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A digital library is defined by Clifford Lynch (Chapter One of the CNI White Paper on Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval) as an "electronic information access system that offers the user a coherent view of an organized, selected, and managed body of information". Paul Duguid (Report of the Santa Fe Planning Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments) describes a digital library as "an environment to bring together collections, services, and people in support of the full life cycle of creation, dissemination, use, and preservation of data, information and knowledge".

Digital library research encompasses a broad range of issues associated with preserving access to digital information. For example, there are technological issues relating to: systems for resource discovery and information retrieval; the use of technical standards; interoperability with other systems; and methods of storage and preservation. Legal issues such as intellectual property rights and licensing mean that consideration needs to be given to methods of controlling access and ensuring authenticity of information.

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Articles

Historical 3D Culture on the Web
Gill, Tony In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Jun 2001)
This article provides an overview of the use of three dimensional modelling and web technologies in allowing access to cultural heritage materials.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file2
118.html#featured
Accountability and Accessibility : Ensuring the Evidence of E-governance in Australia
Cunningham, Adrian; Phillips, Margaret E. (Date Created: Aug 2005) (Australia)
This article is an updated version of a earlier article called Keeping Online Information Accessible for E-governance and E-democracy published in 2004. The article focuses on the need for government agencies and other institutions to ensure that electronic publications and organisational records are collected, managed and preserved as a means of ensuring long-term access for the benefit of e-governance and e-democracy. The article provides definitions of online publications and online records; explores the role of libraries and archives in e-government, including initiatives undertaken at the National Library of Australia and National Archives of Australia; addresses factors that contribute to the vulnerability of online information; and concludes with a list of factors that inhibit the long-term availability of online information for e-governance and e-democracy.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00012530510612059
Aslib Proceedings, ISSN 0001-253X , vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 301-317. Available via subscription from www.emeraldinsight.com
Actualized Preservation Threats : Practical Lessons from Chronicling America
Littman, Justin In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jul 2007) (United States of America)
This article discusses 'lessons learned' about the long-term preservation of digital content based on experience during the development phase of Chronicling America by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) development team when a number of preservation threats were actuated. The threats included media, hardware and software failures as well as operator errors.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july07/littman/07littman.html
aDORe: A Modular, Standards-Based Digital Object Repository
Balakireva, Luda; Bekaert, Jeroen; Liu, Xiaoming; Schwander, Thorsten; Van de Sompel, Herbert (Date Created: 24 Jun 2005)
Description from abstract - This paper describes the aDORe repository architecture designed and implemented for ingesting, storing, and accessing a vast collection of Digital Objects at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/5/514
Computer Journal, Vol. 48, no. 5, 2005. Subscription required for full text.
AONS System Documentation
Curtis, Joseph (Date Created: 29 Sep 2006) (Australia)
This is a technical document providing system documentation for AONS (Automatic Obsolescence Notification System). AONS is a software system that provides automatic notification of digital objects in a repository that may become obsolescent by using preservation information about the file formats. The document covers the architecture, registry and repository interface, AONS core and database structure.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/aons_report.pdf
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
Archive Profile : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Dale, Robin (Date Created: 14 Oct 2005) (United States of America)
This 2005 profile covers the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) from several perspectives, including organisational structures, systems architecture, deposit agreements and user communities. More profiles from CRL on ICPSR and other organisations are available.
http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/ICPSR.pdf
Archive Profile : KB Koninklijke Bibliotheek : National Library of the Netherlands
Dale, Robin (Date Created: 20 Oct 2005) (Netherlands)
This profile covers the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's (KB) e-depot, an electronic journal archive. The organisation is examined from several perspectives, including organisational structures, systems architecture, deposit agreements and user communities. More profiles from CRL on other archives and repositories are available.
http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/KBprofile.pdf
Archive Profile : Portico : an Electronic Archiving Service
Dale, Robin (Date Created: 14 Oct 2005)
This 2005 profile covers PORTICO, a born digital scholarly E-journals archive, from several perspectives, including organisational structures, systems architecture, deposit agreements and user communities. CRL has also completed more profiles on Portico and other organisations.
http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/portico.pdf
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Historical Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action
Kahle, Brewster; Lyman, Peter In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jul 1998)
In this article, Peter Lyman and Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive describe the World Wide Web as a new kind of cultural artifact requiring new kinds of management techniques, giving examples of innovative approaches already on the Web. Further technical work is proposed, including developments in legal and data transmission infrastructures, technologies for digital publishing, digital libraries and archives, and time-capsule technologies.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07lyman.html
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Historical Archiving Electronic Publications: A report of the NISO/BISG Meeting, January 20, 2002
National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) (Last Updated: 02 Feb 2002)
This report from the ALA Midwinter Conference 2002, provides descriptions of three ongoing electronic archiving projects that "examine cost-effective business models for archiving, explore rights issues, and identify the needed standards". Powerpoint slides by presenters from the respective projects area available.
http://www.niso.org/news/events/niso/past/niso_bisg_rpt/
Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories : Creating a Mandate for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
McHugh, Andrew; Ross, Seamus In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2005) (United Kingdom)
This article provides an introduction to audit and certification in digital repositories. Various issues are discussed including what conditions must be satisfied for a digital repository to attain trusted status, how can a repository formalise its trusted status and gaining an audit and certification mandate. The activities and initiatives of the Digital Curation Centre in regard to audit and certification are also discussed.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
025.html#article1
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Historical Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World
Lynch, Clifford In: First Monday (Date Created: 04 Jun 2001)
In this article, Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), discusses the implications of electronic books (e-books), including issues of contents and rights management, and long-term preservation and access.
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/864/773
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
Historical Building A Digital Library Of Television News
Breeding, Marshall (Date Created: Jun 2003) (United States of America)
This article is a brief overview of the processes involved in establishing a digital archive of television news videotapes at the Vanderbilt Television News Archives in the USA. The author examines some technical apects of converting and preserving the videotape into a digital format; explains the different phases of the project, such as the creation of metadata and the establishment of the digitisation process; and provides an overview of the costs and challenges facing the project.
http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=10346
Also available in PDF version, Computers in Libraries, June 2003, Vol 23, Issue 6, ISSN 1041-7915 and by subscription online at www.ebscohost.com/
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Historical Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (Date Created: Apr 2002) (United States of America)
A collection of papers commissioned by the Library of Congress and the Council on Library and Information Resources as a background to developing the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Topics of the papers covered "six principal areas in which the LC faces collection-management issues: large Web sites, electronic books, electronic journals, digitally recorded sound, digital film, and digital television."
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub106abst.html
Also available in PDF format at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/pub106.pdf
Building a Repository Infrastructure for Finland
Ilva, Jyrki (Date Created: Oct 2009) (Finland)
This article discusses the background and developments related to building a repository infrastructure in Finland. It describes the involvement of the National Library, University of Helsinki University and Oulu University libraries in a two year project funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education (2009-2010). Aspects considered in the article include the technological infrastructure, and copyright issues related to self-archiving of research articles in Finnish universities.
http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/1763/
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ScieCom Info - Nordic Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication vol. 5 no. 3, October 2009
Historical Building Digital Archives for Scientific Information
Solla, Leah In: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (Date Created: Nov 2002) (United States of America)
A brief article describing projects at Cornell University Library investigating digital archiving and preservation issues and the role for libraries. Projects covered include those investigating web resources (PRISM), electronic journals (Project Harvest) and similar projects in subject areas such as mathematics and physics. The aim for a common deposit system is noted.
http://www.istl.org/02-fall/article2.html
Building Institutional Repository Infrastructure in Regional Australia
Drury, Caroline (Date Created: 2007) (Australia; New Zealand)
This paper gives an overview of the RUBRIC (Regional Universities Building Research Infrastructure Colaboratively) Project and development of the FOSTER Toolkit. The RUBRIC project is a joint project of Australian and New Zealand Universities on the development of institutional repositories.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=90
8330136F46C6D650FC5FF46A73A4ED?contentType=Article&contentId=1631443
OCLC Systems & Services, 2007 Volume: 23 Issue: 4 Page: 395 - 402 and by subscription to Emerald Insight
Carrots and Sticks: Some Ideas on How to Create a Successful Institutional Repository
Ferreira, Miguel; Rodrigues, Eloy; Baptista, Ana Alice; Saraiva, Ricardo In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2008) (Portugal)
This article describes the institutional repository of the University of Minho, Portugal and its strategic plan to overcome slow adoption and low deposit rates.
http://dlib.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/january08/ferreira/01ferreira.html
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Historical Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper
Crow, Raym (Last Updated: 2002)
A report produced by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition looking at the benefits of developing Institutional Repositories to capture and preserve scholarly output. Also examined is how the trend towards the self-publishing of primary research materials changes the roles of traditional scholarly publishers, academic libraries and specific faculties.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/ir_final_release_102.pdf
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Historical CEDARS: Long-term Access and Usability of Digital Resources: The Digital Preservation Conundrum
Russell, Kelly (Date Created: Dec 1998) (United Kingdom)
This article examines the meaning of the task of digital preservation, some strategies for preserving digital material, and provides background to the Cedars project.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue18/cedars/
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Historical Change the Metaphor : The Archive as an Ecosystem
Coleman, David; Martin, Julia In: JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing (Date Created: Apr 2002)
This article introduces a new metaphor for the processes in managing the preservation of digital archives, that of the ecosystem, and likens the survival of data against technological change to the processes of evolutionary adaptation - "an ongoing process of selection -- of media platforms, of preservation structures, of migratory patterns " to avoid "data extinction".
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0007.301
Historical Climbing the scholarly publishing mountain with SHERPA
MacColl, John; Pinfield, Stephen In: Ariadne (Last Updated: 11 Oct 2002) (United Kingdom)
A paper discussing the UK-based SHERPA project funded to create OAI –compliant ”e-print” repositories through self-archiving in the Higher education sector and acknowledging and addressing the associated management, intellectual property rights, digital preservation and technical issues.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/sherpa/
Historical CoLIS3 Proceedings: Digital Libraries, Interdisciplinary Concepts Challenges and Opportunities
(Date Created: Aug 1999) (Croatia)
This page has a complete contents list of the proceedings of this conference held in DubrovniK, Croatia on 23-26 May 1999 and the full text of the preface to them. Papers presented at this conference cover a broad range of digital library issues including: evaluation, management, design, and examples of specific projects.
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/colis3/index.htm
Historical Conference Report: Information Ecologies: the impact of new information 'species'
Electronic Libraries Programme (Date Created: Dec 1998) (United Kingdom)
A summary of this conference, held in York in December 1998, and organised by the Electronic Libraries Programme is followed by links to some of the conference presentations. Preservation issues are included as one of the strands of this conference.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/events/information-ecologies/
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Historical Convergence in the Digital Age : Challenges for Libraries, Museums and Archives : Proceedings
European Commission (Last Updated: Mar 2000) (Netherlands)
These are the proceedings of a conference held in Amsterdam on August 13-14, 1998 which was supported by the European Commission under the framework of the Telematics for Libraries Programme.
http://www.cordis.lu/libraries/en/ifla/iflasem.html
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Counting the Costs of Digital Preservation : is Repository Storage Affordable?
Chapman, Stephen In: Journal of Digital Information (Date Created: 07 May 2003) (United States of America)
This article examines pricing associated with repository storage through a comparison of the billable storage rates for analog formats at the Harvard University Library’s to digital formats at the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). Two case studies are used to identify the relationship between content and medium, as well as integrity and risk management for both textual and photographic formats.
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/jodi-113/99
Creating an Institutional Repository : LEADIRS Workbook
Barton, Mary R. ; Waters, Margaret M. (Date Created: 2005)
This extensive document (134 p.) from the LEarning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminar program (LEADIRS) and available from DSpace covers all aspects of building institutional repositories such as planning, choosing repository software platforms, including digital preservation considerations, legal and regulatory environmental and policy development and cost modeling. Each section has associated worksheets and key questions. There are many references to case studies which are used to highlight approaches to the various issues in developing an institutional repository.
http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/leadirs.pdf
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Historical Creating Trading Networks of Digital Archives
Cooper, Brian; Garcia-Molina, Hector (Date Created: 2001)
This paper examines how agencies might preserve digital collections by forming and participating in peer-to-peer (P2P) trading networks. Peer-to-peer trading algorithms and a simulator, to conduct and report on trading sessions, were used to examine issues of storage and replication allowances, trading network size, and choice and reliability of trading partners.
http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/726/
DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands
Waaijers, Leo In: Ariadne (Date Created: Oct 2007) (Netherlands)
This article reflects on the four years and future of the DARE project which enables Dutch Higher Education and research institutions to provide easy and timely open access to research results and teaching materials.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue53/waaijers/
Data Management and the Curation Continuum: How the Monash Experience is Informing Repository Relationships
Harboe-Ree, Catherine; Treloar, Andrew (Date Created: 5 Feb 2008) (Australia)
This paper given at the VALA 14 th Biennial Conference, 5-7 February 2008 in Melbourne describes work undertaken at Monash University on rethinking the role of repositories in supporting data management. It introduces the concepts of the "curation continuum", "curation boundary" and division of the repository environment into 3 domains (research, collaboration and public domains).
http://www.valaconf.org.au/vala2008/papers2008/111_Treloar_Final.pdf
Historical Developing a 3D Digital Library for Spatial Data: Issues Identified and Description of Prototype
Rowe, Jeremy In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2002)
This article describes the Partnership for Research in Spatial Modelling (PRISM) project at Arizona State University, including background on the use of three dimensional modelling in digital library settings and the prototype collection of scanned data describing such objects developed during the project.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file2
089.html#feature1
Developing Services for Local History Research Through a Digitization Project: A Public Library Case Study
Trifunovic, Bogdan (Date Created: 27 Aug 2009) (Serbia)
This paper given at World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council (23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy) provides an overview of digitisation and development of the digital library at the Public Library of Čačak, Serbia. It discusses the new opportunities for online research in local history and genealogy and new services and interactions that have resulted from the digitisation of collections (books, newspapers, journals, postcards, posters, photos, audio-visual documents).
http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/204-trifunovic-en.pdf
Developing the Skills to Support eResearch
Henty, Margaret In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2008) (Australia)
This article reports on a study conducted in 2007 in Australia to "identify the range and types of skills required to undertake and support eResearch; to provide information on which to base proposals for future events, training and other means of skills development; and to provide information for institutions and government for consideration in relation to formal Higher Education and vocational training options".
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/henty/
Development of Cultural Heritage Digitisation and Access : Lithuanian Approach
Dauglia, Giedrius; Varnienė, Regina (Date Created: Oct 2007) (Lithuania)
This paper describes the approach and lessons learned in creating the Integrated Virtual Library System by memory institutions in Lithuania. The architecture and standards for file management and metadata and associated systems are described.
http://www.epaveldas.lt/vbspi/content/docs/publications/7_1.pdf
In P, Cunningham and M. Cunningham (eds.), Expanding the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies. pp. 1690- 1697
Historical Digital Archive Developments
Falk, Howard (Date Created: 2003)
This article provides a guide to the development of digital archives in universities, colleges, as well as national and international governmental institutions worldwide. The author provides an overview of academic digital archives in the USA and Europe; the concerns of journal publishing such as the costs of digital repositories and copyright; worldwide national initiatives and projects to preserve digital materials including activities of the British Library, Library of Congress, and the National Archives of Australia; as well as information relating to archiving software.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470310491603
Available in The Electronic Library, Vol 21, Number 4, pp. 375-379 (ISSN 02640473). Subscription is also available online at http://konstanza.emeraldinsight.com/. Available in HTML or pdf formats.
Historical Digital Archiving : What is Involved?
Flecker, Dale (Date Created: Jan 2003) (United States of America)
This article discusses the issues in archiving and preserving electronic journals, especially within a higher education context. The article is based on the results of Harvard University's study in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant on electronic journal archiving.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0316.pdf
in, Educause Review, January/February 2003
Digital Authenticity and Integrity : Digital Cultural Heritage Documents as Research Resources
Bradley, Rachel (Date Created: 2005) (United States of America; Canada)
This article presents the results of a survey conducted in 2003 on how organizations and staff in the U.S. and Canada view the importance of authenticity and integrity in their digital repositories. The author discusses the survey's finding that authenticity and integrity represented a low priority compared to increasing access and preserving content.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v005/5.2
bradley.html
Portal : Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 5, no. 2 (2005), E-ISSN: 1530-7131
Digital Curation and Preservation : Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade : Report of the Warwick Workshop : 7- 8 November 2005
Digital Curation Centre (Date Created: 2006)
This workshop was sponsored by the British Library, the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and JISC, and was held November 2005. The workshop was organised around several topics which were covered by breakout groups. The topics were Curation Services and Technologies; Drivers and Barriers (policy issues); and Data Life Cycle Management (process issues). This report brings the results of all the groups together, outlining a number of policy development topics and the common research areas.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/warwick_2005/Warwick_Workshop_report.pdf
Digital Curation for Science, Digital Libraries, and Individuals
Beagrie, Neil (Date Created: Sep 2006) (United Kingdom)
This paper explores inter-disciplinary research, trends, practices and new developments in the emerging field of digital curation.
http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/6/5
The International Journal of Digital Curation Issue 1, Vol 1 Autumn 2006 pp 3-16
Historical Digital Division is Cultural Exclusion. But Is Digital Inclusion Cultural Inclusion?
Worcman, Karen In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Mar 2002)
This article examines "the extent to which digital technologies and the Internet can be instruments of social and cultural inclusion" and "how the use of these technologies can be linked to the preservation of the history of a particular cultural group." It also notes the impacts of digital technology on history and the collective memory of communities and the challenges in overcoming digital exclusion of economically disadvantaged groups, in the creation and preservation of digital history and of sustainable projects and resources.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/worcman/03worcman.html
Historical Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections - Report on RCDL'2002 - the 4th All-Russian Scientific Conference, Dubna, 15-17 October 2002
Kalinichenko, Leonid A; Korenkov, Vladimir V; Shirikov, Vladislav P; Sissakian, Alexey N; Sunturenko, Oleg V In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2003) (Russia)
A report on the 4th All-Russian Scientific Conference on digital libraries, held in Dubna, Russia, 15-17 October, 2002. Topics included hybrid library development, creation of integrated depositories of scientific information, document representation and retrieval and digital libraries in education. Archiving and preserving materials for future access is noted.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/kalinichenko/01kalinichenko.html
Digital Library Initiatives Across Europe
Raitt, David (Date Created: Nov 2000)
A revised version of a paper presented at the 11th International Conference on New Information Technology, 18-20 August, 1999, in Taipei, Taiwan. This article, published in "Computers in Libraries" reviews current European digital library initiatives, and includes links to the various project websites.
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov00/raitt.htm
Computers in Libraries, Vol. 20, No. 10, Nov./Dec. 2000
Digital Library Manifesto
Candela, Leonardo; Castelli, Donatello; Ionnidis, Yannis; Koutrika, Georgia; Pagano, Pasquale; Ross, Seamus; Schek, Hans-Jeorg; Schuldt, Heiko (Date Created: Jan 2006)
This document aims to "set the foundations and identify the cornerstone concepts within the universe of Digital Libraries, facilitating the integration of research and proposing better ways of developing appropriate systems."
ISBN: 2912335248
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=345&It
emid=#docs
Available as PDF from the DELOS Network http://www.delos.info/
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Digital Library SunSITE Collection and Preservation Policy
University of California, Berkeley In: Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE (Date Created: 6 Jul 1996) (United States of America)
This paper is a discussion of the collecting levels of the Digital Library SunSITE and its preservation policy. The policy includes a description of four levels of collecting (and preserving) digital materials: archiving, serving, mirroring and linking.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Admin/oldcollection.html
Historical Digital Library Tool Kit
Noerr, Peter (Date Created: 1998)
This detailed paper (100 p.) is designed to help those who are contemplating setting up a digital library. It raises questions which need to be addressed before embarking on the creation of a digital library and discusses issues related to the design, creation, implementation and maintenance of a digital library.
http://webdoc.gwdg.de/ebook/aw/1999/sun/noerrfinal.pdf
Historical Digital Library: A Biography
Daniel Greenstein; Suzanne E. Thorin (Last Updated: Dec 2002) (United States of America)
A report analysing the development of academic digital libraries from their initial status as research and development projects to their current maturing status as core providers of networked access to digital surrogates and electronic resources. The report is compiled from a survey of US research libraries and case studies of several proto-digital libraries and looks at the philosophies and management environments that created the first digital libraries and the ongoing inter-library and faculty co-ordination that is driving future directions. 2nd ed. Dec 2002
ISBN: 1887334955
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html
acessible online in HTML and PDF formats and available as a print version for US $20 from CLIR
Digital Preservation : Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories
Giarlo, Michael J.; Jantz, Ronald In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 2005)
This article discusses the importance of establishing and maintaining trust and authenticity throughout the lifecycle of records within academic digital repositories. It gives an overview of technologies for enabling permanence and trust such as Persistent Identifiers, PIDs and naming conventions. The digital preservation architecture at Rutgers University Libraries digital repository is used to demonstrate this approach.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/june2005-jantz
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/jantz/06jantz.html
Historical Digital Preservation : Problems and Prospects
Hedstrom, Margaret (Date Created: Mar 2001)
This paper provides an outline of the major issues that long-term preservation raises for digital libraries and describes the main technical strategies upon which digital preservation has up to now relied upon, identified as standards and migration. The author provides an assessment of emulation as a preservation strategy and notes other strategies such as 'print-to-paper', 'computer museums' and 'digital archaeology'. She also comments on some major operational models and research projects including the Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model, Project NEDLIM and the CEDARS Project. The article is published in issue no. 20 (March 2001) of Digital Libraries (Dijitaru toshokan).
http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_20/1-hedstrom/1-hedstrom
.html
Digital Preservation in Institutional Repositories: Report on the BL/CURL DPC Forum held at the British Library Conference Centre, Tuesday 19th October 2004
Digital Preservation Coalition (Date Created: 19 Oct 2004) (United Kingdom)
The 9th DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition) Forum held on 19 October 2004 at the British Library Conference Centre was a collaboration between CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries) and the British Library. The theme of institutional repositories was proposed by CURL as being very timely as the move from theory to practice is likely to accelerate, requiring more emphasis on sustainability and lessons learned from the practical experience of early adopters. This is a report of the Forum and it also includes links to presentations.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/041019forum.html
Digital Preservation in the Context of Institutional Repositories
Hockx-Yu, Helen (Date Created: 2006) (United Kingdom)
This article discusses the issues and challenges of digital preservation facing institutional repositories. The author describes the JISC digital preservation strategy and key initiatives and presents two examples, SHERPA DP and PRESERV. The author concludes that digital preservation should be made part of the repository workflow so that it is fully integrated into the information management lifecycle and not regarded as a separate process.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Publ
ished/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2800400304.html
Program: electronic library and information systems, Volume 40 Number 3 2006 pp. 232-243
Historical Digital Preservation of E-Prints
James, Hamish; Pinfield, Stephen In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Sep 2003)
The first part of this article discusses whether e-print repositories should preserve their contents as part of their service. The author maintains that filling e-print repositories and preserving their contents need not be mutually exclusive activities. Within this context, the technical and managerial challenges to the preservation of e-prints are discussed.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/pinfield/09pinfield.html
Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories : Towards Distributed Services
Hitchcock, Steve; Brody, Tim; Hey, Jessie M.N.; Carr, Leslie (Date Created: May 2007) (United Kingdom)
This article considers digital preservation in the context of institutional repositories (IRs) and describes the evolution of a series of models that have informed progress towards the concept of flexible and distributed preservation services for IRs by the JISC funded Preserv project.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/hitchcock/05hitchcock.html
D-Lib Magazine, Vol 13 No.5/6, May June 2007
Historical Digital Reality II: Preserving our Electronic Heritage
NELINET (Date Created: 05 Jun 2000) (United States of America)
This page contains links to conference papers from a seminar held on Monday June 5, 2000 at John F. Kennedy Library, Boston MA which was co-sponsored by NELINET Preservation Advisory Center, John F. Kennedy Library and the Northeast Documentation Center.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071026114309/http://www.nelinet.net/edser
v/conf/digital/dr_2000/digital.htm
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Digital Repositories
Semple, Najla (Date Created: Apr 2006)
In this briefing paper digital repositories are defined, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders are discussed and there are also links to additional resources on the subject.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/briefing-papers/digital-repositories/
Digital Curation Centre (DCC) briefing papers
Digital Repositories Roadmap : Looking Forward
Heery, Rachel; Powell, Andy (Date Created: 07 Apr 2006) (United Kingdom)
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), this discussion document provides information on current practices, future plans and individual roadmaps for various types of repository material such as geospatial data, academic papers and learning material for 2006-2010. The content of the roadmap was made by contributors from academic and research organisations in the UK.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/rep-roadmap-v15.doc
Digital Repository Certification : a Report from Germany
Dobratz, Susanne ; Schoger, Astrid In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2005) (Germany)
This article provides an overview of two different certification-related initiatives and approaches in Germany - the Deutsche Initiative f�r Netzwerkinformation (DINI) Certificate for Document and Publication Repositories and the Working Group on Trusted Repository Certification of the Network of Expertise in Long-term STOrage of Digital Resources (nestor).
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
025.html#article3
Digital Sustainability and Digital Repositories
Bradley, Kevin (Date Created: Feb 2006)
This paper begins by describing the APSR (Australian Partnership on Sustainable Repositories), its partners and projects such as the Automatic Obsolescence Notification System (AONS) and the functional specification of the PREMIS metadata set. The paper also covers issues raised in the APSR project including data sustainability, sustainability of meaningful access to content and the organisational structure of digital sustainability.
http://www.valaconf.org.au/vala2006/papers2006/45_Bradley_Final.pdf
Paper presented at the VALA 2006 conference, 8-10 February 2006, Melbourne, Australia. A podcast of this paper is available at http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006/auth2006.htm
Historical Digitisation of Library Materials: Report of the Concertation Meeting and Workshop held in Luxembourg 14 December 1998
European Commission. Directorate General XIII-E/4. Telematics for Libraries. Ed. Marc Fresko, Applerace Ltd. (Date Created: Jan 1999) (Luxembourg)
Proceedings of a Concertation Meeting and Workshop organised by the European Commission, Directorate General XIII-E/4, Telematics for Libraries which brought together many with experience in creating digital copies of materials held in libraries. A discussion of metadata for managing digital objects is included as is a comparative study of digital preservation guidelines.
ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/digicult/digit.pdf
DINI Institutional Repository Certification and Beyond.
Dobratz, Susanne ; Scholze, Frank (Date Created: Feb 2006) (Germany)
This paper presented at 8th Bielefeld Conference (7-9 February, Bielefeld, Germany) provides an overview of institutional repositories which support Open Access in Germany and describes the DINI Certificate 2006 which was developed by DINI, the German initiative for Networked Information.
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2006/proceedings/dobratz_scholze
_final_web.pdf
Also published in Library Hi-Tech, Vol 24, No 4, 2006, pp 583-594.
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Historical Disclosing Digital Cultural Wealth: Museums and the Open Archives Initiative
Perkins, John In: Cultivate Interactive (Date Created: Feb 2002)
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) develops and promotes technical standards to allow the creation of metadata repositories that can be further harvested and processed. This article provides a broad overview of the testing of the OAI protocol by the Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI), as well as noting other implementers in the museum community and directions for further research.
http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue6/cimi/
Distributed Preservation in a National Context : NDIIPP at Mid-point
Smith, Abby In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 2006) (United States of America)
This article describes the progress of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) after five and a half years. The article focusses on the initiative's strategic investment in technical infrastructure, enabling infrastucture such as copyright and remaining challenges.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june06/smith/06smith.html
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: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe
Feijen, Martin; Horstmann, Wolfram; Manghi, Paolo; Robinson, Mary; Russell, Rosemary In: Ariadne (Date Created: Oct 2007)
This article provides an outline of the DRIVER project, its achievements to date in supporting and enhancing access to European digital repositories.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue53/feijen-et-al/
DSpace Digital Repository Software
Pennock, Maureen (Date Created: 12 Jun 2006)
This is the first of a series of Technology Watch Papers. It provides an overview of DSpace functionality and describes some implementations of the software in various institutions around the world.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/technology-watch/dspace/
Historical In DSpace, Ideas are Forever
Marx, Vivien (Date Created: 03 Aug 2003)
This article from the New York Times discusses DSpace and other similar archives. It describes the circumstances encouraging the growth of scholarly archiving and includes quotes from the director of M.I.T. Libraries and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. (Free registration required.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/edlife/03EDTECH.html?ex=1060922358&e
i=1&en=262cf6a5774edd97
New York Times, Education Life
Historical DSpace: An Institutional Repository from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Smith, MacKenzie In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. Proceedings
A paper presented at ECDL 2002, describing the rationale for institutional repositories, the DSpace system, and its implementation at MIT. Plans to release the system in open source to allow continued research in open scholarly communication and long-term preservation for digital materials are also discussed. The abstract is available free-of-charge online. The full article may be obtained in print form or online for a fee.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/8nkpt4nnwkpepbh8/?p=b085cd359d3f44
65835fa1bccd90abc6&pi=39
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Historical E-Journal Archive DTD Feasibility Study
Inera Incorporated (Date Created: 05 Dec 2001)
This report, commissioned by the Harvard University Library E-Journal Archiving Project under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides recommendations for the development of a common SGML structure for representing the intellectual content of archived journal articles and examines the challenges to be faced in transforming such content. It is based on examination of DTDs from ten publishers and the experiences of organisations that have worked with multiple publishers and DTDs.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/hadtdfs.pdf
Editor's Interview : National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
Campbell, Laura In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Jun 2003) (United States of America)
In this interview, Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress, relates the development and implementation of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Topics covered include funding, proposals, objectives, and stakeholders.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070513/viewer/file3
453.html#feature1
Embedding Legacy Environments into A Grid-Based Preservation Infrastructure
Hemmje, Matthias; Klas, Claus-Peter; Muller, Lars (Date Created: 30 Sep 2008)
This paper given at iPRES 2008 (British Library Conference Center 29-30 Sept. 2008) describes the main objectives and challenges of the SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg) Project. It focuses on Sub Project 1 (ISP1) which trials and validates the SHAMAN approach for memory institutions, scientific publishing, libraries and parliamentary archives. Recognising that these institutions will want to keep their heterogeneous storage and distributed management systems while participating in a distributed preservation environment, the SHAMAN project has devised a conceptual approach based on a grid-based integration layer and service-oriented architectures for resolving the issues. The paper looks at the integration requirements, examples of existing repository infrastructures, the design of the SHAMAN service oriented architectural framework and the use of the DAFFODIL access support system for the data grid.
http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/30_Klas.pdf
Eprints Digital Repository Software
Pennock, Maureen (Date Created: 25 Aug 2006)
This DCC technology watch report provides an overview of the functionality and some of the implementations of the Eprints software.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/technology-watch/eprints/
DCC technology watch report
Historical ePrints UK : Developing a National E-Prints Archive
Martin, Ruth In: Ariadne (Date Created: 2003) (United Kingdom)
ePrints UK is a two year project which aims to provide the higher and further education sector access to and preservation of the e-print papers available from compliant open archive repositories. This paper provides a brief overview of the ePrints UK project, including technical issues such as database development and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) interfaces and non technical issues such as intellectual property rights and insufficient repositories from which to harvest records.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/martin
Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)
Dietrich, Dianne; Green, Ann; Steinhart, Gail In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Sep 2009) (United States of America)
This article introduces DataStaR a data staging repository at Cornell University which provides a platform to support data sharing among research colleagues and as such is a transitory curation environment. The article describes the application of the TRAC checklist to DataStaR and the understanding this gives to it's role in a chain of preservation activities and the suitability of it's design and operation.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september09/steinhart/09steinhart.html
Eternal Bits : How Can We Preserve Digital Files and Save Our Collective Memory?
Smith, Mackenzie (Date Created: 19 Jul 2005) (United States of America)
This article outlines the problems and solutions in preserving digital information. The Dspace archiving process is discussed and examples are used to highlight various data preservation scenarios.
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29463
IEEE Spectrum Online, 19 July 2005
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Historical Evolution of an Institutional E-prints Archive at the University of Glasgow
Nixon, William J In: Ariadne (Date Created: 8 Jul 2002) (United Kingdom)
This article describes the progress of the e-print archive at the University of Glasgow, including the aims of the archive, decisions about implementation, metadata and presentation. The article also notes the role of the library in encouraging submissions, providing advice on copyright, and arranging deposit, conversion of formats and review of metadata quality.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue32/eprint-archives/
Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services
Xiaorong Xiang
This article demonstrates that doing new, innovative things in libraries doesn't require inventing new technologies -- all one must do is to combine existing protocols and technologies in new ways. Using a combination of protocols such as OAI-PMH and SRU, along with tools like Perl and Swish-e, Xiang and Morgan describe how they created two new library services - from abstract
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october05/morgan/10morgan.html
Historical Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage
Deegan, Marilyn; Tanner, Simon In: Ariadne (Date Created: 14 Jan 2003)
This article reports on a study into the pricing practices and policies in moving from analogue to digital photographic services, as surveyed from 51 UK and European cultural institutions. While creation and distribution of digital products is considered cheaper, none of the surveyed institutions fully recovered the costs of creation, management, storage and service provision from item sales. The article also notes that the costs of digital preservation were not able to be quantified or factored into sale price.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/tanner/
Feasibility Study Into Approaches to Improve the Consistency With Which Repositories Share Material : Final Report for JISC
Charlesworth, Andrew; Ferguson, Nicky; Lease Morgan, Eric; Reitlyn, David; Schmoller, Seb; Smith, Neil (Date Created: 07 Nov 2008) (United Kingdom)
This report (53 p) prepared for JISC focuses on consistency of practice between repositories in supporting the sharing of materials. Its findings are based on consultation and interviews with people involved in repository development mainly in the UK but also internationally. Recognising the heterogenity amongst repositories, it makes useful detailed recommendations that can be applied generally. Recommendations are made in relation to repository policy development, exposure and principles; clarification of goals, roles and funding; metadata costs and benefits ; standards; collaboration; content exposition; and encouraging research and development.
http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/256/1/jisc-clax-final-report-repocon.p
df
Fedora : an Architecture for Complex Objects and Their Relationships
Lagoze, Carl ; Payette, Sandy; Shin, Edwin; Wilper, Chris (Date Created: 07 Mar 2005)
This is a draft of a submission to the Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on Complex Objects. The article begins by describing the features of the recently released version 2.0 of Fedora. The bulk of the paper describes in detail the Fedora architecture for representing complex digital objects, the digital object model, the components of the server architecture and the Fedora relationship model which provides a framework for describing, storing and querying relationships among the objects. The paper concludes with future plans for the Fedora Project.
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0501012
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Historical Fedora Project : An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System
Payette, Sandra; Staples, Thornton; Wayland, Ross In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Apr 2003) (United States of America)
The FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) Project, comprises 3 phases, the first phase of which is aimed at developing version 1.0 of the system, described in this article. The article discusses the basic architectural model of Fedora, the software, key features and some preliminary features of phases II and III. Four case studies illustrating the various ways of implementing Fedora repositories are also included.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/staples/04staples.html
Historical Final Report on the Initial Development of the DSpace Federation
DSpace (Date Created: 30 Jun 2004) (United States of America)
This is the DSpace Federation Project's year-end 2004 report (34 p.) for the Mellon Foundation. Of interest is the case studies submitted by the participating universities.
http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/mellon-dspace.pdf
Future of Repositories? Patterns for (Cross-) Repository Architectures
Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Blanke, Tobias; Flanders, David; Hedges, Mark; O'Steen, Ben In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Nov 2008)
This commentary article considers the development and evolution of digital repositories and how their underlying architecture can change to support managers and end-users.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november08/aschenbrenner/11aschenbrenner.html
How The West Was Won : Providing Repositories Across the Principality of Wales
Lewis, Stuart; Payne, Hannah (Date Created: Jan 2009) (United Kingdom)
This article describes the growth and development of repositories in Wales since 2006. The Welsh Repository Network has grown to 12 repositories with the support of the JISC funded Repositories Support Project.
http://hdl.handle.net/2160/1882
ALISS Quarterly, ISSN 1747-9258, Vol 4, no. 2, pp 18-23. Available as PDF and MSWord.
Historical IASSIST 2000 : Data in the Digital Library: social, spatial, and government data services: Electronic Presentation Archive
University of Chicago (Date Created: Jun 2000) (United States of America)
Presentations at the 26th conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) related to managing, preserving and providing access to digital collections in archives and libraries.
http://www.src.uchicago.edu/datalib/ia2000/presentations/presentation.
htm
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Historical Il Retaggio Multimediale fra Hardware, Software e Politiche Culturali
Ridi, Riccardo (Date Created: May 1998)
In this article, Riccardo Ridi highlights the risks of media degradation and technological obsolescence of both software and hardware for digital material on physical media, and the risk of continuous change for networked material. Seven principles for dealing with these risks are proposed, including adoption of standard languages and software, creation of software, hardware and emulator libraries, preference for network distribution of digital publications and institution of a distributed digital archive for networked digital publications.
http://www.aib.it/aib/sezioni/veneto/ridi.htm
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Historical Implementing a Reliable Digital Object Archive
Cooper, Brian; Crespo, Arturo; Garcia-Molina, Hector (Date Created: 26 Jun 2000) (United States of America)
This paper describes the implementation of a prototype digital repository, the Stanford Archival Vault (SAV), intended for the long-term preservation of digital objects, their metadata and software applications. It identifies unexpected challenges in indexing and configuration of replication in digital repositories and describes the mechanisms developed to address these challenges. The paper is available in several formats, including text, PostScript and PDF, or may be read online by selecting "Pagewise preview".
http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/715/
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Research and Development in Digital Libraries (ECDL)
Infrastructure Models Used by California Digital Library Preservation Projects
Low, Margaret (Date Created: 01 Jul 2008) (United States of America)
This paper describes the infrastructure models of California Digital Library's current repositories (Digital Preservation Repository and Web Archiving Service) and a third model currently being built to move objects into a repository.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/084-Low-en.pdf
World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council, Quebec, 10-14 Aug 2008
Historical Ingest Guide for University Electronic Records : Draft for Public Comment
Glick, Kevin; Wilczek, Eliot (Date Created: 30 Sep 2005)
The Digital Collections and Archives (DCA), Tufts University and Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) of Yale University Library released the Ingest Guide for University Electronic Records as a draft for comment. The Guide details a step by step approach to the ingest workflows required to ensure the trustworthiness and authenticity of records when they are transferred to a preservation system. The Guide has two sections. Section A, Negotiate Submission Agreement, which details the terms and conditions of the records transfer. Section B, Transfer and Validation, deals with the transfer, validation and transformation of records. Public input and comments accepted until December 15, 2005. Final version published in 2006.
http://dca.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/reports/3_1_draftpublic2.pdf
Comments can be sent to Kevin Glick, Yale University, kevin.glick@yale.edu or Eliot Wilczek, Tufts University, eliot.wilczek@tufts.edu
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Historical Integrating a Free Digital Resource: The Status of Making of America in Academic Library Collections
Walker, Kizer In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Feb 2002) (United States of America)
This article presents the results of a web-based survey on the institutional use and integration of MOA (Making of America) digital materials into collections and compares these results to actual usage as shown by web usage logs. A comparison to JSTOR usage and an interview with MOA project representatives at Cornell University and the University of Michigan regarding interoperability and long-term access are included.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070519/viewer/file2
822.html#feature2
Historical Intellectual Property Conservancies
Bearman, David In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Dec 2000)
An examination of the issues and challanges relating to the building of a digital library conservancy for the long-term preservation of and free access to donated or licensed intellectual property.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december00/bearman/12bearman-full.html
Interoperability : A Key Concept for Large Scale, Persistent Digital Libraries
Gradmann, Stefan (Date Created: 05 Sep 2008)
This Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) briefing paper discusses interoperability of large scale digital libraries and the European Digital Library in particular.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/interopera
bility.pdf
Digital Preservation Europe Briefing Paper
Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains
Bekaert, Jeroen; Lagoze, Carl; Liu, Xiaoming; Payette, Sandy; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Warner, Simeon In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Oct 2006)
This article describes a proposed interoperability infrastructure enabling sharing of information about digital scholarly objects held by heterogeneous repositories. It includes discussion on the Pathways Project and its underlying models and an experiment using an overlay journal to test interoperability across four different repository architectures (aDORe, arXiv, DSpace, Fedora).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october06/vandesompel/10vandesompel.html
Historical Joint NSF/JISC International Digital Libraries Initiative
Chris Rusbridge; Griffin, Stephen; Wiseman, Norman In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 1999)
This article describes the joint JISC (UK) and National Science Foundation (US) international digital libraries initiative. "The overall goals of the JISC/NSF program are to foster common approaches to shared problems, promote common standards, share expertise and experience and build on complementary organisational strengths and approaches in digital library research." Practical studies of the emulation strategy for digital preservation are planned as part of a collaborative effort involving the CEDARS project team and researchers at the University of Michigan with funding through the Joint NSF/JISC International Digital Libraries Initiative.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june99/06wiseman.html
JORUM Preservation Watch Report
Stevenson, Jane (Date Created: Jul 2005) (United Kingdom)
JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. This extensive report (73 p.) summarises current activities, standards and recommendations relating to digital preservation, with the aim of implementing a long term preservation strategy for learning objects within the JORUM learning object repository. The report includes a discussion of international preservation initiatives, centralised and decentralised preservation models, preservation policy, preservation metadata and case studies.
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/Digital_Preservation_Report.pdf
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
Legal Information Management in a Global and Digital Age : Revolution and Tradition
Germain, Claire (Date Created: 27 Apr 2007) (United States of America)
This paper provides an overview of public policy issues surrounding digital libraries and the impact of the internet on international and foreign law information access. Topics touched on include open access, mass digitisation, preservation and long term access to born digital legal information and the role of the law librarian.
http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/lsrp/papers/73
Cornell Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series 2007 paper no. 73
Historical Levels of Service for Digital Repositories
LeFurgy, William G In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: May 2002)
In this article, William LeFurgy of the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) outlines conditions governing persistence of digital objects, such as system architecture and material specification, and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories, considering three levels of tools and processes and three levels of persistence of materials.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may02/lefurgy/05lefurgy.html
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
Historical Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Liegmann, Hans (Date Created: May 2003) (Germany)
This paper describes Die Deutsche Bibliotek's voluntary deposit system for ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations) using NEDLIB's process model and incorporating the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). Issues discussed include preservation metadata, submission and transfer processes for ETDs and trusted digital repositories.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/liegmann-hans/HTML/index.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
Available as PDF from VALA 2008: Libraries changing spaces, virtual places Conference Program
Making Certification Real : Developing Methodology for Evaluating Repository Trustworthiness
Dale, Robin L. In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Oct 2005) (United States of America)
This article discusses the audit and certification tools and processes being developed by the RLG-National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Digital Repository Certification Task Force, which has released the Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories; and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Audit and Certification of Digital Archives project.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3
025.html#article2
Metadata for Digital Libraries: State of the Art and Future Directions
Gartner, Richard (Date Created: Apr 2008) (United Kingdom)
This JISC TechWatch report (19 p.) considers the need for standardisation and integration within the Library community and the importance of metadata to simplify user access. This report argues that existing standards based on XML (including METS) should be used to produce a coherent integrated metadata strategy for digital libraries.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw_0801pdf.pdf
JISC Technology and Standards Watch Report TSW080. Available in PDF, Word and OpenOffice formats from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/services_techwatch/techwatch/techwatch_ic_reports2005_publ
METS : Standardized Encoding for Digital Library Objects
McDonough, Jerome P. (Date Created: Feb 2006)
Description from abstract - METS is an XML document format intended for the encoding of complex objects within digital libraries. It provides the means to record all of the descriptive, administrative, structural and behavioral metadata needed to manage and provide access to complex digital content. While it was designed to promote interoperability of digital content between digital library systems and contribute to the preservation of digital library materials, a variety of practical barriers to achieving these goals remain. However, many of these obstacles are shared by other communities of practice, such as the eLearning community working on the IMS content packaging standards and the MPEG-21 community, and the digital library community faces a unique opportunity at the moment to work closely with others to try to improve the interoperability of our content not only with our own repository systems, but those being used by others.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1665225r3412540x/
International Journal on Digital Libraries, Volume 6, Number 2 / April, 2006. Available via subscription
Mind the Gap : Assessing Digital Preservation Needs in the UK
Sharpe, Robert; Waller, Martin (Date Created: Feb 2006) (United Kingdom)
This extensive report uses information gathered from surveys and interviews as well as existing sources of information to reveal a digital preservation 'state of the nation' . The survey covered many types of institutions including government, financial, scientific as well as archives and libraries. The report identifies the current state of practice, UK digital preservation needs and recommendations.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/reports/uknamindthegap.pdf
Mind the Gap : Digital Preservation Needs in the UK
Jones, Maggie; Semple, Najla In: Ariadne (Date Created: Jul 2006) (United Kingdom)
This article describes the background and outcomes of the UK Needs Assessment undertaken by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the resulting Mind the Gap report.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/semple-jones/
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Historical Minimum Criteria for an Archival Repository of Digital Scholarly Journals (version 1.2, May 2000)
Digital Library Federation (Last Updated: 26 Jun 2001)
This document sets out 7 minimum criteria for a digital archival repository that acts to preserve digital scholarly publications. Closely based on the Open Archival Information System Reference Model, with modification to reflect the needs of libraries, publishers and academics, it includes key research issues associated with data deposit, preservation and access.
http://www.diglib.org/preserve/criteria.htm
Historical National Library of New Zealand - Digital Library Development Review
Ross, Seamus (Date Created: 01 Jul 2003) (New Zealand)
The National Library of New Zealand Act 2003 requires the Library to “collect, preserve and make available New Zealand’s electronic documents”. This report, produced in response to the Act, seeks to identify and recommend areas of digital library development, so that the Library can satisfactorily fulfil its statutory responsibilities. Included in the report are areas addressing the need for the establishment of a digital repository for the long-term preservation of materials, and recommendations for the Library to use its role in supporting other libraries in the areas of digital preservation.
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/files/ross_report.pdf
NDL Digital Archive Portal "PORTA" Started Full Scale Operation
National Diet Library (Japan) (Date Created: Dec 2007) (Japan)
This article describes PORTA the National Diet Library Digital Archive Portal which provides access to 20 types of digital Archives (as of Oct 2007) to cooperating Institutions and the National Diet Library (NDL) digital archives.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter/158/581.html
National Diet Library Newsletter No 158, December 2007
NEDCC Survey and Colloquium Explore Digitization and Digital Preservation Policies and Practices
Clareson, Tom In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: Feb 2006) (United States of America)
This is a report on a USA national survey conducted by the NEDCC (Northeast Document Conservation Center) to assess the digital preservation readiness of cultural heritage institutions. The survey was the first step in a project that ultimately aims to develop a digital preservation needs assessment methodology. Conclusions from the survey observe that most respondents are creating and collecting digital materials, yet less than a third have policies in place that specifically address digital materials.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
629.html#article1
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Historical Next stage: moving from isolated digital collections to interoperable digital libraries
Besser, Howard In: First Monday (Date Created: 03 Jun 2002)
In this paper, Howard Besser of UCLA notes that many existing digital library developments are primarily collection based and that they often lack service or preservation components. He then discusses various ways in which we may be able to move from these isolated digital collections to a network of interoperable digital libraries. In doing so, he emphasises that libraries are not just collections but organisations that provide a variety of services (including their long-term stewardship over collections) and uphold ethical traditions (e.g. on privacy and equal access).
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view
/958/879
Norwegian National Digital Library
Takle, Marian In: Ariadne (Date Created: 30 Jul 2009) (Norway)
This article provides an overview of the Norwegian National Digital Library (NBdigital), the role of the National Library of Norway in its establishment and the library's digitisation strategy to digitise all Norwegian material. It briefly introduces the library's storage archive, the Digital Security Repository and priorities for digitisation.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/takle/
OAIS as a Reference Model for Repositories : an Evaluation
Allinson, Julie (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This draft for comment evaluates the applicability of OAIS across different types of repositories. The evaluation includes the OAIS functional model, adapting and conforming to OAIS, and measuring compliance. The author concludes that complaince to OAIS is achievable by various repositories due to its flexibility.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/publications/oais-evaluation-20060
7/Drs-OAIS-evaluation-0.5.pdf
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Historical Object Persistence and Availability in Digital Libraries
Allen, B Danette; Nelson, Michael L In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2002)
This article presents experimental results from the monitoring of persistence and availability of 1000 digital library objects in twenty web-accessible digital libraries over time.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/nelson/01nelson.html
D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1
Historical Open Video Digital Library
Geisler, Gary; Marchionini, Gary (Date Created: Dec 2002) (United States of America)
An overview of the Open Video Digital Library (OVDL) at the University of North Carolina. The article reviews the theoretical and practical goals of the digital library, provides some detail of its makeup, architecture and user interface and notes the digital library's future directions.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/marchionini/12marchionini.html
Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections
Beagrie, Neil In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 2005)
This article comments on the growth in the amount of digital content produced and stored by individuals and discusses the implications of this for collecting institutions. It surveys recent research and current services for storage and management provided by commercial organisations.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/june2005-beagrie
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/beagrie/06beagrie.html
PREMIS Requirement Statement Project Report
Clifton, Gerard; Langley, Somaya; Lee, Bronwyn (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This is the report of the Presta-Premis Requirement Statement Project which was conducted from December 2005 to June 2006. It was undertaken by the National Library of Australia for the Australian Partnership on Sustainable Repositories (APSR). The report specifies requirements for the collection metadata needed for long tem continuity of access to digital collections. The report includes recommendations on preservation metadata elements including mandatory elements; recommendations on tools for automatic metadata extraction; a recommended list of supported formats and a draft METS profile for exchanging preservation metadata and functional specifications and use cases for preservation events and event logging. The report concludes with a summary of 14 recommendations.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/presta.pdf
PRESERV Project
Niven, Kieron (Date Created: 25 Jul 2006) (United Kingdom)
This is an interview with Steve Hitchcock, Preserv Project Manager at the University of Southampton. He outlines the progress of the project. The project looks at implementing an ingest service based on the OAIS reference model for institutional archives built using Eprints software.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/join/preserv.html
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Historical Preservation of Scientific Serials : Three Current Examples
Arms, William Y. In: JEP - The Journal of Electronic Publishing (Date Created: Dec 1999)
This paper examines three journals in digital form: the ACM Digital Library, the Internet RFC series, and D-Lib Magazine and discusses the measures which can be taken today to preserve access to the information contained within these journals. The solutions proposed are "partly technical and partly organizational". The author proposes three levels of preservation: preserving the "look-and-feel" of the document; preservation of access, which entails maintaining both the underlying material and an effective system of access; and preservation of content. The role of publishers in archiving is discussed.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0005.202
Journal of Electronic Publishing, Volume 5, Issue 2
Preservation Research and Sustainable Digital Libraries
Hedstrom, Margaret; Ross, Seamus In: International Journal on Digital Libraries (Date Created: Aug 2005)
"The National Science Foundation and DELOS , the European Commission sponsored Network for Digital Libraries, supported a working group to define a research agenda for digital archiving and preservation (DAP-WG) within the context of digital libraries. The report of this group, Invest to Save, has laid out a range of research challenges that need to be addressed if we are to make progress in the development of sustainable digital libraries. DAP-WG considered archiving and preservation needs and the research that had been conducted to address these. It concluded that research in this domain could benefit from being expanded and refocused—new research communities must be engaged, the approaches to conducting the research must be made more rigorous, and a significant shift in what was being researched needed to be taken. The Group identified twenty-two key research activities worthy of investigation."
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/47875
Also available online by subscription at http://www.epnet.com/
Preserving African Digital Resources : Is There a Role for Repository Libraries
Lor, Peter Johan (Date Created: 2005) (Africa)
Although the amount of digital material produced in Africa is relatively small, very little of this material is being preserved. Many institutions do not have the capabilities for digital preservation due to lack of funding or expertise. The author suggests that digital repositories in developed countries in collaboration with African institutions may be able to embark on projects to preserve African digital heritage, providing certain guidelines which take into account ethnic, religious, political and legal aspects are kept.
http://hermia.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentTyp
e=Article&contentId=1463260
Library Management, ISSN 0143-5124, vol 26, no. 1/2, p. 63-72. Available via subscription from www.emeraldinsight.com
Historical Preserving Digital Libraries : Determining 'What' Before Deciding 'How'
Deken, Jean Marie (Date Created: 29 Nov 2004)
"Preservation of digital libraries is a complicated process that must begin with an appraisal of what is to be preserved before it moves on to the question of how to best preserve it. In order to fully understand the nature and attributes of digital documents and digital libraries, it is necessary to place them in the context of some of the other types of cultural artifacts that have been preserved over time, and to look at how the issues of fixity (stability) and durability (longevity) of these other artifacts have been addressed. Efforts to define digital documents and digital libraries are at the root of current research into the best ways of preserving both, and have been deeply affected by the blurred boundaries between parts, processes, and products; by the continually changing nature of digital entities; and by the entities' low fixity and low durability. Current research projects into the preservation of digital entities have concluded that a necessary first step is the appraisal of the 'significant properties' of digital objects."
http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J122v25n01_14
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a903520764~db=all~ord
er=page
Science & Technology Libraries Vol 25, no. 1/2 Dec 2004. Online via subscription from http://www.haworthpressinc.com/web/STL/. Simultaneously published as Emerging Issues in the Electronic Environment
Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals : Portico
Fenton, Eileen In: Ariadne (Date Created: Apr 2006)
Portico is a not for profit archive of born digital scholarly E-journals maintained by Ithaka Harbors Inc. This article gives an overview of Portico and then discusses issues including assessing and sustaining the archive and future plans.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/fenton/
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Preserving the Outputs of Research
Cathro, Warwick (Date Created: Nov 2004)
This paper was presented at the Archiving Web Resources conference in Canberra, Australia, November 9-11 2004. The paper discusses the issues and challenges of preserving both the primary outputs, such as datasets, and secondary outputs, such as journal articles, of research. The paper also focuses on the various responses to these issues by institutional repositories and national level programs. The author also argues for more collaboration between stakeholders as well as a role for national libraries in developing an infrastructure for the preservation of these outputs.
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2004/cathro1.html
PRONOM
National Archives (UK) (United Kingdom)
PRONOM is a database system that stores and provides information about file formats and the application software needed to open them. It stores detailed descriptions of software applications, including what file formats an application can read and write to, any dependencies that may exist in order to run the application
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/
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Historical PRONOM : a Practical Online Compendium of File Formats
Darlington, Jeffrey In: RLG DigiNews (Date Created: 15 Oct 2003) (United Kingdom)
PRONOM is a database established by the National Archives (UK) that stores and provides information on file formats and the software applications needed to read them. This article provides an overview of the purpose, content development strategies and future development plans for PRONOM. The latest version, the web-enabled PRONOM 3, is also described.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file1
925.html#feature2
To Protect and Serve : Making Digital Repositories Safe and Accessible for the Long Term
Ruthven, Tom In: Information Online 2005 : 12th Conference and Exhibition (Date Created: Feb 2005) (Australia)
This short paper discusses the issues related to digital repositories, what they hold and how they can be made sustainable.
http://conferences.alia.org.au/online2005/papers/b2.pdf
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Historical Report of the Digital Preservation Policy Working Group on Establishing a Central Depository for Preserving Digital Image Collections, Part 1: Responsibilities of Transferee
Kenney , Anne R. ; Rieger, Oya Y. (Date Created: Mar 2001) (United States of America)
The Digital Preservation Policy Working Group of Cornell University Library's plan for establishing a central depository as part of a digital preservation solution for Cornell's digital image collections is based on two recommendations: the formation of such a centralised depository for ensuring continuing access to the collections, and collaboration with transferees to provide both access and security to deposited files. This report, in PDF format, represents the first part of that plan and defines requirements for transfer of materials to the central depository and indicates the depository's possible roles and responsibilities.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/imls/image%20deposit%20guidelines.pdf
Historical Report of the Workshop on Opportunities for Research on the Creation, Management, Preservation and Use of Digital Content
Barnett, Bill; Bishoff, Liz; Borgman, Christine; Caplan, Priscilla; Hamma, Ken; Lynch, Clifford (Date Created: Sep 2003) (United States of America)
Based on a workshop titled “Opportunities for Research on the Creation, Management, Preservation and Use of Digital Content” held in Washington DC on 16-18 March 2003, this report “summarises the results of the workshop and presents suggestions for useful areas of research”. Suggested research areas on the preservation of digital content include models for digital repositories, the need for cooperative repositories, economic models for preservation and risk analysis. The report also includes a handout on the “Preservation Breakout Session” workshop.
http://www.imls.gov/pdf/digitalopp.pdf
Historical Report on the Fifth International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2002)
Cunningham, Sally Jo In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2003)
A brief report on the 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries held in Singapore, 11-14 December, 2002. Topics included challenges in building digital libraries and examples of practical implementations.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/cunningham/01cunningham.html
Historical Report on the Sixth European Conference on Digital Libraries
Buchanan, George (Date Created: Oct 2002)
A report on the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002), held in Rome, 15-18 September, 2002. A greater focus on the technical aspects of digital libraries is noted, with web archiving, architecture, standards and usability included as major topics.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/buchanan/10buchanan.html
Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems : a Bottom Up Approach
Lipkis, Tom; Morabito, Seth; Reich, Vicky; Robertson, Thomas; Rosenthal, David S. H. In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Nov 2005)
This article discusses the threats to digital preservation repositories and the strategies that can be utilised to negate these threats, including using audit mechanisms to detect errors and failures and other strategies such as replication, transparency, migration and diversity. The article concentrates on threats from internal sources such as operator error, software and hardware failure and storage media failure.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2005-rosenthal
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/rosenthal/11rosenthal.html
Research Library's Role in Digital Repository Services : Final Report of the ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force
ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force (Date Created: Jan 2009) (United States of America)
This report (52 p.) identifies key issues surrounding repository development, explores common strategies that libraries are using, analyzes relevant environmental trends, discusses issues where ARL and its member libraries should focus attention, and makes recommendations for research libraries to undertake in relation to building partnerships and developing service and marketing strategies.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/repository-services-report.pdf
Historical Research Questions for the Digital Era Library
Marcum, Deanna B. (Date Created: 2003)
The author of this article maintains that the library's role in the use of digital information, particularly in regard to access to high quality digital research materials, needs to be reassessed. This article identifies three areas where research is required to meet future needs. One of the three areas is an analysis of what elements are required for a comprehensive preservation strategy. The author details why a preservation strategy is important for libraries and also reports on previous and current suggestions for research in digital preservation related areas.
in Library Trends, Vol. 51, Issue 4, Spring 2003, pp636-651
Risk Management Foundations for Digital Libraries: DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment)
Innocenti, Perla; McHugh, Andrew; Ross, Seamus; Ruusalepp, Raivo (Date Created: 20 Sep 2007)
This paper proposes the use of the DRAMBORA audit toolkit to ensure the digital preservation capabilities of digital libraries. The paper describes the development of the toolkit and considers its potential use in the context of digital libraries.
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=597&It
emid=328#programOK
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Historical RLG Open Forum: Converging, Emerging Standards for Digital Preservation
Research Libraries Group (Date Created: Jun 2002) (United States of America)
This page provides links to presentations made at the RLG Open Forum held on June 16, 2002, as part of the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Altanta, Georgia, USA. Topics include standards work in preservation metadata for various media, the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) and work with the Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) model.
http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/09/28/0000073852/viewer/file5
46.html
Historical Role of Audit and Certification in Digital Preservation : Workshop Report
ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network) In: Audit and Certification in Digital Preservation : ERPANET Workshop (Date Created: 14 Apr 2004) (Belgium)
This report summarises the papers given at the ERPANET workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 14-16, 2004. It includes the organisational and practical issues in the implementation of audit and certification procedures.
http://www.erpanet.org/events/2004/antwerpen/Workshop_Antwerpen_report
.pdf
Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories
McHugh, Andrew; Ross, Seamus In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This article discusses the role of edvidence in the certification process; identifies various types of evidence such as documentary, observational, and testimonial evidence; and discusses the use of evidence against which a repository audit can be measured and checklist criteria validated.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/ross/07ross.html
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Historical Scalable Models of Data Sharing in Earth Sciences
Helly, John; Koppers, Anthony; Staudigel, Hubert (Date Created: 23 Jan 2002) (United States of America)
this article discusses options for the publication, archiving and exchange of scholarly data in earth science disciplines and proposes a Metadata Interchange Format (.mif) that could be used for the effective sharing of data and metadata across digital libraries.
http://www.beamreach.org/research/data_sharing_model_GC2002.pdf
Also in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol 4, 25 January 2003.
Seamless Cyberinfrastructure : The Challenges of Studying Users of Mass Digitization and International Repositories
Schmitz, Dawn (Date Created: Apr 2008)
This report examines knowledge of the users of institutional repositories (IRs) and collections created by mass digitization projects. It provides an overview of the literature published since 2003 on users and user issues relating to mass digitization; studies on user behaviour; and outlines some methodologies for studying electronic resource user behaviours and preferences and how these might be applied to increase understanding of users of IRs and mass-digitized collections.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/schmitz.pdf
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Historical Setting Up an Institutional E-print Archive
Gardner, Michael; MacColl, John; Pinfield, Stephen In: Ariadne (Date Created: 16 Apr 2002)
Based on the experiences at the universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham in setting up pilot e-print servers, this article provides an account of several practical issues, including document types and formats, submission procedures, metadata standards and digital preservation issues, as well as encouraging user participation in the archive.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue31/eprint-archives/
SHERPA DP Project
Jones, Maggie (Date Created: Nov 2005)
This is the first of a series of reports on member projects of the Digital Preservation Coalition. The SHERPA project is investigating a sustainable, repository-independent model for preservation. Maggie Jones of the DPC interviews Andrew Wilson of the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) about SHERPA.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/join/sherpa.html
Historical SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide
Crow, Raym (Date Created: Nov 2002) (United States of America)
This guide details the issues that institutions and consortia need to address in implementing an institutional repository. These issues include technical considerations such as content longevity, data migration, persistent identifiers and digital formats; cost issues, intellectual property rights and repository management issues. Each section has resources and further reading links.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/IR_Guide_&_Checklist_v1.pdf
Standards Framework for Digital Library Programmes
Dunning,Alastair; Hollins, Paul; Johnston, Pete; Kelly, Brian; Phipps, Lawrie; Russell, Rosemary (Date Created: 2005) (United Kingdom)
This paper discusses some of the issues in using open standards and uses case studies to illustrate them. The author supports the use of open standards and proposes a 'layered' model for selection and use of these standards which involves the consideration of contextual, policy and compliance issues.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/ichim05/html/
Also available in MS WORD format.
Standards-based Solution for the Accurate Transfer of Digital Assets
Bekaert, Jeroen ; Van de Sompel, Herbert In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 2005) (United States of America)
This article describes the results of a collaboration between the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the American Physical Society (APS) to produce a system for the transfer of digital content from the APS collection to LANL. It discusses the standards involved including: MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration (MPEG-21 DID), MPEG-21 Digital Item Identification (MPEG-21 DII), the W3C XML Signature Syntax and Processing standard, and OAI-PMH and includes the schema in appendices.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/june2005-bekaert
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/bekaert/06bekaert.html
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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
State of the Nation : A Snapshot of Australian Institutional Repositories
Kennan, Mary Anne; Kingsley, Danny A. (Date Created: Feb 2009) (Australia)
This article provides a snapshot of institutional repositories at Australian universities as at September 2008 based on a survey of all 39 universities. Questions asked in the survey included dates of planning and operation, funding arrangements, methods of recruiting content, Professional background, training, repository software platforms, consortium membership, services offered, and collection inclusions.
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/228
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Historical STM Members and Digital Archiving
Hunter, Karen (Date Created: 2002)
This article discusses the development and issues of digital archiving generally, and journal archiving in particular, from the perspective of the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). The article discusses various projects involving STM, including collaborative projects such as the Yale-Elsevier Science Project and LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe). The article also examines the cost issues of journal archiving to publishers and discusses various economic models and collaborative activities that could be used to reduce the problem.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=639445.639452&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUID
E&CFID=67986868&CFTOKEN=28028247
Available in Information Services and Use, vol. 22, iss 2/3, 2002, ISSN 0167-5265 ; and online by subscription at www.ebscohost.com
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Historical Strategies for Building Digitized Collections
Smith, Abby (Date Created: Sep 2001) (United States of America)
In this report, Abby Smith, of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), distills the 10 years' experience that libraries have had in digitising collection items for online access. Along with case studies, the report outlines rationales for digitisation, selection of material and the impact on institutions, including funding, collection management and preservation issues. Recommendations from the report focus on clarity in purpose, selection, costing, target audience, metadata schemes and online availability.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html
Available online as full text or PDF, or for purchase in print
Strategies for Managing Digital Content Formats
Williamson, Andrew (Date Created: Jun 2005)
This article discusses an open standards based approach to digital preservation. The author canvasses some of the problems inherent in using proprietary formats as opposed to open formats. A strategy for managing digital formats is outlined, including documentation, emulation, refreshment, migration, controlled storage and backup/recovery procedures.
http://hermia.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00242530510629515
Library Review, ISSN 0024-2535, vol. 54, no. 9 (2005)
Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development : CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to S&T Data in Developing Countries
CODATA (Date Created: 2006) (South Africa)
This website includes links to the final Report, Executive Summary, and presentations from the September 2005 CODATA Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development. The South African workshop focused on issues related to the preservation of and access to scientific information resources in developing countries. It includes sections on policy and legal issues, institutional and economic issues, management and technical issues and covers specific types of data including scientific, technical and medical data and earth and environmental data.
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/html/workshopCodataPublications.html
Report of workshop held 5-7 September 2005 at the CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
Historical Summary Report of the Series of Joint NSF-EU Working Groups on Future Directions for Digital Libraries Research
Schauble, Peter; Smeaton, Alan F. (Date Created: 12 Oct 1998)
This report describes a collaborative effort among leading researchers from the US and Europe to establish a joint international digital libraries research agenda. Five reports cover the following areas: Intellectual Property and Economics, Interoperability, Global Resource Discovery, Metadata, and Multilingual Information Access. The report also includes a useful "Sources of Further Information" section which includes Journal Special Issues on Digital Libraries, Digital Library Journals and Conferences/Proceedings.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070611223726/www.dli2.nsf.gov/internation
alprojects/workgroups.html
Site archived by the Internet Archive.
Summit on on Digital Collections : Working Papers
Collections Council of Australia Ltd (Date Created: Aug 2006) (Australia)
These working papers (56 p. plus errata) draw together and provide a framework for the information and issues discussed at the National Summit on Digital Collections held in Adelaide, South Australia, 16-17 August 2006. The Collections Council of Australia hosted the Summit for the collections sector with the aim of developing a national policy and strategy for the development and maintenance of digital collections. The working papers include the current situation of Digital collections in Australia and a proposed Australian framework for digital heritage collections.
http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au/national+framework+on+digital+col
lections.aspx
Survey of Data Collections : a Research Project Undertaken for the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
Bradley, Kevin; Henty, Margaret (Date Created: Dec 2005) (Australia)
The paper discusses the results of the Survey of Data Collections, which was conducted in 2005 and covered the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) member institutions. The survey consisted of a set of formal questions and recorded interviews. Issues raised by the survey include file formats, data duplication, storage and backup, digitisation, and future use and designated life of materials. Some recommendations in relation to these issues are also included in the report.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/data_collections.htm
Also available in pdf.
Historical Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
Zorich, Diane M. (Date Created: Jun 2003) (United States of America)
This report is based on a survey of North American Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives (DCHIs) conducted in 2002. The purpose of the survey was to identify the scope, financing, organizational structure, and sustainability of DCHIs. Issues including preservation of digital resources and intellectual property rights are discussed.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub118/contents.html
Sustainability Issues for Australian Research Data : the Report of the Australian E-research Sustainability Research Project
Buchhorn, Markus; McNamara, Paul (Date Created: Oct 2006) (Australia)
This is a report on a survey that examined sustainability issues for data-intensive research projects.The issues included the lack of support for long term data management, the lack of a workable national data management system and problems associated with a decentralised data management infrastructure. The report proposes that a data stewardship sytem that interlinks policy and infrastructure would address many of these issues. This report also provides an overview of future scenarios and actions.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/aeres_report.pdf
Sustainability of Word Processing Documents
Barnes, Ian (Date Created: Jan 2006)
This is a project of the Australian Partnership of Sustainable Repositories (APSR). This brief document provides an overview of the problem and includes a draft preservation strategy.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/currentprojects/wordprocessing.html
Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: 'Curation' and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries
Angevaare, Inge (Date Created: Mar 2009)
This article in Liber Quarterly considers data curation in research libraries; the types of digital information dealt with and the factors behind the decision to curate in-house or externally. A provisional list of do's and don't is included.
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000278/article.pdf
Liber Quarterly, ISSN 1435-2005, Vol 19 (2009) no. 1
Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities
Henty, Margaret (Date Created: May 2007) (Australia)
This article reports the results of a series of interviews with senior Australian university personnel conducted by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR) in 2006. The issues identified by interviewees were 1. Roles and responsibilities; 2. Sustaining the service; 3. Engaging the community; 4. Guaranteeing quality of the service; 5. Defining the collection; 6. Research reporting and compliance; 7. The repository and e-research; 8. skills and staffing; 9. Technology; and 10. The regulatory environment: copyright and digital rights management. The author adds an eleventh major issue - long term preservation.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/henty/05henty.html
D-Lib Magazine, Vol 13 No.5/6, May June 2007
Towards an Open Source Repository and Preservation System: Recommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archive and Preservation System and on Related Software Development
Blackall, Chris; Bradley, Kevin; Lei, Junran (Date Created: Jun 2007)
This report was commissioned by the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Sub Committee on Technology to survey Open Source Repository and Preservation Software, to analyse existing gaps and to make recommendations for the development and packaging of an Open Source Digital Preservation System. The document defines the requirements for a digital archive and preservation system using standard hardware and describes a set of open source software that could be used to implement it.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/24700/11824297751towards_open_sou
rce_repository.doc/towards_open_source_repository.doc
Available for download from http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24700&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Historical Transforming Libraries: Issues and Innovations in Preserving Digital Information
Soete, George J. (Date Created: 1998) (United States of America)
This preliminary report in the ARL Transforming Libraries series discusses the role that libraries might play in preserving digital information. It includes a summary of comments from twenty-one stakeholders on digital preservation issues. Overviews from various institutions (university libraries, national libraries, publishers) provide information about how these groups are tackling the problems associated with digital preservation. SP228.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061209222748/http://www.arl.org/transform
/pdi/index.html
ARL Transforming Libraries, Issue 5. Flyer for Spec Kit SP228 at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec-228-flyer.pdf
Unique Approach to Institutional Repository: Practice of National Taiwan University
Jieh Hsiang; Kuang-hua Chen (Date Created: 2009) (Taiwan)
This article describes the development of an institutional repository at the National Taiwan University. The repository is based on D-Space but has been modified for Chinese users.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640470910947566
The Electronic Library ISSN 0264-0473 vol 27 no. 2 pp: 204-221
Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals
Association of Research Libraries (Date Created: 15 Oct 2005)
This document, issued by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), arose out of a recent meeting of library leaders hosted by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and describes four key actions needed to support the development of preservation archives for scholarly e-journals. ARL's Scholarly Communication Steering Committee will be developing objectives and action items stemming from the statement's recommendations.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/ejournalpreservation_final.pdf
Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users
Maness, Jack M.; Miaskiewicz, Tomasz; Sumner, Tamara In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Sep 2008) (United States of America)
This article reports on a study at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) which yielded "personas" describing different classes of potential institutional repository (IR) users with a view to developing a method which could be used as an aid to designing IR's with increased usage.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september08/maness/09maness.html
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Historical Value-Added Surrogates for Distributed Content : Establishing a Virtual Control Zone
Lagoze, C.; Payette, S. In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jun 2000)
This paper describes the Value-Added Surrogate (V-AS) which is used to enhance the functionality of digital content outside one's direct control. The V-AS design is based on the Fedora Digital Object Model. One application of the V-AS is for long-term preservation monitoring.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/payette/06payette.html
Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries
Lynch, Clifford In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jul 2005) (United States of America)
In this article, Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) provides an overview of digital libraries from the past, present and into the future. Lynch details the future challenges facing the research and development of digital libraries. A particularly difficult challenge he mentions is the fundamental issue of digital preservation and the importance of long-term funding for research into a problem that will attract growing interest commercially and publicly over the next decade. By raising research areas pertinent to the use and role of digital libraries, he offers a way forward for the integration and acceptance of digital libraries into the broader information environment.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch/07lynch.html
White Paper on Digital Repositories
Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Kaiser, Max (Date Created: Mar 2005)
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). This extensive paper (90 p) provides an overview of current activities and trends in digital repositories internationally as well as a detailed analysis of the activities of the reUSE project whereby digital master files are preserved and managed as well as the corresponding hardcopy versions. The paper covers the Projects' partners, stakeholders, interoperability and digital preservation, reUSE demonstrators, and voluntary deposit agreements.
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/reuse/docs/reuse-d11_whitepaper_10.pdf
Workshop Series for Grid/Repository Integration
Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Blanke, Tobias; Chue Hong, Neil P.; Ferguson, Nicholas; Hedges, Mark In: D-Lib magazine (Date Created: Jan 2009)
This article reports on a series of four workshops held in 2008 to explore the interfaces between grid- and repository-based architectures. Various aspects of preservation were emphasised including metadata creation and capturing discourse directly into repositories.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january09/aschenbrenner/01aschenbrenner.html
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Historical Yale Electronic Archive - One Year of Progress: Report on the Digital Preservation Planning Project
Yale University Library (Date Created: Feb 2002) (United States of America)
A report on the progress of the collaborative planning effort between Yale University Library and Elsevier Science for the archiving of electronic journals, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The planning project sought to "understand better the scope and scale of digital journal preservation" and "identify practical next steps" for a large collection of commercially published journals. The report recognises the need for co-operative efforts and standards and relationships between publishers and archivers, and discusses the building of a prototype archive. The report is available in PDF format, either as sections or as a complete document.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/yea/
Historical YLE Digital Sound Archive
Frilander, Jouni; Gronow, Pekka; Home, Petri; Petaja, Markku; Salosaari, Pekka ; Vihonen, Lasse In: DigiCULT.Info Newsletter (Date Created: Aug 2003) (Finland)
This article looks at the challenges and issues faced by Yleisradio (YLE) - Finland’s public service broadcaster - in relation to the establishment of a digital sound archive of broadcast materials. Areas explored include the background and different types of collections in the archive; the main goals, functions and components of adopting a digital system and aims for the radio archive's digital preservation plan.
http://data.digicult.info/download/digicult_newsletter_issue4_highres.
pdf
New Are You Ready? Assessing Whether Organisations are Prepared for Digital Preservation
Billeness, Clive; Duckworth, James; Farqhuar, Adam; Humphreys, Jane; Jardine, Lewis; Keen, Ann; Sharpe, Robert; Sinclair, Pauline (Date Created: Oct 2009)
This paper presented at IPRES 2009 (5-6 October, 2009, San Francisco) discusses a survey undertaken by the Planets project in early 2009 of over 200 European national libraries, archives and content holders. The survey was aimed at assessing participating organisations' digital preservation activities and readiness, and the ability of Planets services to assist in meeting their needs.
http://planets-project.eu/docs/papers/Sharpe_AreYouReady_iPres2009.pdf

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Books

Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States MIRACLE Project Research Findings
Markey, Karen; Rieh, Soo Young ; St Jean, Beth; Kim, Jihyun; Yakel, Elizabeth (Date Created: Feb 2007) (United States of America)
This detailed report (140p) describes the results of a nationwide census of institutional repositories (IRs) in the United states conducted by the MIRACLE Project at the University of Michigan. Questions included who does/does not have IRs; experiences with IR-system software packages; progress on IR policies; contribution rates; benefits and long term issues.
ISBN: 9781932326284
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub140abst.html
Also available in PDF: CLIR Report 140
Historical Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age
Deegan, Marilyn; Tanner, Simon (Last Updated: 2001) (United Kingdom)
This book takes a strategic approach to the development and implementation of digital technologies in the library sector including digitisation, resource discovery, preservation and digital libraries.
ISBN: 1-85604-411-4
http://www.facetshop.co.uk/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&P
roduct_Code=580-3&Category_Code=
Digital Libraries: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization: 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2004, Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004. Proceedings
Chen, Hsinchun ; Chen, Zhaoneng; Miao, Qihao (Date Created: 2005)
The conference proceedings of ICADL 2004 include papers by Keller, M and Chen, S.S. on aspects of digital preservation.
ISBN: 3540240306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b104284
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-153-22-37162
301-detailsPage%253Dppmmedia%257CaboutThisBook%257CaboutThisBook,00.ht
ml
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3334
Historical Digital Library: A Biography
Daniel Greenstein; Suzanne E. Thorin (Last Updated: Dec 2002) (United States of America)
A report analysing the development of academic digital libraries from their initial status as research and development projects to their current maturing status as core providers of networked access to digital surrogates and electronic resources. The report is compiled from a survey of US research libraries and case studies of several proto-digital libraries and looks at the philosophies and management environments that created the first digital libraries and the ongoing inter-library and faculty co-ordination that is driving future directions. 2nd ed. Dec 2002
ISBN: 1887334955
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html
acessible online in HTML and PDF formats and available as a print version for US $20 from CLIR
A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories: Five Studies of Important Digital Repository Related Issues and Good Practices
Waaijers, Leo; Weenink, Kasja (Date Created: 16 Jan 2008) (Netherlands)
This 215 page guide is intended as a practical guide for repository managers and institutions establishing a digital repository at the local or national level. It focuses on five aspects: the business plan, intellectual property rights, storing research data, curation of data and long-time conservation of data.
ISBN: 9789053564110
http://dare.uva.nl/document/93898
Also available in print from Amsterdam University Press
Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries : Byting the Bullet
Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan (Date Created: Oct 2008) (United States of America)
This book is based on papers from a international conference "The Economics and Usage of Digital Library Collections" held at Ann Arbor, Michigan on 23-24 March 2000 to mark the end of the PEAK (Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge) experiment which was a trial in electronic access, pricing and bundling by the University of Michigan and Elsevier Science which took place 1996-1999. The original papers were revised and updated in 2004. The book provides both a historical record of developments in electronic publishing and delivery during the 1990's and a perspective on issues which are still relevant.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.5621225.0001.001
SPO Scholarly Monograph Series
New Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology: Survey on Technology
van Godtsenhoven, Karen (Introduction) (Date Created: Oct 2009) (Netherlands)
This study for the DRIVER II project (209 p.) is intended as a technology watch for digital publications. It has two main parts: New technologies and communities; and Interoperability. It includes ten chapters by different authors including a chapter on long-term preservation.
ISBN: 9789089641892
http://dare.uva.nl/document/150752
New European Repository Landscape 2008 : Inventory of Digital Repositories for Research Output
van der Graaf, Maurits (Date Created: Oct 2009)
This study for the DRIVER project investigates the current state of European Union digital repositories for research output and follows on from a study undertaken in 2006. It provides a complete inventory of digital repositories in the European Union countries as at 2008 and compares the results with the earlier 2006 survey.
ISBN: 9789089641908
http://dare.uva.nl/document/150724
The European Repository Landscape : Inventory Study Into Present Type and Level of OAI Compliant Digital Repository Activities in the EU
van Eijndhoven, Kwame; van der Graf, Maurits (Date Created: 16 Jan 2008) (Netherlands)
This study for the DRIVER project investigates the current state of European Union digital repositories for research output. It provides a complete inventory of digital repositories in the 27 countries of the European Union as at 2007.
ISBN: 9789053564103
http://dare.uva.nl/document/93725
Also available in print from Amsterdam University Press
The Institutional Repository
Andrew. Theo; Jones, Richard; MacColl, John (Date Created: Jan 2006)
This monograph discusses the practical issues in establishing and maintaining institutional repositories, including technical requirements, workflows and administration. The Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) is used as an extensive case study.
ISBN: 1843341832
http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1699&ChandosTitl
e=1
International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories
Primary Research Group (Date Created: Nov 2007)
This 121 page study presents data from 56 institutional digital repositories including higher education libraries from eleven countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, South Africa, India, Turkey and other countries. It includes extensive tables and commentary describing norms and benchmarks for all aspects of repository management broken down by size and type of institution.
ISBN: 1-57440-090-8
http://www.primaryresearch.com/2008031221-Libraries--Information-Scien
ce.html
Available for sale in print and pdf versions from this website.
Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services
Andre, Francis; Foulonneau, Muriel (Date Created: 16 Jan 2008) (Netherlands)
This 112 page report for the DRIVER project consortium (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) reviews the current standards, protocols and applications in European institutional repositories and the requirements for future enhanced access to digital resources.
ISBN: 9789053564127
http://dare.uva.nl/document/93727
Also available in print from AmsterdamUniversity Press
Networking for Digital Preservation : Current Practice in 15 National Libraries
Verheul, Ingeborg (Date Created: Mar 2006)
In 2004-2005, The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) conducted for the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) a survey on the use and development of standards in digital archiving within the international library world. The survey resulted in this report. The report examines the 'state of the art of digital repositories, preservation strategies and current projects in the national libraries of Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. '
ISBN: 9783598218477
http://archive.ifla.org/V/pr/saur119.htm
IFLA Publications; 119
Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives; the South Asian Scenario
Kumar Das, Anup (Date Created: 2008) (India; Pakistan)
This book (137 p. ) describes successful digital library and open access initiatives in the South-Asia sub-region India and Pakistan) including institutional repositories, national-level open access repositories, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, and open courseware.
ISBN: 9788189218218
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26393&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL
_SECTION=201.html
Available online in PDF.
Historical Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 4th European Conference, ECDL 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2000. Proceedings
Springer (Borbinha, J.; Baker , T. (Eds.)) (Date Created: Sep 2000)
Contains links to abstracts and papers presented at ECDL 2000 in areas of: optical recognition, information retrieval, metadata, frameworks, multimedia, digital libraries. Access to table of contents and abstracts is free-of-charge. (Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1923.)
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t1923.htm
Historical Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. Proceedings
Springer (Agosti, M; Thanos, C (Eds.)) (Date Created: Sep 2002)
Contains links to abstracts and papers presented at ECDL 2002 in areas of web archiving, e-book and web technologies, navigation, information and audiovisual retrieval, multimedia, preservation, classification and metadata. Access to the table of contents and abstracts is free-of-charge. (Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 2458)
ISBN: 3-540-44178-6
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0302-9743&vol
ume=2458
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Historical Setting up a Deposit System for Electronic Publications, the Nedlib Guidelines
Steenbakkers, Johan; Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Date Created: Nov 2000) (Netherlands)
This paper summarises the findings of a NEDLIB project that explored a joint approach towards the management and maintenance of electronic publications. The key objective was to produce a common model and terminology for the deposit system for electronic publications. The paper compares the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) with the NEDLIB model and discusses issues such as storage, preparing electronic publications for deposit and setting up a deposit system. It was found that more standards and technology are needed in the area of digital preservation.
ISBN: 9062591493
http://nedlib.kb.nl/results/NEDLIBguidelines.pdf
Report No. 5 in NEDLIB report series
Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries
Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Catherine (Date Created: Feb 2008) (United States of America)
This book of essays exploring the sustainability of digital libraries is edited by Catherine Skinner & Martin Halbert and was inspired by the symposium Sustaining Digital Libraries held at Emory University in the summer of 2006.
ISBN: 0977299414
http://digital.library.emory.edu/SSDL
Available as PDF and in print.
Understanding Digital Libraries : 2nd ed.
Lesk, Michael (Date Created: Dec 2004)
Contents of this monograph include collections and preservation, multimedia storage and retrieval, knowledge representation schemes such as XML and intellectual property rights.
ISBN: 1558609245
http://books.elsevier.com/uk/bookscat/search/details.asp?mscssid=NLT60
V17AJKH9NLKET76HTX98JSC5MNE&country=United+Kingdom&community=mk&imprin
t=Morgan+Kaufmann&isbn=1558609245
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia and Information Systems

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Events

1st African Digital Management and Curation Conference and Workshop
12 - 13 Feb 2008 , CSIR Convention Centre, Pretoria (South Africa)
This conference looked at international trends and perspectives on digital management and curation in various sciences and for e-research. Presentations are available from the website.
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/nadicc/index.html
OR 2008. The 3rd International Conference on Open Repositories
01 - 04 Apr 2008 , Southhampton, UK (United Kingdom)
This conference will include "workshops and tutorials followed by general conference sessions that cover cross-cutting and overarching issues and EPrints/DSPace and Fedora user group meetings". Presentations available from the website.
http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
2009 National Digital Forum Conference : Being Online Now: Culture Creativity and Community
23 - 24 Nov 2009 , Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (New Zealand)
This conference will explore opportunities for the creative and cultural sectors to cross traditional boundaries and collaborate on solutions to address issues facing communities being online now and also how creating and accessing New Zealand digital content benefits all parts of society: business, education, cultural organisations, local communities.
http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/2009-conference.htm
OR 2009: The 4th International Conference on Open Repositories
18 - 21 May 2009 , Atlanta, Georgia (United States of America)
This conference aims to "bring together individuals and organizations responsible for the conception, development, implementation and management of digital repositories, as well as stakeholders who interact with them, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues." Open source software community meetings for the major platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) will also provide opportunities to advance and coordinate the development of repository installations across the world." Workshops on VITAL, SWORD and DSpace. Presentations (slides, text and some videos) are available.
https://or09.library.gatech.edu/
37th LIBER Annual General Conference : Bridging the Digital Divide: Effective Library Partnerships in the Digital Age
01 - 05 Jul 2008 , Koç University Suna Kiraç Library, Turkey (Turkey)
The 2008 annual conference of Liber (The Ligue Des Bibliotèques Européennes de Recherche : the Association of European Research Libraries) explored various topics of interest to European digital research libraries including access, web archiving, digital preservation and digitisation. Presentations available from the presentations page.
http://www.ku.edu.tr/ku/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2011
&Itemid=2917&lang=en
38th LIBER Annual General Conference 2009 : Innovation Through Collaboration
30 Jun - 03 Jul 2009 , Toulouse University, France
LIBER
(France)
This conference will include session on current issues of interest to research libraries including digitization - Europeana, Digital Curation, Copyright, e-science, e-learning, and International licensing amongst others. Presentations available.
http://liber2009.biu-toulouse.fr/
New 39th LIBER Annual General Conference: Re-inventing the Library: Challenges in the new Information Environment
29 Jun - 02 Jul 2010 , Aarhus, Denmark
LIBER
(Denmark)
The 2010 Liber Annual General Conference is being organised by the State and University Library, Aarhus. Themes include: The Library in the context of e-Science; The Library in the context of e-Education; Making collections digitally available; and, Library managment.
https://togather.eu/handle/123456789/409
Historical 3rd International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS 3): 'Digital Libraries: Interdisciplinary Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities'
23 - 26 May 1999 , Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik (IUC) Dubrovnik (Croatia) Has papers: CoLIS3 Proceedings: Digital Libraries, Interdisciplinary Concepts Challenges and Opportunities
http://mudrac.ffzg.hr/infoz/colis3/
Historical 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002)
16 - 18 Sep 2002 , Pontifical University, Rome (Italy) Reviewed by: Report on the Sixth European Conference on Digital Libraries Has papers: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. Proceedings
The focus of ECDL 2002 was on underlying principles, methods, systems and tools to build and make available effective digital libraries to end users.
http://www.ecdl2002.org/
Proceedings available from Springer as LNCS http://www.springerlink.com/content/1tgh3khw1atr/
8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries : ICADL 2005
12 - 15 Dec 2005 , Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok, (Thailand)
Conference theme is "Implementing strategies and sharing experiences" and topics include digital archives and museums and digital preservation.
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icadl/icadl2005.html
Proceedings available from Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3815/2005, ISBN 978-3-540-30850-8
9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries : ECDL European Conference on Digital Libraries 2005
18 - 23 Sep 2005 , Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, (Austria)
Topics include digital preservation. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), in hard copy and electronic form.
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ecdl2005/
Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3652 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-28767-1
9th International Bielefeld Conference 2009 : Upgrading the E-library : Enhanced Information Services Driven by Technology and Economics
03 - 05 Feb 2009 , Bielefeld, Germany (Germany)
This conference aims to provide insights into the future of eLibraries, based on the threefold interdependency of service, technology, and economics.
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2009/index.htm
9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries : ICADL 2006
27 - 30 Nov 2006 , Kyoto (Japan)
ICADL2006 focuses on the use, adoption and adaptation of digital libraries, which include work surrounding digital libraries and related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and social issues. Proceedings published by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 4312, ISBN 3-540-49375-1.
http://www.icadl2006.org/
Academic Library and Information Services : New Paradigms for a Digital Age : 8th International Bielefeld Conference
07 - 09 Feb 2006 , Conference Hall, Bielefeld (Germany)
This conference on academic libraries in the digital age explored the current state of research libraries, transnational reference services, and linking of digital libraries. Workshops of particular interest on Archiving/E-deposit,and Networking institutional repositories Presentations available from the website. Proceedings have been published in Library Hi-Tech, Vol 24, No 4, 2006, Academic information services: new paradigms.
http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2006/index.htm
Adding Value to Data - Digital Repositories in the E-Science World
07 - 12 Dec 2008 , Indianapolis (United States of America)
This special session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-science will include topics such as digital preservation and curation in research infrastructures, metadata extraction, and workflow integration.
http://dresnet.net/ieee-escience-2008-cfp
Three papers published in 2008 Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience, ISBN 978-0-7695-3535-7, by subscription through IEEE Computer Science Digital Library.
Beyond the Repository Fringe 2009
Jul 2009 , University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
This event event hosted by the University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, the School of Informatics, EDINA, and Information Services, as well as UKOLN and EPrints, is sponsored by JISC. The event will consider developments in the repository landscape and will include two special workshops 1. DISC-UK DataShare Workshop Data Requirements and Digital Repositories; 2. Digital Curation Centre Associates Network Workshop Digital Curation 101 'Lite', in addition to demonstrations, tutorials and show and tell. Keynotes by Ben O'Steen, Sally Rumse and Clifford Lynch.
http://www.repositoryfringe.org/
CALIBER 2009 : 7th International Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions : E-Content Management: Challenges and Strategies
25 - 27 Feb 2009 , Pondicherry University, Puducherry
Information & Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET)
(India)
The 2009 annual CALIBER conference organised by INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network Centre), India's premier library network, which has as its main theme E-content management : challenge and strategie. Subthemes are Digital preservation and digital persistence, Web Content management, Web 2.0/Library 2.0 and E-publishing. Full text papers and presentations available from the programme page.
http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/caliber2009/
code4lib 2006
15 - 17 Feb 2006 , LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (United States of America)
This event is for technologists building digital libraries and digital information systems, tools, and software.
http://www.code4lib.org/2006
Some Powerpoint presentation available from http://code4lib.org/2006/schedule
Cultural Heritage On Line - the Challenge of Accessibility and Preservation
14 - 16 Dec 2006 , Firenze, Italy
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale
(Italy)
Main topics: Digital libraries; Digital preservation technical and organisational issues; Trusted digital repositories; Audio-visual archives Abstracts and presentations available from the website.
http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/indexEN.php?SEZ=396
Cultural Heritage Online : Empowering Users : An Active Role for User Communities
15 - 16 Dec 2009 , Florence, Italy
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale
(Italy)
"This conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of selected themes." Main topics: Cultural Heritage & interactive Web; Digital Libraries; Cooperation among museums, archives, libraries; and, Digital preservation. Conference organised by Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale with Ministerio per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali and the Library of Congress. Satellite events include tutorials "Long Term Preservation of Digital Assets: Basic Concepts and Practices" and "Dublin Core - Building Blocks for Interoperability".
http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference-2009/Conference2009-Pro
gramme.pdf
DELOS Summer School : 'Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries: Emerging Approaches'
04 - 10 Jun 2006 , Centro Studi (Italy)
'The course aims to develop in participants an appreciation of the issues surrounding digital preservation within the context of digital library development and management and to develop their grasp of the core research in the area of digital curation and preservation.'
http://www.dpc.delos.info/ss06/
Digital Commonwealth : 3rd Annual Library Conference and Vendor Fair
31 Mar 2009 , Worcester, MA (United States of America)
This conference will have breakout sessions on a variety of digital library topics. Keynote by Nancy McGovern on digital preservation.
http://www.nmrls.org/digitalcommonwealth/2009conference/program.htm
Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Workshop on Long-term Curation Within Digital Repositories
06 Jul 2005 , Moller Centre, Cambridge, England (United Kingdom)
Presentations on Selection, Appraisal, Ingest and Description, Practical Preservation Activity and Certification Activity are available from the DCC website.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dr-2005/
Digital Curation in the Human Sciences
30 Sep - 01 Oct 2009 , Corfu, Greece (Greece)
This workshop organised in conjunction with ECDL 2009 (13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Corfu, Greece 27 Sept - Oct 2 2009) will bring together stakeholders in the development of human science digital infrastructures in Europe. Topics include theoretical and methodological support support for infrastructures, digital curation, research repositories, digital libraries and best practices.
http://www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/ws_digcur.php
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Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries and E-Science
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (United Kingdom) Reviewed by: Digital Curation: digital archives, libraries and e-science seminar
This web page contains links to the Meeting Report and individual presentations given at an invitational seminar sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the British National Space Centre on October 19, 2001. Sessions included the OAIS Reference Model and digital archive certification, data curation and the grid, and curation of digital collections.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/digitalarchives.html
Digital Depositories: Dealing with the Deluge
05 - 06 Jun 2007 , Manchester University
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
(United Kingdom)
JISC Digital Repositories Conference held in Manchester showcased a range of research and development work, and demonstrated how it could be practically applied by those working in UK Repositories. Links to presentations from program page.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2007/06/repositories_conference.aspx
Digital Dilemmas Symposium: Challenges + Opportunities + Solutions
16 Apr 2009 , William and Anita Newman Conference Center at Baruch College, NY
Metropolitan New York Library Council
(United States of America)
This one day symposium organised and hosted by METRO and partly sponsored by OCLC, addressed some of the key strategic issues facing libraries in the digital information economy. Topics include scholarship in the digital environment, creation management and preservation of digital content, faculty attitudes, copyright, and assisting researchers. Presentation slides are available from the website.
http://www.metro.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=331
Digital Repositories : Interoperability and Common Services : A DELOS Network of Excellence Thematic Workshop
11 - 13 May 2005 , The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete
Topics include implementing appropriate preservation strategies. Powerpoint presentations are available.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/delos-rep-workshop/
DML 2008 : Towards Digital Mathematics Library
27 Jul 2008 , Birmingham, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
This workshop will formulate strategy and goals of a global mathematical digital library and summarise the current successes and failures of current technologies and related projects. It will consider, technologies, standards, metadata, business models and practices. Individual papers available from programme link.
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2008.xhtml
Proceedings ISBN 978-80-210-4658-0 available for purchase from http://www.librix.eu/en/books/detail/dml2008-312/
DML 2009: Towards a Digital Mathematics Library 2nd Workshop
08 - 09 Jul 2009 , Grand Bend, Ontario (Canada)
This workshop to held in conjunction with CICM 2009 (Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, Grand Bend Ontario Canada) aims to further "formulate the strategy and goals of a global mathematical digital library and to summarize the current successes and failures of ongoing technologies and related projects". It will look at business models and technologies, sustainability and best practices in relation to retro-digitized, retro-born and born digital mathematics.
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2009.xhtml
Proceedings ed. by Petr Sojka published by Masaryk University, ISBN 978-80-210-4781-5 available for purchase http://www.librix.eu/en/books/detail/dml2009-498/
DPC Briefing Day : Policies for Digital Repositories : Models and Approaches
05 Jul 2006 , British Library, London (United Kingdom)
"This event will be useful to people who are in the process of planning digital repositories and who want to find out more about available tools and the benefits of each model." Report and presentations available from the website.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/06briefdigrep.html
DSpace User Group Meeting
20 - 21 Apr 2006 , University of Bergin, Norway (Norway)
The general focus of the meeting was on tools to aid embedding into institutional systems both internal and external, and the use of DSpace in different areas of institutional activity. Powerpoint presentations for Workshop and meeting available.
http://dsug2006.uib.no/
DSpace User Group Meeting : Building Communities with DSpace
31 Jan - 01 Feb 2006 , University of Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
http://apsr.anu.edu.au/Open_Repositories_2006/DSpace06.htm
Some presentations available from http://apsr.anu.edu.au/Open_Repositories_2006/conference_program.htm
E-Government and Digital Archives Workshop
11 Sep 2008 , Munich (Germany)
This workshop will be held as part of the German Computer Science Conference Informatik 2008.Topics may include models and standards for long term archiving, workflows, file formats, metadata, cooperation between communities and experiences with digital archives.
http://www.hauptstaatsarchiv.hessen.de/egovda
ECDL 2004 : European Digital Library Conference 2004
12 - 17 Sep 2004 , University of Bath, Bath (United Kingdom)
8th European Digital Library Conference includes International Workshop on Web Archiving IWAW 04
http://www.ecdl2004.org/
Proceedings available from Springer as LNCS 3232 : http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0302-9743&volume=3232&issue=preprint . Some presentations linked from programme page.
ECDL 2006 : 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
17 - 22 Sep 2006 , Alicante, Spain (Spain)
"Towards the European Digital Library". Topics include digital preservation. Proceedings available from ECDL2006 Alicante, Spain.
http://www.ecdl2006.org/
Proceeding published by Springer, Lecture Notes On Computer Science Volume 4172/2006, http://www.springerlink.com/content/h11r080m2625/
ECDL 2008: 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
14 - 19 Sep 2008 , Aarhus, Denmark (Denmark)
This conference "focuses on research and development supporting information access and exploration from a technology perspective as well as in different application domains such as science, e-government, cultural heritage, etc."
http://www.ecdl2008.org/
Proceedings published by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 5173/2008: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-87598-7
ECDL 2009 : 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries : Digital Societies
27 Sep - 02 Oct 2009 , Corfu, Greece (Greece)
Tracks for ECDL 2009 include Infrastructures; Content management; Services in digital libraries; and Foundations. Topics may include Digital library architectures and infrastructures; Management and policies; Web 2.0 Technologies; Digital library evaluation.
http://www.ecdl2009.eu/
Proceedings Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes In Computer Science. vol 5715 ISBN 978-3-642-04345-1
The Economics and Use of Digital Library Collections
23 - 24 Mar 2000 , Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States of America)
Program for Research on the Information Economy (PRIE) and University Library at the University of Michigan sponsored conference.
http://www.si.umich.edu/PEAK-2000/
Historical ECURE 2001: Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records
12 - 13 Oct 2001 , Mesa, Arizona (United States of America) Has papers: ECURE Archives
Includes links to presentations.
http://www.asu.edu/ecure/2001/
Education for Digital Stewardship: Librarians, Archivist or Curators?
20 Jun 2008 , Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA (United States of America)
This workshop held in conjunction with JCDL 2008 is organised by the US Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will consider the skills and personnel required for managing large scale digital repositories.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/jcdl2008/
Educause Australasia : Advancing Knowledge : Pushing Boundaries
29 Apr - 02 May 2007 , Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)
Conference for Australian higher education professionals dealing with technological innovations including repositories. Abstracts, papers and video presentations available from the website under program menu.
http://www.caudit.edu.au/educauseaustralasia07/
Eighth National Russian Research Conference : Digital Libraries : Advanced Methods and Technologies : Digital Collections
17 - 19 Oct 2006 , Vladimir State University, Vladimir, Russia (Russia)
http://rcdl2006.vpti.vladimir.ru/cgi-bin/repl-file.cgi?Main=main_eng.h
tml&Repl1=content/1_eng.inc
Papers available in Russion from http://www.rcdl.ru/en/2006/proceedings.html
European Infrastructure for Repositories of Scientific Information
08 - 09 Jun 2006 , Brussels
Information SocietyTechnologies
(Belgium)
The objective of the workshop was to discuss the development of Digital Repositories from the perspective of e-Infrastructure. Presentations are available from the website.
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/ri-cnd/wshop-080606.htm
Expedition to European Digital Cultural Heritage : Collecting, Connecting - and Conserving?
21 - 22 Jun 2006 , Residenz zu Salzburg, Salzburg, (Austria)
This conference on European digital cultural heritage includes two sessions on long-term preservation. Abstracts, presentations and audio available from the website.
http://dhc2006.salzburgresearch.at/content/view/1/2/lang,en/
First DRIVER Summit : Towards a Confederation of Digital Repositories
16 - 17 Jan 2008 , Goettingen State and University Library, Goettingen, Germany (Germany)
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER) two day summit by invitation only to present the results of the initial testbed phase and pave the way for a confederation of digital repositories. See Report on the summit.
http://www.driver-support.eu/newsevents.php?item=pFirstDRIVERS60
First RLUK Conference : The Power of Knowledge
22 - 24 Oct 2008 , Leeds
Research Libraries UK (RLUK)
(United Kingdom)
This is the first conference of the Research Libraries UK (RLUK) where the strategic directions of the organisation and the research sector in the UK will be discussed. There will also be a number of presentations on digitisation and digital initiatives.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/497
First Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries
19 Sep 2008 , Aarhus Denmark
DELOS
(Denmark)
This workshop hosted by DELOS and held in conjunction with ECDL 2008 (Aarhus Denmark) looked at architectures, data management and services offered for "Very Large Digital Libraries" (large scale digital libraries). Proceedings available from DELOS Library and presentations from the workshop programme.
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=618
Fourth DELOS Workshop: Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Testbeds, Measurements, and Metrics
6 - 7 Jun 2002 , MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary
Workshop papers and presentations are available from the website.
http://www.sztaki.hu/conferences/deval/
ICADL 2008 : Eleventh Annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information
02 - 05 Dec 2008 , Bali, Indonesia (Indonesia)
The theme of this conference is "Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information".
http://icadl2008.org/
Conference proceedings Springer ISBN:9783540895329, LNCS 5362
Historical ICCC/IFIP Fourth International Conference on Electronic Publishing : Electronic Publishing in the Third Millennium
17 - 19 Aug 2000 , Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk, Russia
Kaliningrad State University/ICCC/IFIP
(Russia)
This conference explored the socio-economic aspects of electronic publishing including presentations of projects on electronic libraries, archives, information systems etc., as well as their implementation in educational, cultural and health care institutions, and prospective technologies of electronic publishing, file formats, protocols, networking, retrieval techniques etc. Abstracts available.
http://www.albertina.ru/elpub2000/
ICUDL 2006 : Second International Conference on Universal Digital Library
17 - 19 Nov 2006 , Alexandria, Egypt (Egypt) Has papers: Finding Institutional Courage : Copyright in an Age of Mass Digitization
The theme of this conference was "Towards building the globally owned Universal Digital Library where human knowledge is equally preserved and accessed". It provided a forum for library and IT professionals to exchange information on progress in digital library technology. Presentations available from the program link.
https://www.bibalex.org/icudl06/home.htm
INFORUM 2008 : 14th Conference on Professional Information Resources
28 - 30 May 2008 , Univesity of Economics, Prague (Czech Republic)
This conference deals with professional electronic information resources for research, development, education and business purposes. It includes a session on digital Libraries held on 30 May 2008. Presentation slides and handouts available from the Proceedings link.
http://www.inforum.cz/archiv/inforum2008/en/
INFuture 2009 : 2nd International Conference on The Future of Information Sciences : Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing
04 - 06 Nov 2009 , Zagreb, Croatia
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept of Information Sciences
(Croatia)
This conference organised by the Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia is the second in a series of international conferences on basic research and applications of leading advances in the field of information science related to digital resources and knowledge sharing. Call for papers includes human-computer interaction, multimedia, virtual learning environments, e-learning, cultural heritage management, document management, record management, digitization of cultural heritage materials, digitization projects, document management, record management, digital preservation planning, long-term preservation of electronic materials, repositories, mobile communication, (cultural) tourism for new media, best practices and business applications in digital archives, libraries etc., and other related domains.
http://infoz.ffzg.hr/INFuture/
International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies : InSciT2006
25 - 28 Oct 2006 , Merida (Spain)
The digital libraries stream includes digital archiving and preservation. Presentations available from the website Digital Libraries slides. Proceedings published proceedings details. Accepted papers also available online through search engine.
http://www.instac.es/inscit2006/
iPRES 2009 : The Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects : Moving into the Mainstream. Enabling Our Digital Future
05 - 06 Oct 2009 , San Francisco, California (United States of America) Has papers: Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows ; Implementing Metadata that Guides Digital Preservation Services ; Digital Archaeology: Recovering Digital Objects from Audio Waveforms ; Are You Ready? Assessing Whether Organisations are Prepared for Digital Preservation
This conference hosted by the California Digital Library will bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage. Presentations and abstracts available from the program link
http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/ipres2009.html
JCDL 2006 : Joint Conference on Digital Libraries : Opening Information Horizons
11 - 15 Jun 2006 , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, (United States of America)
A major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues.Proceedings available from ACM Portal.
http://www.jcdl2006.org/
JCDL 2008: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008 - Bridging Culture Bridging Technology
15 - 20 Jun 2008 , Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA (United States of America)
International forum focused on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues.
http://www.jcdl2008.org/
Proceedings available from ACM Digital Library http://portal.acm.org. Abstracts free and full text by subscription or purchase.
JCDL 2009 : Joint Conference on Digital Libraries : Designing Tomorrow, Preserving the Past - Today
15 - 19 Jun 2009 , Austin, Texas
JCDL 2009
(United States of America)
This conference on digital libraries is sponsored by ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGWEB, and IEEE-CS TCDL and hosted by the School of Information at the University of Texas. It will include papers, tutorials and research workshops.
http://www.jcdl2009.org
Proceedings (ISBN 978-1-60558-322-8) available to subscribers through ACM Portal http://portal.acm.org/
JDCC09: JISC Digital Content Conference 2009
30 Jun - 01 Jul 2009 , Cotswold Water Park Four Pillars Hotel, South Cerney, Gloucestershire
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
(United Kingdom)
This conference aims to discuss and decide the next steps that need to be taken to ensure the sustained integration of digitised content into research and education and the issues facing UK Universities. Themes include Managing Content; Content Development Strategies; Content In Education; User Engagement; Looking Into The Future. Video, audio and presentations available from programme.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/06/digitalcontent.aspx
Kuopio-3: The Universal Repository Library and Guarantees for the Sustainability of the Digital Copy
29 - 30 Oct 2009 , Kuopio, Finland
IFLA
(Finland)
This conference will explore the requirement for a Universal Repository Library (URL) to provide global ongoing access through digitisation of material which may not be seen as commercially viable for conversion but which still has cultural and research value. The conference is sponsored by the IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development Section and LIBER, Association of European Research Libraries.
http://www.ifla.org/en/events/the-universal-repository-library-and-gua
rantees-for-the-sustainability-of-the-digital-copy
LIDA 2009 Libraries in the Digital Age
25 - 30 May 2009 , Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia (Croatia) Has papers: Capturing the Basque Web
Themes for the 10th LIDA conference are: 1. Reflections: changes brought by and in digital libraries in the last decade, and 2. Heritage and digital libraries - digitisation, preservation, access. Presentations available.
http://www.ffos.hr/lida/
New LIDA 2010: Libraries in the Digital Age
24 - 28 May 2010 , University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (Croatia)
This international conference themes are 1. Digital scholarship: support by digital libraries and 2. Digital natives: challenges and innovations in reaching out to digital generations.
http://web.ffos.hr/lida/
LITA (Library and Information Technology Association) 2006 National Forum: NetVille in Nashville: Web services as library services
26 - 29 Oct 2006 , Downtown Sheraton, Nashville, Tennessee (United States of America)
http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaevents/litanationalforum2006nashvillet
n/2006forum.cfm
One More Step Towards the European Digital Library: International Conference.
31 Jan - 1 Feb 2008 , Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
EDLProject
(Germany)
"The EDLproject Conference aimed to highlight and discuss The European Library's role in building the European digital library and to discuss strategic, technical and semantic interoperability between cultural heritage domains". Some presentations available from the Agenda link.
http://www.edlproject.eu/conference/index.php
Open Repositories 2007 : 2nd International Conference on Open Repositories
23 - 26 Jan 2007 , Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Texas (United States of America)
One of the themes of this open repositories conference is strategic IT infrastructure, including preservation. Individual presentations available from the website under presentations or as a complete zipfile set.
http://openrepositories.org/2007/
Open Scholarship 2006 : New Challenges for Open Access Repositories
18 - 20 Oct 2006 , University of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Key themes of this conference on open access repositories included: Repository Developments; Added Value Services; Quality Assessment; Policies and Implementation; and Sustainability. The session on sustainability has a paper on permanent access to digital resources. Presentation and tutorial slides are available from the programme page and stored in dspace repository.
http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship
Partnership in Academic Excellence : UNICA Scholarly Communications Seminar 2008
15 - 16 May 2008 , Charles Univerity, Prague Czech Republic
UNICA - Network of Universities from Capitals of Europe
(Czech Republic)
This seminar explored how UNICA universities could address the challenges of the digital age. Areas explored included digital preservation, digital libraries and repositories, open access, collaboration, strategies and projects in the European context. Presentations available from the website.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/unica/sem-scholar.html
QQML2009 : Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference
26 - 29 May 2009 , Chania, Crete, Greece
ISAST
(Greece)
The sub-themes of this conference are Management, Financial strength, Marketing, Communication strategies, Data mining & analysis, and Digital libraries. Special sessions of particular interest to the digital preservation community include those on Digital sustainability, The Data Seal of Approval quality guidelines, Development and assessment of digital repositories, Legal and ethical issues in digital libraries.
http://www.isast.org/
The papers of the conference will be published in book by World Scientific and in Scientific Journals on Library and Information Science.
Second Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries
20 Sep 2007 , Budapest, Hungary Has papers: Risk Management Foundations for Digital Libraries: DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment)
This workshop held in conjunction with ECDL 2007 brought together members of the international Digital Library community interested in digital libary modelling and contributing to the development of the DELOS Reference Model for Digital Library. Papers and presentations are available from the website.
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=597&It
emid=328
Second Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries
02 Oct 2009 , Corfu, Greece
DELOS
(Greece)
This workshop being held in conjunction with ECDL 2009 (13th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies on Digital Libraries) and organised by DELOS will discuss architectural models, data models and design methedologies for Very Large Digital Libraries and consider ideas, experiments and practical experiences in system design and implementation.
http://www.delos.info/vldl2009
SIEDL 2008. First International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library
1 Jun 2008 , Tenerife, Spain (Spain)
Workshop to be held as part of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference, will focus on how the late advances on Semantic Web technologies can facilitate the way that European digital libraries exchange information within the framework of the web. Proceedings are available from the link at the top of the hompage.
http://multimedia.semanticweb.org/siedl/
SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
17 - 18 Nov 2008 , Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland (United States of America)
This conference explored four themes surrounding digital repositories: 1. New horizons, 2. The campus publishing strategy, 3. Developing value-added services, and 4. The policy environment. Presentation slides, audio, videos, abstracts available from the website.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/index.shtml
SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010
08 - 09 Nov 2010 , Baltimore, Maryland
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/index.shtml
(United States of America)
The Successful Repository
29 Jun 2006 , Customs House, Brisbane, Queensland
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR)
(Australia)
"Setting up an institutional repository is the easy part; keeping it going, in the long term, year after year, is hard. It's also not cheap. Most institutions now have a solid grasp of the theory of open access repositories, but what's the reality? What do they really cost? Can it be demonstrated that they give value for money? What are the successful business models? What are the compelling arguments in favour of building one that will attract ever-scarcer funds? How do we become important players in our institutions?" Overheads available from website.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/successful/successful.htm
TEL ME MOR Policy Conference : The Digital Future of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
19 - 20 Oct 2006 , National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, (Estonia)
Conference objectives - to provide a forum for discussion of the latest digital library developments in Europe and worldwide highlight future research requirements and formulate recommendations as to how the EU and international R&D agendas can lead to improving access to our common cultural heritage. Conference themes - The European Digital Library: digitisation priorities, standards and interoperability, multilingualism, licensing; research requirements, role & perspectives of memory institutions within the EU Seventh Framework Programme; digital library initiatives in Europe and the world. Presentations available from the website agenda.
http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/www.telmemor.net/conference/
Archived by the Internet Archive
Third Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries
18 Sep 2008 , Aarhus, Denmark (Denmark)
This workshop sponsored by DELOS and to to be held in conjunction with ECDL 2008 will consolidate and expand the DELOS Reference Model and explore fundamental aspects of digital libraries. This workshop focused on how the Reference Model concepts allows for a more effective understanding of the problems related to interoperability in large federated digital libraries. Presentation slides available from the website.
http://www.delos.info/DLFoundations2008
VSMM2008 : 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia : Digital Heritage: Our Hi-tech-STORY for the Future
20 - 26 Oct 2008 , Limassol, Cyprus
The theme of this conference is "Technologies to Document, Preserve, Communicate, and Prevent the Destruction of our Fragile Cultural Heritage". Its aim is to share ideas, present findings and develop new initiatives for Digital Libraries,Digital Museums, Recording and Virtual Systems.
http://www.vsmm2008.org/
Proceedings ISBN 978-963-9911-01-7, published by Archaeolingua
World Library and Information Congress : 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council
20 - 24 Aug 2006 , Seoul, Korea
Conference theme is Libraries : dynamic engines for the knowledge and information society. Papers available from the programme link.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/
World Library and Information Congress : 75th IFLA General Conference and Council : Libraries create futures: Building on Cultural Heritage
23 - 27 Aug 2009 , Milan, Italy (Italy) Has papers: Metrics and Strategies for Web Heritage Management and Preservation ; Early Learnings from the National Library of New Zealand's National Digital Heritage Archive Project ; Developing Services for Local History Research Through a Digitization Project: A Public Library Case Study ; Citizen-created Content, Digital Equity and the Preservation of Community Memory
The theme of the 2009 annual congress is "Libraries create futures: Building on Cultural Heritage". It includes a session on New Repositories; architectures, interoperability and data exchange. Conference proceedings and papersavailable.
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla75/index.htm

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Organisations and Websites

Historical 65th IFLA General Conference - Conference Programme and Proceedings
(Date Created: Aug 1999) (Thailand)
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/65cp.htm
aDORe Archive
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library (Date Created: 18 May 2006) (United States of America)
The aDORe Archive is a write-once/read-many storage approach for Digital Object datastreams. The archive uses a combination of two file based storage systems- XML based files and ARC files. The aDORe software was developed by the LANL (Los Almos National Laboratory) Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team and was partly funded by an NDIIP grant from the Library of Congress. The website includes a tutorial and links to articles on the aDORe archive software.
http://african.lanl.gov/aDORe/projects/adoreArchive/
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
University of California Berkeley Library and Sun Microsystems Inc. (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
This site builds digital collections and services, as well as providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide. It includes links to: information for digital library developers on topics such as copyright, metadata, preservation and standards; digital library projects; tools for building digital libraries; and training for digital librarians.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
Historical Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (Regularly Updated) (Canada)
The Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL) was an alliance of Canadian libraries which promoted, coordinated and facilitated the development of Canadian digital collections and services in order to optimise national interoperability and long-term access to Canadian digital library resources. CIDL was dissolved on 31 March 2007 and was a forerunner of AlouetteCanada.
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/cidl-ef/2007-09-28/cidl/i
ndex-e.html
Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
CURL (Last Updated: 2008) (United Kingdom)
CURL was a group of UK research libraries whose collective mission was "to promote, maintain and improve library resources for research, learning and teaching in research-led universities." CURL's objectives were: (1) to develop cooperative solutions to the tasks faced in the acquisition, processing, storage, preservation, exploitation, dissemination and delivery of information and library materials"; and (2) to assist member libraries to pursue and achieve their own institutional objectives. CURL's CEDARS project focussed on digital preservation issues. On 18 April 2008 after 25 years CURL was reformed as the Research Libraries U K (RLUK).
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/
DANS : Data Archiving and Networked Services
DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) (Regularly Updated) (Netherlands)
DANS is a Dutch national organisation which is responsible for the long term storing and access to data in the humanities and social sciences. Established in 2005, DANS is a joint initiative of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/
DELOS Network of Excellence (NoE) on Digital Libraries
(Regularly Updated)
The DELOS Network of Excellence (NoE) was established in 2000 to facilitate the development of an open agenda for digital libraries research. The group is a reference point for all 5th Framework Programme projects funded by the Information Societies Technologies (IST) Programme.
http://www.delos.info/
Digital Curation at the Wellcome Library
Wellcome Library (Date Created: 2007) (United Kingdom)
These web pages are for those interested in "born digital" material collected by, or wanting to donate such material to the Wellcome Library. Included are links to the Digital Curation Toolbox, glossary and the Library's Strategy. Other policies including the Preservation policy and e-strategy can be accessed from "Useful links".
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node288.html
Historical Digital Imaging and Preservation Policy Research (DIPPR)
Cornell University Library (Last Updated: 22 May 2002) (United States of America)
The Digital Imaging and Preservation Policy Research team (DIPPR) drew its members from the Department of Preservation and Conservation at the Cornell University Library and was involved in research, implementation, publication and training, with an emphasis on digital preservation and on mainstreaming the results of ongoing research projects into the Cornell University Library. Among the team's activities were research on technical aspects of digital imaging and preservation, digital preservation research through Project Prism, and publication of RLG DigiNews. The Department was disbanded in June 2002 and functions transferrred to the Research Department of IRIS.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/research/dippr.html
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (Last Updated: 24 Oct 2005)
This site maintained by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has links to a large number of articles and sites relating to data documentation and standards. The metadata links are grouped into common types for ease of navigation.
http://archive.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm
Digital Libraries: Metadata resources
IFLANet (Regularly Updated)
An IFLANet sponsored extensive list of links to metadata standards, selected papers and listings of topical events. The metadata links are grouped into common types for ease of navigation.
http://archive.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm
Digital Library Federation (DLF)
CLIR (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) was founded in 1995 to establish the conditions for creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars, students, and a wider public. These pages provide information about the origins of the Federation, its organisation, and the strategic plan which informs its current initiatives. These pages also serve to identify useful reference materials about the development of digital libraries and to provide a record of DLF presentations (including meetings) and publications.
http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm
DRAMBORA Interactive : Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment
Digital Curation Centre; DigitalPreservationEurope (Regularly Updated)
This website describes the DRAMBORA toolkit and allows download of the toolkit which was released by the Digital Curation Centre and DigitalPreservationEurope. The toolkit allows repository administrators to self assess their capabilities, identify weaknesses and strengths based on risk assessments. A flyer is available for download in JPEG or PDF formats.
http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/
DSpace
Hewlett-Packard Company; MIT Libraries (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Purpose : The purpose of the DSpace digital repository system is to capture, store, index, preserve, and distribute digital research material. Version 1.3.2 of DSpace is available for download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ . Originally, the MIT Dspace initiative was established with Hewlett-Packard to create a web-based electronic archive of the intellectual output of MIT and other federated partners.
Documentation : The DSpace wiki http://wiki.dspace.org/ provides documentation on resources, other collaboration tools and obtaining the source code.
http://www.dspace.org//
DSpace@Cambridge Repository
University of Cambridge (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
The University of Cambridge Digital Repository became a strategic service on 1 July 2006. It is managed jointly by Cambridge University Library and the University Computing Service.
http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/
European Archive
European Archive (Regularly Updated)
The European Archive is a non profit initiative. It is a digital library of European material such as sound, motion pictures and web pages. It provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The Eurpean Archive will develop a large-scale archiving architecture and infrastructure for the storage, access and preservation of digital objects. The European Archive has a partnership with the Internet Archive.
http://www.europarchive.org/
FCLA Digital Archive
Florida Center for Library Automation (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
The purpose of the FCLA (Florida Center for Library Automation) digital archive is to provide a long-term preservation repository for digital materials in support of teaching and learning, scholarship, and research in the state of Florida. The website has links to extensive documentation on various file formats for which the Archive has developed a preservation strategy. Other documentation includes the digital object deposit agreement, definitions, procedures and policies.
http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/index.htm
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/
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
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
ndex_en.htm
IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries
IEEE Computer Society (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Established by the IEEE Computer Society in 1997, the committee's aims are to promote research into the theory, practice and technical challenges related to digital collective memory . Participation in discussions is possible by joining the technical committee at http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/join.html.
http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/TCDL/index.php/IEEE-TCDL
IFLA Electronic Collections
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (Regularly Updated)
This list includes hundreds of sources and links relating to digital libraries, information policy, the internet and networking.
http://archive.ifla.org/II/
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/
LISNews Librarian and Information Science News
Blake Carver (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Created and maintained by librarians, LISNews.com is a web site devoted to providing summaries of selected current topics and news in the world of Library and Information Science, including digital libraries and digital preservation.
http://www.lisnews.com/
MICHAEL : Multicultural Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
(Regularly Updated)
MICHAEL is a portal to digital collections in European Libraries, Museums and Archives. As of December 2007 access to national collections from the UK, France and Italy was available with plans to include access to collections in eleven other European countries.
http://www.michael-culture.org/
OLAC (Open Language Archives Community)
Open Language Archives (Regularly Updated)
OLAC (Open Language Archives Community) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources; and, developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources.
http://www.language-archives.org/index.html
Online Computer Library Center Inc. (OCLC)
Online Computer Library Center Inc [OCLC] (Last Updated: 31 Jul 1999) (United States of America)
Furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs are the goals of OCLC. OCLC is a nonprofit computer service and research organisation whose network and services link more than 30,000 libraries in 65 countries and territories. OCLC services help libraries to locate, acquire, catalogue, access, and lend library materials. In July 2006 OCLC absorbed the Research Libraries Group (RLG).
http://www.oclc.org/home/
Open Content Alliance
Open Content Alliance (Regularly Updated) (United States of America)
Administered by the Internet Archive, participants in the Open Content Alliance (OCA) include cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world. The purpose of the Alliance is to build a permanent freely-searchable archive of multilingual digitized full text and multimedia content. Yahoo is also participating in the Alliance by indexing the content. The Alliance is governed by a set of principles one of which is concerned with the long term availability of the contents.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/
OpenDOAR : Directory of Open Access Repositories
University of Nottingham, UK and the University of Lund, Sweden (Regularly Updated)
Developed by the University of Nottingham, UK and the University of Lund, Sweden, OpenDOAR is a directory of open access institutional and subject-based research repositories and archives. Each entry has several categories including country, subjects covered, content type and description.
http://www.opendoar.org/
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/
Reference Model for Digital Library Management Systems
DELOS (Regularly Updated)
This web page describes activity being undertaken by DELOS to define a Digital Library Management System (DLMS) reference model i.e. a formal and conceptual framework describing the characteristics of this particular type of information system. The model considers the architecture and functionality expected from an operational DLMS based on the experiences of DELOS research groups over time. The model identifies and characterizes key concepts of a DLMS, such as the information space, documents handled, user profile, services, architecture, etc. The page includes links to the latest versions of the model and events where the model is being refined.
http://www.delos.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=345
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/
Research Libraries UK (RLUK)
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (Regularly Updated) (United Kingdom)
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) was built on the foundations of CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries). Its mission is to ensure the UK has the best research library support in the world.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/
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/
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
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/
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
Historical VALA 2000 - Conference Papers
Victorian Association for Library Automation (Date Created: Feb 2000) (Australia) Has papers: Electronic Records, Problem Solved? : the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy and the Future of Electronic Record Keeping in Victoria
Conference papers from the 2000 Victorian Association for Library Automation conference. Papers available.
http://www.vala.org.au/vala2000/2000pprs/prog2000.htm

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Online tutorial

Creating an Institutional Repository : LEADIRS Workbook
Barton, Mary R. ; Waters, Margaret M. (Date Created: 2005)
This extensive document (134 p.) from the LEarning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminar program (LEADIRS) and available from DSpace covers all aspects of building institutional repositories such as planning, choosing repository software platforms, including digital preservation considerations, legal and regulatory environmental and policy development and cost modeling. Each section has associated worksheets and key questions. There are many references to case studies which are used to highlight approaches to the various issues in developing an institutional repository.
http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/leadirs.pdf
Digitization and Digital Libraries
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and UNESCO (Date Created: 2005)
This tutorial was developed jointly between FAO and UNESCO with the support of the National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). This tutorial, which is self-paced and available on CD, is intended to train librarians and other information specialists in the conceptual and practical skills required for the digitization of collections, and in the creation and provision of access to digital libraries. This module provides 31 lessons covering the creation and sharing of digital library collections. Lessons cover topics such as copyright issues, electronic formats for text and images, metadata and preservation of digital material as well as a comprehensive overview of the creation and management of digital documents.
http://www.imarkgroup.org/moduledescription_en.asp?id=1

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Policies, Strategies & Guidelines

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Historical Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: 01 Aug 2001) (United States of America)
This joint RLG-OCLC draft report was available for public comment until 12th October 2001. The report contains information and recommendations on developing and implementing a certified long-term digital information repository based on the OAIS functional model and extensive library and archival community discussion. Appendix B provides useful glossary of terms used in the report. The final report (also listed on PADI) is available at http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/trustedrep/repositories.pdf
Historical Audit Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories : Draft for Public Comment
Research Libraries Group (Date Created: 31 Aug 2005)
This draft paper was compiled by the RLG-NARA Task Force on Digital Repository Certification. The paper identifies the audit and certification criteria repositories must meet in order to reliably store, migrate and provide access to digital collections. The criteria include organisational aspects, such as sustainability; repository functions and processes such as ingest, storage and management; usability, such as descriptive metadata; and technologies and technical infrastructure. The audit instrument is also included in the document.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070101054320/http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/r
lgnara-repositorieschecklist.pdf
Cross Media : Sustainability of Digital Collections
JISC Digital Media (Date Created: Feb 2006) (United Kingdom)
This section of JISC Digital Media (formerlyTASI) covers how to plan for and maintain sustainability of digital collections after project completion. The document covers approaches to sustainability such as maintenance, integration and re-purposing. Practical measures for ensuring sustainability are also discussed including the use of standards, QA and documentation. Options for financing sustainability are also canvassed.
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/sustainability-of-
digital-collections/
Digital Curation at the Wellcome Library
Wellcome Library (Date Created: 2007) (United Kingdom)
These web pages are for those interested in "born digital" material collected by, or wanting to donate such material to the Wellcome Library. Included are links to the Digital Curation Toolbox, glossary and the Library's Strategy. Other policies including the Preservation policy and e-strategy can be accessed from "Useful links".
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node288.html
Digital National Library of Scotland: Strategic Plan 2005-2008
National Library of Scotland (Date Created: 30 Jun 2005) (United Kingdom)
This strategic plan sets out the goals necessary to realise the Digital National Library of Scotland.
http://www.nls.uk/about/policy/docs/nls_digital_library_strategy.pdf
Digital Repositories Roadmap : Looking Forward
Heery, Rachel; Powell, Andy (Date Created: 07 Apr 2006) (United Kingdom)
Funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), this discussion document provides information on current practices, future plans and individual roadmaps for various types of repository material such as geospatial data, academic papers and learning material for 2006-2010. The content of the roadmap was made by contributors from academic and research organisations in the UK.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/rep-roadmap-v15.doc
DINI-Certificate Document and Publication Services 2007. Ver 2.0
Working Group (Date Created: Sep 2006) (Germany)
This (40 p.) brochure prepared by DINI Deutsche Initiative Fur Netzwerkinformation E.V. sets out detailed requirements to meet the DINI certification process for document and publication repositories in German universities. The aim of the certification is to establish a network of repositories which meet international standards and to facilitate a higher level of scientific and scholarly communication. It sets out minimum requirements and recommended practices and includes two case studies.
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/series/dini-schriften/2006-3-en/PDF/3-en.pdf
Also available in German Language version http://www.dini.de/fileadmin/docs/dini_zertifikat_2007_v2.1.pdf.
DRIVER Guidelines 2.0 : Guidelines for Content Providers - Exposing Textual Resources with OAI-PMH
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for Europe (DRIVER) (Date Created: 13 Nov 2008)
These guidelines which become effective 15 March 2009 have been written for repository managers and administrators on how to expose digital scientific resources using OAI-PMH and Dublin Core Metadata, creating interoperability by homogenising the repository output for use within the DRIVER ( Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for Europe) infrastructure.
http://www.driver-support.eu/documents/DRIVER_Guidelines_v2_Final_2008
-11-13.pdf
Historical Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
IMLS Forum (Date Created: Dec 2001)
This report, by members of the IMLS Forum, offers a framework for the development of good digital collections, based on sets of principles for 4 entities: collections, objects, metadata and projects. Principles include a strong collection development policy base, interoperability, sustainability of both collections and the objects themselves, use of persistent identifiers, appropriate metadata and respect for intellectual property rights. A typology of object formats is also presented. The 2nd edition was published in 2004 and the 3rd ed. in Dec 2007.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041230095142/http://www.imls.gov/pubs/for
umframework.htm
Archived by the Internet Archive
Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections : 3rd Edition 2007
NISO Framework Working Group (Date Created: Dec 2007) (United States of America)
The framework has three purposes - an overview of major components and activities; identification of existing resources and encouraging community participation in ongoing development in good digital collection building. The document provides criteria for "goodness" around four entities: collections; objects (digital materials); metadata and initiatives. This third edition recognises born digital as well as digitised material.
http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf
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How to Deposit Digital Data
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) (Last Updated: 2001) (United Kingdom)
This web page provides links to guidelines for deposit of digital material with service providers for the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), including advice on appropriate documentation and methods.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/depositing/how-to-deposit.htm
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Historical NISO Data Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
National Information Standards Organisation (NISO) (Date Created: 1 Jun 2002)
Released as a Draft for Trial Use over the period 1 June 2002 to 31 December 2003, this NISO document (NISO Z39.87-2002, AIIM 20-2002) has been produced "to facilitate the development of applications to validate, manage, migrate and otherwise process images of enduring value" and "to facilitate interoperability between systems, services and software, as well as to support the long-term management of and continuing access to digital image collections". A corresponding XML schema to assist in implementation is available at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mix. The final standard was published in December 2006.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070205142416/http://www.niso.org/standard
s/resources/Z39_87_trial_use.pdf
PDF Guidelines : Recommendations for the Creation of PDF Files for Long-term Preservation and Access
Rog, Judith (Last Updated: 31 May 2007) (Netherlands)
This document provides guidelines on the standards that pdf files deposited with the e-Depot should comply with. The guidelines cover accessibility and structure, fonts, colour, compression, images and executable actions.
http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/PDF_Guidelines.pdf
PREMIS Requirement Statement Project Report
Clifton, Gerard; Langley, Somaya; Lee, Bronwyn (Date Created: Jul 2006)
This is the report of the Presta-Premis Requirement Statement Project which was conducted from December 2005 to June 2006. It was undertaken by the National Library of Australia for the Australian Partnership on Sustainable Repositories (APSR). The report specifies requirements for the collection metadata needed for long tem continuity of access to digital collections. The report includes recommendations on preservation metadata elements including mandatory elements; recommendations on tools for automatic metadata extraction; a recommended list of supported formats and a draft METS profile for exchanging preservation metadata and functional specifications and use cases for preservation events and event logging. The report concludes with a summary of 14 recommendations.
http://www.apsr.edu.au/publications/presta.pdf
Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Describing Roles & Measuring Contemporary Preservation Activities in ARL Libraries
Meyer, Lars (Date Created: May 2009) (United States of America)
This report (54 p.) considers both traditional preservation activities and emerging activities including the development of digital collections and related collaboration by ARL libraries. It includes discussion and recommendations in relation to collecting, preserving and curating digital surrogates, web-based content, machine dependent media and e-journals; digital repository development; digitisation; shared storage for print & digital materials and the collection of relevant statistics.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/safeguarding-collections.pdf
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Historical Setting up a Deposit System for Electronic Publications, the Nedlib Guidelines
Steenbakkers, Johan; Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Date Created: Nov 2000) (Netherlands)
This paper summarises the findings of a NEDLIB project that explored a joint approach towards the management and maintenance of electronic publications. The key objective was to produce a common model and terminology for the deposit system for electronic publications. The paper compares the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) with the NEDLIB model and discusses issues such as storage, preparing electronic publications for deposit and setting up a deposit system. It was found that more standards and technology are needed in the area of digital preservation.
ISBN: 9062591493
http://nedlib.kb.nl/results/NEDLIBguidelines.pdf
Report No. 5 in NEDLIB report series
Summit on Digital Collections : Report on Outcomes
Birtley, Margaret (Date Created: Aug 2006) (Australia)
The report was produced as a result of the National Summit on Digital Collections, held in Adelaide, South Australia, 16-17 August 2006. The Collections Council of Australia hosted the Summit for the collections sector with the aim of developing a national policy and strategy for the development and maintenance of digital collections. The outcomes discussed include issues to be addressed, strategic directions and next steps.
http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au/Portals/0/Report%20on%20Outcomes%
20from%20the%20Summit%20on%20Digital%20Collections.pdf
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Historical Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities
(Date Created: May 2002) (United States of America)
This joint RLG-OCLC report is the result of a working group that was created to establish attributes of a digital repository for the long-term preservation of and access to research materials in digital form. It discusses seven attributes of 'trusted digital repositories' and is intended for cultural institutions who have traditional or legal responsibilities for the preservation of cultural heritage.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/trustedrep/repositories.pdf

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Projects and Case Studies

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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
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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
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/
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/
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
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/
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
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/
DACHS: Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg (Regularly Updated)
Operating since August 2001 and based at the University of Heidelberg, DACHS "aims at identifying, archiving and making accessible Internet resources relevant for Chinese Studies, with special emphasis on social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet." Collected resources include websites, discussion boards, journals, newsletters and single documents. On overview of the archive's collection policy, workflow and technical infrastructure is available.
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
Data 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/
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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 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.
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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/
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/
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/
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 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
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/
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
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
ndex_en.htm
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/
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
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
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
Available as PDF from VALA 2008: Libraries changing spaces, virtual places Conference Program
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/
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/
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/
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/
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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/
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.
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/
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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.
http://rubric.edu.au/
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/
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/
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/
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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
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
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.

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Institutional Repository Bibliography (IRB)
Bailey, Charles W. , Jr. (Date Created: 19 Oct 2009)
This bibliography presents selected English-language article, books, and other scholarly textual resources about institutional repositories, mainly published since 2000.
http://digital-scholarship.org/irb/irb.html

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Glossaries

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Historical Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources
Research Libraries Group (Last Updated: 01 Aug 2001) (United States of America)
This joint RLG-OCLC draft report was available for public comment until 12th October 2001. The report contains information and recommendations on developing and implementing a certified long-term digital information repository based on the OAIS functional model and extensive library and archival community discussion. Appendix B provides useful glossary of terms used in the report. The final report (also listed on PADI) is available at http://www.rlg.org/longterm/repositories.pdf
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/trustedrep/repositories.pdf
Glossary of Terms (on Digital Curation)
Digital Curation Centre (Regularly Updated)
This is a glossary of digital curation terms adapted from the OAIS Reference Model. It also includes links to additional information on each subject.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/glossary/

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Journals & Newsletters

Ariadne
Ariadne (Regularly Updated)
This journal describes and evaluates sources and services available on the Internet and of potential use to librarians and information professionals. It reports every two months to the library community at large on progress and developments within the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
Historical CIDL News
, Ottawa Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (Last Updated: 13 Dec 2006) (Canada)
An electronic periodical from the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL) included information on digital projects, training opportunities, forthcoming events and resources. CIDL was dissolved on 31 March 2007.
ISSN: 1448-2000
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/cidl-ef/2007-09-28/cidl/0
40021-200-e.html
CLIR issues
Council on Library and Information Resources (Regularly Updated)
Published by the Council on Library and Information Resources, the bimonthly CLIR Issues embraces the entire range of information resources and services, from traditional library and archival materials to emerging digital formats, and provides news and information relevant to digital preservation issues.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues.html
Current Cites
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE (Regularly Updated)
This annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology is produced monthly and emailed to the PACS-L mailing list.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
D-Lib magazine
D-Lib magazine (Regularly Updated)
An online journal of digital library research which includes articles, news and commentary on advanced research and implementation projects in digital libraries.
ISSN: 1082-9873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/dlib.magazine
http://www.dlib.org/
Digital Curation Centre Case Studies and Interviews
Digital Curation Centre (Date Created: Dec 2005)
The purpose of this series is to disseminate examples of best practice, share experiences with digital curation issues, and to identify future digital curation requirements among our user communities.
ISSN: 1749-8767
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/case-studies/
The DLF Newsletter
(United States of America)
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Newsletter is a quarterly web-based publication which reports on the progress of DLF initiatives and those of member institutions on new digital library services, collections, projects, and challenges. This information exchange also acts as a gateway onto three registries that provide a clearinghouse of members' digital library expertise and activities.
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/newsletter.htm
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Regularly Updated)
The International Journal on Digital Libraries is a quarterly journal aimed at advancing the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organisation, management, and dissemination of digital information via global networking. It emphasises issues in digital information production, management, and use; high-speed networks and connectivity; interoperability and seamless integration of information, people, profiles, tasks, and needs; security and privacy of individuals and business transactions; and effective business processes.
ISSN: 1432-1300
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
Taylor and Francis (Regularly Updated)
Previously entitled Hypermedia (1989-94), this annual review examines developments in hypermedia and multimedia technology. In 2001 the journal will focus on digital library issues.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp
Available via subscription
RLG DigiNews
Research Libraries Group (Regularly Updated)
RLG DigiNews was a bi-monthly newsletter from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) providing information on digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale, on image conversion and digital archiving projects, and current announcements. RLG DigiNews ceased with last issue 15 April 2007. Back issues are now available from OCLC.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/newsletters/diginews.htm

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