DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation
Issue no. 5 (February - May 2003)
Compiled by Michael Day (UKOLN, University of Bath) and Gerard
Clifton (National Library of
Australia)
12 June 2003
This is a summary of selected recent activity in the field of digital
preservation compiled from the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway and the
digital-preservation
and padiforum-l mailing lists.
Additional or related items of interest may also be included.
1.1 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
The National Library of Australia has produced some comprehensive
Guidelines for the preservation of digital heritage as a companion to
UNESCO's Draft Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage. The
guidelines are aimed at policy makers, managers and those involved in the
practical aspects of preservation. The section on management perspectives
introduces the general concepts of digital heritage and preservation, and
discusses taking responsibility for digital preservation and the management of
preservation programmes. The section on technical and practical perspectives
includes chapters on deciding what needs to be kept, rights management,
metadata, etc. The final section includes a glossary and a very comprehensive
list of further reading.
National Library of Australia, Guidelines for the
preservation of digital heritage. Paris: UNESCO, 2003. Available in Word
format from the
UNESCO
Web site.
UNESCO Executive Board, "Report by the Director-General on a
Revised Draft Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage." UNESCO 166
EX/18, 12 March 2003:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001296/129679e.pdf
1.2 The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
At the end of May 2003, the UK Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC) released three draft reports from projects funded as part of its Digital
Preservation and Records Management programme for consultation and
peer-review:
Hamish James, Raivo Ruusalepp, Sheila Anderson and Stephen
Pinfield, Feasibility and requirements study on preservation of
e-prints, v. 1.0, 9 May 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-prints_report_1-0.pdf
Maggie Jones, Archiving e-journals consultancy - final
report, v. 2.0, May 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ejournalsdraftFinalReport.pdf
Philip Lord and Alison Macdonald, Data curation for
e-Science in the UK: an audit to establish requirements for future curation and
provision, v. 1.0, May 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-Sciencefinaldraft.pdf
In addition, JISC also published the final reports of some of the other
projects funded as part of this programme. These include two reports on
Web-archiving, one on sources of information on formats and software, and a
revised version of the JISC's Study of the Records Lifecycle
(1999):
Andrew Charlesworth, Legal issues relating to the archiving
of Internet resources in the UK, EU, USA and Australia: a study undertaken for
the JISC and Wellcome Trust, 25 February 2003:
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/projects/archiving_reports.shtml
Michael Day, Collecting and preserving the World Wide Web:
a feasibility study undertaken for the JISC and Wellcome Trust, 25
February 2003:
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/projects/archiving_reports.shtml
Elizabeth Parker, Higher education institutions: Business
Function and Activity Model & Records Retention Schedule [revision of
the Study of the Records Lifecycle], 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=srl_structure
University of Leeds, Representation and Rendering Project,
Survey and assessment of sources of information on file formats and
software documentation: final report, 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/FileFormatsreport.pdf
The Supporting Institutional Records Management Programme -
JISC has announced the successful projects that will be funded by its
Supporting Institutional Records Management Programme. There are seventeen
projects, all relatively short term (due to be completed by December 2003),
intended to help UK higher and further education institutions to implement
records management programmes. More information is available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_supporting_irm
The Digital Curation Centre - JISC regularly publish funding
opportunities for new projects and initiatives. One that may be of particular
interest is a recent call for proposals for a Digital Curation Centre, to be
funded jointly by the JISC and the UK e-Science core programme. This is a
significant development that will potentially have a large impact on digital
preservation activities in the UK:
JISC Circular 6/03: Digital Curation Centre:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=circular_06_03
1.3 The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
At the beginning of 2003, the US Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR) published a number of new reports that have relevance to
digital preservation. June Besek produced a short preliminary assessment of
copyright issues on behalf of the Library of Congress's National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Abby Smith
reports from a meeting of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers,
technology specialists, etc. that met to discuss the preservation of
'new-model' scholarly resources, which are typically Web-based and 'born
digital.' The appendices of the report include two documents that were
circulated in advance of the meeting: an introduction to organisational models
by Dale Flecker, and a survey of research and practice in the United States by
Daniel Greenstein and Abby Smith. Neil Beagrie's report was commissioned and
sponsored by the NDIIPP and surveys digital preservation developments outside
of North America, concentrating specifically on Australia, France, the
Netherlands, the UK and multinational initiatives.
June M. Besek, Copyright issues relevant to the creation of
a digital archive: a preliminary assessment. Washington, D.C.: Council on
Library and Information Resources, January 2003. ISBN 1-887334-97-8. Available:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html
Abby Smith, New-model scholarship: how will it
survive? Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources,
March 2003. ISBN 1-887334-99-8. Available:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html
Neil Beagrie, National digital preservation initiatives: an
overview of developments in Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United
Kingdom and of related international activity. Washington, D.C.: Council
on Library and Information Resources, April 2003. ISBN 1-932326-00-6.
Available: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub116abst.html
1.4 OCLC Online Computer Library Center
Brian Lavoie of OCLC Research has produced a white paper that looks at
incentives for preservation, an important factor in deciding whether
preservation can become an economically sustainable process. The report
identifies key decision-making roles, outlines five potential organisational
models and examines their implications.
Brian F. Lavoie, The incentives to preserve digital
materials: roles, scenarios, and economic decision-making. White paper
published electronically by OCLC Research, April 2003:
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/digipres/incentives-dp.pdf
1.5 National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a centre of
the US National Library of Medicine has released two XML Document Type
Definitions (DTDs) for the publishing and exchange of e-journal articles. The
Archiving and Interchange DTD Suite can be used to create new DTDs for the
transfer of e-journal articles from publishers to archives (or between
archives) or to support the preservation of the intellectual content of
journals. The Publishing DTD is a prescriptive subset of the Archiving and
Interchange DTD intended to provide a common format for the creation of
e-journal content in XML (e.g. for importing into services like PubMed
Central). The DTDs are the result of collaboration between the NCBI and the
Harvard University E-Journal Archiving Project.
NCBI Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition:
http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/
NCBI Journal Publishing Document Type Definition:
http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/
1.6 The National Library of the Netherlands
Following its agreement with Elsevier last year, In May 2003, the
National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) signed an
agreement with Kluwer Academic Publishers for the e-deposit of the electronic
publications available through the Kluwer Online service:
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, "National Library of the Netherlands
and Kluwer Academic Publishers agree on long-term digital archiving." Press
release, 19 May 2003:
http://www.kb.nl/kb/resources/frameset_kb.html?
/kb/pr/pers/pers2003/kb-kap-en.html
1.7 The National Diet Library
A recent article in RLG DigiNews describes the current
activities and initiatives at Japan's National Diet Library in creating a
National Digital Library Digitization Project. Several other projects are
planned, including WARP (Web ARchiving Project) and DNAVI (the NDL Database
Navigation Service). The National Diet Library has also begun research and
study for long term preservation of digital information, beginning a three-year
project in 2002 to set up comprehensive guidelines and policies for long term
preservation.
Harada, Hisayoshi, "Digitizing, archiving and preserving Japanese
cultural heritage", RLG DigiNews, 7(2), 15 April 2003:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews7-2.html#feature1
1.8 The National Archives of Australia
Several papers have been released describing the National Archives of
Australia's approach to preservation of digital records and the Agency to
Researcher (AtoR) Digital Preservation Project. A green paper by Heslop, Davis
and Wilson describes NAA's 'performance model' and concept of 'essence' in
digital records, as well as outlining the approach and process to using XML as
an archival format.
A presentation by Simon Davis describes the AtoR project in more detail,
including the development of a software tool called 'xanadu', a Java-based
application that converts digital source documents into XML-based formats and
allows viewing of XML documents of particular formats. The National Archives of
Australia expects to make the xanadu software freely available in July
2003.
Helen Heslop, Simon Davis and Andrew Wilson, National Archives
Green Paper: an approach to the preservation of digital records, Canberra:
National Archives of Australia, December 2002.
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/digital_preservation/summary.html
Simon Davis, The Commonwealth's digital preservation
strategy, Canberra: National Archives of Australia, November 2002 http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/noticeboard/Simon_Davis_Digital_Preservation_Strategy.pdf
1.9 The National Archives (UK)
In April 2003, the UK's Public Record Office and the Historical
Manuscripts Commission merged to form the National Archives. The organisation's
new Web pages can be found at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
The pages include an overview of PRONOM, the National Archives' database
system for storing detailed descriptions of software applications, including
file formats to which an application can read and write and any dependencies
that may exist in order to run the application. Future developments of the
system are expected to include a web-accessible interface and facilities for
external contribution.
Overview of PRONOM available at:
http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/preservation/digital/pronom.htm
Some pages on the National Archives rescue of BBC Domesday are available
at:
http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/preservation/digital/domesday/default.htm
1.10 Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB)
The US Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Expert Committee
(CSTB) is examining an approach under consideration by the US National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) and will assess technologies for long-term
digital archiving and preservation, develop a picture of what is commercially
available both currently and in the near future, and consider the feasibility
of commercialising new ideas from research. The first of two reports from the
Committee on Digital Archiving is now available and recommends a strategy for
engineering and acquiring NARA's Electronic Records Archives (ERA). The second
and final report is anticipated in 2004.
Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records
Administration, Robert F. Sproull and Jon Eisenberg, (Editors), Building an
electronic records archive at the National Archives and Records Administration:
recommendations for initial development, Washington D.C.: National
Academies Press, 2003. ISBN 0-309-08947-6. Available:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_nara1.html
The project site may be found at:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/project_nara.html
2.1 OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group II: Implementation
Strategies
Following the publication in 2002 by the OCLC/RLG Working Group on
Preservation Metadata of A metadata framework to support the preservation
of digital objects, the same sponsors are now supporting a new working
group that will develop recommendations and best practice for implementing
preservation metadata. This group is called PREMIS (PREservation Metadata:
Implementation Strategies).
More information is available at:
http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/
2.2 The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation project
The UK Arts and Humanities Research Board have funded the Copyright and
Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project to investigate whether and
how copyright law and licensing practice affects long-term access to digital
content. The project is being run by the Department of Information Science at
Loughborough University. A background paper is already available on the
project's Web site.
The CLDP Web site is available at:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/disresearch/CLDP/
2.3 The CAMiLEON project
The CAMiLEON (Creative Archiving and Michigan and Leeds Emulating the
Old on the New) project has released some Web pages giving information on the
'migration on request' preservation strategy and on the project's rescue of the
BBC Domesday system. The 'migration on request' pages include the concepts
behind the strategy, the development of a 'migration on request' tool exemplar,
and executable files, source code and developer documentation for the tool. The
BBC Domesday pages include FAQ's, technical and property rights issues and
screenshots of the emulator in action. An article in RLG DigiNews also
outlines CAMiLEON's experience with BBC Domesday.
Migration on Request:
http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/reports/mor/
BBC Domesday:
http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/domesday/domesday.html
Andrew Charlesworth, The CAMiLEON Project: legal issues arising
from the work aiming to preserve elements of the interactive multimedia work
entitled "The BBC Domesday Project.", University of Michigan, CAMILEON
Project, 2002 http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/reports/IPRreport.doc
Phil Mellor, "CAMiLEON: emulation and BBC Domesday." RLG
DigiNews, 7(2), 15 April 2003:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews7-2.html#feature3
3.1 Web Archiving
Recent publications on Web archiving include two reports produced as
part of a feasibility study undertaken on behalf of the JISC and the library of
the Wellcome Trust. The first of these looks at the size and nature of the Web,
reviews selected Web archiving initiatives, and provides guidance on
implementation issues. The second report, by Andrew Charlesworth of the Centre
for IT and Law at the University of Bristol, comprises a comprehensive
assessment of legal issues (copyright, defamation, content liability and data
protection) relating to the archiving of Internet resources in the UK, the
European Union, the United States and Australia.
In February 2003, the final report of the Danish netarkivet.dk pilot
project was published in English (http://www.netarkivet.dk/rap/index-en.htm).
The project tested various strategies for the collecting and archiving of
Internet material and the final report recommends a hybrid strategy based on
both selective and bulk harvesting.
The April issue of D-Lib Magazine contained an article that
summarised trends in the evolution of the public Web identified by OCLC
Research's Web Characterization Project. In this, O'Neill, Lavoie and Bennett,
found that the annual growth rate of the public Web had slowed steadily
throughout the five-year period covered by the project to date. The article
contains much that would be of interest to those considering Web archiving
initiatives.
Two articles in RLG DigiNews have covered the more practical
issues of Web archiving. Peter Botticelli of Cornell University described the
collection of South-East Asian Web sites as part of Project Prism, while Carol
van Nuys of the National Library of Norway introduces that institution's
experiences with electronic legal deposit and the Paradigma Project. In
Ariadne, Brian Kelly of UKOLN published a short analysis of historical
UK university Web sites captured by the Internet Archive.
References:
Peter Botticelli, "Risk management for Web resources: a case
study on Southeast Asian Web sites" RLG DigiNews, 7(1), 15 February
2003: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews7-1.html#feature2
Andrew Charlesworth, Legal issues relating to the archiving
of Internet resources in the UK, EU, USA and Australia: a study undertaken for
the JISC and Wellcome Trust, 25 February 2003:
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/projects/archiving_reports.shtml
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, et al., Experiences
and conclusions from a pilot study: Web archiving of the District and County
Elections, 2001. netarkivet.dk final report, February 2003:
http://www.netarkivet.dk/rap/webark-final-rapport-2003.pdf
Michael Day, Collecting and preserving the World Wide Web:
a feasibility study undertaken for the JISC and Wellcome Trust, 25
February 2003:
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/projects/archiving_reports.shtml
Brian Kelly, "WebWatch: surfing historical UK university Web
sites." Ariadne, 35, 29 April 2003:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/web-watch/
Edward T. O'Neill, Brian F. Lavoie, Rick Bennett, "Trends in
the evolution of the public Web, 1998-2002," D-Lib Magazine, 9(4),
April 2003: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/lavoie/04lavoie.html
Carol van Nuys, "The Paradigma Project" RLG DigiNews,
7(2), 15 April 2003:
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews7-2.html#feature2
3.2 e-Science and the preservation of scientific data
In January 2003, the US National Science Foundation published the report
of a Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. This noted that
technologies developed to the extent that it was possible to build "new types
of scientific "cyberinfrastructure" on which to build new types of scientific
and engineering knowledge environments and organizations and to pursue research
in new ways and with increased efficacy" (executive summary). The panel
recommended that the NSF should establish a $1 billion Advanced
Cyberinfrastructure Program (ACP) to facilitate this. The report also noted (p.
43) that the panel had repeatedly heard members of the research community
stating the need for "trusted and enduring organisations to assume the
stewardship for scientific data," including legacy data. For the report and a
press release, see:
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/evnt/reports/atkins_annc_020303.htm
The final report of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development) Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded Research
Data was published in March 2003. The core principle of the report is that
"publicly funded research data should be openly available to the maximum extent
possible," and the group (amongst other things) note that the public investment
made in data collection can only be maximised if it is preserved, managed and
made accessible (p. 13). Background information on the group and report is
available from: http://dataaccess.ucsd.edu/
The publication Promise and practice in data sharing, edited by
Paul Wouters and Peter Schröder, contains the following articles: "Digital
research data as the floating capital of the Global Science System" (Peter
Schröder), "Big science data policies" (Paul Wouters and Colin Reddy),
"Issues of electronic access in biodiversity" (Kathleen Casey) and "Research
woes and new data flows" (Anne Beaulieu). The volume includes an analysis
of data use and sharing at CERN and the European Bioinformatics Institute
(EBI), as well as a look at data sharing facilities used for biodiversity data
(e.g., the Global Biodiversity Information Facility) and neuroinformatics (the
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Center).
In the UK, the JISC has published the consultation draft of a review of
the data curation of e-Science in the UK undertaken for the JISC Committee for
the Support of Research (JCSR). The report, by Philip Lord and Alison Macdonald
of the Digital Archiving Consultancy, looks at the current provision of and
future requirements for the curation of primary research data, with a
particular focus on e-Science data. The report includes several strategic
recommendations, including an endorsement of the proposed Digital Curation
Centre and a suggestion that there should be long-term funding available for
data centres and curation. The JISC also published a report from a meeting of
the Digital Data Curation Task Force held in November 2002.
Lord and Macdonald's report note the growing importance of e-Science,
which tends to be data- and computing power intensive, collaborative in nature,
and distributed. Recent papers by Hey and Trefethen, Rajasekar, et al.
mark an increasing interest in the long-term preservation aspects of e-Science
and Grid computing, as do the ongoing activities of the Persistent Archive
Research Group (PA-RG) of the Global Grid Forum (GGF). Several documents are
available from the PA-RG Web pages (http://www.zib.de/ggf/data/pa/),
including a draft recommendation specifying the minimum capabilities that need
to be provided by data grids to enable the creation of persistent archives.
General information on the PA research group is available on the GGF Web
pages: http://www.gridforum.org/6_DATA/persist.htm
References:
Tony Hey and Anne Trefethen, "The data deluge." In: Fran
Berman, Geoffrey Fox and Tony Hey (eds.), Grid computing: making the global
infrastructure a reality, Wiley, January 2003. Also available:
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/escience/documents/DataDeluge.pdf
Philip Lord and Alison Macdonald, Data curation for
e-Science in the UK: an audit to establish requirements for future curation and
provision, v. 1.0 (consultation draft), May 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-Sciencefinaldraft.pdf
Alison Macdonald and Philip Lord, "Digital Data Curation Task
Force: report of the Task Force strategy discussion day," JISC, January 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/CurationTaskForceFinal1.pdf
National Science Foundation, Revolutionizing science and
engineering through cyberinfrastructure: report of the National Science
Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. NSF, January
2003: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/evnt/reports/toc.htm
OECD Follow-up Group on Issues of Access to Publicly Funded
Research Data, Promoting access to public research data for scientific,
economic, and social development: final report. University of California,
San Diego, March 2003:
http://dataaccess.ucsd.edu/Final_Report_2003.pdf
Arcot Rajasekar, Michael Wan, Reagan Moore, George Kremenek and
Tom Guptil, "Data grids, collections, and Grid Bricks," 20th IEEE/11th NASA
Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, San Diego, Calif.,
7-10 April 2003:
http://www.storageconference.org/2003/papers/01-Rajasekar-Data.pdf
Paul Wouters and Peter Schröder (eds.), Promise and
practice in data sharing. Amsterdam: NIWI-KNAW, 2003. ISBN 90-6472-184-X.
Available: http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi/paul/datasharing.pdf
3.3 Institutional Repositories
Reflecting a growing awareness of the importance of open-access
principles, e-prints, etc., there have been a number of new publications on
institutional repositories and similar subjects. These include reviews of
institutional repositories in the UK by Stephen Pinfield and Michael Day, both
on behalf of projects funded by JISC's Focus on Access to Institutional
Resources (FAIR) Programme. Other publications have included a new overview of
functionality of the DSpace repository system, and articles in Ariadne
and the Times Higher Education Supplement on how research assessment
could be used to drive the population of repositories in the UK.
References:
Michael Day, Prospects for institutional e-print
repositories in the United Kingdom. ePrints UK supporting study, no. 1, 28
May 2003:
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/docs/studies/impact/
Hamish James, Raivo Ruusalepp, Sheila Anderson and Stephen
Pinfield, Feasibility and requirements study on preservation of
e-prints, v. 1.0, 9 May 2003:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/e-prints_report_1-0.pdf
Stephen Pinfield, "Open archives and UK institutions,"
D-Lib Magazine, 9(3), March 2003:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march03/pinfield/03pinfield.html
Stevan Harnad, "Why I believe that all UK research should be
online." Times Higher Education Supplement, 6 June 2003, p. 16. A
longer version is available at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/thes.html
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim,
"Mandated online RAE CVs linked to university eprint archives: enhancing UK
research impact and assessment." Ariadne, 35, 30 April 2003:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/
Robert Tansley, Mick Bass, David Stuve, Margaret Branschofsky,
Daniel Chudnov, Greg McClellan and MacKenzie Smith, "The DSpace insitutional
repostory system: current functionality." In: Proceedings 2003 Joint
Conference on Digital Libraries, May 27-31, 2003, Rice University, Houston,
Texas, USA. Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society, 2003, pp.
87-97.
Barry Fox, "Not fade away." New Scientist, 177 (2384), 1 March
2003, pp. 40-43.
An article on the preservation of sound archives. Much of it
concentrates on older analogue formats, e.g. wax-coated cylinder recordings,
"acetate" discs, magnetic audio tape, etc., but the final paragraphs introduce
problems with digital recordings, e.g. the master copies that recording
engineers stored on Betamax videotape. After noting potential problems with the
compact discs, Fox concludes, "today's conservators might simply be laying down
problems for their descendants."
Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich and Andrew C. Herkovic, "What is a
library anymore, anyway?" First Monday, 8(5), 5 May 2003:
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_5/keller/
Richard Marciano, Bertram Ludäscher, Ilya Zaslavsky, Reagan Moore
and Keith Pezzoli, "Multi-level information modeling and preservation of eGOV
data" In: R. Traunmüller and K. Lenk (eds.), Electronic Government:
First International Conference, EGOV 2002, Aix-en-Provence, France, September
2-5, 2002. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2456,
Springer-Verlag, 2002, 93-100. Abstract at:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2456/24560093.htm
Deanna Marcum and Amy Friedlander, "Keepers of the crumbling culture:
what digital preservation can learn from library history" D-Lib
Magazine, 9(5), May 2003:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/friedlander/05friedlander.html
Gerhard O. Michler, "How to build a prototype for a distributed
mathematics archive library," Annals of Mathematics and Artificial
Intelligence, 38(1-3), May 2003, 137-164.
Introduces the Electronic Mathematics Archiving Network
Initiative (EMANI), and describes how papers can be linked to create a
prototype distributed digital library.
Sam Searle and Dave Thompson, "Preservation metadata: pragmatic first
steps at the National Library of New Zealand," D-Lib Magazine, 9(4),
April 2003: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/thompson/04thompson.html
Abby Smith, "Issues in sustainability: creating value for online users,"
First Monday, 8(5), 5 May 2003:
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_5/smith/
Vanessa Spedding, "Data preservation: great data, but will it last?"
Research Information, 5, Spring 2002, pp. 16, 18, 20:
http://www.researchinformation.info/rispring03data.html
Thornton Staples, Ross Wayland and Sandra Payette "The Fedora Project:
an open-source digital object repository management system," D-Lib
Magazine, 9(4), April 2003:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/staples/04staples.html
Marcel van Dijk, "It always hurts the first time: experiences with
transferred electronic records", Cultivate Interactive, issue 9, 7
February 2003: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue9/amsterdammro/
5.1 Recent events
Practical Experiences in Digital Preservation, The National Archives,
London, UK, 2-4 April 2003
This international conference, organised by the National
Archives and the International Council on Archives, focused on practical
approaches to preservation. The conference Web site contains the proceedings
(presentation slides and audio), some images and a conference report:
http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/preservation/digital/conference/
ERPANET Workshop, Long-term Preservation of Databases, Berne,
Switzerland, 9-11 April 2003
Presentations, images and a conference report are now available
on the ERPANET Web site: http://www.erpanet.org/
International Symposium, Archives Online: Moving Archives into the
Digital Era, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, Netherlands, 17 April 2003
Presentations from this event are now available from the
ERPANET Web site: http://www.erpanet.org/
5.2 Forthcoming Events
June:
404 Object Not Found: What Remains of Media Art?, Dortmund,
Germany, 19-22 June 2003:
http://www.hartware-projekte.de/programm/inhalt/eueng.htm
DPC Forum, Open Source and Archiving Dynamic Databases, BL
Conference Centre, London, UK, 24 June 2003
ELPUB 2003 - ICCC (International Council for Computer
Communication)/IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) 7th
International Conference on Electronic Publishing: From Information to
Knowledge, University of Mihho, Guimarães, Portugal, 25-28 June 2003:
http://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003/
DAVID (Digitale Archivering in Vlaamse Instellingen en
Diensten) Conference - e-Archiving for Posterity: Electronic Record Keeping and
Long-Term Preservation of Digital Data, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Louvain, Belgium, 26 June 2003:
http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/seminars.php?id=20&where= PDF brochure: http://www.antwerpen.be/david/teksten/brochure.pdf
July:
EUNIS 2003: Beyond the Network, 9th International Conference of
European University Information Systems, 2-4 July 2003:
http://www2.ic.uva.nl/eunis2003/
HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
Institute) Digitisation Summer School for Cultural Heritage Professionals,
University of Glasgow, UK, 6-11 July 2003:
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SumProg/DigiSS03/
Navigating the shoals of Accountability and Access, NAGARA
(National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators) Annual
Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 9-12 July 2003:
http://www.nagara.org/2003_meeting/03_program.pdf
Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections, Austin, Texas,
USA, 24-26 July 2003: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~soundsavings/
August:
World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) General
Conference and Council, Berlin, Germany, 1-9 August 2003:
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/
Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term
Strategies for Long-Term Problems, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New
York, USA, 4-8 August 2003:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/
ECDL2003 - 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced
Technology for Digital Libraries, Trondheim, Norway, 17-22 August 2003:
http://www.ecdl2003.org/
ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving, Trondheim, Norway, 21 August
2003: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/
SAA (Society of American Archivists) Annual Meeting, Los
Angeles, California, USA, 18-24 August 2003:
http://www.archivists.org/conference/index.asp
DRH 2003: Digital Resources for the Humanities, University of
Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK, 31 August - 3 September 2003:
http://www.glos.ac.uk/humanities/content.asp?sid=6
September:
ERPANET Training Seminar, Metadata in digital preservation,
Marburg, Germany, 3-5 September 2003: http://www.erpanet.org/
Symposium 2003 - Preservation of Electronic Records: New
Knowledge and Decision Making - La préservation des documents
électroniques: Information récente et prise de décisions,
Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 15-18 September 2003:
http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/symposium2003/index_e.shtml
SEPIA (Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access)
Conference, Changing images: the role of photographic collections in the
digital age, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, 18-20 September
2003: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/conference.html
IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual
Archives) Annual Conference: Audiovisual Archives: Memory and Society,
University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa, 21-25 September 2003:
http://www.iasa-web.org/iasa0009.htm
Archaeology Data Service, The bluffer's guide to metadata,
York, UK, 24 September 2003:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/workshop/metadata03.html
DC-2003 - 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Supporting Communities
of Discourse and Practice - Metadata Research & Applications, Seattle,
Washington, USA, 28-September - 2 October 2003:
http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/
A more comprehensive list of forthcoming events is available from the
PADI Web site: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/format/event.html
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