It's about a time : research challenges in digital archiving and long term preservation : Final report

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HEDSTROM Margaret. It' about a time : research in challenges in digital archiving and long term preservation : Final report. The National Science Foundation and The Library of Congress, August 2003. Text accessible : http://www.si.umich.edu/digarch/NSF%200915031.pdf

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Tiltle : It' about a time : research in challenges in digital archiving and long term preservation : Final report
Creator : HEDSTROM Margaret
Subject : "This report summarizes the discussions and recomendations of the Workshop on Research Challenges in digital archiving and Long term preservation."
Description : digital preservation, information program
Publisher : The National Science Foundation and The Library of Congress
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Date : 2003-08
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Digital archiving in the 21st century

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA. Digital archiving in the 21 st century. National archives of Australia, September 2006. Text accessible : http://www.caara.org.au/Publications/DigitalArchiving21C.pdf

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Tiltle : Digital archiving in the 21st century
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Publisher : National archives of Australia
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Date : 2006-09
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Identifier :http://www.caara.org.au/Publications/DigitalArchiving21C.pdf

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Rights : © Commonwealth of Australia 2006

"In the 21st century the overwhelming majority of newly created information is digital. The digital collections of collecting institutions such as archives, libraries and museums consist of either digitised or ‘born digital’ content (see the definitions in Attachment 3, ‘The business of archives’). The belief that digital objects can be managed with the same methodologies developed over the years for physical objects is misconstrued. While digital objects are easier to copy, transfer and re-package, they present new risks and challenges, and are not inherently easier to preserve, or give access to, over the long term.
Digital objects are difficult to preserve and manage over the long term. Users expect access to collection content to be delivered online and are inclined to ignore collections that are not available online in digital form. Without urgent coordinated action across the cultural collecting domain, Australian cultural content is at risk of either not surviving and/or being marginalised. Designing and implementing regimes for selecting, creating, acquiring, describing and delivering access to digital collections requires a complete reinvention of systems, approaches and practices in collecting institutions." [extract]

Digital Archiving_ Developing Policy and Best Practice Guidelines at the National Library of Australia

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GATENBY, Pam. Digital Archiving_ Developing Policy and Best Practice Guidelines at the National Library of Australia. International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), January 2000. Text accessible : http://www.icsti.org/2000workshop/gatenby.html

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Tiltle : Digital Archiving_ Developing Policy and Best Practice Guidelines at the National Library of Australia.
Creator :GATENBY, Pam
Subject : National Library of Australia, digital archiving, archiving process
Description :This policy statement indicates the directions the National Library of Australia intends to take in preserving its own digital collections, and in collaborating with others to enable the preservation of other digital information resources likely to be of value to NLA users
Publisher : International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)
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Date : 2000-01
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"The Library's overall approach to managing the archiving and preservation of digital publications and to providing access to them, takes place within a broader context and is shaped by a number of considerations. One relates to what we consider to be the fundamental roles and responsibilities of a national library and to the inherent principles and beliefs that underpin these. The principles are those espoused by the International Federation of Library Associations and relate to how national libraries collect, control and provide access to their national documentary heritage. The key principles of relevance here, are:

• The role of national libraries should extend to collecting and preserving the digital publishing output of their country

• Legal deposit should be recognized as applying equally to digital publications to ensure their long-term preservation

• National libraries should issue clear statements or policies outlining their collecting intentions for digital publications

• Digital publications selected for archiving should be included in the national bibliography as are print publications

• National libraries should provide long-term access to digital publications and consider models for integrating access with print publications" [extract]
  

The preservation of digitised collections : an overwiew of recent progress and persistent challenges worlwide

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VARLAMOFF, Marie-Thérèse and GOULD Sara. The preservation of digitised collections : an overview of recent progress and persistent challenges worldwide. UNESCO WebWorld News Point of View, 1999. Text accessible : http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/preservation_1.shtml

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Tiltle : The preservation of digitised collections : an overview of recent progress and persistent challenges worldwide.
Creator : VARLAMOFF, Marie-Thérèse and GOULD Sara
Subject : Digital preservation, digital document, digital material, UNESCO.
Description : " This article attempts to present some of issues surrounding the challenge of digital preservation.
Publisher : UNESCO WebWorld News Point of View
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Date : 1999
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Rights : © Copyrights 1999- UNESCO

"The emergence of digital technologies in the library and archival worlds has changed many practices in the profession, and in recent years many major libraries have been collecting or producing digital documents: even in developing countries, librarians dream of turning digital, leapfrogging other tried and tested technologies such as microfilming. It cannot be disputed that digital technology has accomplished a great step towards better and easier access to information; the same piece of information can be accessed by several readers simultaneously, regardless of where they are in the world, and far more speedily than previously. The Internet of course allows millions of people around the world to receive the same information at the same time. Distance, frontiers and time limits have all vanished: it could be said that the only requirements for access to information now are language and technical equipment or connections.

The opportunity to browse from one subject to another, from one website to another, and to automate the tedious aspects of seeking information has revolutionised research. Thanks to digitisation, a student can now scan a complete collection of Shakespeare’s dramas in a matter of minutes, something which would have taken days before the advent of digitisation when such a search would have involved laborious page by page research. Libraries also appreciate the space-saving advantages offered by digital collections: the Encyclopedia Britannica, on one or two CD-ROMs, is certainly less cumbersome than the print version, and if correctly handled those CD-ROMs will not need repair or restoration like ordinary paper books which are constantly used and whose pages or bindings tend to tear." [extract]

The State of Digital Preservation. Introduction : The changing preservation Landscape

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MARCUM, Deanna. Introduction : The changing Preservation Landscape. Council on Library and information ressources (CLIR). Text accessible : http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub107/marcum.html

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Title : Introduction : The changing Preservation Landscape
Creator : MARCUM, Deanna
Subject : Digital preservation, digital information
Description : This text is about the exploration and preservation of digital information for a long time. It si an extract of a report about the state of preservation of digital information.
Publisher : Council on Library and information Resources (CLIR)
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Rights : © 2004-2007 Council on Library and Information Resources.

"The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and, later, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have been exploring the topic of preserving digital information for a long time. Don Waters and John Garrett wrote their landmark report, The Preservation of Digital Information, in 1996. In describing the problem, they wrote

Rapid changes in the means of recording information, in the formats for storage, and in the technologies for use threaten to render the life of information in the digital age as, to borrow a phrase from Hobbes, "nasty, brutish, and short."

Today, information technologies that are increasingly powerful and easy to use, especially those that support the World Wide Web, have unleashed the production and distribution of digital information. . . . If we are effectively to preserve for future generations the portion of this rapidly expanding corpus of information in digital form that represents our cultural record, we need to understand the costs of doing so and we need to commit ourselves technically, legally, economically, and organizationally to the full dimensions of the task. Failure to look for trusted means and methods of digital preservation will certainly exact a stiff, long-term cultural penalty..." [extract]

Digital archiving : What is involved?

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FLECKER, Dale. Digital archiving : What is involved? Educause January/February 2003. Text accessible :http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0316.pdf

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Title : Digital archiving : What is involved?
Creator : FLECKER, Dale
Subject : Digital archiving, digital information, preservation, archiving programs,
Description : This texte is about archiving programs and preservation.
Publisher : Educause
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Date : 2003-02
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Source : http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0316.pdf
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Rights :© 2003 Dale Flecker

Best Practices for Digital Archiving

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HODGE, Gail M. Best Practices for digital Archiving. D-lib Magazine volume6 number 1, january 2000. Text accessible : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html#Kuny#Kuny

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Title :Best Practices for Digital Archiving

Creator :HODGE, Gail M

Subject :Digital storage, digital archiving, librairianship, digital documents

Description :This text is about best practices for digital archiving. Digital information differ from paper or microfilms and requires new technologies.

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Date :2000-01

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Rights :Copyright © 2000 Conseil International Pour L'Information Scientifique et Technique [International Council for Scientific and Technical Information]

"As we move into the electronic era of digital objects it is important to know that there are new barbarians at the gate and that we are moving into an era where much of what we know today, much of what is coded and written electronically, will be lost forever. We are, to my mind, living in the midst of digital Dark Ages; consequently, much as monks of times past, it falls to librarians and archivists to hold to the tradition which reveres history and the published heritage of our times. - Terry Kuny, XIST/Consultant, National Library of Canada [Kuny 1998]

1.0 Introduction
The rapid growth in the creation and dissemination of digital objects by authors, publishers, corporations, governments, and even librarians, archivists and museum curators, has emphasized the speed and ease of short-term dissemination with little regard for the long-term preservation of digital information. However, digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition. Digital storage media have shorter life spans, and digital information requires access technologies that are changing at an ever-increasing pace. Some types of information, such as multimedia, are so closely linked to the software and hardware technologies that they cannot be used outside these proprietary environments [Kuny 1998]. Because of the speed of technological advances, the time frame in which we must consider archiving becomes much shorter. The time between manufacture and preservation is shrinking. "
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Glossary

Electronic archiving
Digital archiving
Digital archives
Electronic archives

Digital archiving : "The question of preserving or archiving digital information is not a new one and has been explored at a variety of levels over the last five decades. Archivists
responsible for governmental and corporate records have been acutely aware of
the difficulties entailed in trying to ensure that digital information survives for
future generations. Far more than their library colleagues, who have continued
to collect and organize published materials primarily in paper form, archivists
have observed the materials for which they are responsible shift rapidly from
paper objects produced on typewriters and other analog devices to include files
created in word processor, spreadsheet and many other digital forms (see, e.g.
Hedstrom 1991: 343-44; National Academy of Public Administration 1989)."

Source : ftp://ftp.rlg.org/pub/archtf/final-report.pdf