ICADS Topic: Digital Archiving

Theme: Creating and building digital collections
This page provides links to information about initiatives and innovative projects relating to Digital Archiving at the national libraries contributing to ICADS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies). For more general information on the topic follow the PADI Topic links below.
What's in scope?
- Policy and service development for archiving digital documents and information content
- Impact of national legal deposit regulations
- Methodologies and issues affecting different content types
- Management issues of running cooperative or commercial archiving services (where services are not ‘commercial in confidence’).
For additional resources
see PADI Topics: Archiving and Legal Deposit.
ICADS libraries contributing to the topic:
British Library |
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek |
Library of Congress |
National Library of New Zealand
- Legal Deposit of electronic publications
- The British Library's development of a voluntary scheme for the deposit of electronic publications is described in detail, including the pilot scheme for the deposit of e-journals.
- Contact: Emma Cass
- http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/legaldep/index.html
- (Contributor: British Library
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- Digital Library Programme
- The British Library’s strategic vision is to “provide both physical and digital access to world-class information where and when people need it". These pages describe the Library's strategy for creating a critical mass of digital content by both collecting new published works in digital form and through the digitisation of the physical collections.
- Contact: Roderic Parker
- http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/dom/index.html
- (Contributor: British Library
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- "KOPAL" - Co-operative development of a long-term archive of digital information
- The objective of KOPAL was the practical testing and implementation of a co-operatively created and operated long-term archive system for digital information. As network partners, the German National Library, the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen and IBM Germany implemented a co-operatively operated solution, capable of subsequent re-use by others, for the long-term preservation of digital resources. The technical operation of the system is taken care of by the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG).
The participation of the German National Library as the national archive library and the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen as an innovative university information centre guaranteed that complementary viewpoints and differing user interests were taken into account in the realisation of the project. The technical realisation of the functions KOPAL is based on prior work accomplished since 2000 in a joint development project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Dutch Library) and IBM. IBM has undertaken its further development toward a co-operatively maintained system equipped with standardised interfaces within the framework of KOPAL.
The ingest & retrieval software produced by the network partners (koLibRI) has the status of Open Source software. Comprehensive and heterogeneous data have been fed into the system during the term of the project in order to prove the concept's capacity and usefulness.
Since mid-2007 the archival system has been transferred into the productive use by the German National Library.
- Contact: Reinhard Altenhöner
- http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/kopal.htm
- (Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- nestor - Network of expertise in digital long-term preservation
- The objective of the project is to create a competence network of long-term archival storage and long-term availability of digital resources in Germany.
The competence network should ensure that digital resources in Germany are archived on a long-term basis, are secured and are made available for use. Through national and international co-operation, a contribution should be achieved towards safeguarding our global cultural heritage. Within the project, the following range of choices are to be developed, among others:
- a Web-based information forum with various content options for long-term archival storage and long-term availability of digital resources in Germany
- criteria for trusted digital repositories
- suggestions for procedures for a certification system for digital archives
- suggestions for principles of collection and selection criteria for the archival storage of digital resources
- policies for long-term archival storage of digital resources
- a work-structure for the long-term availability of digital resources in the museum area
- a concept for a sustainable form of organization of the competence network and information forum
- co-ordination of division of duties and the assumption of long-term duties, especially in the delineation between the library, archive and museum areas
The German National Library is in charge of carrying out the project in co-operation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Computer- und Medienservice / Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Fernuniversität Hagen (since 2006), the Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns (until 2006), the Institut für Museumskunde, the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen and the Bundesarchiv (since 2005).
- Contact: Natascha Schumann
- http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/nestor.htm
- (Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
)
- SHAMAN - Sustaining heritage access trough multivalent archiving
- The goal of SHAMAN is the development of a prototype for the grid-based interaction of long-term archival systems by investigating and developing a long-term next generation digital preservation framework. The project will create a framework and application development environment, enabling the creation of test-beds of digital preservation that support infrastructures and services. This will lay the foundations for the long-term unification of knowledge preservation and analysis across domains within a distributed grid-based infrastructure. The test-bed environment will be demonstrated and validated by different real-life use scenarios. This will be designed to support dynamically evolving virtual user communities in these areas. The SHAMAN project will deliver infrastructure and services which will not only enable the long-term preservation of digital content but will also improve access and reuse of this content.
SHAMAN's long-term vision is to engineer an open and extensible digital preservation framework which can be used to develop and implement digital library applications build up thereupon.
Within the project, the German National Library mainly will put forth results from the long-term archival project "KOPAL". The koLibRI software developed by KOPAL will play a crucial role for the creation of a testbed. Also, the German National Library will take the lead in the work package "Document Production, Archival, Access and Reuse in the Context of Memory Institutions for Scientific and Governmental Collections".
- Contact: Reinhard Altenhöner
- http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/shaman.htm
- (Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
)
- Parse.Insight
- The EU "Insight into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe" project (Parse.Insight) is investigating the current status of digital preservation of primary scientific data. The aim is that the project results will support the development of a uniform European strategy and the establishment of a common European infrastructure to ensure the long-term locatability, accessibility and preservation of digital research data. The project involves appraising digital preservation measures in the area of science and comparing these with the demand from selected research areas. The comparison will highlight the areas in which more support is needed in setting up a networked infrastructure for the long-term preservation of digital research data and publications. A tool for assessing digital infrastructure measures and for simplifying investment is also to be developed.
The project partners are:
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK (project co-ordination)
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), NL
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), DE
- Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG), DE
- International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), NL
- European Space Agency, ESRIN (ESA), FR
- Fernuniversität in Hagen (FUH), DE
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CH
- Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (SUB), DE
- Contact: Sabine Schrimpf
- http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/parse.htm
- (Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- Electronic Copyright Deposit
- The e-Deposit for e-Journals Pilot is part of a strategic effort to build a robust electronic copyright deposit system for the acquisition of electronic content by the Library of Congress (LC). LC's Library Services took the lead in convening discussions with the Copyright Office and Library Office of General Counsel on the legal and policy issues of electronic deposit. The Register of Copyrights is revising a key regulation to remove obstacles to moving electronic deposit forward. The e-Deposit for e-Journals Working Group also established agreements with selected publishers and an electronic journal archiving service for testing the transfer of digital content from offsite sources to the Library
- Contact: Eric Delfino
- (Contributor: Library of Congress
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- Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE)
- The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) at the Library of Congress serves as a laboratory to investigate the use of standards such as METS, MODS, and PREMIS with a variety of resource types. PAE is a digital library of performing arts resources at the Library of Congress, including scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and articles and biographical essays. METS is used to wrap the descriptive metadata, which is encoded using MODS, along with any technical or structural metadata required to manage the digital objects. The diversity of the types of information in PAE provides a platform for developing strategies and adapting standards to provide unified access to the material. Ongoing work will be to enable the extraction of internal MIX and PREMIS information to be formatted according to those standards and added to the METS package in export situations.
- Contact: Morgan Cundiff; Nate Trail
- http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
- (Contributor: Library of Congress
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National Library of New Zealand
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- National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA)
- The National Library has developed a digital archive and preservation management solution to ensure the ongoing collection, preservation and accessibility of its digital heritage collections.
The NDHA is an integrated environment, including hardware and software, that supports long-term preservation of websites, sound and vision files, digital images and other born-digital and digitised items.
The NDHA uses Rosetta, the preservation system developed in partnership with Ex Libris Group, a library management systems vendor, and Sun Microsystems, a provider of open network computing systems. The NDHA is designed to be scalable both technologically and functionally over time.
Rosetta: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/files/Products/Preservation/Rosetta-A4LOWres.pdf
SUN Microsystems Case Study: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/files/CaseStudy/SunPreservationandNLNZ.pdf
- Contact: ndha@natlib.govt.nz
- http://ndha-wiki.natlib.govt.nz/ndha/
- (Contributor: National Library of New Zealand
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Related Topics: ICADS Topic: Digital Ingest & Storage | ICADS Topic: Digital Preservation
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