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Long Term Preservation of Digital Documents: Principles & Practices
Key to our culture is that we can disseminate information, and then maintain and access it over time. While we are rapidly advancing from vulnerable physical solutions to superior, digital media, preserving and using data over the long term involves complicated research challenges and organization efforts.
Uwe Borghoff and his coauthors
address the problem of storing, reading, and using digital data for periods longer than 50 years. They briefly describe several markup and document description languages like TIFF, PDF, HTML, and XML, explain the most important techniques such as migration and emulation, and present the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model. To complement this background information on the technology issues the authors present the most relevant international preservation projects, such as the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and experiences from sample projects run by the Cornell University Library and the National Library of the Netherlands. A rated survey list of available systems and tools completes the book.
With this broad overview, the authors address librarians who preserve our digital heritage, computer scientists who develop technologies that access data, and information managers engaged with the social and methodological requirements of long-term information access.
Written for:
Professionals dealing with the preservation of digital data, Librarians, Archivists, Information Managers
Keywords:
DSpace
Deposit System for Electronic Publications - DSEP
DigiTool
Dublin Core Metadata Initiantive - DCMI
Open Archival Information System - OAIS
data archival
digital heritage
digital libraries
Part I: Methodology - 1) Long-Term Preservation of Digital Documents - 2) OAIS and DSEP Organizational Models - 3) Migration - 4) Emulation - 5) Document Markup - 6) Standard Markup Languages - 7) Discussion.- Part II: Recent Preservation Initiatives - 8) Markup: Current Research and Development - 9) Migration: Current Research and Development - 10) Emulation: Current Research and Development - 11) Software Systems for Archiving.- References - Index
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