The terms preservation and sustainability are often bound together, but it is important to understand the relationship. When we recognise the scope of sustainability for institutional repositories (IRs) we can see that it must typically precede preservation because the conditions for preservation depend on the sustainability of the target source. …
Digital preservation planning may be technical, but you have to get to grips with your organisational policy and planning first, as is revealed in a new paper by our KeepIt project advisor Andreas Rauber and coauthors in the latest issue of D-Lib Magazine From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation Planning …
Previously we have considered the case for data curation in KeepIt, and here is more grist for that mill. Dorothea Salo has posted her recent presentation at the Access 2009 Canadian library technology conference. You have a selection of formats: Video (with slides) Slide show (with commentary) [slideshare id=2061191&doc=accessdatamanage-key-090924120942-phpapp01] Note. …
Do we need an architecture for digital preservation? If so, what might it cover? Perhaps content types (e.g. data, teaching materials), management types (e.g. repositories), institutions, infrastructure (networks, storage) and services. Something more concrete than OAIS (references below), for example, which is after all a reference model, not an implementation. …