Digital Preservation in Capable Hands: Taking Control of Risk Assessment at the National Library of New Zealand

DeVorsey, Kevin; McKinney, Peter

doi:10.3789/isqv22n2.2010.07

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“…In regular submissions, the failure to use updated versions of the format could be explained by the kind of tools used by submitting authors. These tools generated old version, or even non-standard PDF documents (De Vorsey and McKinney, 2010). Universities are especially slow in updating authoring tools because they distribute software to their employees and often make no changes until the equipment is renewed, every four or five years.…”

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An analysis of file format control in institutional repositories

2015

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the file formats of the digital objects stored in two of the largest open-access repositories in Spain, DDUB and TDX, and determines the implications of these formats for long-term preservation, focussing in particular on the different versions of PDF. Design/methodology/approach – To be able to study the two repositories, the authors harvested all the files corresponding to every digital object and some of their associated metadata using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) protocols. The file formats were analyzed with DROID software and some additional tools. Findings – The results show that there is no alignment between the preservation policies declared by institutions, the technical tools available, and the actual stored files. Originality/value – The results show that file controls currently applied to institutional repositories do not suffice to grant their stated mission of long-term preservation of scientific literature.

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“… 1 Our initial considerations on risk analysis leaned heavily on institutional rendering capabilities (see DeVorsey and McKinney, 2009, 2010). That is, what can the Library render ‘correctly’.…”

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Preservation actions

Gattuso

2017

Alexandria

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This article proposes a way of describing the selection of digital preservation actions from an organisational imperative. The intent of this article is to offer terminology that allows an organisation to inform the selection of its digital preservation action approach. The discussion starts by describing some of the decision-making and speculation that the National Library of New Zealand’s (NLNZ) digital preservation programme undertook in the early 2000s, what digital preservation actions might look like as a day-to-day part of the operations of a National Library. It reports on the current domain conversations that pivot around viable digital preservation treatments, specifically emulation and migration actions. The article raises the argument that as practitioners of digital preservation, we require some higher level constructs and direction to inform our treatment selection. The primary proposition of the article is that the organisational approach to preservation should be the starting point for treatment choice, rather than treatment choice informing the generalised organisational approach. The organisational approach is described as two distinct modes: artefactual, the preservation of the artefact; and, informational, the preservation of information. The conjecture of an informational approach verses an artefactual approach is offered to supersede the migration verses emulation debates. This conjecture is developed further and a theorised life cycle of a digital object is offered that describes a blended existence, containing elements of both emulation and migration as valued tools used to promulgate the digital object through time. The article finally offers a number of exemplary use cases from the NLNZ’s digital collections where a new way of thinking about digital preservation treatments is needed to allow meaningful and viable preservation to occur. These use cases describe collection items that are a poor fit to the current organisational model and a future state for these items that might offer a higher chance of successful preservation over time.

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