Reimagining the Format Model: Introducing the Work of the NSLA Digital Preservation Technical Registry

McKinney, Peter; Knight, Stephen; Gattuso, Jay; Pearson, David; Coufal, Libor; Anderson, David P.; Delve, Janet; Vorsey, Kevin De; Spencer, Ross; Hutař, Jan

doi:10.1080/13614576.2014.972718

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“…State Library Victoria through the National and State Libraries of Australasia (NSLA) has been involved in supporting projects on the creation of a file format registry. 43 Currently, the Library is not restricting the type of files it will be acquiring, and there are a wide variety in our digital literary collections and other born-digital manuscript archives. The thinking here centres upon our current understanding of file types and file degradation.…”

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Literary archives in the digital age: issues and encounters with Australian writers

Molloy

2019

Archives and Manuscripts

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In considering what constitutes the ideal born-digital literary archive and what interventions are possible, or even necessary, from a collecting institution in determining the make-up and future accessibility of these archives, this article examines, through a set of case studies, the collections and creative methodologies of four Australian writers -Peter Carey, Sonya Hartnett, Alex Miller and Ouyang Yu. The article considers how these writers have negotiated with, and managed, their creative output in the digital space, and how, as a collecting institution, State Library Victoria has responded to their respective requirements of the medium and expectations for how a major institution will deal with their digital collections. Finally, the article examines what practical technologies are necessary to provide a secure digital repository while facilitating access and the delivery of born-digital literary content to the user, both now and into the future.

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Literary archives in the digital age: issues and encounters with Australian writers

Molloy

2019

Archives and Manuscripts

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“…However, the OAIS model is not an application model and questions about it remain unresolved (Cruz and Díez 2016). Further enhancements are needed in order to apply the model, because for some IT architectures it is difficult to find documentation about file formats (McKinney et al 2014). However, this is a model that has been widely adopted by the archival community and developed by software companies.…”

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Dataset Management as a Special Collection

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2019

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Dataset Management as a Special Collection IntroductionUniversity libraries face numerous issues regarding access to special collections, including datasets.Dataset licensing varies considerably, such as in terms of copyright or creative commons. These are issues that must be resolved in the coming years. Indeed, at present, datasets are scattered across different places and, depending on the topic in question, licences and retrieval can be difficult. Moreover, given challenges of access and manipulation, the inclusion of datasets in special collections can become a daunting task. Datasets are included in special collections if they are specialised, pertain to the collection's content, have research values or are old legacy formats that add value to the university library. Finally, they offer the possibility of generating new data if reused with adequate technology. Special collections are characterised by their uniqueness, fragility, value, rarity and the difficulty of finding similar collections elsewhere. Typically, special collections were restricted to small portions of population, separated from the main library collection as a whole, and used for research or instruction (Tam 2017). Since the creation of the World Wide Web, libraries have used outreach projects to disseminate their special collections through their catalogues.A virtual collection can offer numerous benefits to researchers, solving problems such as accessibility or findability, and providing innovative means of researching, teaching and learning, according to the Special Collections Working Group established by Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (Prochaska 2009). Virtual catalogues have removed geographical distance barriers and opening hours, and have expanded research and access to rare materials (Doi 2015), as well as presenting hidden material that no longer exists in the library catalogue (Tam 2017). Such materials have become digitised, with hard copies available in the library in case of an information technology (IT) failure. Nevertheless, digital special collections have always raised significant questions, affected by politics, legal requirements and technological solutions (Prochaska 2009).A specific question arises when materials are not digitised but are instead digitally born and are to be included in special collections. In 2011, Goldman found that institutions had not created policies to protect digital materials and their properties (Goldman 2011). Garnett et al. also found that university libraries' special collection protection against disasters is under-researched (Garnett et al. 2018). In most cases, university libraries require IT support; special collections that are made available online must be treated carefully in order that the information presented is complete. Therefore, the very definition of a special digital collection becomes undefined, owing to the nature of digital material.The definition of a special collection with born-digital material differs from a collection of analogue materials. In fact, Procha...

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“…The Library’s thinking on digital preservation has been further shaped by its involvement in a number of internal and external projects over the past few decades, among them the work on the Automatic Obsolescence Notification System II project for Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (Pearson and Walker, 2007); a first DRAMBORA risk assessment of the Library digital preservation capabilities (Long, 2008); the development of Prometheus, a system for processing content off physical carriers (Elford et al, 2008); the creation of Mediapedia 1 to help identify risks to carriers (Del Pozo et al, 2009); and most recently, the National and State Libraries Australasia 2 (NSLA) Technical Registry (McKinney et al, 2014).…”

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Backing up digital preservation practice with empirical research

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This article introduces the National Library of Australia’s Digital Preservation Knowledge Base which helps the Library to manage digital objects from its collections over the long term. The Knowledge Base includes information on file formats, rendering software, operating systems, hardware and, most importantly, the relationships between them. Most of the work on the Knowledge Base over the last few years has been focused on the mapping of functional relationships between file formats, their versions and software applications. The information is gathered through unique empirical research and is initially being recorded in a multiple-worksheet Excel file in a semi-structured format, though development of a prototype graph database is underway.

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Reimagining the Format Model: Introducing the Work of the NSLA Digital Preservation Technical Registry

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Literary archives in the digital age: issues and encounters with Australian writers

Literary archives in the digital age: issues and encounters with Australian writers

Dataset Management as a Special Collection

Backing up digital preservation practice with empirical research

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