Preservation and Access in an Age of E-Science and Electronic Records: Sharing the Problem and Discovering Common Solutions

Stewart, Margaret

doi:10.1080/01930826.2012.684505

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“…"It is not about technology, it is about people" (Bishoff, 2012). Forging these partnerships is difficult, but necessary (Stewart, 2012). Creating crossorganizational collaborations is not easy, as some will be wary of sharing resources, desire greater authority over decisions, or have legitimate concerns about privacy and regulatory requirements (Stewart, 2012).…”

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Overwhelmed to action: digital preservation challenges at the under-resourced institution

Rinehart

Prud'homme

Huot

2014

OCLC Systems &Amp; Services

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of beginning digital preservation efforts with restricted resources. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a case study approach, which is enhanced by advice from national experts in digital preservation. Findings – This paper details how Milner Library digital preservation advocates have approached the task by seeking collaborations, speaking to administration, participating in national efforts and starting with small steps. Research limitations/implications – As a case study, this paper is limited to one institution's experience with promoting digital preservation. Practical implications – This paper reviews basic misconceptions about and challenges with digital preservation. Many smaller or mid-sized institutions are left out of the digital preservation conversation because they cannot begin to meet national standards with restricted resources. Originality/value – This paper represents small and mid-sized institutions and the challenges of digital preservation. As well, the paper includes valuable insights from national experts in digital preservation.

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Overwhelmed to action: digital preservation challenges at the under-resourced institution

Rinehart

Prud'homme

Huot

2014

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“…Long-term preservation has also become one of the most important issues that address information storage in the future (Early & Taber, 2010, p. 5). Stewart (2012) observed that many academic libraries had incorporated electronic record systems, like institutional repositories, to handle their born-digital or digitized records, revealing that there has been a growing recognition of the need to maintain access to records in electronic format over time. He also discerned, however, that most institutions might have done little to prepare for the long-term preservation of these digital assets outside of these content management systems that were designed primarily for access and easy transactions.…”

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Digital Preservation Challenges with an ETD Collection — A Case Study at Texas Tech University

Perrin

Winkler

Yang

2015

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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The dangers that digital files face can seem merely the stuff of theory and risk assessment matrices until an institution experiences its first data loss; especially when those digital files represent the graduate research output of a university, the potential impact of that loss increases exponentially. The authors present a case study of the challenges one academic library has encountered in the stewardship of its electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) over the course of a decade. This article examines the problems that can arise years after the transition from a physical to electronic collection and presents documentation solutions that can make ETD preservation and curation more effective.

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“…Starting in 1987 when the concept of ETDs was formed, theoretical literature and technological development began to speed up with the advancement of internet technology and online search engines (Fineman, 2004). Scholars of library and information science have widely and deeply discussed issues regarding ETD collaboration, discovery, metadata, system improvement, and preservation strategies ( Janick and McLaughlin, 2006;Song, 2007;Yiotis, 2008;Lippincott and Lynch, 2010;Early and Taber, 2010;McCutcheon, 2011;Stewart, 2012;Perrin et al, 2015). However, only a little literature has discussed music-related ETDs, mainly because the concept of ETDs, according to Fineman (2004), is generally "limited to providing better access to information, but not additional or better information" (p. 898).…”

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A complete system for publishing music-related ETDs

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Purpose – There is no proposed solution to address the unresolved issues of publishing music-related electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) pertaining to technology availability, copyright, and preservation. The purpose of this paper is to propose a complete system, including technology development and publishing model, which addresses the existing issues of publishing music-related ETDs. The paper shares the practice of utilizing the system developed by Texas Tech University Libraries known as Streaming Audio and Video Experience (SAVE), and proposes it as a solution for other multimedia collections. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed system includes a technology solution and a publishing model. The technology solution, SAVE, contains an authenticated streaming multimedia player, a responsive-design user interface, and a web-based submission and management system. The publishing model combines a DSpace-based institutional repository (IR) with SAVE and preservation strategies. Findings – The integrated system of SAVE and DSpace-based IR expands the access of music-related ETDs and other multimedia collections to patrons, benefits the distance education students as well as the local students, facilitates professors’ classroom teaching, and helps to preserve physical multimedia items by avoiding check-outs. Originality/value – The SAVE solution resolves issues of publishing music-related ETDs, fulfills the local needs of publishing hundreds of music-related ETDs from the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and supports the publishing of other multimedia collections. The software will be released open source to the public for other universities’ use. The publishing model is also useful for those universities that intend to integrate an IR with the streaming player platform.

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Preservation and Access in an Age of E-Science and Electronic Records: Sharing the Problem and Discovering Common Solutions

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Overwhelmed to action: digital preservation challenges at the under-resourced institution

Overwhelmed to action: digital preservation challenges at the under-resourced institution

Digital Preservation Challenges with an ETD Collection — A Case Study at Texas Tech University

A complete system for publishing music-related ETDs

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