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Here you will find links to reports that describe projects which address the preservation of access to digital material either as a major focus or as a single aspect of a wider project. Your contributions to this database are encouraged. Please send us details about your own project or any others which you would like us to include.

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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
Historical 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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Historical 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. This pilot project ran 2001-2002
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/
Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa (APNK)
The Aotearoa People’s Network Kaharoa provides free access to broadband internet services in public libraries so that all New Zealanders can benefit from accessing, experiencing and creating digital content.

APNK opens up the digital world by giving access to computers, the internet and training. Scanners, audio recorders and Kete (digital repositories) allow communities to gather, digitise and store their histories and memories and to share them with others.

APNK was initially funded by the Community Partnership Fund of the New Zealand government’s Digital Strategy and by other government funding through the National Library of New Zealand.

Contact: peoples.network@natlib.govt.nz
http://www.aotearoapeoplesnetwork.org/home
(Contributor: National Library of New Zealand )
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Historical 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 could be used to develop a model to help other institutions archive web sites. Included are parties websites for 2002, 2003 and 2006.
http://www.archipol.nl/english/index.html
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Historical Archival Digital Libraries Repositories
Stanford University Database Group (Last Updated: Jan 2003) (United States of America)
This exploratory project, supported by the National Science Foundation (09/15/1998 – 08/31/2001), 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/partners/aiht/high/ndiipp_aiht_fina
l_report.pdf
ArchivePress
ULCC (University of London Computer Centre) (Date Created: Jun 2009) (United Kingdom)
This joint project by ULCC (University of London Computer Centre and the British Library is financed by JISC (1 June 2009 to 30 Nov 2009). It will explore practical issues around the archiving of weblog content and will test the viability of using RSS feeds and blog APIs to harvest blog content (including comments, embedded content and metadata) instead of web crawling & harvesting techniques.
http://archivepress.ulcc.ac.uk/
Historical 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
Historical ARL digital initiatives database
Association of Research Libraries (Last Updated: 2006) (United States of America)
This web-based registry contained descriptions of digital initiatives in or involving libraries. The database was developed in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and included links to project websites. The database was archived in late 2006 and is available as a zipped, comma delimited text file.
http://www.arl.org/did/
Historical ARNO project (Academic Research in the Netherlands Online)
Amsterdam University Library (UBA) (Last Updated: Sep 2003) (Netherlands)
A cooperative project, ARNO was 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 build on the outcomes of earlier IWI projects and Open Archives Initiative, and aimed to connect the universities to international digital archives and the Dutch information network.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071208005458rn_1/www.uba.uva.nl/projecten
/object.cfm?objectid=1A103F4F-A900-4FCF-9BA16965AAE3D75E
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Arquivo Da Web Portuguesa : Portuguese Web Archive
Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional (Date Created: Jan 2008) (Portugal)
The Portuguese Web Archive is a project of the National Foundation for Scientific Computing - Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional (FCCN) in Portugal. The first stage of development began in January 2008 and it is expected to to finish within two years. It was preceded by the Tomba project which collected sites from 2002-2006.
http://arquivo-web.fccn.pt/
ARROW - Accessible registries of rights information and orphan works towards Europeana
With its more than nine million published titles, the 20th century accounts for roughly 80% of all printed works published in the German-speaking countries. In order to safeguard access to this information in the future, it is crucial to start mass digitization of content as soon as possible. However, most of the 20th century works are subject to copyright, making it necessary to obtain licenses from the rights holders. The aim of the ARROW project is to help identify copyright holders of out-of-print works, to create European registers of orphan works and also to develop models for integrated access to charged and free digital content. Effort is being made to ensure that the project results are interoperable with the future European digital library "Europeana". Besides helping out on the technical work packages of ARROW, each of the 16 partner institutions involved will contribute digital content to the project. The German National Library will scrutinize the various legal issues and the processes involved in establishing the rights for each individual title on the basis of a selection of copyright-protected books (Archiv der schönsten deutschen Bücher - Archive of the best designed German books). This will make it clearer which percentage of orphan works can be assumed to exist amongst the German 20th century book stocks. The experience from this clarification of rights will provide the basis for the future strategy in dealing with out-of-print and orphan works.

The German National Library and a number of other European national libraries plus representatives of usage rights organizations and various European publishers' associations are the project partners.

Contact: Thomas Jaeger
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/arrow.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
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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
Assessment of UKDA and TNA Compliance with OAIS and METS Standards
Beedham, Hilary; Missen, Julie; Palmer, Matt; Ruusalepp, Raivo (Date Created: 2005) (United Kingdom)
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) under its Institutional Digital Preservation and Asset Management Programme, this extensive report compares the current practices of the UKDA (UK Data Archive) and TNA (UK National Archives) with the OAIS reference model and the METS standard. The OAIS reference model (ISO 14721) is the major international standard for digital archives. This report is also designed to be used by other institutions to help gauge their compliance to this standard. The assessment was undertaken by the UKDA, The National Archives and the Estonian Business Archive.
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/oaismets.pdf
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
Australasian Digital Theses Program
University of New South Wales (Regularly Updated) (Australia; New Zealand)
The aim of the project was to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at participating Australian institutions. Originally called the the Australian Digital Theses Program, it was extended and renamed in December 2004 and now includes theses from New Zealand as well as Australian universities that are members of CAUL. The theses are available via the web from this website.
http://adt.caul.edu.au/
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
The National Library of Australia is collaborating with state and territory libraries in a program to digitise out of copyright newspapers. In July 2008 the Australian Newspapers Beta service was launched to the public and is continuing to be developed. This is a free online service that enables full-text searching of newspaper articles. Users can contribute by tagging articles, adding comments and correcting OCR'ed text.
Contact: Cathy Pilgrim
http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/
(Contributor: National Library of Australia )
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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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Historical BIBLINK
European Commission (Last Updated: 15 Jul 2000)
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/
BOA: Baden-Württembergisches Online-Archiv
(Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Established in 2006, the Baden-Württemberg Online Archive (BOA), collects and catalogues web resources on the German State of Baden-Württemberg, comprising a large collection of government websites. All resources are available online. The system is run by the Bibliotheksservice- Zentrum (Library Service Centre) Baden-Württemberg (BSZ), a support institution for libraries and archives. Two state libraries the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, and the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart, and the archive Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg cooperate in archiving websites in this system.
http://www.boa-bw.de
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://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
502.html#article2
Building a Digital Repository: A Practical Implementation
Boudrez, Filip (Date Created: 30 Aug 2008) (Belgium)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Centre, 29-30 Sept. 2008) provides a case study for the implementation of a digital repository at the Antwerp City Archives. Organisational issues and the importance of aligning record-keeping and digital archiving practices are emphasised.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/42_Boudrez.pdf
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 was 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 was to document, collect and provide access to British 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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Historical 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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Historical 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/
Case Study : Lessons Learned through digitizing the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Collection
Hatfield, Amy J.; Kelley, Shana D. (Date Created: Jul 2007) (United States of America)
This paper presents a case study in digitisation that illustrates the challenges of transforming a historical collection to a digital collection while attempting to retain the look and feel of the original historical materials at the Bioethics Digital Library. The Bioethics Digital Library is a collaboration between The Indiana University Center for Bioethics (IUCB) and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library (RLML), Indiana University School of Medicine.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1924953#i153
6-5050-095-03-0267-bedl1
Journal of the Medical Library Association 2007 July, 95(3): 267-270 and through PubMed
Case Study: Digital Preservation at the National Library of New Zealand
Sun Microsystems (Date Created: May 2008) (New Zealand)
This document describes the hardware and software architecture underpinning the National Digital Heritage Archive and its development through a partnership between the National Library of New Zealand and commercial vendors Sun Microsystems and Ex Libris.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/catalogues/library-documents/sun-microsystem
s-case-study
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/
From Casual History to Digital Preservation
Davidow, Ari (Date Created: 31 Mar 2007) (United States of America)
This paper given at Museums and the Web 2007 (April 11-14, 2007, San Francisco, California) considers the digital preservation issues surrounding the .Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) "Katrina's Jewish Voices" Project and the lessons learned.
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/davidow/davidow.html
Available in J. Trant & D. Bearman (eds.) Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings.
Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives
The Library of Congress has received a Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation via the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support a project that will catalog 125,000 sheet maps of Africa. The catalog records to be produced will include geographic coordinates for each map that will permit geographic searching of the catalog records and resources. The enhanced catalog data will make it possible to view the coverage area of individual sheet maps using geographical browsers such as Google Earth. Work on the project will be completed in 2012.
Contact: Morgan Cundiff; John Hebert
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-012.html
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
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Historical Cedars : Curl Exemplars in Digital Archives Project
CURL (Last Updated: Mar 2002) (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 (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.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/99695/
Site originally at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/ arhaved by the UK Web Archiving Consortium
Center For Information as Evidence
(Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The CIE is located within the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, and serves as an interdisciplinary forum addressing the ways in which information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative, scientific, social, cultural and historical evidence. Recent projects of digital preservation interest include, Building the Future of Archival Education and Reserch, InterPARES 1&2 and Record/Replay.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie/
Historical Center for Research Libraries : Certification of Digital Archives Project
Center for Research Libraries (Date Created: May 2005) (United States of America)
This project which was funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, ran from May 2005 to October 2006. This project had three phases 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/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/past-projec
ts/cda
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 began in early 2007 as 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 as 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. The 3 libraries have expanded the program beyond the pilot phase.
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)
CLOCKSS (Contolled LOCKSS) began as a two year project of the LOCKSS Program (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) based at Stanford University in early 2006. The project aimed to '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 replicated a representative portion of material from publisher members using a version of LOCKSS within a network of long-standing institutions and libraries and was accountable to a joint board from the library, publishing and learned society sectors. In mid 2008 the resulting archive was transitioned from prototype to production going live in early 2009.
http://www.lockss.org/clockss/
Collecting, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Design Data
Fallon, Kristine (Last Updated: Oct 2007) (United States of America)
Initiated by the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago and undertaken by Kristine Fallon and Associates, with funding from the Schiff Foundation and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts the purpose of the study was to examine the collection, archiving, and uses of digital design data produced by architects and industrial designers. The results of the study are extensive and are divided into 25 files. Section two is of most relevance as it deals with archiving digital design data: practices and technology, including preparing, collecting, and processing the data and its cataloguing, storage, and preservation. The study's final recommendations cover the life cycle of a digital work of art, including: types and classification of data appropriate for collection; indexing and metadata; data formats (archival, native, and derivative); format registration; storage; long-term maintenance; periodic migration; format updates and disaster recovery provisions for digital originals; and techniques for and opportunities to provide digital archive access to a broader community. The project was finalised in Spring 2007 and it was decided to make the software which was developed DAArch software version 1.0 open source.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/depts/architecture/ddd.html
Competence Center for Interoperable Metadata (KIM)
The aim of the project is to set up a competence center for interoperable metadata intended to help improve knowledge about and skills in interoperable metadata, metadata exchange and formats within the German-speaking countries.

The structured descriptions (metadata) of various data collections are described as "interoperable" if their content can be searched using uniform search procedures, or if they can gainfully be integrated in the data management system. Interoperability is achieved by adhering to given technical specifications in controlled institutional contexts.

A key task of the "Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata", the DCMI affiliate in Germany (after the end of the project there will also be partners in Austria and Switzerland), is setting up a core working group plus additional specific working groups to reach a commonly agreed understanding of what constitutes good practice in the use both of the Dublin Core model and also the semantic web model by examining existing usage profiles. This understanding will then form the basis for developing certification procedures, training courses and consulting services in the field of interoperable metadata.

Project partners are the Göttingen State and University Library and the German National Library.

Contact: Reinhard Altenhöner
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/kim.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
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 provided links to the discussion paper "Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation project" and questionnaires which aimed 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
Arcolio, Arnold; Malpas, Constance; Proffitt, Merrilee (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 scheduled to be completed by May 2006. The purpose of the project was 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 was aimed at identification and assessment of preservation risk to digital assets. Reports and deliverables available from the ULCC project website.
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/
New Data Audit Framework: Four Steps to Effective Data Management
(United Kingdom)
The Data Audit Framwork (DAF) project is led by HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute) at the University of Glasgow in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre and is funded by JISC. DAF is aimed at providing a methodology and tools to enable UK Higher Education organisations to preserve and provide long-term access to their research data.
http://www.data-audit.eu/
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://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/assets/docs/SDSC_LC_data-storage_report_2.
pdf
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. The project final report was issued in April 2008.
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. Funding was extended for a further 18 months in 2007. The website includes a shared catalogue search facility and links to presentations and publications.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DATAPASS/
Databank of Digital Daily newspapers
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek initiated the Databank of Digital Daily newspapers project at the end of 2006. The project will realize the large-scale digitization of Dutch national, regional, local and colonial newspapers and make these freely accessible on the Internet. The Databank of Digital Daily newspapers will contain eight million pages, from the first newspaper dated 1618 to the newspapers of the twentieth century. The project involves the selection, digitization, search-and-retrieval and online presentation of the newspapers. A web service will be set up with advanced search options for researchers and the general public.
Contact: Astrid Verheusen
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/digi/ddd/index-en.html
(Contributor: Koninklijke Bibliotheek )
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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Historical 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 was a 4 year collaboration of the City of Antwerp Archives and ICRI to research digital durability in a governmental environment which ended in December 2003. It sought to develop best practices for archiving electoral and population data, emails and websites and produced a manual on electronic archiving (last updated January 2006).
http://www.expertisecentrumdavid.be/davidproject/
Delivering Coordinated UK Web Archives to User Communities
The National Archives (UK) (Date Created: May 2009) (United Kingdom)
This study is being undertaken by The National Archives and UK Web Archiving Consortium with funding from JISC and is expected to run until July 2009 with results published in August 2009. It aims to: Investigate how UK web archives are delivered to users now and in the future; Define the long-term historical and research value of online content in the UK; and Examine web archive collecting organisations , their interests and selection practices.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/308.htm?WT.lp=n-33642
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
New Digital Archaeology: Recovering Digital Objects from Audio Waveforms
Annu, John; Ghete, Mihai; Guttenbrunner, Mark; Lederer, Chrisanth; Rauber, Andreas (Date Created: Oct 2009)
This paper presented at iPRES 2009 (5-6 October 2009, San Francisco, California) presents a case study on the recovery of data from audio tape created with an early home computer system, the Philips G7400 in the 1980's, using a methodology and application without access to the original system.
http://planets-project.eu/docs/papers/Guttenbrunner_DigitalArcheology_
iPres2009.pdf
Historical 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 was 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 were inted to be of assistance to research institutions building archival systems.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070101051700/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 (Last Updated: 2005) (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 which are available from this website.
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cstb/CompletedProjects/CSTB_042357
Historical Digital Asset Preservation Tool: A Proof-of-concept Demonstration of the Universal Virtual Computer Solution that Provides Llong-term Access to JPEG and GIF87a files
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
Historical 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://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file1
650.html#article2
Historical 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://web.archive.org/web/20070218202551/www.dli2.nsf.gov/newdli2site
/index.html
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
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 (60 p.) 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
(Regularly Updated) (Austria)
This site describes the activities of the Digital Preservation Group at Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems and their participation in a number of international projects.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/
Historical 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 In Radiology : Ensuring Long Term Accessibility of Digital Medical Images
Kulovits, Hannes; Rauber, Andreas (Date Created: 31 Mar 2009)
This Digital Preservation Europe briefing paper outlines the preservation requirements of digital imaging in European medical practices and suggests that additional efforts may be required to establish trusted repositories through risk assessment and compliance auditing.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/digital_pr
eservation_in_radiology.pdf
Digital Preservation Europe Briefing Paper
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)
In 1998, the National Library of Australia 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 commenced the Digital Services Project. The Library defined 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. The project was reviewed in 2006.
http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/
DigitalNZ
DigitalNZ is a collaborative initiative led by the National Library of New Zealand, working with a wide range of contributing institutions and organisations.

DigitalNZ aims to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share and use. This includes content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.

DigitalNZ tests and develops approaches that increase the amount of New Zealand content flowing through the Digital Content Life Cycle. We need to create and digitise more New Zealand content so we can stay digitally connected to our own stories, creations, knowledge and culture.

Contact: info@digitalnz.org
http://www.digitalnz.org.nz/
(Contributor: National Library of New Zealand )
DigitalPreservationEurope
DigitalPreservationEurope (Regularly Updated)
This EU project (funded 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2009 under the 6th Framework Programme) aims to collaborate, develop, promote and coordinate digital preservation initiatives in Europe, including standards, training and research activities. It builds on the earlier work of ERPANET. The website includes links to the Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) forum, information on partners, events and publications.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
Digitizing Dissertations for an Institutional Repository : A Process and Cost Analysis
Palmer, Lisa A.; Piorun, Mary (Date Created: Jul 2008) (United States of America)
"This paper describes the Lamar Soutter Library's process and costs associated with digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at the University of Massachusetts Medical School."
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2479051
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2008 July, 96(3):223-229 and through PubMed
Documenting Internet2 : a Collaborative Model for Developing Electronic Records Capabilities in the Small Archival Repository
Charles Babbage Institute (United States of America)
This 18 month project, which began in January 2004, 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 was 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. The final report was issued in March 2006 and is available from this website.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/documentinginternet2/index.html
Historical DONOR
National Library of Netherlands (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://web.archive.org/web/20060820225114/donor.kb.nl/
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 Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. It includes the Business Plan Archive a research database for researchers interested in studying high-tech entrepreneurship in the Dot Com Era. From 2008 the Business Plan Archive is available to academic researchers by signed research agreement.
http://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.
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 multiple international partners with the intention to create a knowledge base of European research.The first phase of the project, was funded under the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme for 18 months beginning June 2006 with the aim of building 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. The second phase, DRIVER-II began in December 2007 and was funded under the seventh framework for 24 months. It aims to foster the development of Digital Repositories in all European countries. It includes a search portal for Open Access publication in the European Information Space.
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.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
Dutch Parliamentary Papers
The National Library of the Netherlands together with the library of the House of Representatives started a project at the end of 2003 to film and digitise the Dutch parliamentary papers from the period 1814-1995. The collection contains all the records and supplements of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Dutch parliamentary papers are one off the most important collections for the research of the history of the parliament and of the history of the Netherlands in general. Historians, journalists, lawyers, politicians and researchers all use the parliamentary papers frequently. The collection contains about 2,5 million pages.
Contact: Astrid Verheusen
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/digitalisering/staten-generaal-en.html
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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 began as 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. Extended to Phase 2 for 2008-2009.
http://www.ndiipp.uiuc.edu/
Historical 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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Historical 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/
Electronic Copyright Deposit
The e-Deposit for e-Journals Pilot is part of a strategic effort to build a robust electronic copyright deposit system for the acquisition of electronic content by the Library of Congress (LC). LC's Library Services took the lead in convening discussions with the Copyright Office and Library Office of General Counsel on the legal and policy issues of electronic deposit. The Register of Copyrights is revising a key regulation to remove obstacles to moving electronic deposit forward. The e-Deposit for e-Journals Working Group also established agreements with selected publishers and an electronic journal archiving service for testing the transfer of digital content from offsite sources to the Library
Contact: Eric Delfino
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
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Historical 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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Historical 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
Historical 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 Programme which was funded by JISC. 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/
Historical 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/
Embracing the Future: Embedding Digital Repositories in the University of London
Hoorens, Stijn; van Dijk, Lidia Villalba; van Stolk, Christian (Date Created: Oct 2008) (United Kingdom)
This report prepared for the SHERPA-LEAP Consortium investigated the potential benefits of digital repositories, barriers to embedding digital repositories and how barriers can be overcome. The study was conducted through an assessment of current awareness and attitudes of stakeholders regarding digital repositories in three case study institutions in the UK Higher Education sector (London School of Economics LSE Research Online, UCL Eprints and Birkbeck ePrints).
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR625/
RAND Technical Report . Full report and summary available for downlod in PDF
Historical 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)
ERPANETwas funded by the European Commission under the fifth framework programme (36 months to end October 2004). It aimed 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 facilitated 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. It developed a comprehensive web site and training programs.
http://www.erpanet.org/
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
Espida: Making It Happen By Getting Real
University of Glasgow (Last Updated: 31 Jan 2007) (United Kingdom)
The Espida (An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Assets) project was funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and based at the University of Glasgow. The project began in October 2004 and focused on developing a model of digital preservation that encompasses sustainable institutional management of digital assets. The model features relationships, roles and responsibilities, costs, benefits and risks. The project completed in January 2007 and produced a model and handbook which provides a guide to developing a business case for digital preservation within an organisation.
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. The Internet Archive has earlier versions of some of the web site pages, however the archive content is not searchable see http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://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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Historical 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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FACADE - Future-proofing Architectural Computer-Aided DEsign
MIT Libraries (Last Updated: Aug 2009) (United States of America)
This project was funded by a two year grant (October 2006 - August 2009) from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the MIT Libraries to research methods and best practices to capture describe, manage, preserve and make available digital CAD models. The final report is available.
http://facade.mit.edu/
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://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file2
514.html#article0
Fedora Commons
Fedora Commons (Regularly Updated)
This web site provides access to versions 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/ The name of the Fedora Project was changed to Fedora Commons in 2007. From July 1 2009, Fedora Commons and DSpace will come together as DuraSpace.
http://www.fedora.info/
File Information Tool Set (FITS)
Harvard University Library (Date Created: Aug 2009) (United States of America)
The File Information Tool Set (FITS) has been developed by the Harvard University Library. FITS wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors. The wrapped tools identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for various file formats. Tools currently wrapped include JHOVE, Exiftool, National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor, DROID, Ffident and File Utitlity. Two original FITS tools included are FileInfo and XmlMetadata. Other tools are being evaluated for inclusion.
http://code.google.com/p/fits/
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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/
futureArch
Oxford University Library Services (Date Created: Dec 2008) (United Kingdom)
This project of the Bodleian Library (2008-2011) which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is aimed at transforming the Library's capacity to manage its digital archives and manuscripts. Through the project adjustments will be made to curatorial practices, policies, systems and workflows. A new service the Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts (BEAM) which will act as a trusted digital repository for digital archives will be developed, the backlog of born-digital material in existing collections will be addressed, and improvements made for access to the digital collections.
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/beam/projects/futurearch

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GeoMAPP: Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership
North Carolina Office of Archives and History (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This partnership between the Library of Congress and state geospatial and archives staff from North Carolina, Kentucky and Utah, aims to address the preservation of “at risk” and temporally significant digital geospatial content. The project focuses on identifying, collecting, and replicating large volumes of geospatial data among several states to promote preservation and access.
http://www.geomapp.net/
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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. In April 2009 GDFR joined with PRONOM to form the Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR). The UDFR will support the requirements and use cases compiled for GDFR and will be seeded with PRONOM's software and formats database.
http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/
Historical 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://web.archive.org/web/20070608001124/http://www.access.gpo.gov/su
_docs/fdlp/lockss/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
GRADE : Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction
EDINA National Data Centre (Last Updated: 2008) (United Kingdom)
The GRADE project (funded from 2005-2007) was 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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Historical Hybrid Archives Project : Towards an Extensible Model for Depositing Institutional Assets
Arts and Humanities Data Service (Last Updated: Jul 2004) (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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i2010: 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://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/i
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ID.LOC.GOV Vocabulary Web Service
A vocabulary web service project, Authorities and Vocabularies, at the Library of Congress has the primary goal to enable machines to programmatically access data at the Library of Congress. As a by-product it also has a web interface that provides simple user access. The initial vocabulary offering, opened in May 2009, is a version of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). This service is a step toward exposing and interconnecting vocabulary and thesaurus data via URIs, thus for LCSH, links have been made to terms in a similar service provided in Europe for RAMEAU, a French subject heading vocabulary closely coordinated with LCSH. Over the next year it will be expanding to other vocabularies commonly found in standards that the Library of Congress supports such as the Thesaurus of Graphic Materials, geographic area, language, and relator codes, and preservation events and roles. The Library is very interested in feedback on the uses and usefulness of the service. (There is a comment form at the site.)
Contact: Clay Redding
http://id.loc.gov
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
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/
IMPACT - Improving access to text
In its i2010 vision for the European Digital Library, the EU has formulated the ambitious plan of digitizing the entire printed European heritage. Current OCR techniques can only be deployed to a limited extent on valuable historical material. The recognition of old typefaces, older spelling variations or complex layouts in newspapers is producing unsatisfactory results at present.

The aim of the IMPACT project is to overcome obstacles to setting up the European Digital Library. The project unites 15 national and regional libraries, research institutes and companies - all competence centers with a great deal of experience in mass digitization. The project involves the development of new software applications for improved OCR, and making these available together with related information via an open source Internet platform, thereby creating the basis for a range of mass digitization programs.

Contact: Martina Tumulla
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/impact.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
IMPACT - IMProving ACcess to Text
IMPACT is a project funded by the European Commission. It aims to significantly improve access to historical text and to take away the barriers that stand in the way of the mass digitisation of the European cultural heritage. The British Library is one of the 15 partners working across 11 countries. The IMPACT project will develop improved OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technologies in order to overcome the inadequacies of current techniques in dealing with historic materials.
Contact: Neil Fitzgerald
http://www.impact-project.eu/
(Contributor: British Library )
IMPACT : Improving Access to Text
IMPACT Project (Date Created: Jan 2008)
This project is aimed at improving access to historical text through removing barriers to mass digitisation in Europe by supporting development of innovative OCR software and linguistic technology tools. The project started 1 January 2008 and will run for 4 years. Partners include seven libraries, six research institutes and two private sector companies and will collectively constitute a Centre of Competence sharing best practice and expertise with cultural heritage communities in Europe. The project is funded under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7), Cooperation Work Programme for ICT and is coordinated by the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek).
http://www.impact-project.eu/
Improving DSpace@OSU with a Usability of the ET/D Submission Process
Boock, Michael In: Ariadne (Date Created: 30 Oct 2005) (United States of America)
This case study describes usability testing of a particular aspect of DSpace at Oregon State University. The testing was undertaken to improve the DSpace Electronic Thesis and Dissertation submission process.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/boock/
Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive Ready Data Sets
School of Information, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (Date Created: 2005)
This research project is sponsored by the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Science Foundation. The purpose of this project is to investigate the obstacles and incentives for producers to prepare data for deposit that is archive-ready. Focus will be on collaboration between producers and archives, including identification of a process for archives to adjust their deposit requirements to better suit producer needs. The website has information on research aims, current state of knowledge and practice, standards and guidelines.
http://www.si.umich.edu/incentives/
Inside Installations : Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) (Regularly Updated)
This three-year research project began in 2004. The project involved input from collecting organisations in the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom. Belgium and Spain. Thirty complex installations (many multimedia) were re-installed, investigated and documented with the view to develop best practice in the areas of preservation strategies, artists’ participation, documentation and archiving strategies. Best practice documents available from the Research link.
http://www.inside-installations.org/home/index.php
InSPECT Project
(Date Created: 01 Aug 2007) (United Kingdom)
This two year project (Oct 2006 to 30 Sept. 2008) is funded by JISC . It will "examine the whole concept of significant properties, determine which properties are significant for a range of object types and assess the importance of each of these for future representation of the object, and finally propose a generalised methodology that will enable resource curators to determine the significant properties of classes of digital objects that must be preserved over time."
http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/
Historical InterPARES 2: Experimental, Interactive and Dynamic Records
Luciana Duranti (Last Updated: 31 Dec 2006) (Canada)
The website of the InterPARES 2 Project, the second phase of the originating InterPARES project, which was funded for 2002-2006. Details are given of the scope of the project, international participants and research output produced. It was succeeded by the third phase InterPARES 3.
http://www.interpares.org/ip2_index.cfm
InterPARES 3 Project: Implementing Digital Records Preservation in a Contemporary Art Gallery and Ethnographic Museum
Laszlo, Krisztina; McMillan, Timothy; Yuhasz, Jennifer (Date Created: Sep 2008) (Canada)
This paper delivered at the 2008 Annual Conference of CIDOC (Athens, September 15-18, 2008) provides information on the InterPARES 3 project and highlights case studies of two cultural institutions at the University of British Columbia and research to ensure preservation of their digital records.
http://www.cidoc2008.gr/cidoc/Documents/papers/drfile.2008-06-18.51716
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InterPARES Project : International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems
The InterPARES Project (Regularly Updated) (Canada)
The goal of the InterPARES Project is to use the tools of archival science and diplomatics to develop the theoretical and methodological knowledge essential to the permanent preservation of electronically generated records. On the basis of this knowledge it will formulate model strategies, policies and standards capable of ensuring their preservation. InterPARES is directed by Luciana Duranti, University of British Columbia's School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. It has been developed over three phases. Interpares 1 1999-2001; Inerpares 2002-2006 and Interpares3 2007-2012.
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Historical JERRI: Ohio's Joint Electronic Records Repository Initiative
Arp, Charles (Last Updated: 10 Jul 2001) (United States of America)
JERRI was a joint project between the Ohio Historical Society, the State Library of Ohio, the Ohio Supercomputer Centre and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services to maintain public access to state electronic records and web-based publications of enduring historical value via an electronic archive. Work is continuing through a partnership with OCLC's digital collection management and preservation project. Final Report issued in June 2001.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ohiojunction.net/jerri/
JHOVE : JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment : Digital Format Specific Validation
Harvard University Library; JSTOR (Last Updated: Dec 2007)
Purpose : JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is a project to automate the identification and validation of file formats.This process is based on the file itself rather than the filename extension.
Documentation : Access to tutorials, use cases and downloadable modules are available. Project followed by the JHOVE2 project.
http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/index.html
JHOVE2
University of California Office of the President (UCOP) (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This wiki is the public information site for the JHOVE2 Project which builds on the JHOVE project. The JHOVE2 Project aims to refactor the existing JHOVE architecture and API, to support enhancements to existing JHOVE functionality and to develop JHOVE2 modules supporting important preservation-related processes. JHOVE2 is a 2 year project funded by the Library of Congress under the NDIIPP program, the California Digital Library, Portico and Stanford University. The wiki includes background to the project, use cases, project bibliography, details of mailing lists and links to related resources.
http://confluence.ucop.edu/display/JHOVE2Info/Home
JHOVE2 : a Next-Generation Architecture for Format-Aware Digital Object Preservation Formatting
Harvard University Library (Last Updated: 01 Jun 2006) (United States of America)
The paper discusses the scope of the JHOVE2 (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) project proposal. This project will seek to retain existing JHOVE functionality and refactor the existing architecture, support enhancements, increase the range of supported formats, and develop modules for supporting key preservation processes. Input from the JHOVE user community will be sought as part of the design phase. The proposal was submitted by Harvard University, Portico, and Stanford University to the Library of Congress under the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) initiative.
http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/JHOVE2-proposal.doc
JISC Final Report – Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory Project
Abbott, Daisy (Date Created: Jul 2008) (United Kingdom)
This is the final report of the Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory Project funded by JISC July 2007 to June 2008. The project aimed to identify every repository of digital content that is free (non-commercial) to UK Higher Education institutions and hosted within the UK, and to examine the technical infrastructure and preservation environment of the content.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitalrepositories/d
rai-end-project-report.doc
JISC Programme Synthesis Study: Supporting Digital Preservation & Asset Management in Institutions. A Review of the 4-04 Programme on Digital Preservation & Asset Management for the JISC Information Environment. Pt II: Programme Synthesis
Pennock, Maureen (Date Created: Jan 2008) (United Kingdom)
This report (82 p.) summarizes the work done by projects that participated in the JISC Programme Digital Preservation & Asset Management (2004-2006). It provides project, programme and thematic overviews as well as the interview questions used in collating information for the study. Projects include Sherpa DP, MATS, ESPIDA, LIFE, PARADIGM, MANDATE, DPTP, DAA, Assessment of the UK Data Archive and Managing Risk.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/404publi
creport_2008.pdf
JISC-PoWR : Preservation of Web Resources : A JISC-sponsored project
JISC-PoWR (Date Created: 23 Apr 2008) (United Kingdom)
This blog was set up to support the JISC-PoWR project which was initiated by the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee and ran from April to September 2008. It was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at Bath University and ULCC Digital Archives department. The project aimed to “organise workshops and produce a handbook that specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community”. Links to the handbook and presnetations at events which were held June, July & September 2008 are included. The blog has continued after the finalisation of the project with posts relevant to the the project aims.
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
JSTOR (Journal Storage): The Scholarly Journal Archive
JSTOR Journal Storage (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
One of JSTOR's aims is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. Back issues of paper journals have been converted into electronic formats allowing savings in space (and in capital costs associated with that space) while simultaneously improving access to the journal content. It is also hoped that the project may offer a solution to preservation problems associated with storing paper volumes.
http://www.jstor.org/
JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment (JHOVE)
Donnelly, Martin (Date Created: Mar 2006)
JHOVE is an open source framework for the identification, validation and characterisation of various file formats, including html. xml, gif, tiff, jpeg2000, and wave. The article looks at how formats are identified, validated and characterisated as well as system development, standards and legal factors. Also included are sample records.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/case-studies/jhove/jhove.pdf
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KB e-Depot Digital Archiving Policy
Oltmans, Erik; van Wijngaarden, Hilde (Date Created: 2006) (Netherlands)
This paper discusses the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's policy and ambitions for digital archiving of electronic publications. It provides an overview of the KB's e-depot repository and the requirement and potential for collaboration.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07378830610715464
Also available in PDF and from Library Hi Tech ISSN 0737-8831 ; Volume: 24 Issue: 4; 2006 pp. 604-613
KEEP - Keeping Emulation Environments Portable
KEEP will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, video games etc. The overall aim of the project is to facilitate universal access to our cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects.

KEEP will address the problems of transferring digital objects stored on outdated computer media such as floppy discs onto current storage devices. This will involve the specification of file formats and the production of transfer tools exploited within a framework, and taking into account possible legal and technical issues. KEEP will address all aspects ranging from safeguarding the original bits from the carrier to offering online services to end-users via a highly portable emulation framework running on any possible device. In addition to producing a software package, the project will deliver understanding about how to integrate emulation-based solutions with an operational electronic deposit system.

The project partners are:

  • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
  • Bibliotheque nationale de France
  • Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands)
  • Joguin SARL (France)
  • Computerspielmuseum (Berlin)
  • Universität von Portsmouth (Great Britain)
  • Cross Czech (Ceská republika)
  • Tessella (Great Britain)
Contact: Tobias Steinke
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/keep.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
Keeping Electronic Records Accessible : How the Federal Archives of Germany Preserves the Digital Heritage of the German Democratic Republic : a Case Study
Hanger, Andrea (Date Created: May 2006) (Germany)
The author introduces this case study by generally discussing the issues for the Federal Archives of Germany in the acquisition, preservation, accessibility, authenticity and reliability of electronic records. The case study which considers factors affecting the preservation of 200 data sets created in the German Democratic Republic between 1970 and 1990 and now stored in the Federal Archives of Germany digital repository. It is used to illustrate the importance of archivists being involved early in the record life cycle to encourage data producers to supply complete and accurate documentation and comprehensive audit trails. The author also concludes that METS may be a good way to preserve records over the long term.
http://archiwa.gov.pl/images/stories/file/7th-ecaa/A_Hanger_Keeping_El
ectronic_Records.pdf
Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Archives, Warsaw, 18-20 May, 2006
Keeping Emulation Environments Portable (KEEP)
(Date Created: 01 Feb 2009)
This 3 year collaborative project which is funded under the Seventh Framework Program and is led by the Bibliotheque Natonale de France, aims to develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=FP7_PROJ_EN&ACTION=D&DOC=14&CAT=P
ROJ&QUERY=011f6d8aa49a:9a36:4c327c02&RCN=89496
Keeping Research Data Safe 2 - A JISC Funded Project: The Identification of Long-lived Digital Datasets for the Purposes of Cost Analysis
Charles Beagrie Ltd (Date Created: 31 Mar 2009) (United Kingdom)
This project (March to December 2009) is a follow up to the JISC funded Keeping Research Data Safe study completed in 2008. Project partners include University of Cambridge, Charles Beagrie Ltd, OCLC Research, University of Southampton, Archaology Data Service, University of Oxford, UK Data Archive and University of London Computer Centre. The project will identify and analyse sources of long-lived data and develop longitudinal data on associated preservation costs and benefits, as an aid to to developing preservation costing tools and cost benefit analyses for justifying and sustaining major investments in repositories and data curation
http://www.beagrie.com/jisc.php
Kopal : Kooperativer Aufbau eines Lanzeitarchivs digitaler Informationen : Co-operative Development of a Long-Term Digital Information Archive
Rechtssinne die Niederachsische Staats und Universitatsbibliothek Gottingen (Regularly Updated) (Germany)
Kopal, a three-year project, has as its objective the practical testing and implementation of a long-term preservation system for digital information, developed and operated in a cooperative manner. The project started in July 2004 and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project partners, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB), the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), IBM Deutschland GmbH and the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) will implement a cooperatively run and reusable solution for the long-term archiving of digital data, hosted at the scientific computer center GWDG in Göttingen. The technical realization will be based on DIAS (Digital Information and Archival System), jointly devised by IBM and the Koninklijke Bibliothek in The Hague, the National Library of the Netherlands. The customization and further development of DIAS into a cooperatively run system will be administered by IBM. The software developed by the project partners DDB and the SUB Göttingen for the import and export of data will be released under an open-source license.
http://kopal.langzeitarchivierung.de/
"KOPAL" - Co-operative development of a long-term archive of digital information
The objective of KOPAL was the practical testing and implementation of a co-operatively created and operated long-term archive system for digital information. As network partners, the German National Library, the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen and IBM Germany implemented a co-operatively operated solution, capable of subsequent re-use by others, for the long-term preservation of digital resources. The technical operation of the system is taken care of by the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG). The participation of the German National Library as the national archive library and the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen as an innovative university information centre guaranteed that complementary viewpoints and differing user interests were taken into account in the realisation of the project. The technical realisation of the functions KOPAL is based on prior work accomplished since 2000 in a joint development project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Dutch Library) and IBM. IBM has undertaken its further development toward a co-operatively maintained system equipped with standardised interfaces within the framework of KOPAL. The ingest & retrieval software produced by the network partners (koLibRI) has the status of Open Source software. Comprehensive and heterogeneous data have been fed into the system during the term of the project in order to prove the concept's capacity and usefulness. Since mid-2007 the archival system has been transferred into the productive use by the German National Library.
Contact: Reinhard Altenhöner
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/kopal.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
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Kulturarw3
National Library of Sweden (Regularly Updated) (Sweden)
The aim of this project, inaugurated by the The National Library of Sweden, was to test methods of collecting, preserving and providing access to Swedish electronic documents which are accessible online. The original project site included brief descriptions of the scope of collecting and collecting methods, preservation and access considerations, and progress of the Kulturarw3 Heritage Project. Under Swedish law, the web archives are only available within the Library.
http://www.kb.se/english/find/internet/websites/
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Large Scale Archival Storage of Digital Objects
Linden, Jim; Martin, Sean; Masters, Richard; Parker, Roderic (Date Created: Feb 2005) (United Kingdom)
This report on mass archival storage was based on the practical experience in developing the Digital Object Management system in the British Library. The authors are part of the British Library's Digital Object Management (DOM) Programme. The report includes an overview of general issues related to building a large secure data storage system, including storage management, emerging technologies and software. Although based on the British Library's experience, many of the issues discussed are applicable to any institution planning or engaged in secure long-term storage of large volumes of digital materials.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/dpctw04-03.pdf
DPC Technology Watch series report 04-03
Latin American Government Documents Archive, LAGDA
Latin American Network Information Center at The University of Texas at Austin (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA) seeks to preserve and facilitate access to a wide range of ministerial and presidential documents from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The Archive contains copies of the Web sites of approximately 300 government ministries and presidencies. Capture of sites began on multiple dates in 2005 and 2006, and will continue with regularly scheduled captures. Content in the Archive includes not only the full-text versions of official documents, but also original video and audio recordings of key regional leaders. Archive contents include thousands of annual and "state of the nation" reports; plans and programs; and speeches by presidents and government ministers. Content can be accessed via full-text search (search help), or by browsing by country or by specialized sample collection, such as "Presidential Messages" or "Ministerial Documents." LAGDA is a joint project of the University of Texas Libraries, The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, and the Latin American Network Information Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Web archiving services are provided by the Internet Archive's Archive-It service.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/archives/lagda/
Legal Deposit of the French Web: Harvesting Strategies for a National Domain
Lasfargues, France; Oury, Clément; Wendland, Bert (Date Created: Sep 2008) (France)
This paper delivered at IWAW '08 (September 18–19, 2008, Aarhus, Denmark) describes the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) web harvesting activities in the context of the French Copyright Law August 1 2006, which extended legal deposit to the Internet. It compares the .fr domain harvests conducted over the last four years and discusses collaboration with the Internet Archive.
http://iwaw.net/08/IWAW2008-Lasfargues.pdf
Library of Congress Collaboration for Preservation of State Government Digital Information
(Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
This project is to assist the Library of Congress working with U.S. states and territories develop strategies for the preservation of significant government digital information. Through this project collaborative arrangements will be set up to implement the strategies. The project partners include LC & the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Participants include State and Territory agencies with support from Federal agencies, professional Associations and organisations. Funding is through a grant from the National Science Foundation. University at Albany's Center for Technology in Government is collaborating in this project.
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/lc?proj=lc&sub=summary
Library of Congress Web Archives (LCWA)
The Library of Congress is forming topical collections of archived web sites, selected by curators and subject specialists, and evaluating various aspects: workflow strategies, efficient metadata creation for end-user access, metadata packaging, and search systems. Each site in a collection is given simple descriptive cataloging using MODS (Metadata Object Description Standard), which is currently used by a Lucene-based access system to provide searching across the collections or in individual or selected collections. The MODS data is partially derived from the archived site and partially supplied by program. Catalogers review the descriptions and supply information for basic search points. Ongoing work will include experimentation with METS wrappers for the MODS descriptions, image thumbnails, tag clouds, and PREMIS preservation metadata. The deriving, describing, searching, and packaging aspects of the project are all part of continuing research into effective archiving of web material. It is also part of a continuing effort by the Library to preserve web materials for future generations of researchers, and also to use metadata to enable consistent searching across sites that may be in various languages and scripts. The project has given a special emphasis to United States elections and the sites of persons in the United States Congress. Technical information is available from the project web site.
Contact: Tracy Meehleib
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lcwa-home.html
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
LIFE : Life Cycle Information for E-Literature
LIFE (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This is the website of a collaboration project between University College London (UCL) Library Services and the British Library and funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Using the collections at UCL and the British Library, the project examines the life cycles and costs over the long term of digital collections. The first phase of the project LIFE1 culminated with a conference held on 20 April 2006. LIFE2 ran from March 2007 to August 2008 with LIFE2 conference held on 23 June 2008. LIFE3 is due to start August 2009.
http://www.life.ac.uk/
Lifecycle Information for E-literature : Full Report from the LIFE Project
Ayris, P.; McLeod, R.; Wheatley, P. (Date Created: Aug 2006) (United Kingdom)
The University College London (UCL) and the British Library (BL) have completed phase 1 of the LIFE project, a JISC funded project examining the costing of digital preservation activities. The LIFE Project developed a methodology for analysing and costing the elements of a digital object's lifecycle, including preservation. It then tested and refined this methodology by applying it to a number of case studies. These include Voluntary Deposit of e-materials at the BL, Web Archiving at the BL, and commercial eJournals at UCL. The report also includes the generic LIFE preservation model which is a tool for estimating the cost of various preservation activities. The report also identifies areas for future work
http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/archive/00001854/01/LifeProjMaster.pdf
LiWA - Living Web Archives
LiWA - Living Web Archives (Regularly Updated)
This three year project is aimed at developing the next generation of web archives through creation of innovative methods and services for web content capture, preservation, analysis and enrichment. This European funded project is led by the LS3 Research Center, University of Hanover and brings together researchers, industrial users and archiving organisations.
http://www.liwa-project.eu/
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LOCKSS
Stanford University Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Stanford Libraries is building "persistent access" software for libraries. The project is called: LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) and provides tools which use local, library controlled computers to safeguard readers' long-term access to web based journals. The system ensures that hyperlinks to material it is safeguarding continue to resolve and deliver the appropriate content to their readers even if in the Internet at large the links no longer resolve and the content is no longer available.
http://www.lockss.org/
Long Now Foundation
Long Now Foundation (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This website focuses on the Long Now Foundation and includes information on the foundation’s goals, past events and a summary of current projects. The Projects section of the site lists projects being undertaken in relation to the preservation of digital materials, with information on the Long Server Project, the Digital Dark Age Project and the LongMail projects.
http://www.longnow.org/
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Historical Long-Term Preservation of Digital Material - Building an Archive to Preserve Digital Cultural Heritage from the Internet
Aschenbrenner, Andreas (Date Created: Dec 2001) (Austria)
Submitted as a Diploma thesis, this report presents a detailed case study of the Austrian On-Line Archive and a prototype for automatic retrieval of interactive online documents. A review of long-term digital archiving initiatives, issues and proposed strategies in digital preservation are also included.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications/thesis-ando/
Also available in PDF or gnu-zipped PostScript ( http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~aola/publications.html ).
Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study in Preservation Planning
Becker, Christoph; Strodl, Stephan; Neumayer, Robert; Rauber, Andreas; Nicchiarelli Betelli, Eleonora; Kaiser, Max (Date Created: 17 Oct 2007) (Austria)
This paper presented at RCDL2007 (Ninth Russian National Research Conference, 15-18 October 2007, Pereslavl, Russia) analyses the performance of various preservation strategies for the preservation of masters theses and dissertations using the PLANETS project approach, for the Austrian National Library.
http://rcdl2007.pereslavl.ru/papers/paper_22_v2.pdf
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Historical Long-term Retention of Digital Research Materials
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: 9 Jun 2000) (United States of America)
This page (which was frozen in 2004) describes the Research Libraries Group's long-term retention initiative to develop a digital archiving model, fine-tuned for preserving RLG members' collections. Elements of this initiative included: Defining digital archives and needed preservation metadata, Building selection policies and tools, and Expanding linked international gateways to digital preservation resources.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file2
800.html
Looking Forward by Looking Back: APSR's Contribution to Future Repository Planning in Australia
Henty, Margaret; Burton, Adrian (Date Created: 06 Feb 2008) (Australia)
This paper reviews the work of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories Project which was established in 2004 and its contribution to the management of digital information in Australia during the 4 years of the project.
http://www.valaconf.org.au/vala2008/papers2008/118_Henty_Final.pdf
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Historical Making of America II
(Last Updated: 26 Jan 1999) Has papers: Making of America II Testbed Project White Paper Version 2.0
This was a Digital Library Federation project to continue and extend research and demonstration projects that have begun to develop best practices for the encoding of intellectual, structural, and administrative data about primary resources housed in research libraries.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/
Historical Management of Networked Electronic Publications: A Table of Status in Various Countries
Martin, Elizabeth (Last Updated: Nov 2001)
A comparison of national libraries in sixteen countries on matters of deposit legislation and arrangements, approach and policy, plans, negotiations with publishers, access arrangements and implementation for networked electronic publications.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/consultation_online_publi
cations-ef/8/7/r7-100-e.html
Also available in PDF and RTF. Available in French at http://nlc-bnc.ca/obj/r7/f2/r7-100-f.pdf
A Marathon Not a Sprint : Lessons Learnt From the First Decade of Digitisation at the National Library of Wales
Jones, R. Arwel (Date Created: 2008) (United Kingdom)
This article is an overview of developments in digitisation policy and practice at the National Library of Wales 1995-2007.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=marathon&title_type
=tka&author=jones&year_from=2003&year_to=2008&database=1&pageSize=20&i
ndex=1
Program: electronic library and information systems, ISSN 0033-0337, vol. 42 no. 2 , 2008 pp 97-114 and by subscription to Emeral Insight.
Mass Transit: a Project Between California Digital Library and San Diego Supercomputer Center
(Date Created: 2007) (United States of America)
This 14 month project is a collaboration to understand large scale data transfer for preservation. Outcomes will include recommendations for best practice.
http://masstransit.sdsc.edu/
MathArc : Ensuring Access to Mathematics Over Time : Cooperative Management of Distributed Digital Archives
Cornell University Library; Göttingen State and University Library (Regularly Updated)
This is a collaborative project of Cornell University Library and Göttingen State and University Library. The purpose of this project is to create a distributed, interoperable system for the long-term preservation and dissemination of digital serial literature in mathematics and statistics.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/MathArc/web/index.html
Mediapedia
Mediapedia is a prototype web based resource intended to enable the physical identification of various media carrier types, and to record and classify associated technical knowledge with a view to assisting collection evaluation, risk management assessments and preservation management.
Contact: David Pearson
http://www.nla.gov.au/mediapedia/
(Contributor: National Library of Australia )
New Memento Project
(Date Created: Nov 2009) (United States of America)
This project is a collaboration between the Prototyping Team of the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Computer Science Department of Old Dominion University and has been partially funded by Library of Congress under the NDIIPP program. The project aims to investigate ideas related to web archiving and is initially focused on the integration of archived resources in regular web navigation. The web site includes information on and tools developed for the Memento Solution a protocol based solution for seamless access to archived web resources.
http://www.mementoweb.org/
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Memory of the World - Preserving Our Digital Heritage
UNESCO (Date Created: 2001)
This project is part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. As described in the Project Summary, "The goal of this project is to provide a framework for the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and transmission to future generations of the digital heritage (web sites, data bases, electronic documents). This project covers both digitised and born-digital material."
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_
SECTION=201.html
MetaArchive
MetaScholar Initiative (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This project commenced in 2004 and was aimed at the preservation of digital content with the subject focus of southern United States culture and history. The original project had six partner institutions in collaboration with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and Library of Congress. The goals of the project included the creation of a conspectus of digital content held by partner sites, a harvested body of the most critical content to be preserved, development of a model cooperative agreement for ongoing collaboration and the implementation of a distributed preservation network infrastructure based on the LOCKSS system. The type of content to be preserved included digital masters of scanned images, research databases and websites. Since 2007 the MetaArchive Cooperative membership has been extended. It is now "responsible for preserving Member organizations’ content in a decentralized, distributed preservation network comprised of subject-based archives (e.g., Southern Digital Culture, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, etc.), as well as maintaining and extending its methodology and approach to distributed digital preservation."
http://www.metaarchive.org/
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Historical Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
Cathy Nelson Hartman; Daniel Gelaw Alemneh; Samantha Kelly Hastings (Date Created: Aug 2002) (United States of America)
(Publisher abstract:) "Preserving long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing libraries and information centers today. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has entered into partnership agreements with federal and state agencies to ensure permanent storage and public access to a variety of government information sources. As digital resource preservation encompasses a wide variety of interrelated activities, the UNT Libraries are taking a phased approach to ensure the long-term access to its digital resources. Formulation of preservation policy and creation of preservation metadata for electronic files and digital collections are among the most important steps. This paper discusses the issues related to digital resources preservation and demonstrates the role of preservation metadata in facilitating the preservation activities in general. In particular, it describes the efforts being made by the UNT libraries to ensure the long-term access and preservation of various digital information resources."
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/981/902
Historical Metadata Engine Project (METAe)
University of Innsbruck, Austria (Date Created: 1999)
A group of 14 partners, the Metadata Engine Project was funded by the European Union IST Programme. The principal objective was the development of software able to extract as much metadata as possible from the layout of a book and to transform it into XML structured text. In addition, METAe generates Dublin Core metadata and the digital facsimile of the document. The project ran from 2000 to September 2003.
http://meta-e.uibk.ac.at/
Metadata Object Description Standard (MODS) Development Project
The goal of the MODS project is to provide the community with a metadata format that is especially suitable for describing and providing access to digital material. It is being developed by the Library of Congress with an Editorial Committee of implementers. As an XML schema it can carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as serve as the format for original resource description records.
Partner: MODS Editorial Committee
Contact: Rebecca Guenther
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
Historical Migrating Records From Proprietary Software to RTF, HTML and XML
Reuben, Elizabeth (Date Created: Jun 2003) (Australia)
This article describes a digital preservation project at the Australian Department of Family and Community Services. The Department's Guides to Social Security Law had to be extracted from the its proprietary software format, Epublish, then the data had to be migrated to other formats that would increase accessibility and enable preservation of the guides. Topics covered include data conversion, testing, metadata schemes and archival formats.
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jun03/reuben.shtml
in Computers in Libraries, (ISSN 1041-7915) Vol. 23, no. 6, June 2003, p30-33
Historical MINERVA : Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive
Library of Congress (Date Created: 2001) (United States of America)
The MINERVA Web Preservation Project, developed by the US Library of Congress, was established to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve primary resources that are 'born digital' and not available in any other format. The site has links to various subject based archives such as the September 11 archive. The final report was issued in 2002. Minerva was the early development project for the Library of Congress Web Archives.
http://www.loc.gov/minerva/
mod_oai
Old Dominion University (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Mod-oai is a joint project of the Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and is funded by the Mellon Foundation. The aim of the project is to make the content from Apache Web servers accessible via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Web servers and Web crawlers would be able to selectively harvest from data repositories, for instance data gathering could be limited to files of a certain mimetype. The website provides an overview of the project including links to relevant organisations and describes members of the project team.
http://www.modoai.org/
Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Government Digital Information
Minnesota State Archives (Date Created: 2008) (United States of America)
Two year project led by the Minnesota State Archives and funded under NDIIPP to preserve state government digital information. The project will work with selected state legislatures in exploring methods to provide enhanced online access to legislative materials in digital form. Links to publications available from the website.
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/
Historical Museum of Software
School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews (Last Updated: 2004) (United Kingdom)
"Although still in development, it is envisaged that this Museum will collect and maintain out of date software. This involves obtaining a machine-readable copy of the software, translating any obscure coding to make it intelligible, and, once the software has been rendered readable, storing it. Once this has been achieved, it is planned to exhibit and use the software in a variety of ways. "
http://web.archive.org/web/20061214065156/http://mos.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/
Site reorganised Wayback URL provided for historical interest.
MUSTICA : a Preservation Tool for Electro-Acoustic Music
Dept. of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (Date Created: 2005)
MUSTICA ia an international collaboration initiative to research issues of interactive digital music preservation. MUSTICA participants include the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), the University of British Columbia (InterPARES 2 Project), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Center for Information as Evidence). MUSTICA is also supported by the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). A demonstator version of the MUSTICA preservation tool is available from IRCAM . The website for this project also has a bibliography of papers and presentations on MUSTICA, research conducted during 2003 - 2004.
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette/MUSTICA.html

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National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA)
The National Library has developed a digital archive and preservation management solution to ensure the ongoing collection, preservation and accessibility of its digital heritage collections.

The NDHA is an integrated environment, including hardware and software, that supports long-term preservation of websites, sound and vision files, digital images and other born-digital and digitised items.

The NDHA uses Rosetta, the preservation system developed in partnership with Ex Libris Group, a library management systems vendor, and Sun Microsystems, a provider of open network computing systems. The NDHA is designed to be scalable both technologically and functionally over time.


Rosetta: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/files/Products/Preservation/Rosetta-A4LOWres.pdf
SUN Microsystems Case Study: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/files/CaseStudy/SunPreservationandNLNZ.pdf
Contact: ndha@natlib.govt.nz
http://ndha-wiki.natlib.govt.nz/ndha/
(Contributor: National Library of New Zealand )
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
The goal of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress (LC) and the United States National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is to provide enhanced access to United States newspapers. Over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories, published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress and be freely accessible via the Internet. As part of the project, standards such as METS, MARC, MODS and PREMIS have been used to enable the efficient creation of union access to these resources. A prototype of this digital resource was launched in March 2007, "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, and a new release will be coming out in 2009.
Partners: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); contributing institutions.
Contact: Mark Sweeney
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
Historical NEDLIB : Networked European Deposit Library
National Library of the Netherlands (Last Updated: Feb 2001)
This site is the homepage of NEDLIB, a collaborative project consortium, which was headed by the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) and included eight other European national libraries, a national archive and three main publishers. The project finished on 31 January 2001.The main goal was to find ways to preserve access to both online and offline (physical format) digital publications. It aimed to construct the basic infrastructure upon which a networked European deposit library could be built. Project Technical Working Papers are available by following the link 'Working Papers' on the home page.
http://nedlib.kb.nl/
nestor - Network of expertise in digital long-term preservation
The objective of the project is to create a competence network of long-term archival storage and long-term availability of digital resources in Germany. The competence network should ensure that digital resources in Germany are archived on a long-term basis, are secured and are made available for use. Through national and international co-operation, a contribution should be achieved towards safeguarding our global cultural heritage. Within the project, the following range of choices are to be developed, among others:
  • a Web-based information forum with various content options for long-term archival storage and long-term availability of digital resources in Germany
  • criteria for trusted digital repositories
  • suggestions for procedures for a certification system for digital archives
  • suggestions for principles of collection and selection criteria for the archival storage of digital resources
  • policies for long-term archival storage of digital resources
  • a work-structure for the long-term availability of digital resources in the museum area
  • a concept for a sustainable form of organization of the competence network and information forum
  • co-ordination of division of duties and the assumption of long-term duties, especially in the delineation between the library, archive and museum areas
The German National Library is in charge of carrying out the project in co-operation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Computer- und Medienservice / Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Fernuniversität Hagen (since 2006), the Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns (until 2006), the Institut für Museumskunde, the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen and the Bundesarchiv (since 2005).
Contact: Natascha Schumann
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/nestor.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
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netarchive.dk
Denmark's Electronic Research Library (Regularly Updated) (Denmark)
The netarchive.dk project is a joint-initiative of the Royal Library, The State & University Library and the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus in Denmark. This year long study, which will run from August 2001 to July 2002, will examine the capture and archiving of Danish internet activity relating to the country's November 2001 municipal elections. Project reports will be issued quarterly, and are expected to address some of the issues associated with the collection and preservation of dynamic and interactive resources.
http://netarchive.dk/index-en.php
Historical netarchive.dk : The Pilot Project
Netarchive.dk (Denmark)
This was the web page of the Netarchive.dk pilot project which was the first phase (2001-2002) investigating strategies for collecting and archiving Danish Internet materials. This initiative represented a cooperative effort between Danish Royal Library, The State and University Library, and the Centre for Internet Research. Project’s key recommendation was to harvest material by three methods including automatic ‘snapshot’ gathering, ‘selective’ detailed archiving, as well as ‘event-based’ collecting of web sites. The Pilot Project website also has links to the project reports. The second phase focused on provision of legal deposit for digital material. The new netarchive.dk website provides current information.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060301064321/http://netarchive.dk/pilot-i
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Nordic Web Archive
Helsinging yliopiston kirjasto; Kansalliskirjasto (Scandinavia)
This article outlines the application for Nordunet2 project, which was submitted by five Nordic National Libraries and featured software developers at every participating National Library. Nordunet2 project was part of the Nordic Web Archive (NWA) initiative. The Nordic Web Archive aims at archiving the whole of the web space of Nordic countries, while the Nordunet2 part of it is focused on developing software for accessing web documents, that is it applies to defining and implementing the Access module and the interface between the Archive and the Access module. The Access module for the NWA will enable the users to search and retrieve documents in the Archive.
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/tietolinja/0100/nwa.pdf
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project : NCGDAP
NCSU Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This joint project of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis will focus on collection and preservation of government digital geospatial data resources such as GIS data, digital orthophotography, digital maps and tabular data. The project was conducted in collaboration with NDIIPP. The objectives of the project include: acquisition of at risk geospatial data, development of a digital repository architecture for geospatial data, using open source software tools such as DSpace, enhancement of existing geospatial metadata with additional preservation metadata, investigation of automated identification and capture of data resources using OpenGeospatial Consortium specifications and the development of a model for data archiving. Project period was initially Oct 2004 to September 2007 has been extended through March 2009.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/index.html
NUMERIC
(Date Created: Apr 2007)
NUMERIC was a 2 year project of the European Commission ending in April 2009 that aims" to develop and test a framework and associated methods for collecting and analysing data relating to digitisation activities of materials held by libraries, archives and museums in the EU. The measures relate to the costs to the institutions concerned, and the progress made towards both preserving and making their materials accessible on-line."
http://www.numeric.ws/

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OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks
(Date Created: Sep 2008)
OAPEN is a project in open access publishing for humanities monographs by a consortium of European University based academic publishers, cofunded by the European Union for 30 months starting in September 2008. OAPEN consists of seven scholarly publishers and two Universities in six European countries and is coordinated by Amsterdam University Press.
http://www.oapen.com/
Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE)
Open Archives Initiative (Date Created: Oct 2006)
This two year project began in October 2006. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the purpose of this project is to increase the interoperabiltiy between distributed scholarly repositories by using OAI-ORE to build on the OAI-PMH model to develop and test specifications for core interfaces that support locating, identifying, harvesting and depositing digital objects. A Primer, User Guides and Specifications are available.
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/
Historical Occasio: Digital Social History Archive
Quast, Jenneke (Date Created: 1995) (Netherlands)
Occasio was launched in 1995 as a joint project of the Netherlands-based International Institute of Social History (IISH) and the Antenna Foundation. It is an archive of newsgroup messages 1986-2002 concerning social, political and environmental issues. The archive is available online.
http://www.iisg.nl/occasio/
OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group
OCLC (Last Updated: 05 Mar 2003) (United States of America)
A joint OCLC/RLG led initiative with international involvement, the Preservation Metadata Working Group was active in 2001-2002 with the intention to create a comprehensive metadata framework for digital preservation applications and recommend principles for best practice.
http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/wg1.shtm
Off-site Storage: an Analysis
Agee, Jim; Naper, Sarah (Date Created: 2007) (United States of America)
This paper discusses PASCAL (Preservation and Access Service Center for Colorado Academic Libraries) a shared collaborative off-site storage facility and the implications for the immediate region and future networked storage systems.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/01604950710721566
Also available in PDF and in Collection Building ISSN:0160-4953 2007 Vol:26 No.:1 pp: 20-25
Old Maps Online : Open-source, Antique Maps & Historical Documents
Old Maps Online (Date Created: May 2008) (Czech Republic)
This 4 year project (2008-2011) aims to develop freely available/open source tools and methodologies to allow libraries, archives and museums to publish scanned old maps in both GIS and a user friendly, standards based way. The project is supported by the Moravian Library in Brno with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic as a R&D project# DC08P02OUK006.
http://blog.oldmapsonline.org/
Open Archives Initiative
OAI (Regularly Updated)
The Open Archives initiative is a forum to discuss and solve matters of interoperability between author self-archiving solutions, as a way to promote their global acceptance. This includes the "Santa Fe Convention" which presents a simple technical and organizational framework to support basic interoperability among e-print archives. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.
http://www.openarchives.org/
Our Digital Island: A Tasmanian Web Archive
State Library of Tasmania (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
Our Digital Island provides access to Tasmanian Web sites that have been preserved for posterity by the State Library of Tasmania, as required by the legal deposit provisions of the Libraries Act 1984. It includes sections on: Selection policy, Metadata development, and a description of the project.
http://odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/

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Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
PARADISEC (Australia)
PARADISEC provides a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region including Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. Participating researchers come from the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne and New England and the Australian National University. PARADISEC collaborates with other groups to promote good practice in field documentation and digital archiving of endangered languages: Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD), the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Network (DELAMAN) and the Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data Project (E-MELD). PARADISEC has initially focused on digitisation of audio tapes and has developed guidelines for deposit of other digital objects and models to ensure the archive can provide ongoing access to interested communities.
http://paradisec.org.au
PAD : Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination Project
Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) (Date Created: 2002)
PAD is intended to complement existing archiving research by filling a gap that has been identified by a survey. The gap identified is that electronic literature is not yet the focus of any major preservation effort, and many important aspects of preserving this type of work - such as how to maintain conditional sequencing of files delivered to the reader across different technical platforms - is not being addressed adequately. PAD proposes to fill this gap by adopting technologies and standards already in development and extending them in ways that will allow works of electronic literature (and other kinds of digital art objects) to have a long lifespan in a form as close to the original as possible and as useful material for scholarship.
http://www.eliterature.org/pad/
PADICAT (Digital Heritage of Catalonia)
Biblioteca de Catalunya (Regularly Updated) (Spain)
The Biblioteca de Catalunya (www.bnc.cat), the National Library of Catalonia, as the institution responsible for compiling, processing and distributing the bibliographic heritage of Catalonia (Spain) initiated in 2005 a web crawling and access project: the Digital Heritage of Catalonia (PADICAT). It consists of collecting, processing and providing permanent access to the entire cultural, scientific and general output of Catalonia in digital format. The objective of PADICAT is to archive Catalan web sites.
PADICAT is based on the application of a number of computer programs that allow web pages published on the Internet to be collected, stored, organized, preserved and permanently accessed.
In accordance with the general trend among national libraries, the archive model used by BC is a hybrid system consisting of the following:
  • Mass compilation of open-access digital resources published on the Internet
  • Systematic archiving of the web site output of Catalan organizations
  • Fostering of lines of research through themed integration of the digital resources pertaining to specific events in Catalan public life
By 2009, BC should be in an optimum position, whereby this system -a pioneer in Spain and a benchmark in Europe- operates at full capacity, with quantitative indicators of 100,000 Web pages captured in different editions. This may include some 50 million files and 30 terabytes of data. Furthermore, cooperation agreements are scheduled to be signed with 300 institutions of all kinds and online open access to a considerable part of the collection will be available.
http://www.padicat.cat/en/index.php
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PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia
National Library of Australia (Regularly Updated) (Australia)
PANDORA began as a project initiated by the National Library of Australia to investigate strategies and implement procedures for the capture, storage, preservation and access to digital data by creating an electronic archive of library materials. It is interested in capturing the full range of materials published online in Australia - including serials, newspapers and books, as well as unique online formats such as homepages (see also Digital Services Project). PANDORA is Australia's web archive managed by the Library with contributions from partners.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
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PANIC (Preservation and Archival New Media and Interactive Collections) Project
MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) (Last Updated: Jul 2005) (Australia)
This research project, undertaken by MAENAD (Multimedia Access across Enterprises, Networks And Domains) had several objectives including using case studies to compare various approaches to multimedia preservation, investigating ways to ensure the longevity of access to multimedia digital objects, determining optimum media formats and developing guidelines and metadata schemas for multimedia creators. Results of investigations include a set of test cases and a preservation metadata schema and input tool, based on METS and MODS and informed by the work of the Variable Media Initiative.
http://www.metadata.net/panic/
Paradigm : Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media
University of Oxford Bodleian Library and the University of Manchester John Rylands University Library (Date Created: Apr 2005) (United Kingdom)
This is a two-year exemplar project, from January 2005 to December 2006, to explore the issues involved in the long-term preservation of digital private papers. Using the digital papers of contemporary United Kingdom politicians, the project will test digital preservation tools and digital repositories, and produce an online Workbook on Digital Private Papers which includes template policies and procedures.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/
Paradigm : Workbook on Digital Private Papers
University of Oxford Bodleian Library and the University of Manchester John Rylands University Library (Last Updated: 2007) (United Kingdom)
Paradigm was a two-year exemplar project, from January 2005 to February 2007, to explore the issues involved in the long-term preservation of digital private papers, using the digital papers of politicians as a testbed. The workbook iwas issued in installments over the life of the project. It covers collections policy, accessioning, appraisal, preservation metadata, cataloguing, preserving media and digital objects and legal issues and provides useful guidance for creators of digital personal archives.
http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook/index.html
Historical Paradigma : Preservation of Digital Material
Project of Paradigma (Norway)
Paradigma (Preservation, Arrangement & Retrieval of Assorted DIGital MAterials) was a three year project conducted by the National Library of Norway. The project began in August 2001and was scheduled to end on 31 December 2004. Paradigma's goal was to find the technology, methods and organization for the collection and preservation of electronic documents, and to give the National Library's users access to these documents in compliance with the Legal Deposit Act.
PARSE.Insight
PARSE:Insight (Date Created: Mar 2008)
This EU project (2008-2010) aims to give insight into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe. The project will focus on on the e-science infrastructure needed to support persistence and understandability of key information assets over the long term. The web site gives details of the milestones, deliverables and schedules.
http://www.parse-insight.eu/
Parse.Insight
The EU "Insight into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe" project (Parse.Insight) is investigating the current status of digital preservation of primary scientific data. The aim is that the project results will support the development of a uniform European strategy and the establishment of a common European infrastructure to ensure the long-term locatability, accessibility and preservation of digital research data. The project involves appraising digital preservation measures in the area of science and comparing these with the demand from selected research areas. The comparison will highlight the areas in which more support is needed in setting up a networked infrastructure for the long-term preservation of digital research data and publications. A tool for assessing digital infrastructure measures and for simplifying investment is also to be developed.

The project partners are:

  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK (project co-ordination)
  • Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), NL
  • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), DE
  • Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG), DE
  • International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), NL
  • European Space Agency, ESRIN (ESA), FR
  • Fernuniversität in Hagen (FUH), DE
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CH
  • Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB), DE
Contact: Sabine Schrimpf
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/parse.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
Historical PAT Project : Persistent Archives Testbed
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) (Last Updated: 19 Jul 2004) (United States of America)
The PAT (Persistent Archive Testbed) project was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (2203-2006). The aim of the project was to use data grid technology for access and preservation of digital collections. The PAT researchers aimed to deploy and test a model for archiving electronic records using persistent archive technologies developed at the SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center), based on the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) data grid middleware.
Project web page previously available at http://www.sdsc.edu/PAT/
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Historical PDF Archive
Association for Information and Image Management, International (AIIM, International) (Last Updated: 2004)
A joint activity of the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (NPES) and the Association for Information and Image Management, International (AIIM, International), to develop an international standard defining the use of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) for archiving and preservation of electronic documents. The project aimed to address support of multipage documents featuring combinations of text and graphics and the requirements for reading devices to render archived documents. The project's web site contained presentations, meeting minutes and a draft standard for comment.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050406085337/www.aiim.org/standards.asp?I
D=25013
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
PEER - Publishing and the Ecology of European Research
PEER (Regularly Updated)
This European project is a collaboration between publishers, repositories and the research community, aimed to investigate the effects of the large-scale deposit (so called Green Open Access) on user access, author visibility, and journal viability. The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the European Science Foundation, Gottingen State and University Library, the Max Planck Society and INRIA will collaborate on PEER, supported by the SURF Foundation and University of Bielefeld, which will contribute the expertise of the EU-funded DRIVER project. The project is funded to 2011.
http://www.peerproject.eu/
People Australia
This online resource discovery service is being developed by the National Library of Australia to allow users to access information about significant Australian people and organisations as well as related biographical and contextual information. The service will be built on the Australian Name Authority File and will be enriched through partnerships with other organisations that make available information about Australian people and organisations in their specific domains.
Contact: Basil Dewhurst
http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/peopleaustralia/
(Contributor: National Library of Australia )
Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE)
The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) at the Library of Congress serves as a laboratory to investigate the use of standards such as METS, MODS, and PREMIS with a variety of resource types. PAE is a digital library of performing arts resources at the Library of Congress, including scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and articles and biographical essays. METS is used to wrap the descriptive metadata, which is encoded using MODS, along with any technical or structural metadata required to manage the digital objects. The diversity of the types of information in PAE provides a platform for developing strategies and adapting standards to provide unified access to the material. Ongoing work will be to enable the extraction of internal MIX and PREMIS information to be formatted according to those standards and added to the METS package in export situations.
Contact: Morgan Cundiff; Nate Trail
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
Persistent Digital Archives and Library Systems (PeDALS)
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records (Date Created: Oct 2007) (United States of America)
This 18 month project led by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records will develop a curatorial rational to support an automated, integrated workflow to process collections of digital publications, implement "digital stacks" using an inexpensive storage network and develop a professional network to promote collaboration and shared practice for state and local governments. Partners include Arizona State Library Archives and Public Records, State Library and Archives of Florida, New York State Archives and State Library, South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History, and Wisconsin Historical Society. Funding from NDIIPP and IMLS
http://pedalspreservation.org/
Persistent Identifiers for Digital Resources: The experience of the National Library of France
Bermes, Emmanuelle (Date Created: Dec 2006) (France)
This article briefly describes the Bibliotheque nationale de France use of Persistent Identifiers.
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn40.pdf
Available in International Preservation News, Vol 40 December 2006, English pp 23-26, French 16-21
PILIN : Persistent Identifier Linking Infrastructure
(Last Updated: 31 Dec 2007) (Australia)
The PILIN Project was a sub project of the ARROW II Project. The PILIN project ran from Sept 2006 to Dec 2007. It's aims were to: 1. Develop an abstract model for identifiers and their management; 2. Develop shared, standards-based, persistent identifier management infrastructure; 3. support adoption of persistent identifiers and services; and 4. plan for a sustainable shared identifier infrastructure for the Australian Research environment. Policy and technical documents and final report are available from the web site.
https://www.pilin.net.au/
PLANETS : Digital Preservation Research and Technology
PLANETS (Regularly Updated)
Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services (Planets) is funded by the European Commission Information Science and Technologies Framework Programe 6 Call 5 (FP6 Call 5). The 4-year project started in June 2006 and has 16 partners. The purpose of the project is to ensure long term access to Europe's cultural and scientific digital heritage. The objectives of the project include the establishment of a preservation testbed, implementation of an interoperability framework and the development of preservation planning services.
http://www.planets-project.eu/
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Historical Political Communications Web Archive Project
Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) (Last Updated: Jun 2004)
This project was undertaken by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and is now completed. Its purpose was to ensure the long term availability of web documents by non-government political groups. The project attempted to establish a framework and methodologies on three aspects of archiving- long term resource management, curatorship and technology. This site includes links to the project proposal and final report.
http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/past-projec
ts/political-communications
Portico
Ithaka (Regularly Updated)
Formerly known as e-Archive, the Portico initiative was launched in 2005. Portico is a not for profit archive of born digital scholarly E-journals maintained by Ithaka Harbors Inc. One of the main goals of Portico is to ensure that electronic resources remain accessible in the future and it aims to do this by developing an economic model as the basis of long term sustainability; developing relationships with publishers who will deposit their publications in the archive; and develop a production and technological infrastructure that will support preservation and accessibility.
http://www.portico.org/
Historical PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) Working Group
OCLC (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The focus of the PREMIS group was on the practical aspects of implementing preservation metadata in digital preservation systems. It used the metadata framework produced in 2002 by the first OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group as a conceptual foundation and starting point for its work. Follow on work can be found on the PREMIS Maintenance Activity site.
http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/
PREMIS Metadata in METS Project
The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) allows for the use of externally developed metadata schemes to be used in its two defined metadata sections, dmdSec and amdSec. METS itself is agnostic concerning the descriptive or administrative metadata schemes that its implementers choose to use, although some community based standards are recognized by the METS Editorial Board. Thus PREMIS has been registered as a recognized metadata scheme to be used as administrative metadata with METS. The PREMIS schemas were designed to be implementation neutral, and, because of the flexibility of METS, some decisions need to be made about how to use PREMIS with METS. Issues being treated include which METS sections to use for which of the four PREMIS schemas, how many of those sections to use, whether to use the PREMIS container schema, how to incorporate format specific metadata with PREMIS, and how to deal with redundancies between METS structures and PREMIS elements. A working draft providing guidance has been developed as a joint effort between the METS and PREMIS communities. Guidelines for using PREMIS with METS is available for experimentation and comments are welcome.
Partners: PREMIS Editorial Committee
Contact: Rebecca Guenther
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/premis-mets.html
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
PREMIS Rights Project
Many efforts are concerned with metadata related to intellectual property rights and permissions, from rights expression languages to the framework. However, only a small body of work addresses rights and permissions specifically related to digital preservation. After the publication of the first edition of the PREMIS Data Dictionary, the Library of Congress in its capacity as PREMIS Maintenance Agency commissioned a study, “Rights in the PREMIS Data Model”. This paper discussed copyright, license, and statute as three bases for establishing intellectual property rights, and recommended an expansion of the rights information in the PREMIS Data Dictionary, which was subsequently done. The PREMIS Rights Statement is intended to allow a preservation repository to determine whether it has the right to perform a certain action in an automated fashion, with some documentation of the basis for the assertion.
Contact: Rebecca Guenther
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/Rights-in-the-PREMIS-Data-Model.pd
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(Contributor: Library of Congress )
Preserv Project : Preservation Eprints Services - Enabling long-term open access to materials in institutional repositories (IRs)
Joint Information Systems Committee (Last Updated: Mar 2009) (United Kingdom)
This project was originally funded by Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), February 2005 till end January 2007. Partners in the project included Southampton University (School of Electronics and Computer Science), The National Archives, The British Library and Oxford University (Library Services, Systems and Electronic Resources Service). The basis for the project was Eprints - software for building institutional repositories. The aim of the project was to develop 'infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories'. The project received additional funding with Preserv2 funded for July 2007 to Dec 2008 (extended to March 2009). Its work is being built on by a subsequent project, KeepIt which commenced in April 2009. KeepIt will apply the work of the two phases of the Preserv project to exemplar repositories.
http://preserv.eprints.org/
Preservation : a Framework for Documenting the Behaviour and Functionality of Digital Objects and Preservation Strategies
Rauber, Andreas; Rauch, Carl; Strodl, Stephan (Date Created: Jun 2005)
This paper is task 4 (Documentation of Functionality and Behaviour Metrics) of workpackage 6 in the DELOS Network of Excellence. The paper details a 'framework designed for documenting appearance, behaviour and functionality of an electronic document by adapting the ’Utility Analysis’ and its ’Objective tree’ for preservation scenarios.' Two case studies are used to test the concepts, preservation of a journal and preservation of audio files.
http://www.dpc.delos.info/private/output/DELOS_WP6_d641_final__vienna.
pdf
Project no. 507618
Preservation and Management Strategies for Exceptionally Large Data Formats : Big Data
Arts and Humanities Data Service (Last Updated: Oct 2007) (United Kingdom)
This Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) project, commenced in March 2005 and ran for 18 months, investigated preservation (storage methods), reuse (usability) and dissemination (delivery mechanism) strategies for large data files generated by archaeologists and other researchers. The website has descriptions of case studies generating large amounts of data; links to a survey designed to find information on the uses and users of big data; project deliverables and formats.
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/bigdata/index.html
Preservation Metadata Standard (PREMIS) Development Project
The Network Development & MARC Standards Office has ongoing work to develop and encourage the use of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for preservation of digital material. In the recent past a revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary was completed, supporting XML schema was rewritten, a tutorial was prepared, and implementation guidelines were written. Under way are development of tool kit components and workshops involving implementation experiences.
Partners: PREMIS Editorial Committee.
Contact: Rebecca Guenther
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/index.html
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
Preservation of Digital Material: the SPAR Project
Bibliothèque nationale de France (France)
This web page provides an overview of the SPAR Project at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). SPAR stands for "Système de Préservation et d'Archivage Réparti", meaning "Distributed Archiving and Preservation System".
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/version_anglaise/numerisation/num_spar_eng.htm
Preservation of Earth System Model Data
Lautenschlager, Michael (Date Created: 30 Jun 2008)
This Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) briefing paper examines how the World Data Center for Climate approaches the preservation of Earth system model data and improvement to long term archive reliability through introduction of a new system.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/preservati
on-of-earth-system-model-data.pdf
Digital Preservation Europe Briefing Paper
Preservation of Electronic Mail Collaboration Initiative
North Carolina State Archives (Date Created: 2006) (United States of America)
This project funded by the NHPRC (2006-2009) is a collaboration between North Carolina State Archives, the Kentucky Department of Library and Archives, and the Pennsylvania State Archives. It aims to: further develop the e-mail collection and preservation (EMCAP) tool; test the tool for scalability; produce training methodologies; test access provision; and attachment management.
http://www.records.ncdcr.gov/EmailPreservation/
Preserving Digital Public Television
PTVDigitalArchive (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Funded by the Library of Congress, this project aims to develop an archive for the long term preservation of born digital video. It includes developing a repository, developing best practice guidelines, testing and ingesting material into the archive. The site has links to documents providing information on best practices surveys, focus group reports, appraisal criteria and metadata.
http://www.ptvdigitalarchive.org/
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Historical Preserving Presidential Websites
Gupta, Amarnath (Last Updated: 18 Jan 2001) (United States of America)
A San Diego Super Computer Centre Technical Report (SDSC TR-2001-3) on developing a persistent scalable infrastructure dependent store for the long-term accessibility of presidential websites, which captures the knowledge structure of the digital objects within the representation when archived.
http://legacy.sdsc.edu/TR/TR-2001-03.pdf
Historical Preserving Web History
Mitchell, Robert L (Date Created: 08 May 2002) (United States of America)
Focusing on the USA, this article looks at the challenges faced by a number of companies in relation to website archiving. With companies having statutory and legal obligations to preserve records of past transactions and activities, the need to preserve information on websites has posed a number of difficulties for these organisations. The article also includes a case study of web archiving techniques employed at Corporate Express Inc in the USA.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1965761530
Available in Computerworld, Vol 36, Issue 32, 8 May 2002, pp. 26-28, ISSN 00104841 and by subscription online at http://www.ebscohost.com/
Historical Presidential Electronic Records Pilot System (PERPOS)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory, Georgia Tech. Research Institute (Last Updated: Nov 2005) (United States of America)
The PERPOS project aimed to find ways of gaining archival control of electronic records which are deposited with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The initial project was to conduct research that would aid archivists in gaining intellectual and physical control of the user-created files contained on the George H. W. Bush PC hard drives. The second phase PERPOS II is modifying the tools that were developed for use with other projects.
http://perpos.gtri.gatech.edu/
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Historical PRESTO: Preservation Technology for Broadcast Archives
Project manager: Richard Wright, BBC (Last Updated: 02 Jan 2003)
The PRESTO project is one of the European Union Information Society Technology (IST) sponsored intiatives looking at a range of preservation issues and prospective outcomes for digital and analogue film, audio and video archival materials. The intial partners are several major European public broadcast archives and commercial research partners. The aims of the project are to evaluate the preservation status of collected audio-visual materials, to establish what resources and technologies are utilised or are required for cost-effective preservation, to develop a preservation process chain of automated copying and playback with the necessary quality control and metadata management and thirdly to evaluate and test the new methodologies and disseminate results. The project started in late 2000 has a lifetime until mid 2002. It was followed in 2004 by the PRESTO Space project.
http://presto.joanneum.ac.at/index.asp
PrestoPRIME
Institut national de l'audiovisuel - INA (France) (Date Created: 01 Jan 2009)
'The PrestoPRIME project will address long-term preservation of and access to digital audio-visual content by integrating media archives with European on-line digital libraries. Research will result in a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre.' The project funded under the European Commission 7th Framework Programme for 42 months started January 2009 and follows on from the PrestoSpace Project. Project coordinator Institut national de l'audiovisuel - INA (France)
http://www.prestoprime.eu/
PrestoSpace
PrestoSpace Consortium (Date Created: 2003)
This project, funded by the EU (from 1/2/04 for 40 months) and building upon earlier projects such as Presto, seeks to establish a framework for the digital preservation of audio-visual materials. The aim of the Project is to build ‘preservation factories’ which would provide an affordable infrastructure for institutions such as libraries and museums in order to manage, reduce costs, standardise processes and to provide access to their digital audio visual assets.
http://prestospace.org/
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Historical Project Prism
Cornell University (Date Created: 2000) (United States of America)
"Project Prism at Cornell University is a four-year effort to investigate and develop the policies and mechanisms needed for information integrity in digital libraries." The project focussed on five key areas: preservation, reliability, interoperability, security and metadata in the context of a component based digital library architecture with a special focus on distributed collections and web content. Prism is utilizing the FEDORA (Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) digital object management infrastructure.
http://prism.cornell.edu/
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Historical Project RoMEO
Project RoMEO,Department of Information Science, Loughborough University (Last Updated: 2003) (United Kingdom)
The RoMEO Project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee for one year (1 August 2002 - 31 July 2003) to investigate the rights issues surrounding the 'self-archiving' of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The Project's aims included the development of a set of interoperable rights elements using existing schemas, stakeholder surveys to ascertain rights issues unique to research self-archived under OAI and the development of guidelines on how the metadata elements may be used by authors and how they appear to the end user.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html
Project Saaga - Case Study
Terav, Martin (Date Created: May 2006) (Estonia)
This article describes the Estonian Heritage Archives digitisation project Saaga (www.eha.ee/saaga ) which is digitising microfilm of genealogical interest. While the primary purpose is to increase access, preservation is an offshoot and taking into account digital preservation requirements is considered good practice.
http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipnn38.pdf
In International Preservation News No 38, May 2006 pp 22-23. In English with summaries in French & Spanish
Historical Projekt Indoreg
Dansk Biblioteks Center (Last Updated: 1997) (Denmark)
Project report on the Danish Library Centre InDoReg (Internet Document Registration) on bibliographic control of Danish Internet documents.
http://purl.dk/rapport/html.uk/
Prometheus Digital Preservation Workbench
Prometheus is a semi-automated, scalable process for transferring data from physical carriers to preservation digital mass storage, helping to mitigate the major risks associated with physical carriers i.e. deterioration of the media and obsolescence of the technology required to access them. The system incorporates a range of primarily open source tools, to undertake processes including media imaging, file identification and metadata extraction. The tools are deployed as services within a service-oriented architecture, with workflow processes that use these services being coordinated within a customised system architecture utilising Java based web services.
Contact: David Pearson
http://prometheus-digi.sourceforge.net/
(Contributor: National Library of Australia )
New PROTAGE
PROTAGE (Date Created: Nov 2007)
This three year European research project (2007-2010) (PReservation Organizations using Tools in AGent Environments) aims "to investigate and initiate complementary new approaches to digital preservation that make long-term digital preservation easy enough for users to be able to help preserving their own content, while reducing the cost and increasing the capacity of memory institutions to preserve digital information". Partners include: National Archives of Sweden, Luleå University of Technology, National Archives of Estonia, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, EASY Innova, University of Bradford, and Giunti Labs.
http://www.protage.eu/
Historical Publications supporting Digital Culture: DigiCULT
Salzburg Research (Date Created: 2002)
Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is an Information Society Technologies Programme (IST) Support Measure to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the period of 30 months (03/2002-08/2004). This website will publish papers over the life of the DigiCULT project.
http://www.digicult.info/pages/publications.php

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Record / Replay : Enabling the Preservation and Cultural Diffusion of Videogames
Bachimont, Bruno; Blanchette, Jean-François (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
The aim of this project is to develop a suite of practical and theoretical tools to ensure the long term preservation of videogames. The project is taking two approaches to the preservation of videogames - knowledge management, including developing tools to capture the full extent of the work; and curatorship, including the development of tools to analyse, sample, cite, quote and manipulate videogames. The website for this project also has a bibliography of papers and presentations on Record / Replay.
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/blanchette/RR.html
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Recordkeeping Metadata Project
Records Continuum Research Group, Monash University (Last Updated: 24 Apr 1999) (Australia)
The Recordkeeping Metadata Project "aims to comprehensively specify and codify recordkeeping metadata in ways that enable it to be fully understood and deployed both within and beyond the records and archives profession." This project website provides links to resources developed in the course of the project, including the Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema (RKMS).
http://www.sims.monash.edu/research/rcrg/research/spirt/index.html
The RepoMMan Project: Automating Workflow and Metadata for an Institutional Repository
Awre, Chris; Dolphin, Ian; Green, Richard; Sherratt, Robert (Date Created: 2007) (United Kingdom)
This paper reports on the work of the JISC-funded RepoMMan project report. The project is developing a user-needs-driven workflow tool that will allow users to flexibly interact with a Fedora-based institutional repository using a browser interface.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/10650750710748513
Also available in PDF and in OCLC Systems & Services ISSN: 1065-075X, 2007 Vol:23 No.:2, pp: 210-215
Report of the East of England Digital Preservation Regional Pilot Project
East of England Regional Archive Council (Date Created: Jun 2006) (United Kingdom)
This is the final report (55 p., 3.1 MB) of the Digital Archive Regional Pilot (DARP). Participants included the UKDA (UK Data Archive) , MLA East of England, EERAC (East of England Regional Archive Council) and two county councils. The UKDA processed selected obsolete and near obsolete formats from the county councils digital records to ascertain the processes involved in creating and maintaining long term access to digital data. The information gleaned from this exercise has resulted in the development of costings and cost models and the creation of a business case on the preservation of digital material using the three scenarios of in-house processing, consortia and contracting the process out.
ISBN: 0955341000
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/darp2006.pdf
Report on the Whole Domain Harvest
Koerbin, Paul (Date Created: 10 Oct 2005) (Australia)
This is the report of the National Library of Australia's first whole Australian domain harvest which was conducted during June and July 2005. The crawl was undertaken by the Internet Archive on behalf of the Library. Approximately 185 million unique documents were crawled from 811,000 hosts. The total size of the harvested content is 6.69 terabytes. The main objectives of the project were to observe and analyse the performance of the Heritrix crawl robot, test the ability to automatically crawl a large web domain and analyse the success of the breadth and depth of the crawl, obtain content that could be used as a test bed for approaches to delivering access to content and development of a clear understanding the Australian web domain.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/documents/domain_harvest_report_public.pdf
Repositories Support Project
Repositories Support Project (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
"The Repository Support Project is a JISC funded 2.5 year project to co-ordinate and deliver good practice and practical advice to English and Welsh HEIs to enable the implementation, management and development of digital institutional repositories." The website includes resources, briefing papers, case studies, a wiki, details of events.
http://www.rsp.ac.uk/
Repository Hardware Case Studies
Welsh Repository Network (Date Created: 19 Feb 2009) (United Kingdom)
This document contains case studies for 12 repositories across Wales detailing the repository hardware purchased and the reasons. The JISC funded Welsh Repository Network and the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) contributed to the establishment of these diverse repositories.
http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/1881
Available for download as PDF and also MSWord.
Historical Research into Four Media Installations
Wijers, Gaby; van Saaze, Vivian (Date Created: Dec 2003)
Four case studies are used to illustrate the various aspects of the documentation, registration and preservation of multimedia art. The main objectives of the study were to identify what particular aesthetic and technical elements are essential, and should be preserved in order to ensure that the integrity and significance of the work remain intact during future presentations and to identify the criteria for preservation and re-installation.
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/nieuws/detail.php?id=52&archief=ja&showjaa
r=2003&beginjaar=2004
reUSE
Universität Innsbruck (Last Updated: Jun 2006)
reUSE was a cooperative project of libraries and universities from Austria, Estonia, Germany and Slovenia funded through the European Commission eContent Programme (June 2004 to June 2006). The reUSE partners focussed on the publications of public sector institutions such as government, universities and research institutions. Printed material and the digital originals will be collected, preserved and made available. Part of the project included four demonstrator services which were designed to operate permanently after the project itself was completed. Reports and publications including the final evaluation report are available.
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/reuse/
Reviving Digital Projects
Dietrich, Dianne; Doty, Jennifer; Green, Jen; Scholtz, Nicole (Date Created: 15 Dec 2008) (United States of America)
This article describes and provides general advice for the process of reviving digital projects based on the specific case study of the Online Atlas of Michigan Plants at the University of Michigan. The process of digital archaeology to investigate requirements and produce documentation, migration and project life-cycle management are considered.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/685
Code4Lib Journal ISSN 1940-5758 Issue 5, 15 Dec 2008
Rights Management System Project
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is developing a Rights Management System (RMS) to assist staff in managing copyright and access information for the digital and physical collections. While the system is being developed primarily for use by staff at this stage, the Library recognised that some aspects could be used to inform users about the use of the collections, and facilitate more efficient document access, ordering and delivery. Until mid July 2009, a Copyright Status Calculator is being trialled in the NLA catalogue. The calculator uses a set of rules based on Australian copyright law and metadata from the catalogue record, to determine whether a work is in copyright.

Paper: ‘Development of a Rights Management System for the National Library of Australia's Collections’ by S. Henderson & M. Walker, given at VALA 2008, 5-7 February 2008, Melbourne.

Contact: Ingrid Finnane
https://code.nla.gov.au/redmine/projects/show/rms-go
(Contributor: National Library of Australia )
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Historical Risk Management of Digital Information : A File Format Investigation
Gregory W. Lawrence, William R. Kehoe, Oya Y. Reiger, William H. Walters and Kenney R. Anne (Date Created: Jun 2000) (United States of America) Reviewed by: Risk Management of Digital Information : A File Format Investigation
This report is based on investigations by Cornell University Library with support from CLIR on the identification of risks to digital file formats during migration. A work book for risk assessment was developed, identifying risk categories, measuring risk using worksheets, matrixes and evaluation of conversion comparison software. Two migration case studies are also discussed: one for image files and one for numeric files.
ISBN: 1-887334-78-5
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub93abst.html
Available on CLIR's website or paper copy for US $20.00
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Historical RLG/OCLC Digital Archive Attributes Working Group
Bellinger, Meg; Dale, Robin (Last Updated: Aug 2001)
A joint initiative of the RLG and OCLC, the Working Group which sought to define the characteristics of reliable digital archiving services for diverse research collections, and which drew on expertise from a range of university and national libraries and research groups.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file2
879.html
RODA : Repositorio de Objectos Digitais Autenticos
National Archive Institute of Portugal (Regularly Updated) (Portugal)
This project, undertaken by the National Archive Institute of Portugal (IAN/TT), aims to develop the processes, tools and resources that will enable Portuguese public administration institutions to preserve their digital data. A prototype will be developed which will serve as the basis for development of a fully functional solution capable of ingesting and managing digital objects. A demonstration prototype of the open source digital repository was publicly released in June 2009 and the source code made available in August 2009.
http://portal.roda.dgarq.gov.pt/pt
RUBRIC : Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively
RUBRIC (Last Updated: Dec 2007) (Australia; New Zealand)
The RUBRIC (Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Collaboratively) project was funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative (SII) from 2005 - 2007. The project focused on Repository Infrastructure and supporting the national contribution to the e-Framework for Education and Research, a joint initiative of DEST and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK. The project was led by the University of Southern Queensland in partnership with University of New England, the University of the Sunshine Coast, the University of Newcastle, and Massey University in New Zealand . The Rubric Toolkit was launched in Oct 2007 and is aimed at new or existing institutional repository managers. The toolkit captures the "best" of available advice, experience and outcomes available for institutional repository (IR) development in 2007 based on the the investigations, processes and experiences surrounding the implementation of an institutional repository (IR) as experienced by the collaboration of eight Australian and New Zealand Universities. The website has project reports, resources and links.
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Scanning for Access Project
The Library of Congress has a mass-digitization effort focusing on general collection materials that are endangered and for which open access can subsequently be provided. Funded by the Sloan Foundation, it relies on coordination among a number of Library Services divisions, the Internet Archive, and other Open Content Alliance institutions. The project has achieved sustained throughput levels of one thousand books each week. Besides the digitized material, the goal of the project is to identify weaknesses in the current workflows, to correct the inaccuracies in metadata creation, and to develop automated tools to ensure improved quality in digitization. A full-feature open source page turner is being developed as part of the project.
Contact: Mike Handy
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=1074&pageid=28&pag
ename=Sci-Tech
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
SCARP Case Study No 2. : Curating Atmospheric Data for Long Term Use: Infrastructure and Preservation Issues for the Atmospheric Sciences Community
Conway, Esther (Date Created: 02 Jun 2009)
This case study (52p, 3MB) applies the preservation analysis methodology to the Mesospheric Stratospheric Tropospheric (MST) Radar Dataset which is currently hosted by the British Atmospheric Data Centre, and makes recommendations about strategies for its long term preservation and discusses related issues for this community.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/case-studies/SCARP_B4832_Atmosp
heric.pdf
Digital Curation Centre SCARP Project Case Studies ISSN 1759‐586X
Historical SCHOLNET : Developing a Digital Library Testbed to Support Networked Scholarly Communities
ERCIM (Last Updated: 30 Apr 2003)
SCHOLNET was a 30-month research project of the Information Services Technologies (IST) Programme of the European Union. The site charts progress of the project which focused on developing an enhanced digital library infrastructure for a scholarly community.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113015339/http://www.ercim.org/scholne
t/
Section 108 Study Group
Library of Congress (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Section 108 Working Group was sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the U.S. Copyright Office, both part of the Library of Congress. The purpose of this group was to recommend changes to the US copyright law that recognise the need for exceptions to the law for libraries and archives in the digital age. This is especially important for the collection, preservation and accessibility of born digital material. The website has links to the relevant section of the Act as well as background papers findings and recommendations on how to revise the copyright law in order to ensure an appropriate balance among the interests of creators and other copyright holders, libraries and archives. The final report was released in March 2008.
http://www.loc.gov/section108/
Services of the Preservation Research and Testing Division
Library of Congress (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This is a brief summary of the Library of Congress' testing and monitoring projects for CDs and magnetic media, initiated in late 1995. Project objectives included developing guidelines for storage conditions that would maximize the useful life of CDs. Links included to papers describing project outcomes.
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/rt/
SHAMAN - Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg
SHAMAN (Date Created: 2008)
This project is co-financed under the Seventh Framework Programme by the European Commission. Duration is 2008-2011. The project aims to "develop and test a next generation digital preservation framework including tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives." Consortium members & collaborators include universities in Europe & U.S., the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and industry organisations.
http://shaman-ip.eu/shaman/
SHAMAN - Sustaining heritage access trough multivalent archiving
The goal of SHAMAN is the development of a prototype for the grid-based interaction of long-term archival systems by investigating and developing a long-term next generation digital preservation framework. The project will create a framework and application development environment, enabling the creation of test-beds of digital preservation that support infrastructures and services. This will lay the foundations for the long-term unification of knowledge preservation and analysis across domains within a distributed grid-based infrastructure. The test-bed environment will be demonstrated and validated by different real-life use scenarios. This will be designed to support dynamically evolving virtual user communities in these areas. The SHAMAN project will deliver infrastructure and services which will not only enable the long-term preservation of digital content but will also improve access and reuse of this content.

SHAMAN's long-term vision is to engineer an open and extensible digital preservation framework which can be used to develop and implement digital library applications build up thereupon.

Within the project, the German National Library mainly will put forth results from the long-term archival project "KOPAL". The koLibRI software developed by KOPAL will play a crucial role for the creation of a testbed. Also, the German National Library will take the lead in the work package "Document Production, Archival, Access and Reuse in the Context of Memory Institutions for Scientific and Governmental Collections".

Contact: Reinhard Altenhöner
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/shaman.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )
Shared Infrastructure Preservation Models
Old Dominion University (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
This research project is sponsored by the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Science Foundation. The project will evaluate existing shared internet infrastructure models, such as SMTP ( Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), network news transfer protocol (NNTP or "Usenet news") and IP multicast to determine if they are suitable for digital preservation purposes.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.odu.edu/~jsmit/digarch/
SHERPA DP : Creating A Persistent Preservation Environment For Institutional Repositories
Arts and Humanities Data Service
The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) has announced SHERPA DP, a two year project funded by JISC (The Joint Information Systems Committee). The project aims to create a preservation service layer based on the OAIS reference model for managing the life cycle of the e-prints archive maintained by SHERPA project partners. In March 2006 the project had its own website (http://www.sherpadp.org.uk/) which has been archived by the UK Web Archive see http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/125265.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/about/projects/sherpa-dp/index.htm
SHERPA: Securing a hybrid environment for research, preservation and access
Project director, Stephen Pinfield (Date Created: 2002) (United Kingdom)
SHERPA began as a structured project funded by JISC to create "e-print archives" for leading UK research institutions (2002-2006). It has developed to investigate issues in the future of scholarly communication and development of of open access repositories in universities through involvement with additional projects (e.g. Sherpa Plus, Sherpa DP) and services (Romeo, Juliet, OpenDOAR) through a consortium of partners.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
Significant Properties of Vector Images
Oxford Brookes University; System Simulation Ltd (Date Created: 2008) (United Kingdom)
This 74 p. report looks at Vector Images to identify their most important characteristics (Significant Properties) in the context of their long-term preservation and future re-use. It is one of four studies funded by JISC to investigate Significant Properties of Digital Objects.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/vector_i
mages.pdf
Historical Significant Property: Digital Preservation at the British Library
Woodyard, Deborah (Date Created: Jan 2004) (United Kingdom)
This article focuses on the role of the British Library in relation to the preservation of digital materials. The author provides an overview of various projects currently being undertaken both within the Library itself, and collaboratively with other national and international institutions. Included are descriptions of the how the Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Sound Archive are dealing with digital objects, its Web Archiving and Digital Object Management (DOM) Programmes and the Library’s involvement in the SHERPA project.
http://ninetta.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentTy
pe=Article&contentId=862526
Also available in PDF version and in VINE, Vol 34, No 1, 2004, pp. 17-20, ISSN 0305-5728, (Special Issue: Digital Preservation and Libraries. Part One)
Single Business Discovery Project
This project aims to integrate the National Library of Australia’s national resource discovery services with a view to improving the discovery process for users and to reduce the number of separately maintained and branded discovery services offered by the Library. The new service will be based on a virtual 'national metadata store' which will be dissected into a number of 'Collection views' that recognise the unique requirements of different types of information resource, and provide result sets tailored to the needs of users. SBDS Prototype "Trove" released for public comment May 2009.
Contact: Warwick Cathro
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2008/documents/single_business_di
scovery_project.pdf
(Contributor: National Library of Australia )
Historical SORRT : Sustainable Object Repositories for Research and Teaching
University of Sydney Library (Date Created: 2004) (Australia)
Coordinated by the University of Sydney, SORRT is the Practices and Testbed project of APSR (Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories).
http://sorrt.library.usyd.edu.au/
Sound Directions : Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage
Indiana University Digital Library Program (Last Updated: Nov 2008) (United States of America)
Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music and the Archive of World Music at Harvard University were awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a collaborative research and development project designed to create best practices, examine existing best practices and test emerging standards in the digital preservation of critically endangered archival audio recordings. Phase 1 produced a publication on best practices Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation; software tools; development of audio preservation systems; and preservation of a number of critically endangered recordings. To aid selection for preservation the Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET), a point-based open source tool for ranking collections based on deterioration and risk was developed. Formats considered are mainly analog but also included is Digital Audio Tape (DAT). Phase 2 the Preservation Phase will wrap up in November 2008.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/
SRU-OASIS Initiative
The Library is leading an OASIS Technical Committee that is developing search and retrieval web services with the goal of integrating various approaches under a unifying model, an Abstract Protocol Definition. SRU/CQL and OpenSearch are the two approaches featured by the current work, and we hope that additional protocols will be similarly integrated into this model. The model provides for the development of bindings, both static (human-readable profile documents) and dynamic (machine-readable description file that a server provides for retrieval by a client that may then dynamically configure itself to access that server). The premise of the dynamic binding concept is that any server – even one that pre-dated the concept – need only provide a self-description in order to be accessible. A client will be able to access the server simply by reading and interpreting the description and, based on that description, formulating a request (including a query) and interpreting the response. Behind this concept is a standard description language, and that will also be part of the OASIS work.
Article: D-Lib Magazine January/February 2009
Partner: OASIS Search Web Services Technical Committee
Contact: Ray Denenberg
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/oasis.html
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
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Historical Stanford Archival Repository Project : Preserving Our Digital Past
Cooper, Brian F.; Crespo, Arturo; Garcia-Molina, Hector (Date Created: 2003) (United States of America)
This article discusses the infrastructure required to create a reliable digital archive. Objects are replicated among cooperating digital archives so that if any particular archive fails, the digital objects will still be accessible. The article also discusses the prototype archiving system, the Stanford Archival Vault (SAV), and ArchSim, a simulation tool for use in designing archive systems.
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~crespo/publications/lirn.pdf
Historical Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories
Austrian Literature Online ; Humboldt University, Berlin; Sun Microsystems; XiCrypt (Last Updated: Dec 2006)
The Sun Center of Excellence for Trusted Digital Repositories is a joint project between Humboldt University (Germany), Austrian Literature Online (ALO), XiCrypt (Austria) and Sun Microsystems (USA). The Center of Excellence is based on the previous work and implementations of the partners, such as the Humboldt University document and publication server, the Xades implementation for long-term preservation of digital signatures developed at XiCrypt, and the digital repository software implemented by ALO. The Center will develop a framework to handle preservation mechanisms within a trusted digital archive, a user interface for accessing the trusted digital archives and methods to apply digital signatures and time stamps to the digital documents.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.coe.hu-berlin.de/
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Historical Sustainability of Video Art : Preservation of Dutch Video Art Collections
Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art (Date Created: 2003) (Netherlands)
This collaborative project was completed in 2003. The project report has three parts; part one is the report itself, part two is the list of preserved video art works and part three is the glossary and bibliography. The report discusses the preservation methodology that was developed and evaluated during the project.
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/pdf/CONSERVERING_1tm80.pdf
Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today
Loy, Matthew; Maron, Nancy L.; Smith, K. Kirby (Date Created: Jul 2009)
Prepared for the Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability project, this study follows on from the Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources (Guthrie, Griffiths and Maron, 2008) report. This study looks at the sustainability of digital projects developing online academic resources through 12 case studies in the U.S., UK, France, Germany and Egypt. Diverse business models including costs, decision making models and adaptability to changing circumstances are presented.
http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-susta
inability
Full report including case studies (134p.), or final report (40 p.) and individual case studies available for separate PDF downloads.
Historical SVEP : Samording Av Den Svenska Högskolans Elektroniska Publicering
Kungliga Biblioteket (Sweden) (Last Updated: Dec 2005) (Sweden)
The mission of the SVEP Project was the coordination of academic electronic publishing in Sweden. It was a two year project, from 2003 to September 2005.The project was funded and coordinated by the Swedish Royal Library´s Department for National Co-ordination and Development, BIBSAM, and involved collaboration between nine Swedish university and university college libraries and the National Library of Sweden. It involved five work packages, one of which is long-term access and preservation. This work package provided recommendations on metadata supporting long term preservation, storage formats and the development and implementation of a preservation infrastructure. Most of the information is in Swedish although several documents are available in English.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070503233113/http://www.svep-projekt.se/
Archived by the Internet Archive
SWORD
(Date Created: Jun 2007) (United Kingdom)
This wiki provides information on the SWORD project,a JISC funded project, phase 1 and phase 2. Phase 1 of SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) ran from March 2007 and was extended to Oct. 2007, with case studies following in 2008. Phase 2 was proposed for March to Aug 2008.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD

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TAPE : Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe
European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) (Last Updated: 2008)
This 3 year project, running from 2004 to 2007, was funded by the Culture 2000 Program of the European Union. The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) was the coordinator of the project. TAPE focused on the preservation and digitization of moving image and sound in a programme of training events, expert meetings, research and publications.
http://www.tape-online.net/
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Historical TEL Digital Deposits : State of the Art Review
de Niet, Marco (Date Created: Dec 2001)
This report gives an overview of the digital deposit practices at national libraries throughout Europe in 2001. The report is based on a questionnaire which was sent to all 41 members of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). The report recommends a number of issues to be discussed by libraries in order to align their legal deposit practices. This report is followed up by the Report on Current Practices Among Publishers Regarding the Deposit of Digital Publications which includes a corresponding survey of the major publishers of digital publications whose names have been supplied by the CENL libraries.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031002122349/http://www.europeanlibrary.o
rg/pdf/tel_results_d11_v02.pdf
European Library Project WP1 - publisher relations, DEL/007
Testbed Xmail
Testbed Digitale Bewaring (Date Created: Nov 2005) (Netherlands)
The Digital Preservation Testbed from the National Archives of the Netherlands has developed an application to preserve their email in accordance with legal requirements. This application demonstrates how email messages can be created in a sustainable manner and preserved for the long term using XML (eXtensible Markup Language). This application is now freely available an open source software for download.
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/index.cfm?paginakeuze=299&categorie
=6
Historical Towards an Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories : a National Policy Infrastructure Development Proposal
Australian National University (Date Created: 23 Oct 2003) (Australia)
This proposal forms the basis of the establishment of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR). The proposal discusses the objectives of the APSR including adopting digital continuity, repositories and access platforms as an underlying theme, which will then be applied to the areas of eScience and eHumanities. The core programs of digital continuity and sustainability are also examined. The key objectives of the International Linkages program and the National Services program are discussed in detail. The proposal concludes with a discussion of the expected outcomes, benefits and a time line of the implementation plan of a National Repository Centre.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/documents/APSR.pdf
TrustDR: Trust in Digital Repositories
TrustDR (Last Updated: 2007) (United Kingdom)
The TrustDR project aimed to examine the practical issues in setting up digital rights management systems (DRM) in repositories of digital learning objects. It was a 2 year project (June 2005 to May 2007) led by Ulster University and funded by JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme. The website includes analysis and links to useful papers, reports relevant to IPR in digital repositories in the UK HE sector.
http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/index.php
Tufts & Yale : Fedora and the Preservation of University Records
Tufts University; Yale University (Last Updated: Oct 2006) (United States of America)
The Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University in partnership with Manuscripts and Archives of Yale University undertook a project to develop a system capable of preserving university electronic documents. The 18 month project aimed to test the potential of Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) to underpin the sytem, with particular focus on supporting archival preservation and access standards.
http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/index.html
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Typed Object Model (TOM)
University of Pennsylvania Library (Date Created: 2004) (United States of America)
Developed by the University of Pennsylvania Library, TOM (Typed Object Model) is a data format management system that describes the structure and behavior of a wide variety of data formats and information services. In 2003 and 2004 there was a Mellon Foundation funded initiative to apply this model to support online learning and digital preservation. TOM can be used to document data formats and services and assist in data format migration and other conversions. TOM's core software is being released as open source. This website has links to TOM's data model, standards and documentation.
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UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository
California Digital Library (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The UC (University of California) Libraries Digital Preservation Repository supports the long term use and retention of digital objects submitted by the 11 member libraries. The Repository is based at the California Digital Library. Each object submitted to the Repository is assigned a persistent identifier and is deposited with a METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) 'wrapper', in XML, which includes an inventory of the component file structure. Links to the Repository's technical specifications and FAQs are available.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/dpr/
UK Government Web Archive
The National Archives (UK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
This archive started as a one year project comprised of a selection of 50 UK government websites archived since August 2003 at varying intervals by the Internet Archive on behalf of The National Archives. Evaluation of the results of the project were used to inform policy and best practice for future archiving of government websites by The National Archives. Since 2005 archiving has been undertaken by contract to the European Archive. In November 2008 a program to archive UK central government websites 3 times per year was started. Additionally sites reflecting topical themes and issues of public interest have been collected into themed collections.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/archivedwebsites.htm
UK Web Archiving Consortium
United Kingdom Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) (Date Created: Jun 2004) (United Kingdom)
The UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) comprises 6 UK institutions including the British Library, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), National Archives, Wellcome Trust and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales. The project will run for 2 years during which approximately 6,000 websites will be collected and archived. PANDAS software, developed by the National Library of Australia, will be used to carry out the archiving process. The purpose of the project is not only to collect and archive web sites that are relevant to the Consortium’s interests, but to develop compatible selection policies as well as to investigate the complex technical challenges involved in collecting and archiving web material.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/
UKRDS - The UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study
UKRDS (Date Created: Mar 2008) (United Kingdom)
UKRDS is a joint project between RLUK (the Consortium of Research Libraries in the UK and Ireland), and RUGIT (the Russell Group IT Directors Group). The study's objective is to assess the feasibility and costs of developing and maintaining a national shared digital research data service for UK Higher Education sector. The web site includes documents (terms of reference,interim and final reports, newsletters, etc.).
http://www.ukrds.ac.uk/
Umich.edu Archives Project
University of Michigan. School of Information (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of archiving an entire website and providing access to the resulting archives. The project features a technical demonstration using Heritrix, Perl, MySQL, & PHP. There are also links to reports, papers, and presentations created by students of the School of Information related to this project (2004-2005)
http://si.umich.edu/mirror/
Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR)
(Date Created: Apr 2009)
In April 2009 an agreement was signed to bring together PRONOM and GDFR under a new name the Unified Digital Formats Registry. The new registry will "support the requirements and use cases of the larger community compiled for GDFR and would be seeded with PRONOM's software and formats database". A road map for the first 16 months (april 2009 to July 2010) development is available.
http://www.udfr.org/
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Historical UPF (Universal Preservation Format) Home Page
UPF, WGBH (Last Updated: 1998) (United States of America)
Sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded in part by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives, the Universal Preservation Format initiative advocates a platform-independent format that will help make accessible a wide range of data types. The UPF is characterized as "self-described" because it includes, within its metadata, all the technical specifications required to build and rebuild appropriate media browsers to access contained materials throughout time. The project has produced a Recommended Practices document.
http://info.wgbh.org/upf/

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Variable Media Initiative
Guggenheim Museum (United States of America)
An intiative of the Guggenheim Museum that seeks to identify artist-approved strategies for preserving variable media artwork (installation, performance, interactive, digital). Artists are encouraged to define their work independent of medium and provide guidelines on how their work may be recast in new formats.
http://variablemedia.net/
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Historical Victorian Electronic Records Strategy Final Report
Public Records Office, Victoria (Last Updated: 31 Mar 1999) (Australia)
The Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) Project was undertaken by Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) in conjunction with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Ernst & Young from April to December 1998. The project aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of capturing and preserving electronic records in such a way that they may be readily accessed in the long term; and to provide a set of functional descriptions for electronic archiving which can be used by Victorian government agencies to implement electronic archiving systems and strategies. The final report includes functional descriptions and a general description of the demonstrator system.
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/pdf/final.pdf
VidArch at SILS
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina (Date Created: 2006) (United States of America)
This project was focused on developing a preservation framework for digital video context by initially applying it to two important digital video collections: the complete series of NASA broadcast educational videos and the complete set of juried ACM SIGCHI videos presented at annual conferences from 1983 to the present. Later focus was on the US Presidential Election of 2008 and Internet services such as YouTube. Bibliography of papers and demonstrations available from the site. This project was an NDIIPP demonstration project and supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/vidarch/
VIF : Version Identification Framework
London School of Economics and Political Science (Date Created: Jun 2007) (United Kingdom)
This project funded by JISC running from June 2007 to May 2008 deals with the growing problem of multiple versions of documents in institutional repositories and has developed a framework for identification of versions. The website provides practical advice to authors, content creators and repository managers.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/vif/

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Web Archivering / Web Archiving
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands)
This web site describes the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's web archiving program. The KB began selective archiving in 2006. The project is described, and there are links to information about selection, technical and legal aspects and related documents.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index.html
Available in Dutch and English versions (http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_projecten/webarchivering/index-en.html)
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Historical Web Archiving Strategy Project (WASP)
University of Melbourne (Last Updated: 27 Jul 2004) (Australia)
Instigated in 2003, this project was designed to develop a strategy to archive the University of Melbourne's web pages. The strategy included identifying web pages for short and long term retention, risk management, defining the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders and uniformity of metadata creation. It led to the development of the Web Archiving @ the University of Melbourne web site.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/49714/20050927-0000/www.unimelb.edu.au/w
eb-archiving/index.html
Website archived by PANDORA
Web at Risk : a Distributed Approach To Preserving Our Nation's Political Cultural Heritage
California Digital Library (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America)
Following a grant from the NDIIPP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program), the California Digital Library and its partners are developing a distributed approach to preserving political and government web pages. The 4 and a half year project is developing open source web archiving tools to capture, curate, and preserve collections of web-based government and political information. The project has four key areas - Content identification and selection, Content acquisition, Content retention and transfer and Partnership building.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/preservation/webatrisk/
Web Curator Tool Project
(Regularly Updated) (New Zealand; United Kingdom)
This is the Sourceforge web page for the Web Curator Tool Project, a Web harvesting management system. The project is a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library and was initiated by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). Software was developed by Sytec Resources.
http://webcurator.sourceforge.net/
Web Harvesting White Paper
(Date Created: 14 Feb 2007) (United States of America)
The white paper reports on the context of the results of the EPA Web Publication Harvesting Pilot Project, lesson learned about automated web publication discovery and harvesting technologies and planned further steps.
http://www.fdlp.gov/home/repository/doc_details/543-web-harvesting-whi
te-paper
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Historical Web Preservation Project : Final Report : a Report to the Library of Congress
Arms, William Y. (Date Created: 03 Sep 2001) (United States of America)
The objective of the Web Preservation project was to initiate a program to collect and preserve open access materials from the World Wide Web on behalf of the Library of Congress. The report discusses partnerships with other organisations as well as discussing the process by which the Library of Congress can select, organise and preserve web resources. Issues raised as a result of the Minerva prototype are also canvassed, including copyright, access, selection and the difficulties in cataloguing and indexing web sites.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041106155137/http://www.loc.gov/minerva/w
ebpresf.pdf
Archived by the Internet Archive.
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Web-Based Government Information : Evaluating Solutions for Capture, Curation and Preservation
Christenson, Heather; Colvin, Jennifer; Cruse, Patricia; Eckman, Charles; Greenstein, Daniel; Hutton, Cate; Kunze, John (Date Created: Nov 2003) (United States of America)
Set within the context of the USA, this project report addresses the roles of libraries and other memory institutions in preserving web-based government information. The report outlines the methodology employed by the project team, including an extensive literature review and analysis, a demographic review of the dot-gov domain and surveys of existing web-archiving initiatives around the world. It also addresses the challenges in the capture, curation, and persistent management of web-based materials; discusses a route map for service implementation and looks at cost elements.
http://www.cdlib.org/programs/Web-based_archiving_mellon_Final.pdf
New What Small Projects Producing Digital Resources Need to Know About Digital Preservation
Dobreva, Milena; Ikonomov, Nikola (Date Created: 11 Jun 2009)
This paper given at ELPUB 2009 (10-12 June 2009, Milan Italy) consider case studies of three projects (TEXTE, KT-DigiCult-Bg and the Parallel Archive) producing digital resources including: stand alone resources; material for ingest into a larger repository; and highly dynamic content. The digital preservation risks for each project are analysed and recommendations made.
http://conferences.aepic.it/index.php/elpub/elpub2009/paper/view/163/6
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Why Digital Asset Management? A Case Study
Chun, Susan; Jenkins, Michael In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Dec 2006) (United States of America)
This article looks at the Met Images Project, a 3 year digital asset management project undertaken by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file1
650.html#article1
Wide Field Astronomy Unit
Donnelly, Martin (Date Created: Dec 2005)
The Wide Field Astronomy Unit (WFAU) at the University of Edinburgh is the subject of this case study. The study outlines data curation issues with which WFAU is involved, including interoperability and the transfer and reuse of data collected from disparate sources. The case study also covers other factors influencing data curation, including methodological development, standards and legal issues, evaluation, and human factors. A technical appendix outlines the technologies used in the development of the WFAU systems.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/docs/publications/case-studies/wfau.pdf
DCC Case Studies and Interviews, ISSN 1749-8767.
Historical Wine on the Web : Australian Wine Information on the Web and its Prospects for Long Term Preservation and Access
Smith, Wendy (Date Created: Jun 2004) (Australia)
This study investigates the web- based content of Australian wine makers over an 8 year time span. The study examines what is being created online and what is being preserved. The stability and reliability of 11 Australian winery websites during the time span is reported. The archiving strategies of National Library of Australia's PANDORA project and the US based Internet Archive are also compared and contrasted.
http://wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdfhtml/04324/q66uu/tsg.htm
in Australian Academic & Research Libraries, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2004), ISSN 0004-8623, pp. 111-128. Also available online by subscription at http://www.hwwilson.com/

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XML Datastore Project
The Library of Congress's Network Development & MARC Standards Office has been performing pilot testing of the efficacy of a native XML datastore for enabling search across all of the types of metadata for LC collections, including MARC, non-MARC, EAD, and MODS. MODS and METS are the XML standards central to this project.
Contact: Morgan Cundiff; Nate Trail; Clay Redding
(Contributor: Library of Congress )
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Historical Xtensible Past: XML as a Means for Easy Access to Historical Research Data and a Strategy for Digital Preservation
NIWI (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services). Dept. of History (Date Created: 24 Mar 2003) (Netherlands)
This 12 month project, 1 February 2003 - 1 February 2004, aimed to provide the research community with a virtual archive environment (collaboratory) for the exchange and sharing of historical research data, easy access to data at different locations, user-friendly presentation of data, search and download facilities as well as developing a strategy for long-term preservation of heterogeneous research data based on XML (report). The project aimed to develop a new protocol for managing and preserving the collections of the NHDA (Netherlands Historical Data Archive), based on XML as a strategy for the digital preservation.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070211020453rn_1/www.niwi.knaw.nl/nl/gesc
hiedenis/projecten/xpast_copy1/

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