Ever since the founding of the ancient library of Alexandria, estimated to have happened around 300 B.C., it has been a repeated ambition throughout history to ensure longevity if not perpetuity of publications, to keep at least one copy safe somewhere, and to establish a well-secured and ever-cumulating corpus of knowledge that can withstand the ravages of time.
What will happen in the digital age?
My colleague Claude Huc, who made significant contributions to OAIS tells me that he has written a book, in French, about digital preservation for individuals, families, etc. This book is entitled “preserver son patrimoine numérique” (325 pages). It is published by Eyrolles (Paris) and is available now, and is also available as an ebook. He …
Have you read David Giaretta’s book yet?
Advanced Digital Preservation
Synopsis
There is growing recognition of the need to address the fragility of digital information, on which our society heavily depends for smooth operation in all aspects of daily life. This has been discussed in many books and articles on digital preservation, so why is there a need …
The Alliance for Permamant Access has launched a brand new website.
Visitors and APA members can:
Access information about our members, how to join the APA and details of projects – past and present.
Take part in our excellent forum where you can participate in online discussions about the latest issues affecting digital preservation.
Check out our director’s …
At the recent workshop in Nijmegen Workshop on Research Metadata in Context there were, as one would expect, many presentations about metadata.
In his introduction Keith Jeffery spoke about some of the types of metadata:
•Discovery
◦Description
•Matching for use
◦Functional and non-functional
•Access and access restrictions
◦Security, privacy, trust, cost
•Integrity, accuracy, quality
◦Schema
•Provenance
◦Temporal
•Curation / Preservation
Many, perhaps most, of the other speakers talked …
There is certainly a great deal of interest in audit and certification.
The demand for something started more than 15 years ago. It was re-iterated in OAIS.
Now EU are promoting a European frameowrk for Audit and Certification of digital repositories – see http://wiki.digitalrepositoryauditandcertification.org/bin/view/Main/EuropeanFrameworkDocs
The ighest level of this is the ISO audit and certification standard which I …
We produced the strategic plan for 2006-2010 5 years ago. This set out the need for an organisation, as well as details of a research programme for digital preservation, and a strategy to influence the development of an infrastructure for digital preservation of the records of science.
The organisation came into being about 2 years ago …
