Welcome to the first module of the KeepIt course that between now and the end of March 2010 is introducing repository managers to a range of digital preservation tools. This is a digital preservation course with a difference. It is aimed at institutional repositories, and can therefore make assumptions about …
File formats are a critical feature in digital preservation. This is hardly news to specialists, but in their objectives the repository managers of our exemplars also expressed an interest in file formats, so I was interested to discover what the recent report on file formats from the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) might …
A practical, tools-based course designed for repository managers and presented by expert tutors, in five parts between January and March 2010, in the UK. This distinctive new course starts Tuesday 19 January 2010, in Southampton, UK. Update (12 January 2010). This course is now full. Places for individual modules may …
Recently each of the KeepIt project’s four exemplar repositories detailed objectives for their part in this work. Admittedly, when they were first asked to do this the reaction of the repository managers was one of surprise and perhaps consternation. They were probably thinking, as you are, why now, some way …
How can we measure the extent of preservation activity? One way to do this for libraries is costs. ARL produces annual preservation statistics, and it appears that one helpful blogger has collated the data in a more useful way. ARL produces a lot of detail in its reports, but it …
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. …
I recently updated the Preserv bibliography for the first time in nearly a year. Hence, for those following KeepIt but not the earlier Preserv project, you may not have come across it It may be, currently, the most extensive bibliography on digital preservation, perhaps. Yet it isn’t comprehensive because it …