judith; Verheusen, Astrid
(Date Created: 7 Mar 2008)
(Netherlands)
- This in depth report (64 pages) describes a project undertaken by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek on possible alternative file formats for storing master images from mass digitisation projects. The KB currently stores uncompressed TIFFs. This report considers JPEG 2000, PNG, JPEG and TIFF LZW as alternatives. It describes each format and considers the consequences for required storage capacity, image quality, long term sustainability and functionality.
- http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/Alternativ
e%20File%20Formats%20for%20Storing%20Masters%202%201.pdf
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It Always Hurts the First Time: Experiences with Transferred Electronic Records
van Dijk, Marcel
In: Cultivate Interactive
(Date Created: Feb 2003)
(Netherlands)
- This case study notes the problems of transferring electronic records to the Amsterdam Public Record Office from a government agency. The study covers issues such as project planning, metadata, various file formats such as e-mails and text files.
- http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue9/amsterdammro/
- American Memory : Building Digital Collections : Technical Information
Library of Congress
(Last Updated: Jun 2000)
(United States of America)
- This site contains background and technical information about the Library of Congress' program to digitise and provide access to the historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/techIn.html
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's e-Journal archives project
Digital Library Federation (DLF)
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- A web-site linking projects undertaken by 7 major American libraries on the digital archiving of electronic journals. Each project is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and uses the minimum requirements for the digital archiving of electronic journals developed by the DLF, CLIR and CNI in early 2000.
- http://www.diglib.org/preserve/ejp.htm
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AOLA : Austrian On-Line Archive
Department of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology
(Regularly Updated)
(Austria)
- Website of the AOLA (Austrian On-Line Archive) pilot project, a joint initiative of the Austrian National Library and the Technical University of Vienna's Department of Software Technology. AOLA is being constructed as an archive of snapshots of Austrian webspace, based upon periodic harvesting of publicly available websites. The project was established to investigate the challenges associated with the collection and archiving of online publications, which were not covered by the 2000 amendments to legal deposit legislation.
- http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/
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Arches - RLG's Archival Server Infrastructure
Research Libraries Group
(Last Updated: Nov 1999)
(United States of America)
- The Arches project, a two-year project begun by the Research Libraries Group (RLG) in the United States in 1996, focused on the development of an online repository for digital resources of all types and the software environment to make this repository internationally accessible and responsibly maintainable.
- http://xml.coverpages.org/rlg-projarch.html
- ARCHIPOL : Archive of Web Sites of Political Parties in the Netherlands
ARCHIPOL
(Date Created: 2003)
(Netherlands)
- The aim of this project was to archive the web sites of political parties in the Netherlands. There are links to project information such as software and progress reports. The project was designed as a pilot study so that the results can be used to develop a model that will help other institutions archiving web sites. Included are parties websites for 2002, 2003 and 2006.
- http://www.archipol.nl/english/index.html
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Archival Digital Libraries Repositories
Stanford University Database Group
(Date Created: Jan 2003)
(United States of America)
- This exploratory project, supported by the National Science Foundation, aimed to implement and design a Digital Library Repository (DLR) that “will permanently store the digital objects that make up a library”. The DLR will allow organizations to work together in a shared repository. In order to achieve these goals, research will be undertaken by the project team into such areas as the identification of digital objects, metadata management, the replication of digital objects for archival purposes and the development of architecture and interfaces for a DLR.
- http://www-db.stanford.edu/~crespo/archivalrep/
- Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) : Final Report
Shirky, Clay
(Date Created: Jun 2005)
(United States of America)
- The Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) was designed to test a proposed preservation architecture. The test had two phases; phase one tested the transfer from the donating archive and data handling within local systems; phase two tested export and import between the participants. The participants of the project were the Library of Congress, Stanford University, Old Dominion University, Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University Library. A common data set, the George Mason University 9/11 archive, provided the data for the test.
- http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/pdf/ndiipp_aiht_final_repor
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Archiving Smithsonian Websites : an Evaluation and Recommendation for a Smithsonian Institution Archives Pilot Project
Smithsonian Institution Archives Records Management Team
(Date Created: May 2003)
(United States of America)
- This report outlines a proposal for a pilot project to archive Smithsonian websites and is the result of the evaluation and testing of Dollar Consulting's report Archival Preservation of Smithsonian Web Resources: Strategies, Principles, and Best Practice Archival Preservation of Smithsonian Web Resources: Strategies, Principles, and Best Practice, published in 2001. It includes proposed recommendations for archival management, access to archived websites, processing dynamic websites and cost estimates, and notes the results of test migrations of HTML to XHTML, which were based on Dollar Consulting's earlier recommendations.
- http://siarchives.si.edu/pdf/websitepilot.pdf
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Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
(Date Created: 2001)
Reviewed by: Museums Seek Methods for Preserving Digital Art
; How to Preserve Digital Art
- Archiving the Avant Garde is a collaborative project to develop, document, and disseminate strategies for describing and preserving non-traditional, intermedia, and variable media art forms, such as performance, installation, conceptual, and digital art.
- http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/avantgarde
- Archiving the Web Sites of Political Parties in Germany : a Joint Project of the Archives of Political Foundations Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : Politisches Internet Archiv
Archiv de sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
(Date Created: 2006)
(Germany)
- Although this site is mostly in German there are some links to English reosources and similar projects.
- http://www.fes.de/archiv/spiegelung/default.htm
- ARNO project (Academic Research in the Netherlands Online)
Amsterdam University Library (UBA)
(Regularly Updated)
(Netherlands)
- A cooperative project, ARNO has been established to link the document servers of the University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University and the University of Twente, to make their academic output electronically accessible. The initiative builds on the outcomes of earlier IWI projects and Open Archives Initiative, and will connect the universities to international digital archives and the Dutch information network.
- http://www.uba.uva.nl/en/projects/arno/
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Arts and Humanities Data Service case studies
AHDS
(Regularly Updated)
(United Kingdom)
- Full index to, and texts of, case studies undertaken by the AHDS. The studies report on different aspects of digitisation, including project management and preservation issues.
- http://ahds.ac.uk/casestudies.htm
- Audiovisual Research Collections and Their Preservation
Schüller, Dietrich
(Date Created: Mar 2008)
- This 38 p. report focuses on collections of recordings made during academic field work, interviews and documentaries now held by archives, academic departments and individual researchers. It discusses the requirements for ongoing access and re-use and the potential for digitisation for creating distributed content-based archives.
- http://www.tape-online.net/docs/audiovisual_research_collections.pdf
- Australian Digital Theses Program
University of New South Wales
(Regularly Updated)
(Australia)
- The aim of the project was to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at the participating institutions. The theses are available via the web from this website.
- http://adt.caul.edu.au/
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Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
Scholarly Technology Services, Australian National University
(Regularly Updated)
(Australia)
- This project, funded by the Australian Dept. of Education, Science and Training, has five partners - the Australian National University, National Library of Australia, University of Queensland, University of Sydney and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing. The aim of the project is to act as a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format. The project consists of four interlinked programs - digital continuity and sustainability, International linkages program, National Services Program and Practices and Testbed.
- http://www.apsr.edu.au/index.html
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BIBLINK
European Commission
(Last Updated: 24 Sep 1998)
- Project BIBLINK, funded through the European Commission's Telematics Applications Programme, aimed to establish a relationship between national bibliographic agencies and publishers of electronic material, in order to establish authoritative bibliographic information for the benefit of both sectors. Areas of investigation have included: metadata, permanent naming, data transmission and authenticity. The project finished in February 2000.
- http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/
- BRICKS Community
(Date Created: 2004)
- The BRICKS community is a worldwide federation of chultural heritage institutions, research organisations, technological and digital library service providers and digital co-operating to to create the BRICKS Cultural Heritage Network to foster European digital memory through the BRICKS project. The BRICKS project was funded 1 June 2004 to 30 June 2007.
- http://www.brickscommunity.org/
- Building a Digital Archive : a Dutch Experience
Horsman, Peter; Pompe, Klaartje
In: RLG DigiNews
(Date Created: 15 Dec 2005)
(Netherlands)
- This article describes a project to develop a digital repository for the long term preservation of the digital contents of the Municipal Archives of Rotterdam. The project is a collaboration between the Archives and the Netherlands Archives School. The article outlines the processes and objectives over 2 years, including the project management technique of 'time boxing'; migration of documents to XML; system design; and testing DSpace. The article ends with some observations on open source software.
- http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20865#article2
- Business Plan Archive
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- Launched in 2002, this thematic archive is a companion to the Dot.Com archive. It is a non-profit research project developed at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. The repository includes business plans, marketing plans, venture presentations and audio files from the dot.com era in the 1990s. The University of Maryland researchers received a grant from the Library of Congress to develop a digital repository to preserve these records from both successful and unsuccessful business ventures.
- http://www.businessplanarchive.org
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- CACHe : Recovering Computer Arts Histories
University of London
(Regularly Updated)
(United Kingdom)
- CACHe is a 3-year research project founded in 2002 based at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The purpose of this project is to document, collect and provide access to digital arts from the 1960s and 1970s.
- http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache/index.htm
- Cairo Use Cases: A Survey of User Scenarios Applicable to the Cairo Ingest Tool
Baker, Fran; Gittens, Renhart; Thomas, Susan; Thompson, Dave
(Date Created: 21 May 2007)
(United Kingdom)
- This document outlines a set of use cases describing different interactions of Cairo tool users and the Cairo tool. It is intended for use with other documents designed to inform development of the Cairo tool.
- http://cairo.paradigm.ac.uk/projectdocs/cairo_project_use_cases_pv1.pd
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- CAMiLEON : BBC Domesday
CAMILEON (Creative Archiving at Michigan and leeds: Emulating the Old on the New)
- This articles provides an overview of CAMiLEON's Domesday Project, which uses the BBC's 1986 Domesday Project as a test case for the implementation and development of emulation strategies for the preservation of digital material. The Domesday Project is a multimedia digital project originally produced on 12" video discs. It was intended that future generations would view this resource. It as chosen as a prime test case because it is in danger of loss through technological obsolescence, and represents challenges in terms of scale, complexity and intellectual property rights. The article includes FAQ's, technical and property rights issues and screenshots of the emulator in action.
- http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/domesday/domesday.html
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CAMiLEON : Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds : Emulating the Old on the New
Hedstrom, Margaret
(Regularly Updated)
(United Kingdom; United States of America)
Has papers: CAMiLEON Project : Legal Issues Arising From the Work Aiming to Preserve Elements of the Interactive Multimedia Work Entitled "The BBC Domesday Project"
- Project CAMiLEON (Creative Archiving at Michigan & Leeds : Emulating the Old on the New) examined issues relating to the implementation of technology emulation as a digital preservation strategy. The project recognised emulation's potential to retain the functionality and 'look and feel' of digital objects created on now obsolete systems. It hoped to develop tools, guidelines and costings for emulation as compared to other digital preservation options. The project ran until 2003.
- http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/
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Capturing Unstable Media
V2_ Organisation
(Date Created: 2003)
(Netherlands)
- Developed by the V2_ Organisation, this project used two electronic art projects as case studies to focus on ways to capture and preserve electronic art independent of medium, including documentation, metadata and interoperability aspects. The project has resulted in a series of recommendations, including documentation guidelines and a formal model (ontology). The results of the project were added to the website in March 2004.
- http://capturing.projects.v2.nl/
- CASPAR : Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Knowledge Preservation for Access and Retrieval
CASPAR Consortium
(Date Created: Apr 2006)
- This project commenced in April 2006 and is due to be completed in October 2009. It is coordinated by the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, UK and is partly funded by the European Union. It is a large scale project which will develop a methodology for digital preservation activities across a disparate range of data types coming from the sciences, arts and culture.
- http://www.casparpreserves.eu/
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Cedars : Curl Exemplars in Digital Archives Project
CURL
(Regularly Updated)
(United Kingdom)
Reviewed by: CEDARS Summative Evaluation: Final Report, April 2001
Has papers: Cedars Metadata Brainstorming : A Report From a Meeting : Cedars Project Document AIS03
; CEDARS Project Report: April 1998 - March 2001
- Under the overall direction of CURL (the Consortium of University Research Libraries), and with funding from JISC/CEI through the eLib programme, the Cedars project (April 1998-March 2002) aimed to address the strategic, methodological and practical issues of digital preservation. The project website contains links to Cedars Guidance documents on intellectual property rights, preservation metadata, collection management, technical strategies and the Cedars Distributed Digital Archiving Prototype System. There are also links to project working papers, articles and conference papers.
- http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/
- Center For Information as Evidence
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie/index.htm
- Center for Research Libraries : Certification of Digital Archives Project
Center for Research Libraries
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- This project, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, runs from May 2005 to October 2006. This project will be working in three phases over 18 months to establish a methodology for auditing digital archives and repositories. Other information about the project such as background, timetable, metrics and terminology, participating archives and project outputs is available from the website.
- http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58&l3=142
- Changing Practice in a National Legal Deposit Library
Mason, Ingrid
(Date Created: 2006)
(New Zealand)
- This essay considers how digital culture has influenced the notion of permanence and collecting digital material. It considers the case of the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand, and its collecting of electronic publications with the benefit of legal deposit and the inclusion of online publications.
- http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00012766/
- Also available in Library Trends, Vol 56 (no 1), Summer 2007 : pp.198-215 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib56.1.html
- Chesapeake Project : Legal Information Archive
(Date Created: 2007)
(United States of America)
- The Chesapeake Project is a two year (2007-2008) digital preservation program established to preserve and provide ongoing access to legal information available on the World Wide Web. It began in early 2007and is a collaboration between the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA), an independent organization of law libraries supported by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and three LIPA-member libraries: the Georgetown Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia.
- http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/
- Chronopolis Digital Preservation Demonstration Project
San Diego Supercomputer Center
(Date Created: 2007)
(United States of America)
- Chronopolis is a datagrid framework being developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the University of California at San Diego Libraries and their partners at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado and the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies in College Park. It is a demonstration project of NDIIPP, using datagrid technologies to develop best practices for data packaging and transmission among different digital archive systems, and develop alliances.
- http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/
- Classic Software Preservation Project (CLASP)
Internet Archive
(Date Created: 2004)
- This project is funded by the Internet Archive and commenced in January 2004. The aim of the project is to permanently archive classic, obsolete retail software from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Although the software is not publicly available due to copyright restrictions, there is a database of information on the archived software. The project will also collaborate with the Classic Amiga Preservation Society on developing universal standards for software archiving.
- http://www.archive.org/details/clasp
- CLOCKSS : Controlled Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
LOCKSS Program
(Date Created: Jan 2006)
- The LOCKSS Program (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) based at Stanford University has announced a new two year project, CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS), to commence in early 2006. The initiative will 'test the LOCKSS technology and social model to support a large dark archive that is both fail safe and has an acceptable process for providing continuing access for orphaned materials.' The project will replicate a representative portion of material from publisher members using a version of LOCKSS within a network of long-standing institutions and libraries and will be accountable to a joint board from the library, publishing and learned society sectors.
- http://www.lockss.org/clockss/
- Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects (CAIRO)
(Date Created: Oct 2006)
(United Kingdom)
- This project due for completion in August 2008 aims to develop a tool for the ingest of complex collections of born digital materials (e-mail, websites, documents etc.) with basic descriptive, preservation and relationship metadata into a preservation repository.
- http://cairo.paradigm.ac.uk/
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Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation Home Page : CLDP Project
Loughborough University
(Last Updated: 10 Mar 2004)
(United Kingdom)
- "The aim of the Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) research project is to investigate whether copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content threaten the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content and to suggest ways in which the problems can be overcome." The web site also provides links to the discussion paper "Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation project" and questionnaires which will be used to gauge the awareness of stakeholders of digital preservation issues and detail and identify any problems in this area.
- http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/CLDP/index.htm
- Copyright Investigation Summary Report
Proffitt, Merrilee; Arcolio, Arnold; Malpas, Constance
(Date Created: Mar 2008)
(United States of America)
- This report summarises interviews of 8 RLG partner institutions held between August and September 2007 regarding their current methods of obtaining copyright permissions for mass digitization projects or access to digitized materials.
- http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/2008-01.pdf
- Copyright Resources Project
University of California Berkeley
(Last Updated: 2006)
(United States of America)
- The aim of this project was to develop innovative approaches to working with copyright-protected digital documents. This project was undertaken by the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California.
The purpose of this project was to provide access to the research into working with copyright-protected materials in a digital environment and to provide guidelines and resources. The project ran from 2002 to 31 March 2006. It includes a useful copyright toolbox http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/copyright_project/copyritetoolbox/copyritetoolbox.php
- http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/copyright_project/
- CRiB : Conversion and Recommendation of Digital Object Formats
Universidade do Minho. Dept. of Information Systems
(Regularly Updated)
(Portugal)
- CRiB is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration-based preservation interventions. Functionalty includes recommending optimal migration alternatives that take into consideration the preservation requirements of the client institution; conversion of digital objects to up-to-date encodings; evaluating the migration outcomes by comparing the original digital object with its converted counterparts and identifying the significant properties that have not been correctly preserved; and the generation of migration reports for inclusion in the preservation metadata of migrated objects. The web site also has links to demonstrators, evaluation taxonomies and related articles.
- http://crib.dsi.uminho.pt
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- DAAT : Digital Asset Assessment Tool
AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service)
(Date Created: 20 Jul 2004)
(United Kingdom)
- This project began in October 2004 and is scheduled to be completed by May 2006. The purpose of the project is to develop and produce a digital preservation assessment tool aimed at the research and higher education sectors but also capable of being deployed in other sectors such as archives and national libraries. The tool will allow the identification and assessment of preservation risk to digital assets.
- http://www.ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/daat/index.htm
- DACHS: Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg
(Regularly Updated)
- Operating since August 2001 and based at the University of Heidelberg, DACHS "aims at identifying, archiving and making accessible Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies, with special emphasis on social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet." Collected resources include websites, discussion boards, journals, newsletters and single documents. On overview of the archive's collection policy, workflow and technical infrastructure is available.
- http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
- Data Center for Library of Congress Digital Holdings: A Pilot Project. Final Report
Anderson, Martha
(Date Created: 2007)
(United States of America)
- This is the final report of a pilot project to investigate data transfer and storage tests between the Library of Congress and the San Diego Computer Center (SDSC) conducted between May 2006 and October 2007. The report is written from the SDSC perspective describing the processes, issues and trust elements of communication logistics and tools, data transfers, data monitoring and logging, data access and manipulations and web archives.
- http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/pdf/SDSC_LC_data-storage_report_2.p
df
- Data Exchange Tools (DExT)
UK Data Archive. University of Essex.
(Date Created: Dec 2006)
(United Kingdom)
- This one year project led by the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex aimed to "develop, refine and test models for data exchange for both survey data and qualitiative research data based on XML/RDF schema and will develop tools for data import and export." Data formats included are SPSS, STATA, XML, Atlas-ti, MaxQDA and Nvivo.
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/dext/
- Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS)
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is funded by an award from the Library of Congress to acquire and preserve data from opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys, and other social science studies. The three-year project is a broad-based partnership between the several major American social science data archives and the National Archives and Records Administration. The project will concentrate on four areas - content identification and selection, content acquisition, partnership building and content retention and transfer.
- http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DATAPASS/
- Dataverse Network Project
King, Gary
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- This project builds on the Virtual Data Center Project but uses new software developed in 2006. It allows publishers and individuals to set up dataverses with special citation mechanisms that act as a persistent identification system.
- http://thedata.org/
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DAVID: Digitale Archivering in Vlaamse Instellingen en Diensten (Digital Archiving in Flemish Institutions and Administrations)
City Archives of Antwerp
(Last Updated: 10 Jan 2003)
- The DAVID Project is a collaboration of the City of Antwerp Archives and ICRI to research digital durability in a governmental environment. It seeks to develop best practices for archiving electoral and population data, emails and websites.
- http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/davidproject/
- Developing a Trusted Digital Repository: the OCLC Experience
Lawson, Dawn; Spies, Phyllis B
(Date Created: Jan 2004)
(United States of America)
- This article focuses on the OCLC’s (Online Computer Library Centre) experience in developing a digital archive. The development of standards for digital archiving and preservation metadata with RLG (Research Libraries Group) in defining the main attributes of a trust digital repository is described, as are the main tools and functions of the archive including the harvest, ingest and dissemination of archived objects. The Connecticut State Library’s use of OCLC’s Web archiving tools is also discussed.
- http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/03055720410530960
- Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 27-32, ISSN 0305-5278 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
- Development of a Rights Management System for the National Library of Australia's Collections
Henderson, Sandra; Matthew Walker
(Date Created: 06 Feb 2008)
(Australia)
- This paper describes development of a Rights Management System (RMS) at the National Library of Australia. While the RMS was developed as a module of the digital collections management system, it was recognised that the need for a RMS would not be limited to digital collections.
- http://www.valaconf.org.au/vala2008/papers2008/112_Henderson_Final.pdf
- Available as PDF from VALA 2008: Libraries changing spaces, virtual places Conference Program
- Digital Archives Attributes Working Group
Research Libraries Group
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- A joint OCLC/RLG initiative, the Digital Archives Attributes Working Group is engaged in defining the elements of a sustainable digital archive for large general research collections. Drawing on the efforts of international experts, outcomes of the research will be of assistance to research institutions building archival systems.
- http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attribswg.html
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Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
(Date Created: Mar 2003)
(United States of America)
- The United States Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Expert Committee (CSTB) assessed the digital archiving needs of the National Archives and Records Administration. The CSTB assessed technologies for long-term digital archiving and preservation, developed a picture of what was available commercially and what should be in the near term, as well as the feasibility of commercializing new ideas from research. The project produced a report in 2004 with recommendations for initial development, and a final report at the end of the project in 2005 recommending long-term strategies. Meeting notes are also available online.
- http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_nara.html
- Digital Asset Preservation Tool
IBM
(Date Created: Nov 2004)
- This IBM Alphaworks website which features emerging technologies also has a section on a proof-of-concept demonstration of the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC) solution that provides long-term access to JPEG and GIF87a files. The UVC demonstration tool is available for download at the Alphaworks web site.
- http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uvc
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Digital Heritage and Cultural Content
European Commission
(Last Updated: 2006)
- Digital heritage and cultural content is one of the five main areas for research and technological development under Multimedia Content and Tools - Key Action 3 of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. One of the research priorities in this area is preserving and accessing multimedia content. This programme was part of the Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (RTD) which run from 1998-2002, and continues to exist as a key thematic priority area within the 6th Framework Programme (2002-2006).
- http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/home.html
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
DIAMM
(Regularly Updated)
- A collaborative project of the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, the Digital Archive of Medieval Music has been established as a permanent electronic archive of European medieval polyphonic music. Also developed in consultation with the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the DIAMM project outcome emphasises the permanent preservation of digital images.
- http://www.diamm.ac.uk/
- Digital Image Asset Management at the National Gallery of Art (US)
Dueker, Peter; Newman, Alan
In: RLG DigiNews
(Date Created: 15 Dec 2006)
(United States of America)
- This article provides an overview of the National Gallery of Art's digital asset management strategy and system.
- http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObjectMain.jsp?fileid=0000070511
:000006283368&reqid=7420#article2
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Digital Libraries Initiative
The National Science Foundation
(Last Updated: 2003)
(United States of America)
- Digital Libraries Initiative Phase Two was a multiagency initiative which aimed to encourage research fundamental to the development of digital libraries, to advance the use and usability of globally distributed, networked information resources, and to encourage communities to focus on innovative applications areas. This Initiative aimed to stimulate partnering arrangements in order to create new operational systems in a range of subject areas. It addressed the digital libraries life cycle from information creation, access and use, to archiving and preservation. Research to gain a better understanding of the long-term social, behavioural and economic implications of and effects of new digital libraries capabilities in such areas of human activity as research, education, commerce, defence, health services and recreation is an important part of this initiative. Phase One of the Digital Libraries Initiative comprised six research projects.
- http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/
- Digital Libraries Initiative
European Union
(Regularly Updated)
- The Digital Libraries Initiative is part of the European Commission's i2010 European Information Society for growth and employment strategy. The Digital Libraries Initiative aims to make Europe's diverse cultural and scientific heritage accessible in the long term. The Digital Libraries initiative concentrates on three areas, online accessibility, digitisation of analogue collections, and preservation and storage to ensure long term access to digital content.
- http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
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- Digital Lifecycles And File Types : Final Report
Bates, Melanie; Loddington, Steve; Manuel, Sue; Oppenheim, Charles
(Date Created: May 2006)
- As part of the JISC funded Rights And Rewards In Blended Institutional Repositories Project, this report provides an overview of characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of various types of image and text file formats. It also includes information about managing the lifecycle of a digital item as well as standards and specifications concerning metadata (e.g. Dublin Core and METS). It discusses issues to consider when packaging content (e.g. for loading into a learning management system) and provides an overview of various content packaging tools. It concludes with an
introduction to reference models and frameworks used to describe processes managed by repositories and the systems in which they operate.
- http://hdl.handle.net/2134/1793
- Digital Preservation Group Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
- http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/index.html
- Digital Preservation in Practice: The e-Depot at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Oltmans, Erik; van Wijngaarden, Hilde
(Date Created: Jan 2004)
(Netherlands)
- This article describes the Koninklijke Bibliotheek’s (KB – Netherlands’ National Library) partnership with IBM in relation to the long-term preservation of digital materials. Both parties have developed a standard-based deposit system called the e-Depot. This article not only provides an overview of the main functions of the e-Depot, but describes further developments by the KB/IBM team, including a preservation manager for the storage and use of technical metadata within the e-Deport and an access tool, the Universal Virtual Computer (UVC).
- http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentTy
pe=Article&contentId=862527
- Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 21-26, ISSN 0305-5728 (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One).
- Digital Preservation Projects
DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition)
(Regularly Updated)
(United Kingdom)
- This is a listing of digital preservation projects undertaken by DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition) members and partners. The information is in tabular form. It features project owners, project descriptions and links to the projects themselves.
- http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/join/projects.html
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Digital Services Project
National Library of Australia
(Regularly Updated)
(Australia)
- The National Library of Australia has identified a requirement for robust, high performance systems to manage its present and future digital collections and to support shared access to digital collections in cooperation with other institutions. To this end it has commenced the Digital Services Project. The Library defines digital services to mean services exploiting digital technologies to provide access to traditional documentary resources and to ensure the long-term preservation of, and access to, documents available only in digital form.
- http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/
- DigitalPreservationEurope
DigitalPreservationEurope
(Regularly Updated)
- This EU project aims to collaborate, develop, promote and coordinate digital preservation initiatives in Europe, including standards, training and research activities. The website includes links to the Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) forum and information on partners.
- http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
- Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage : Research and Case Studies
Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology
(Regularly Updated)
- The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is commencing a five year interdisciplinary research alliance project that will focus on important issues regarding the preservation and documentation of media art. The research will focus on three areas of expertise - technological history, art documentation and art conservation. The project will also focus on three main research fields - historical studies and development of descriptive and analytic tools; documentation, dissemination and access via research networks; and preservation of works featuring technological components. Tools, guides and methodologies such as case studies, best practice guides and specifications be produced as part of this project.
- http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/aruc.html
- Documenting Internet2 : a Collaborative Model for Developing Electronic Records Capabilities in the Small Archival Repository
Charles Babbage Institute
- This 18 month project, which began in January 2004, is administered by the Charles Babbage Institue (CBI) in conjunction with the University of Minnesota (UMN) and supported by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the funding arm of the National Archives. The purpose of the project is to develop feasible methods for selection, description, and long term preservation of historically significant born-digital records in the subject area of history of information technology. Internet2 is a non-profit consortium of over 200 universities working with industry and government to provide high speed networking capabilities to the research community, and relies heavily on electronic media.
- http://www.cbi.umn.edu/documentinginternet2/index.html
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DONOR
National Library of Netherlands
(Regularly Updated)
(Netherlands)
- The DONOR project ran from May 1998 to May 2000. Its aim was to create an enabling infrastructure for information management and retrieval on SURFnet, the national research network of the Netherlands and to provide a coordinated approach to document and metadata management on the Web, with areas of investigation including persistent identifiers and metadata. The project website provides project details and reports as well as links to related projects and resources.
- http://www.kb.nl/coop/donor/index-en.html
- DotcomArchive
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- This archive began in 2002. It is a thematic archive that collects and preserves digital documents from technology companies that did not survive the dot.com boom in the 1990's. The Dot.Com archive includes corporate documents such as PowerPoint demonstrations, emails and business plans. It is a non-profit research project developed at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
- http://www.dotcomarchive.org/
- Double Bind of E-journal Collections
Fox, Robert
(Date Created: 2007)
(United States of America)
- This article compares and contrasts the philosophies and technical underpinnings of LOCKSS and Portico, two different approaches used for e-journal archiving and preservation of born digital material.
- 10.1108/10650750710720739
- http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/10650750710720739
- Also available in PDF and in OCLC Systems and Services: International Library Perspectives ISSN 1065-075X Vol 23, Issue 1, 2007, pp21-29
- Driver : Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
CORDIS (Community Research & Development Information Service)
(Regularly Updated)
- The Driver project is a joint collaboration between ten international partners with the intention to create a knowledge base of European research.The project, funded under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme, began in June 2006 and will continue for 18 months. The aim of Driver is to build a test-bed for the development of infrastructure for the delivery of data content resources such as scientific output, including scientific/technical reports, working papers, pre-prints, articles and original research data.
- http://www.driver-repository.eu/
- DSpace@Cambridge Project
Cambridge University Library
(Date Created: 2003)
(United Kingdom)
- This project was a 3-year collaboration between Cambridge University Library (CUL) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries, to establish a digital institutional repository for Cambridge University. Expected deliverables included the development of improved digital preservation functionality in the DSpace software platform. The project ended and it became a strategic service on 1 July 2006. The Repository website is available at http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
- http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/index.htm
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- ECHO DEPository Project
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- The Exploring Collaborations to Harness Objects in a Digital Environment for Preservation (ECHO DEPository) Project is a three-year partnership (Fall 2004 to Fall 2007) with the Library of Congress under its National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The project will concentrate on four areas - selection rationale development, including developing a methodology for selecting digital materials for preservation; tools development involving building software to facilitate selection and preservation of digital materials; repository evaluation; and long term preservation research which involves researching the problems in preserving the authenticity and semantic meaning of digital resources.
- http://www.ndiipp.uiuc.edu
- Economics of Digital Preservation : a Project of OCLC Research
OCLC
(Date Created: 2002)
- This site provides an overview of the economic issues associated with digital preservation and proposes a project which will investigate foundational issues associated with the economics of digital preservation. It provides information on the scope and methodology of the project, including a link to the white paper 'The Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials: Roles, Scenarios, and Economic Decision-Making' by Brian Lavoie, which is the first major step in this project.
- http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/digipres/economics.shtm
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Effective Records Management Project
University of Glasgow
(United Kingdom)
- The Effective Records Management Project was based at the University of Glasgow and funded as part of the JISC Technology Applications Programme (JTAP). The project's aims were to produce tools and protocols, and it developed a pilot system for the creation and distribution of committee papers within the University of Glasgow (CDocS). A final report was published in early 2002 and is available in PDF on the project's Web pages.
- http://www.gla.ac.uk/InfoStrat/ERM/
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Electronic Publications Pilot Project (EPPP): summary of the final report
The National Library of Canada
(Last Updated: 23 May 1996)
(Canada)
- This summary of the final report describes a pilot project that aimed to identify and understand the challenges associated with acquiring, cataloguing, preserving and providing access to Canadian electronic publications. The discussion focusses on two issues: firstly, the NLC's responsibility for storing and managing electronic publications that Canadian authors and publishers create; and secondly, the Library's role as creator and distributor of computerised documents.
- ISBN: 0-662-24672-1
- http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/nlc-bnc/eppp_summary-e/ereport.ht
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Electronic Recordkeeping at Indiana University
Indiana University
(Last Updated: 2002)
(United States of America)
- The Indiana University (IU) Electronic Records Project was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The project, which concluded in 2002, aimed to create a Campus-wide document management system and metadata specifications. The project web site includes the final report on the project together with papers, functional requirements specifications, metadata specifications, business process modelling documentation and methodology documentation.
- http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3313
- eLib Supporting Studies
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
(Last Updated: Jul 2000)
(United Kingdom)
- The eLib supporting studies were carried out to support the electronic libraries program in a number of areas. They included evaluation studies which looked at the role of electronic publishing in an educational context; preservation studies which looks at archiving issues involving digital material; and supporting workshops focusing on the management of digital material.
- http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/supporting/
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eLib: The Electronic Libraries Programme
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
(United Kingdom)
- The Electronic Libraries Programme was funded by the (UK) Joint Information Systems Committee. Project details and reports are available on the site.
- http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Web Publication Harvesting Pilot Project
(Date Created: Apr 2008)
(United States of America)
- This article describes the EPA Web Publication Harvesting Pilot Project and links to the Web Harvesting White Paper. The white paper reports on the context of the results of the pilot, lesson learned about automated web publication discovery and harvesting technologies and planned further steps.
- http://www.fdlp.gov/harvesting/epa/index.html
- erpaDirectory : erpaResources directory
ERPANET
(Date Created: 2004)
- This is a searchable annotated listing of European projects involved in digital preservation maintained by ERPANET (European Resource Preservation and Access Network).
- http://www.erpanet.org/directory/index.php
- ERPANET Sustainability and Exploitation Plan
ERPANET; Maplehurst Consultants
(Date Created: Dec 2004)
- This extensive report states “ERPANET provides Europe’s and perhaps the world’s most comprehensive access to digital preservation resources and information”, but now the project needs to find a “viable model that will allow the key elements of the ERPANET network and services to expand and continue”. This report examines strategic partnerships, funding options, merger models, new services and marketing plans. It concludes that it is possible for ERPANET to function in the future most likely on a hybrid funding mix.
- http://www.erpanet.org/documents/ERPANETSustainabilityFinalDocument.pd
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- ERPANET: Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork
ERPANET
(Date Created: 1 Nov 2001)
- ERPANET, funded by the European Commission, aims to establish a European Consortium to provide a virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art developments in digital preservation. Focusing on the areas of cultural heritage and scientific objects, it will facilitate the transfer of expertise, information, best practice and skills development among individuals and institutions, bringing together industry, academic and memory institutions, entertainment and government organisations.
- http://www.erpanet.org/
- Espida
University of Glasgow
(Regularly Updated)
(United Kingdom)
- The Espida (An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Assets) project is funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and based at the University of Glasgow. The project began in October 2004 and focussed on developing a model of digital preservation that encompasses sustainable institutional management of digital assets. The model will feature relationships, roles and responsibilities, costs, benefits and risks. Several versions of the model will be produced, and the final version is expected in September 2006. The project completed in January 2007.
- http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/index.shtml
- Espida: Making it Happen by Getting Real
University of Glasgow
(Last Updated: Jan 2007)
(United Kingdom)
- The espida model project (An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Assets) was completed in January 2007. The project web site
describes the process, staff etc and has documents that can be downloaded including a handbook. Originally developed for digital preservation activities, the documents can be used to present business cases, evaluate proposals and compare change decisions using cost and value templates which articulate both financial and non-financial benefits or impacts.
- http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/index.shtml
- EVA: European Visual Archive
(Last Updated: 2006)
- This project focused on the provision of easy access to the integrated collections and information held in European archives. Among other aspects, the project investigated issues surrounding preserving access to digital resources including "archival standards" and methods of describing resources. The project ran 2003 to 2004 but from July 2006 the EVAMP system was no longer available. The website contains some information about the project.
- http://www.eva-eu.org/
- EVA: The Acquisition and Archiving of Electronic Network Publications
Helsinki University Library
(Last Updated: 15 Dec 1997)
(Finland)
- The central aim of the project is to create methods and tools to collect, register and archive electronic publications distributed on the Internet and to investigate conditions for long-term preservation of them in libraries. EVA, coordinated by Helsinki University Library, is a joint project by libraries, publishers and expert organisations, being part of the Finnish Ministry of Education's strategy program: Education, Training and Research in the Information Society. See also: 'EVA - The Acquisition and Archiving of Electronic Network Publications In Finland' by Kirsti Lounamaa and Inkeri Salonharju in Tietolinja News.
- http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/eva/english.html
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Experiences and Conclusions From a Pilot Study : Web Archiving of the District and County Elections 2001 : Final Report for the Pilot Project "netarkivet.dk"
Brugger, Niels; Carlsen, Soren Vejrup ; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Birte; Finnemann, Niels Ole; Fonss-Jorgensen, Eva; Hendriksen, Birgit; von Hielmcrone, Harald
(Date Created: Feb 2003)
(Denmark)
- This is the final report of a project which began in 2001. The report discusses the issues arising from using existing software to harvest and test material relating to Danish elections, including costs and financing, storage and archiving, methods of harvesting and legal issues.
- http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/webark-final-rapport-2003.pdf
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- Fedora
Fedora
(Date Created: 2003)
- This web site provides access to version 2.0 of the Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) open-source digital object repository management system. The site describes the main features of the system and also provides links to publications and workshops.
Documentation : The system documentation, technical specifications, FAQs and tuturials are available from http://www.fedora.info/documentation/
- http://www.fedora.info/
- Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project
Dockins, Robert; Glick, Kevin; Wilczek, Eliot
In: RLG DigiNews
(Date Created: 15 Oct 2006)
(United States of America)
- This article provides an overview of the recently completed Fedora and the Preservation of University Records Project being undertaken by the Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University and Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University. The project aimed at combining electronic records preservation research and theory and digital library research and practice. The article discusses recordkeeping systems and preservation activities, and the two of the products of the project the Ingest Guide and Maintain Guide.
- http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObjectMain.jsp?fileid=0000070513
:000006282602&reqid=8139#article0
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FRED : a Format Registry Demonstration
University of Pennsylvania Library
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- FRED (Format REgistry Demonstrator) is a proof-of-concept prototype format registry demonstrator developed from the Mellon-funded TOM (Typed Object Model) project. It's purpose is to provide some idea of the requirements that developing a global registry would entail. It can be used to demonstate how file format information can be presented and how it can be used, maintained and managed. There are links to the data model, a list of registered formats, and a discussion list.
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tom.library.upenn.edu/fred/
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Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR)
Harvard University Library
(Regularly Updated)
- In development since 2002, the GDFR (Global Digital Format Registry) is an ongoing international initiative. The GDFR working group comprises national and academic research libraries and archives. The GDFR was developed as a mechanism to provide trustworthy, sustainable and authoratitive information about data formats. This website also has information on data and service models, use cases and the GDFR mission statement.
- http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/
- GPO LOCKSS Pilot Project
United States. Government Printing Office.
(Date Created: 20 Jun 2005)
(United States of America)
- This article describes the United States Government Printing Office 12 month pilot project using LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) as a means to manage, disseminate, and preserve access to Web-based Federal Government e-journals that are within the scope of the FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) and the IES (International Exchange Service).
- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/lockss/index.html
- GRADE : Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction
EDINA National Data Centre
(Date Created: 2006)
(United Kingdom)
- The GRADE project is developed by a consortia headed by EDINA with primary partners the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. GRADE is a demonstrator repository and is part of a scoping exercise for the establishment of a sustainable infrastructure for geospatial data reuse.
- http://edina.ac.uk/projects/grade/index.html
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- Hybrid Archives Project : Towards an Extensible Model for Depositing Institutional Assets
Arts and Humanities Data Service
(Date Created: Feb 2003)
(United Kingdom)
- Hybrid Archives (formerly Partial Deposit) Project, lead by the AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service) from the UK was aimed at addressing two key issues facing JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) information environment: first, it looked into institutional barriers to depositing collections with data services and second, into shortcoming of the OAI harvesting methodology for disclosing metadata for searching at a rich level of granularity, as well as the lack of provision for the long-term preservation of deposited material. The project aimed at establishing a flexible cooperative approach between the depositing institution and the deposit archive, with both being involved in management, long-term preservation and funding of the deposited digital collections. The project ran until July 2004.
- http://www.ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/hybrid-archives/index.htm
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- IFLA/CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards : Library of Congress Action Area : URI Resource Pages
Library of Congress
(Regularly Updated)
(United States of America)
- Maintained at the Library of Congress by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office as part of its participation in the IFLA CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS), the purpose of this website is to provide information relevant to the library community about URIs, including basic definitions and concepts; URI schemes; what URIs actually do; relationships among URIs, URLs, and URNs. There is also a section featuring the latest URI developments.
- http://www.loc.gov/standards/uri/
- Improving DSpace@OSU with a Usability of the ET/D Submission Process
Boock, Michael
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