Digital Preservation Management Resources. An Information Life-Cycle Approach: Best Practices for Digital Archiving. This article appeared first in the January 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine, Volume 6 Number 1. 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] 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.
The Background of the ICSTI Study. Digital Preservation and Permanent. Executive Summary 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Scope and Methodology 3.0 Highlighted Systems 4.0 Setting the Stage 4.1 Archiving Concepts and Definitions 4.2 The Scientific Environment 4.3 The Technological Environment 4.4 Scientific Publishing and Communications 4.4.1 Open Access 4.4.2 Institutional Respositories 4.5 Legal Deposit and Copyright 5.0 Stakeholder Roles 5.1 Publishers 5.2 National Libraries 5.3 Institutions 5.4 Museums 5.5 National, State and Regional Archives 5.6 Trusted Third Parties 5.7 The Role of Government 5.8 Foundations and Other Private Funding Source 6.0 Preservation by Document Type 6.1 Electronic Journals 6.2 Theses and Dissertations 6.3 Scientific Data Sets 6.4 Technical Reports 6.5 Conferences, Meetings and Lectures 6.6 E-Records 7.0 Standards by Format Type 7.1 Text 7.2 Images 7.3 Numeric Data 7.4 Video and Audio 7.5 Output from Design, Modeling and Visualization Tools 8.0 The Workflow 8.1 Selection Criteria 8.2 Metadata Creation 8.3 Archiving and Transformation 8.3.2 Migration 8.4 Storage.
Lost and missing Australian documentary heritage: is there any? Research Information. Should we be prepared to face a future without digital curation? A new digital curation centre in the UK will help research institutions to safeguard research data for years to come. Peter Burnhill, the centre's interim director, reports ...It's 2020. A postgraduate student has chosen 'Icons and Irony in late 20th Century Science' as the topic for her thesis. Searching the web for evidence to support her choice of topic, however, leads to a frustrating conclusion. The importance of data Scientists and researchers generate increasing amounts of digital data, and investment is being made into further digitisation and purchase of digital content and information. The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the academic community have taken note of this issue and invested in a number of scoping studies to find a solution.
Now, building on that work and the expertise already existing in particular disciplines, a Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is being launched. Preservación de papel :: Paperlandia.