This paper describes and explores the concept of perceived preservation levels and their implications. Perceived preservation levels are a way to comm...
In 2015 a new preservation policy of the National Archives of The Netherlands (NaNeth) was approved. Part of our policy is the implementation of the s...
Digital preservation encompasses the theory and practice ensuring purposeful future use of digital resources. But how can one tell whether it has been...
Current digital preservation systems such as Archivematica and Preservica lack a common and consistent way to describe and execute preservation polici...
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology hosts and operates a digital preservation system with three purposes: for the preservation...
This paper provides insights into the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico (National Library of Mexico)’s efforts to ensure proper stewardship over its digi...
Five years ago, at the Getty Research Institute, we implemented the Ex Libris product Rosetta to preserve and provide access to our digital collection...
This paper shares lessons learned at the completion of a large multi- year project (2008-2018) to move to a next-generation digital preservation repos...
In the very broad scope addressed by digital preservation initiatives, a special place belongs to the scientific and technical artifacts that we need ...
News websites make editorial decisions about what stories to in- clude on their website homepages and what stories to emphasize (e.g., large font size...
Web archive collections are created with a particular purpose in mind. A curator selects seeds, or original resources, which are then captured by an a...
Web archives, a key area of digital preservation, meet the needs of journalists, social scientists, historians, and government orga- nizations. The us...
Todays digital preservation practice focuses mostly on fixed or complete objects, which are defined by their manifestation as files or records with th...
Effective seeking, management, preservation and distribution of digital data objects are critical to successful and sustainable performance in a range...
Third-party software dependency is a big threat for digital art- works. In this paper, we describe our experiences with artworks such as Remote Contro...
In order to preserve software-based art the research community has primarily focused on emulation as a preservation strategy. The University of Freibu...
One of the greatest challenge for any archive is the multiplicity of file formats, some of which may be decades old. For the United States National Ar...
The aim of this paper is to illustrate how vulnerable bit preservation is, regardless of how well prepared you think you are, and hopefully to inspire...
The British Library and the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries have been collecting various forms of born-digital digital publications since 2013 as par...
Data Management Plans (DMPs) are free-form text documents describing data used and produced in research projects. The workload and bureaucracy often a...
Archives are special – the homes of our collective memories. Although the archive is still widely perceived as a trusted custodian, archivists are awa...
Inspired by the “Knowledge Base” definition of the Open Archival Information System: “A set of information, incorporated by a per- son or system, that...
The PREMIS 3.0 Ontology Working Group recognized the need for the preservation community to be able to use Semantic Web tech- nology to leverage syste...
nestor is the German network of expertise in Digital Preservation. Like iPRES, nestor looks back on a history of 15 years in 2018. On the occasion of ...
Digital preservation practitioners are often asked to make collec- tion and preservation decisions about content they steward; more often than not thi...
With the introduction of tools like the DLF’s Digitization Cost Cal- culator, forecasting and fundraising for digitization projects can be achieved wi...
Since the early 2000s the European Union has promoted and supported the development of cross-border and digital means for conducting business and runn...
Recent years have been marked by growing adoption of Archival Resource Key (ARK) identifiers in France and in French-speaking countries, growing relia...
This paper presents details about a network organization that enables small public archives in Denmark to do professional digital preservation that bo...
In January 2015, GPO initiated a project to assess FDsys/govinfo against the ISO 16363 Trustworthy Digital Repository standard. As part of the assessm...
In this paper a comparison is made between two private Dutch archives (Het Nieuwe Instituut and International Institute of Social History) and how the...
Scientists collect, generate, and analyze data in a variety of forms. Oftentimes, this leads to datasets that have been organized, rendered, and store...
News, paradigm-shifting ideas, social movements, scientific discoveries and artistic creations have all been documented through audiovisual recordings...
Computing checksums to prevent bit rot is accepted wisdom in the digital preservation community. Yet in other domains, this wisdom is approached quite...
The Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) initiative is an effort to define a shared approach to file hierarchy for long-term preservation. What began as a...
In 2017 Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI) – Dutch agency for architecture, design and digital culture started a research project leading to the implementatio...
Archivists at the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library recently concluded a project to review and initiate improvements to our five-year-...
Significant progress and guidance has been produced in data recovery for 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch floppy disks, but similar recovery steps for 8-inch fl...
Email provides a rich history of an organization yet poses unique challenges to archivists. It is difficult to acquire and process due to sensitive co...
The role of standards in digital preservation is widely acknowledged. The current version of the ePub standard, used for publishing and disseminating ...
In this paper, we focus on the quality of PDF files. We are interested in errors that validators report during the validation process: how accurate ar...
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