Preservation research and sustainable digital libraries

Abstract

The National Science Foundation and DELOS, the European Commission sponsored Network for Digital Libraries, supported a working group to define a research agenda for digital archiving and preservation (DAP-WG) within the context of digital libraries. The report of this group, Invest to Save, has laid out a range of research challenges that need to be addressed if we are to make progress in the development of sustainable digital libraries. DAP-WG considered archiving and preservation needs and the research that had been conducted to address these. It concluded that research in this domain could benefit from being expanded and refocused-new research communities must be engaged, the approaches to conducting the research must be made more rigorous, and a significant shift in what was being researched needed to be taken. The Group identified twenty-two key research activities worthy of investigation.

Describing Data Format Exploits Using Bitstream Segment Graphs

“…In order to extend the description to data formats as a whole, we intend it to serve as a basis for a logic-based theory on data formats, which also has applications in other domains, eg. enabling authentic long-term access to information in obsolete data formats for Digital Preservation [14].…”

La información: perspectivas bibliotecológicas y distinciones interdisciplinarias

“…Las estrategias y sistemas de preservación digital, eficaces y asequibles contribuirán a la transición de una economía industrial a una economía del conocimiento. Cada vez más países están reconociendo la necesidad de establecer una legislación para que sus instituciones garanticen la permanencia de su patrimonio documental digital (Ross & Hedstrom, 2005).…”

The Long-Term Preservation of Web Content

“…The key thing, whichever strategy (or combination of strategies) is chosen, is to understand that the purpose of any strategy will be to ensure that the significant properties of preserved objects can be retained. In the short to medium term, however, much more research into preservation strategies will be needed (e.g., Hedstrom, 2002;Tibbo, 2003;Ross & Hedstrom, 2005).…”