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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