Systematic planning for digital preservation: evaluating potential strategies and building preservation plans

Becker, Christoph; Kulovits, Hannes; Guttenbrunner, Mark; Strodl, Stephan; Rauber, Andreas; Hofman, Hans

doi:10.1007/s00799-009-0057-1

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“…These considerations are typically considered as part of a formal Preservation Planning process. This process guides the user through a decision-making workflow, ensuring alternatives are considered, the best outcome selected, and the process and end result properly documented (see Becker et al, 2009).…”

Section: Migration To Pdf/amentioning

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Preservation with PDF/A (2nd Edition)

Fanning¹

2017

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ForewordThe Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is an advocate and catalyst for digital preservation, ensuring our members can deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services. It is a not-for-profit membership organization whose primary objective is to raise awareness of the importance of the preservation of digital material and the attendant strategic, cultural and technological issues. It supports its members through knowledge exchange, capacity building, assurance, advocacy and partnership. The DPC's vision is to make our digital memory accessible tomorrow.The DPC Technology Watch Reports identify, delineate, monitor and address topics that have a major bearing on ensuring our collected digital memory will be available tomorrow. They provide an advanced introduction in order to support those charged with ensuring a robust digital memory, and they are of general interest to a wide and international audience with interests in computing, information management, collections management and technology. The reports are commissioned after consultation among DPC members about shared priorities and challenges; they are commissioned from experts; and they are thoroughly scrutinized by peers before being released. The authors are asked to provide reports that are informed, current, concise and balanced; that lower the barriers to participation in digital preservation; and that are of wide utility. The reports are a distinctive and lasting contribution to the dissemination of good practice in digital preservation.

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Section: Migration To Pdf/amentioning

confidence: 99%

Preservation with PDF/A (2nd Edition)

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2017

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“…in the long term. The specific problems related to the checking, refreshing, and migration technology fall within the scope of the research area of digital preservation (see, e.g., [57]). …”

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A Systemic Approach to the Preservation of Audio Documents: Methodology and Software Tools

Bressan

Canazza

2013

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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This paper presents a methodology for the preservation of audio documents, the operational protocol that acts as the methodology, and an original open source software system that supports and automatizes several tasks along the process. The methodology is presented in the light of the ethical debate that has been challenging the international archival community for the last thirty years. The operational protocol reflects the methodological principles adopted by the authors, and its effectiveness is based on the results obtained in recent research projects involving some of the finest audio archives in Europe. Some recommendations are given for the rerecording process, aimed at minimizing the information loss and at quantifying the unintentional alterations introduced by the technical equipment. Finally, the paper introduces an original software system that guides and supports the preservation staff along the process, reducing the processing timing, automatizing tasks, minimizing errors, and using information hiding strategies to ease the cognitive load. Currently the software system is in use in several international archives.

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“…al. show a preservation planning workflow that allows for repeatable evaluation of preservation alternatives [1]. This workflow is implemented in the preservation planning tool Plato [2].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Evaluating Emulation and Migration: Birds of a Feather?

Guttenbrunner

Rauber

2012

The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network

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Abstract. Evaluating the results of a digital preservation action, be it migration or emulation, is a complex task. The usual approach for migration is to evaluate object properties after the migration. For emulation strategies the result of the rendering of the object is evaluated. In this paper we argue that the change of object properties when migrating is not sufficient evidence if a digital preservation action is successful or not. Even for migration the rendering process of the digital object is crucial, and as such evaluating object properties is not enough. The difference in evaluation between emulation and migration as a strategy for digital preservation becomes blurred as migration results have to be compared based on the rendering of the target format and the environment used to render the migrated digital object. Evaluation of object properties when migrating will only validate a necessary condition for preserving significant properties, i.e. whether the information underlying a specific property is still present in an object after migration. It cannot guarantee that the rendering based upon the migrated object will exhibit a specific significant property. In this paper we show the view-path of digital objects and explain how emulation and migration actions affect it. We then compare the changes that occur in the view-path and show that these are at least as severe when migrating a digital object as when emulating its rendering environment.

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Systematic planning for digital preservation: evaluating potential strategies and building preservation plans

Cited by 62 publications

References 27 publications

Preservation with PDF/A (2nd Edition)

Preservation with PDF/A (2nd Edition)

A Systemic Approach to the Preservation of Audio Documents: Methodology and Software Tools

Evaluating Emulation and Migration: Birds of a Feather?

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