Information Longevity
Key Information Sources
Preserving
Difficult Electronic Works: Moving Images, Websites, and Electronic Art,
Powerpoint slides of Howard Besser's May 2, 2004 talk at Pratt
University
Recent
Digital Longevity Activities, Powerpoint slides of Howard Besser's
December 8, 2001 Talk to meeting of National Initiative for a Networked
Cultural Heritage at the Getty Center in Los Angeles
Longevity
Issues
for Electronic Literature, Powerpoint slides of Howard Besser's
April
6, 2002 Talk to meeting of Electronic Literature Organization in Los
Angeles
National Digital
Information
Infrastructure and Preservation Program
The National Digital Information
Infrastructure
and Preservation Program was established by Congress to "develop a
national
strategy to collect, archive, and preserve the burgeoning amounts of
digital
content, especially materials that are created only in digital formats,
for current and future generations." As
an
initial step, the Library of Congress scheduled a series of meetings
with
various stakeholder groups from the technology, business,
entertainment,
academic, legal, archival, and library communities. Background papers
were
commissioned to give "environmental scans," for the meetings. These
papers
are available on the new NDIIPP web site together with a summary of
background
findings and a summary of the meetings.
Library
(of Congress)
Announces Approval of Plan to Preserve America's Digital Heritage,
February 14, 2003 press release (and Plan
Approved To Save U.S. Digital History, Washington Post, February
15,
2003)
Council on Library & Information Resources, Building
a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media
Archiving
Reports
& Papers (Mainly Background
Environmental Scans)
Peter Lyman, Archiving
the World Wide Web
Dale Flecker, Preserving
Digital Periodicals
Samuel Brylawski, Preservation
of Digitally Recorded Sound
Frank Romano, E-books
and the Challenge of Preservation
Mary Ide, Dave MacCarn, Thom Shepard, and Leah Weisse, Understanding
the Preservation Challenge of Digital Television
Howard D. Wactlar and Michael G. Christel, Digital
Video Archives: Managing through Metadata
Papers and Analysis of Problems, Guides
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Besser, Howard. Digital
longevity, in Maxine Sitts (ed.) Handbook
for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access,
Andover MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000, pages 155-166
(http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digitalhandbook/ix.htm)
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Preservation
Management
of Digital Materials; A Handbook (originally by Neil Beagrie &
Maggie Jones, but updated by Digital Preservation Coalition
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Besser, Howard. Longevity
of Electronic Art, submitted to International Cultural Heritage
Informatics
Meeting, 2001 (posted while under review)
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Besser, Howard. Digital
Preservation of Moving Image Material?, submitted to The Moving
Image, Fall 2001 (posted while under review)
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Lyman, Peter and Howard Besser (1998). Defining
the Problem of our Vanishing Memory: Background, Current Status, Models
for Resoltuion, in Margaret MacLean and Ben H. Davis (eds.) Time
and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity (website
| book),
Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1999
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Time
& Bits:
Managing Digital Continuity, a February 1998 Conference on Digital
Longevity, hosted by the Getty Conservation and Information Institutes
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Task Force on the Archiving of
Digital
Information, 5/96 final report of task force created by Commission
on Preservation and Access and Research Libraries Group
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Rothenberg, Jeff. Avoiding
Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for
Digital
Preservation, Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and
Information
Resources, January 1999
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Digital
Collections:A
strategic policy framework for creating and preserving digital
collections
by Neil Beagrie and Daniel Greenstein, UK's Arts and Humanities Data
Service,
July 1998
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Preservation
2000: An International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term
Accessibility
of Digital Materials, 6-8 December 2000, York, England
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Digital
Archive
--
OCLC's approach to digital preservation
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Digital Preservation Commons -- OCLC's and RLG's joint effort at
digital
preservation, announced
March 2000
Moving Image & Electronic Art Preservation
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Permanence
Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, a recent book (2003)
from
the Daniel Langlois
Foundation
(Montreal) and the Guggenheim Museum (New York) (press
release)
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Guggenheim Museum's Variable
Media Initiative and Variable
Media
Network
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International Network for the
Conservation
of Contemporary Art (INCCA)
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Capturing
Live Performance Events, Internet2/CNI Performance Archive &
Retrieval
Working Group, October 2003
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Video Preservation
Resources, Video History Project (including: Video
Preservation: The Basics by Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez,
Reel
to Real: A Case Study of BAVC's Remastering Model by Luke Hones
[edited
by Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez], and historical
texts on video preservation
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Background Environmental Scans released May 2002 by National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
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Archiving
the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art
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UK's
PRONOM Project for managing information about the file
formats
used to store electronic records, and the software applications needed
to render these formats (developed by the Digital Preservation
Department
of the UK National Archives)
project
documentation
Schemes for encoding media types (much wider than longevity issues)
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UK's PRONOM Project
for managing information about the file formats used to store
electronic
records, and the software applications needed to render these formats
(developed
by the Digital Preservation Department of the UK National Archives)
project
documentation
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Metadata Encoding and
Transmission
Standard (METS) Standard for encoding structural and
adminstrative
metadata
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The
Library
of Congress Audio-Visual Prototyping Project, extending METS to
streaming
media types
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Technical
Imaging
Metadata Standard, National Information Standards Organization
standard
for encoding still images
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AUDIOMD:
Audio Technical Metadata Extension Schema, Library of Congress'
scheme
for encoding audio
Copyright Issues impacting on Preservation
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Request
for exemption from DMCA (Digital Milennium Copyright Act)
anti-circumvention
provisions for purposes of Archiving, Internet Archive, December
18,
2002
Metadata/Standards
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Standards,
Best Practices, and White Papers, California Digital Library
Strategic
Technology, Architecture, and Standards Committee (includes standards
and
best practices for still images and digital objects, scanning and
metadata,
etc.)
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Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A
Recommendation for Content Information, OCLC/RLG Preservation
Metadata
Working Group, October 2001
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Preservation
Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art,
OCLC/RLG
Working Group on Preservation Metadata, January 31, 2001 (press
release)
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CEDARS
Metadata for
Digital Preservation
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National Standards
Organization
Invitational Meeting on Technical Metadata Elements for Image Files,
April 18-19, 1999, Washington DC (sponsored by the National Information
Standards Organization and the Digital Library Federation) (Howard's
opening presentation | meeting
summary)
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Metadata
and Standards links
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A Structured Approach to
Enterprise
Modeling and Analysis -- IDEF(0), Knowledge Based Systems, Inc.
Architectures and building trusted Digital Repositories
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Preserving
Digital Materials: Final Report of the Digital and Archiving Committee,
presented to Univerity of California's SOPAG Committee, October 18, 2001
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Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A
Recommendation for Content Information, OCLC/RLG Preservation
Metadata
Working Group, October 2001
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Trusted
Digital
Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, RLG/OCLC Final
Report,
May 2002 (revised version of Attributes
of a Trusted Digital Repository, RLG/OCLC Interim Report, August
2001)
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Space Data Systems efforts: International
Standards Organization (ISO) Archiving Standards, and their Reference
Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) | (US
Efforts Towards ISO Archiving Standards)
Longevity-related Projects
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Digital Preservation Coalition,
United Kingdom's Website on digital preservation issues
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British
Archives
Digital Preservation Department
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DSpace, MIT's Durable Digital
Repository
for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers
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What's new in
digital
preservation, regular updates from the UK's DPC and Australia's PADI
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Long-term Retention of
Digital Research
Materials, Research Libraries Group website
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NEA give
Bay
Area Video Coalition $150,000 to develop curriculum for preservation of
electronic art
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Electronic
Resource
Preservation and Access NETwork launched (European project
sponsored
by RLG starting Nov 2001)
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Collection-Based
Persistent Digital Archives - Part 1, by Reagan Moore et. al.,
D-Lib
Magazine, 6:3, March 2000 (San Diego Supercomputer Center Digital
Archiving
Project)
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Great Britain's Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) Digital Preservation
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Preserving Access to Digital
Information
(PADI), National Library of Australia
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Safeguarding European
Photographic
Images for Access (SEPIA)
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Networked European
Depository Library
(NEDLIB) (and long-term
preservation study, as well as previous summary
of recent plans)
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Internet Archive
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The CEDARS Project
(CURL Exemplars
in Digital Archives), part of the UK's Consortium of University
Research
Libraries (CURL) aiming to provide guidance and best practices for
digital
library preservation (project
summary)
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Creating Creative
Archiving
at Michigan and Leeds (CAMiLEON Project) on emulation (see Emulation,
Preservation, and Abstraction, David Holdsworth, RLG DigitNews 5:4,
August 15, 2001)
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Cornell PRISM Project (Preservation,
Reliability, Interoperability, Security, Metadata) for digital
information
(begun late 1999)
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International
Research
on Permanent Authentication Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES),
an international archival world project examining how to make
electronically-generated
records last over time. It is developing the theoretical and
methodological
knowledge needed, then will formulate mofel policies, strategies, and
standards.
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Preserving and Accessing
Networked
DOcumentary Resources of Australia (PANDORA), National Library of
Australia
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Mapping the Internet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive (Minerva)
project
of Library of Congress, described by Bill Arms et. al. in Collecting
and Preserving the Web: The Minerva Prototype, RLG DigiNews 5:2,
April
15, 2001
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Preserving Cornell's
Digital
Image Collections: Implementing an Archival Strategy, funded by the
Institute of Library and Museum Services
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Upstate
Video History Project, Newark Valley, NY, starting 1999
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Digital
Technology,
from OCLC's Preservation Resources
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A
Project on Preservation of Digital Data, Raymond Lorie, RLG
DigiNews
5:3, June 15, 2001, IBM emulation project
Electronic Journal Archiving
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The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation's
e-Journal archiving program
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LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep
Stuff
Safe), the Stanford-based, NSF-funded project to promote local
storage
of electronic journals in the hopes that redundant copies will improve
the chances of persistence over time (beginning Spring 2000)
Other Sources, Position Papers, etc.
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RLG's DigiNews
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Issues &
Innovations
in Preserving Digital Information, Association of Research
Libraries'
Transforming
Libraries, Issue #5, 1998
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Preservation
Management
of Digital Materials Study, UK's Arts and Humanities Data Service,
begun 1999
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WGBH Educational Foundation Universal
Preservation Format
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RLG
Preservation Working
Group on Digital Archiving, 5/97 Progress Report
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Hedstrom, Margaret and Sheon Montgomery. Digital
Pre servation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institution, 1998
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Image
Conservation
links
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Clock Library, The Long Now
Foundation's
attempt to begin grappling with long-term preservation issues
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Building
and
Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums,
Council
on Library and Information Resources, August 2001
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Powerpoint slides from Howard's
1998 talk on Planning to Maximize Longevity of Digital Information
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Archives & Records Preservation
Sites for General Conservation/Preservation/Longevity Information