Preserving Digital Materials

Name: Preserving Digital Materials
Brand: De Gruyter Saur
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Ross Harvey(Autor*in)

De Gruyter Saur (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 30. November 2011

X, 251 Seiten

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Intro
List of figures
Introduction
Chapter 1. What is Preservation in the Digital Age? Changing Preservation Paradigms
Introduction
Changing paradigms
The need for a new preservation paradigm
Changing definitions
Preservation definitions in the digital world
What exactly are we trying to preserve?
How long are we preserving them for?
What strategies and actions do we apply?
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Why do we Preserve? Who Should do it?
Introduction
Why preserve digital materials?
Professional imperatives
New stakeholders
How much data have we lost?
Current state of awareness of digital preservation problems
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Why There's a Problem: Digital Artifacts and Digital Objects
Introduction
Modes of digital death
Digital storage media
Magnetic media
Optical disks
The future for digital storage media
Digital objects - more than digital artifacts
Loss of functionality of access devices
Loss of manipulation and presentation capabilities
Weak links in the documentation chain and loss of contextual information
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Selection for Preservation - The Critical Decision
Introduction
Selection for preservation, cultural heritage, and professional practice
Selection criteria traditionally used by libraries and archives
Why traditional selection criteria do not apply to digital materials
IPR, context, stakeholders, and lifecycle models
Intellectual property rights and legal deposit
Context and community
Stakeholder input
Value of lifecycle models
Developing selection frameworks for preserving digital materials
Some selection frameworks
How much to select?
Conclusion
Chapter 5. What Attributes of Digital Materials Do We Preserve?
Introduction
Digital materials, technology, and data
The importance of preserving context
The OAIS Reference Model
The role of metadata
Preservation metadata
Preservation metadata standards
Persistent identifiers
Authenticity
Significant properties
Research into authenticity
Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping Project (Pittsburgh)
InterPARES
Trusted digital repositories
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Overview of Digital Preservation Strategies
Introduction
Historical overview
Who is doing what?
Criteria for effective strategies and practices
Broader concerns
Standards
Planning
Policies
Sustainability
Typologies of principles, strategies, and practices
A typology of digital preservation?
Conclusion
Chapter 7. 'Preserve Technology' Approaches: Tried and Tested Methods
Introduction
'Non-solutions'
Do nothing
Storage and handling practices
Durable/persistent digital storage media
Analogue backups
Digital archaeology and digital forensics
'Preserve technology' approaches
Technology preservation
Technology watch
Emulation
The Universal Virtual Computer
Conclusion
Chapter 8. 'Preserve Objects' Approaches: New Frontiers?
Introduction
'Preserve Objects' approaches
Bit-stream copying, refreshing, and replication
Bit-stream copying
Refreshing
Replication
Standard data formats
File format registries
Standardizing file formats
Restricting the range of file formats
Developing archival file formats
XML
Migration
Viewers and migration on request
Encapsulation
Storage
Combining principles, strategies, and practices
Conclusion
Chapter 9. Digital Preservation Initiatives and Collaborations
Introduction
Collaboration
Typologies of digital preservation initiatives
International initiatives and collaborations
International services
The Internet Archive
JSTOR
DuraSpace
LOCKSS
MetaArchive Cooperative
International alliances
UNESCO
PADI
OCLC
CAMiLEON
International Internet Preservation Consortium
Regional initiatives and collaborations
Regional services
NEDLIB
Regional alliances
ERPANET
European Commission-funded projects
Digital Recordkeeping Initiative
National initiatives and collaborations
National services
AHDS
Florida Digital Archive
National alliances
Digital Curation Centre
Digital Preservation Coalition
NDIIPP
National Digital Stewardship Alliance
HathiTrust
Sectoral initiatives and collaborations
Sectoral services
Cedars
Sectoral alliances
JISC
Conclusion
Chapter 10. Challenges for the Future of Digital Preservation
Introduction
What have we learned so far?
Four major challenges
Challenge 1: managing digital preservation
Challenge 2: funding digital preservation
Challenge 3: peopling digital preservation
Challenge 4: making digital preservation fit
Research and digital preservation
Conclusion: the future of digital preservation
Bibliography
Index

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