Planning

Audio-visual resources in digital formats present even more challenges to preservation than do digital text resources. Reformatting information to a common file format can be difficult and may require specialists to ensure it is done with no loss in integrity. While digital text may still be usable if done imperfectly (e.g. skewed but still readable pages), even small errors in digital A/V files could render the material unusable.

Procedia Computer Science Volume 38, 2014, Pages 48–51

Since the 1950s debate has raged about the impact of new technologies on print culture in the broadest sense and on the publishing industry, libraries, and archives in particular. Succinctly put, “The Death of the Book” has been both proclaimed and denied. Meanwhile, notions of what constitutes a library or an archive have been challenged and transformed by new communications competencies and needs. In response to these realities, the Royal Society of Canada is establishing an Expert Panel on “The Future Now: Canada’s Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory”.
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The first ever Boston cohort of the National Digital Stewardship Residency kicked off in September, and the five residents have been busy drinking from the digital preservation firehose at our respective institutions. You can look forward to individual blog posts from each resident as this 9-month residency goes on, but we decided to start with a group post to outline each of our projects as they’ve developed so far. (To keep up with us on a more regular basis, keep an eye on our digital preservation test kitchen blog.)
Sam DeWitt – Tufts University

In early 2012, I started on the report that became Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities with Lynn Silipigni Connaway. Back then we called it the User Behavior Report. Not a catchy title, but it broadly reflected what we both studied. Our intention was to learn about each others’ research and bring our experiences, perspectives, and research together under one umbrella.

During our activities in the SCAPE project concerning the creation of the Policy Framework, we collected several real life policies. Some other sources, like the recently published report in the Signal by M. Sheldon http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/08/analysis-of-current-dig... were also of help in creating this overview of published preservation policies.

The policies are showed in alphabetical order and divided by

Although migrating library applications to Cloud environ- ment is not an easy task, many libraries are interested in using Cloud infrastructure services broadly across their busi- nesses, whether is about a Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud. One of the migration expectations is the scalability of dig- ital preservation architectures in Cloud environments. In this paper, we address the scalability of storage and com- pute platforms, which combine storage of large datasets and their processing.

The guideline for preservation planning describes a procedural model for the long-term archiving of digital objects and provides information on possible forms of implementation. It serves above all as a theoretical and practical implementation of the "Preservation Planning" functional unit of the OAIS reference model. Other key concepts introduced in the last 15 years have been included and brought together.
http://files.d-nb.de/nestor/materialien/nestor_mat_15-eng.pdf

This one-day event on 31 October 2014 was organised by the DPC and hosted at the futuristic, spacious offices of HSBC, where the presentation facilities and the catering were excellent. All those attending were given plenty of mental exercises by William Kilbride. He said he wanted to build on his “Getting Started in Digital Preservation” events and help everyone move further along the path towards a steady state, where digital preservation starts to become “business as usual”.

This article explores the need for and the problems with digital preservation. Digital documents are much more easily discovered and shared than their analog counterparts, but not only is there a mistaken belief that digital preservation will occur without conscious intervention, there are also outstanding technical issues to be resolved. Even when these problems are recognized, it is unclear what materials should be preserved. Medical librarians have an important role to play in these decisions and should engage with their communities and play an active role in the process.