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General OneFile - Document. 652x0r1. Preservation Metadata. Open Data - Open Gov. Long-Term Access. Access and Dissemination Tools. Architecture. About JISC. SDB Digital Preservation » Challenges. Ensuring long term access to the vast range of information required for archiving is a huge problem that organisations are slowly waking up to. The key challenges are: Media obsolescence. Information is held on unmanaged local stores (e.g laptops, optical media, local file servers) or central stores where its value is not recognised (central file servers, tape back-ups). In each case data can be lost because the media on which it is stored becomes unreadable or is replaced.Distributed and disjointed data. Another challenge is that information is stored but its location and value are not recorded making discovery and use very difficult.
This challenge is compounded by information being held in diverse IT systems across several organisations.File format obsolescence. This challenge is a creation of the digital age – key information is held in files that may no longer be readable by future computer platforms and software. UNC-Libraries/Carolina-Digital-Repository - GitHub. Welcome to Viewshare. COAR – Greater visibility and application of research through global networks of Open Access repositories. Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications. By David Tarrant, Ben O’Steen, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock, Neil Jefferies and Leslie Carr Introduction One of the main decisions to be made when starting a digital repository is which software to use.
Currently there are a wide range of choices, including open source and proprietary systems. Most of these choices are in active development and some have been available for nearly a decade, which represents a high degree of stability in the relatively young history of digital repositories. Not every institution creating a repository will make the right initial choice of software, however, and over time the needs of a repository may evolve. The starting point for our work was an investigation into institutional repository (IR) preservation services by the JISC-funded Preserv 2 project [25], which wanted to find a way of effectively replicating a whole IR across any repository platform.
We also look briefly at possibilities for further work in this area. A quick overview of OAI-ORE The demo. Preserv Repository Survey Results. Steve Hitchcock, Tim Brody, Jessie M.N. Hey and Leslie Carr Preserv Project, IAM Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Email: sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk Preserv is a JISC-funded project within the programme Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions. Find out more about Preserv. Version information: This is a DRAFT paper, 9 January 2007, updated 21 February 2007 Abstract Growth in the number of digital and institutional repositories, and corresponding growth in the volume of content, means that preparing for preservation begins to assume a higher priority.
Introduction Since 2002 institutional repositories (IRs) have seen growth accelerate both in the number of repositories and in the volume of content (Hitchcock et al. 2007a): between 2005 and 2006 this growth was shown to be 25% (repository numbers) and almost 60% (content). What are repositories, particularly IRs, doing about preservation? Yes 1 No 18 Figure 1. Eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17833/1/PASIG-SF09.pdf. The Preservation Storage Network - ECS EPrints Repository. Www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/525.
Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets. W3C Incubator Group Report 25 October 2011 This Version: Latest Published Version: Authors Antoine Isaac, Europeana and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands William Waites, University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics), UK Jeff Young, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., US Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, US (W3C Invited Expert) See also translations. Copyright © 2011 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. Abstract The mission of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, chartered from May 2010 through August 2011, has been "to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities — focusing on Linked Data — in the library community and beyond, building on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration tracks for the future.
" Status of This Document Table of Contents. Lifeshareproject Blog. Preserv-final-report1.0. Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional Repositories: Towards Distributed Services. Abstract Digital preservation can encompass a range of activities, from simple replication and storage to more complex transformation, depending on the assessed value and risk to the target content. These activities require planning and, in most cases, begin with a need to know the technical format of the target content. In this case, the target is the content deposited in institutional repositories (IRs). The Preserv project [1] set out to investigate the use of The National Archives' (TNA) PRONOM-DROID service (PRONOM is the online registry of technical information; DROID is the downloadable file format identification tool) for file format identification on two pilot IRs using EPrints software, and instead produced format profiles (Preserv profiles) of over 200 repositories presented via the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).
Introduction How are institutional repositories (IRs) to preserve the digital content for which they accept responsibility? What is 'preservation'? Technological Profile | www.hathitrust.org. HathiTrust is intended to provide persistent and high-availability storage for deposited files. In order to facilitate this, the partnership uses a storage architecture with a rich set of features designed for fault tolerance and long-term data retention. Central to the storage architecture is the use of two synchronized instances of storage with wide geographic separation (located in data centers in Ann Arbor, MI and Indianapolis, IN) and an encrypted tape backup with 6 months of previous-version retention (located in a third data center several miles from the Ann Arbor storage instance).
All data centers meet the requirements for Uptime Institute Tier II classification. All storage is physically secure, locked in racks that are accessible only to authorized IT personnel. The need for continuous integrity checking is fundamental to HathiTrust's data management strategy and underlies the choice of online (spinning magnetic disk) media for primary storage. News: Cutting the Cord. The National Science Digital Library had ambitious goals when it started in 2000: create a massive open repository of STEM learning materials culled from projects funded by its benefactor, the National Science Foundation; then organize these materials so that they could be easily cherry-picked and used by science and math instructors, from higher ed all the way down.
The NSF poured well over $100 million into the project. Just over a decade later, the science digital library is on death row. It is set to be stripped of all funds in 2012, “based in part on recent evaluation findings that point to the challenges of sustaining such a program in the face of changing technology and the ways educators now find and use classroom materials,” according to a foundation directorate issued in February. That is the meta-concern at the center of “Funding for Sustainability,” a new study by the nonprofit research group Ithaka S+R.