Digital Preservation
January 6, 2015
U.S. Digital Preservation Collaborations from 1994-2014 State-by-State Overviews
In 2012, the Educopia Institute was approached by the Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) to identify and document collaborative digital preservation activities in the U.S., across relevant memory sectors (e.g., academic, government, archival, museum, nonprofit, and commercial). Using these “state profiles”, Educopia was also asked to help NDIIPP identify … Continue reading U.S. Digital Preservation Collaborations from 1994-2014 State-by-State Overviews
April 30, 2014
Chronicles Interoperability Tools
The Chronicles project focused on developing strategies, workflows, and tools for ingesting preservation-ready news content. Early in the project, the PI, PM, and Technical Advisor hosted a set of concentrated discussions across the three DDP partners (MetaArchive, UNT Coda, and Chronopolis). In these conversations, we formalized a strategy for accomplishing content exchanges using common tools … Continue reading Chronicles Interoperability Tools
April 1, 2014
Comparative Analysis of Distributed Digital Preservation Frameworks
The Chronicles in Preservation project has provided an evaluation of three leading technical approaches in the U.S. context (iRODS at Chronopolis, LOCKSS at MetaArchive, and Coda at University of North Texas Libraries) for institutions that want to preserve their diverse newspaper holdings in Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) frameworks. Each of these approaches has unique features … Continue reading Comparative Analysis of Distributed Digital Preservation Frameworks
March 27, 2014
Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness
Libraries and other cultural memory organizations curate a substantial body of digital newspaper content. The genesis of these collections is often a series of iterative and cumulative digitization and born-digital acquisitions with idiosyncratic and ad-hoc data storage structures that vary radically in their file types, structures, and metadata. These institutions have limited resources to expend … Continue reading Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness
January 20, 2014
Pilot ICONC Dashboards
The ICONC project created an open data-set revealing the characteristics of U.S.-based digital preservation collaborations from 1994‐2014. Data was populated from publications, websites, grant awards, and surveys of NASCIO and NAGARA members. Ten data attributes were captured for each of the 211 documented collaborative activities; six areas of data attributes were recorded for the 1,274 … Continue reading Pilot ICONC Dashboards
August 13, 2012
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Proceedings
On May 23-25, more than 125 delegates from more than 20 countries gathered in Tallinn, Estonia, for the “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” conference. At the National Library of Estonia, this group explored how to create and sustain international collaborations to support the preservation of our digital cultural memory. This publication contains a collection … Continue reading Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Proceedings
February 6, 2010
A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit. This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a … Continue reading A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation
February 6, 2008
Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries
This collection of essays on sustaining digital libraries is a report of early findings from pioneers who have worked to establish digital libraries, not merely as experimental projects, but as ongoing services and collections that are intended to be sustained over time in ways consistent with the long-held practices of print-based libraries. Particularly during this … Continue reading Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries