Preservation Resources (P1.b)

Table of Contents

Blogs

Neil Beagrie's Blog on Digital Preservation <http://blog.beagrie.com/> (accessed February 12, 2008)

Preservation - General Guidelines

AHDS Repository Policies and Procedures (AHDS) <http://www.ahds.ac.uk/preservation/ahds-preservation-documents.htm> (accessed December 21, 2010)
Guidelines for preserving audio, moving images, plain text, digital by-products, marked-up text, binary text, relational databases, statistical data files, GIS, cad, bitmap (raster images, vector graphics, geophysics data files, spreadsheets.

Archiving & Preservation (CRL) <http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Cornell University Library Digital Preservation Policy Framework, December 2004 <http://commondepository.library.cornell.edu/cul-dp-framework.pdf> (accessed May 17, 2007)

Digital Curation at the Wellcome Library (London, England) http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node288.html> (accesses February 12, 2008)

Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group), (OCLC/RLG) <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/orprojects/pmwg/premis-final.pdf> (Accessed December 21, 2010 )

DIGARCH (Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation) <http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf04592> (accessed December 8, 2007)This program of the NSF supports both technical and sociotechnical research topics.

Digital Preservation: Finding Balance, ed. by Deborah Woodyard-Robinson (Library Trends, 54:1 (Summer 2005).

Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems (Cornell University Library and ISPSR) <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/> (accessed December 8, 2007)

Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage, prepared by the National Library of Australia for UNESCO, March 2003 <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001300/130071e.pdf> (accessed May 17, 2007)

Open Archival Model Information System Reference guide: Introductory Guide, by Brian F. Lavoie (DPC/OCLC) <http://www.dpconline.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=347> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Open Access Forever -- Or Five Years, Whichever Comes First: Progress on Preserving the Digital Scholarly Record, MacKenzie Smith, April 2007 (CERN) <http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=13&amp;sessionId=10&amp;materialId=0&amp;confId=5710 (Video, accessed April 19, 2007) <http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=13&sessionId=10&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=5710 (PDF, accessed April 19, 2007)

Reference Model fore an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), January 2002http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf> (accessed May 24, 2007)

Techniques for Creating Sustainable Digital Collections, by Stephen Chapman (Library Technology Reports 40(5), Sept./Oct. 2004

Workbook on Digital Private Papers (PARADIGM - Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media, JISC/University of Manchester) <http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/index.html> (accessed February 12, 2008)

UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage <http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13366&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> (accessed December 8, 2007)

Preservation Initiatives

100 Year Archive Task force - defining best practices in long term digital information retention <http://www.snia-dmf.org/100year/index.shtml> (accessed April 26, 2007)

CASPAR (EU) - An EU effort to ensure access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources. <http://www.casparpreserves.eu/> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Curation Center (University of California) <http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Digital Archive - archiving and preservation in the virtual world. (OCLC) <http://www.oclc.org/digitalarchive/default.htm> (accessed April 30, 2007)

Digital Curation Centre (UK) - A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice. <http://www.dcc.ac.uk/> (accessed April 19> 2007)

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) - <http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/> (accessed September 5, 2008)

Digital Preservation Coalition - securing preservation of digital resources in the UK <http://www.dpconline.org/component/content/article/27-new-members/56-new-members> (accessed December 21, 2010)

ERA: Electronic Records ARchives (NARA)- to be a comprehensive, systematic, and dynamic means for preserving virtually any kind of electronic record, free from dependence on any specific hardware or software <http://www.archives.gov/era/> (accessed April 29, 2007)

Ensuring long-term preservation and usability of digital information (National Diet Library, Japan) <http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/aboutus/preservation.html> (accessed May 12, 2008)

Internet Archive - billions of Web pages archived since 1996 to a few months ago <http://www.archive.org/web/web.php> (accessed April 19, 07)

InSPECT - attempts to expand and articulate the concept of 'significant properties' of digital objects necessary to ensure their authenticity over time <http://www.significantproperties.org.uk/index.html> (accessed December 21, 2010)

InterPARES 2 Project - long-term preservation of authentic records created and/or maintained in digital form <http://www.interpares.org/> (accessed April 26, 2007) <

NDIIP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (Library of Congress)- an initiative to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the growing amounts of digital content, especially materials that are created only in digital formats, for current and future generations. <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/>

Northeast Document Conservation Center <>http://www.nedcc.org/home.php <>

Nestor (Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources, Germany) <http://nestor.sub.uni-goettingen.de/>

Digital Archive (OCLC) <http://www.oclc.org/digitalarchive/default.htm> (accessed December 21, 2010)

PLANETS (EU) - European institutions collaborating in addressing the challenge of preserving access to digital cultural and scientific knowledge <http://www.planets-project.eu/> (accessed April 19, 2007) <Newsletter Issue 3 (accessed February 12, 2008)

PADI -Preserving Access to Digital Information (National Library of Australia) <http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/> (accessed December 8, 2007)A subject gateway to international digital preservation resources

PANDAS (Australia) - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pandas.html> (accessed December 21, 2010)

PREMIS - Preservation Metadata (OCLC and RLG) <http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/> (accessed April 30, 2007)Implementation Strategies <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/orprojects/pmwg/default.htm> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Web Cite - an archiving system for web references (cited web pages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited web material will remain available to readers in the future. <http://www.webcitation.org/> (accessed April 19, 2007)

WePreserve is the window on the synergistic activities of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR), and Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services (PLANETS).. <http://www.wepreserve.eu/> (accessed April 19, 2007)

Readings

D-Lib Magazine <http://www.dlib.org/> (accessed December 8, 2007)

Design for the Long Term: Authenticity and Object Representation (Digital Object Management, The British Library, 2005) <http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/dom/papers/archiving2005l.pdf> and <http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/dom/papers/archiving2005presentation.pdf>(accessed April 26, 2007)

First Monday <http://www.u <c.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/> (accessed December 8, 2007)

Implementing Preservation Repositories for Digital Materials: Current Practice and Emerging Trends in the Cultural Heritage Community (PREMIS Working Group, OCLC, September 2004). <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/orprojects/pmwg/surveyreport.pdf> (accessed December 21, 2010)

iPres 2007 Conference <http://ipres.las.ac.cn/program.jsp> (accessed December 8, 2007)

The Large-scale Archival Storage of Digital Objects, February 2005 (Technology Watch Report, DPC) <http://www.dpconline.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=345> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Preservation Tools

NDIIP Partner Tools and Services Inventory (Library of Congress)
A list of tools and services designed, developed or used by NDIIPP partners during their preservation projects.
<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/resources/tools/index.html>

Bagit: Transferring Content for Digital Preservation (Library of Congress), includes tool BIL (Bagit Library) for creating data bags <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/videos/bagit0609.html>

DROID/PRONOM (Digital Record Object Identification and format registry) (National Archives)
PRONOM - <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx>
DROID - <http://droid.sourceforge.net>
PRONOM is an online database containing details of more than 750 different digital file formats. Along with the DROID file format identification tool, which uses the database, PRONOM enables digital archivists, records managers and anyone using the tool to find out what files they have, in which formats and how best to ensure their long-term preservation.

The DROID tool scans a computer or hard drive and identifies files either through its file extension (for example .doc for Word files) or by matching the file's internal signature with specific entries in the PRONOM database.

EMET - Embedded Metadata Extraction Tool (ARTstor) - A stand-alone tool on the Adobe Air
2.0 platform designed to extract metadata embedded in JPEG and TIFF
files. EMET is compatible with Mac OS 10.4+, Windows XP, Windows Vista,
and Windows 7. <http://www.artstor.org/global/g-html/download-emet-public.html>

JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) <http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove>

FileFormat.Info : The Digital Rosetta Stone <http://www.fileformat.info/>

QuickPar - QuickPar is a utility for creating parity volumes using the Reed Solomon algorithm. Parity volumes may be used to verify that a set of files have not been corrupted, or to reconstruct damaged files (providing that you have a sufficient quantity of parity volumes to match the missing or damaged files). <http://www.quickpar.org.uk/>

National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extraction Toolkit The Metadata Extraction Tool programmatically extracts preservation metadata from a range of file formats including PDF documents, image files, sound files, office documents, and many others. It automatically extracts preservation-related metadata from digital files then outputs that metadata in XML. It can be used through a graphical user interface or command-line interface. <http://meta- extractor.sourceforge.net/>

Library of Congress Transfer Tools - Tools developed by the Library of Congress and their partners in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) for the purpose of validation and transfer of data that conforms to the BagIt specification <http://sourceforge.net/projects/loc-xferutils/>

md5deep (set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests) <http://md5deep.sourceforge.net>

PDF/A Competence Center <http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=pdfa:en> (accessed December 21, 2010)

PLATO: The Planets Preservation Planning Tool (planets) - The planning tool Plato is a decision support tool that implements a solid preservation planning process and integrates services for content characterisation, preservation action and automatic object comparison in a service-oriented architecture to provide maximum support for preservation planning endeavours. <http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/plato/intro.html>

PREMIS in METS Toolbox (Florida Center for Library Automation) - The PREMIS in METS Toolbox is a set of open-source tools developed to support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format. The tools were created by Florida Center for Library Automation for the Library of Congress in 2009. <http://pim.fcla.edu/>

Format normalization on ingest

DAITSS (FCLS, USA) DAITSS is a preservation repository application available under the GPL license developed by The Florida Center for Library Automation. It implements the preservation strategies of normalization and forward migration for about 10 formats including JFIF (JPEG), JEG2000, TIFF, WAVE, XML, Quicktime, AVI and PDF. <http://daitss.fcla.edu/>

DAITSS 2 description service - an online web service for performing format identification, validation and characterization using DROID and JHOVE. You may upload any file to the description service and receive the result in a PREMIS document with standard metadata schema. <http://description.fcla.edu.

DiVA (Uppsala University, Sweden

Xena (Australian National Archives)

File Conversion Tools

imageMagick <http://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php>

Other Tools

CRiB

GDFR (US)

NIST software database

Preservation of Textual Works

Preservation handbook: Binary Text/Word Processor Documents, by Rowan Wilson and Martin Wynne Draft V3, August 22, 2005, revised July 3, 2006 (AHDS) <http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/documents/preservation/preservation_wpdocs.pdf> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Preservation handbook: Marked-up Textual Data, by Alan Morrison and Martin Wynne, ver. 3, August 22, 2005, revised July 3, 2006 (AHDS) <http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/preservation/preservation_markup.pdf> (accessed December 21, 2010)

PDF/A-1, PDF for Long-term Preservation, Use of PDF 1.4 (Library of Congress) <http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000125.shtml> (accessed April 15, 2009)

Preservation of Audio and Video (Restoration)

Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) <http://www.arsc-audio.org/> (accessed March 30, 2011)
AERSC nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals—everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.

Primary on Digital Audio Restoration (High Criteria, Inc.) <http://www.highcriteria.com/Primer%20on%20AR.htm> (accessed September 3, 2007)

Sound Directions: Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage (Harvard and Indiana University) <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/> (Accessed December 5, 2007)

Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation, by Mike Casey and Bruce Gordon (2007) <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/papersPresent/sd_bp_07.pdf> (accessed January 17, 2008)

Survey Instrument for Audio and Moving Image Collections (Columbia University) <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/audiosurvey.html> (accessed June 23, 2008)

Content Replication

Archivematica - open archival information system <http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page> (accessed December 21, 2010)

Chronopolis (University of California San Diego) <http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/> (accessed June 8, 2010)

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) <http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Home> (accessed December 21, 2010)
A not for profit joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community.

DAITTS - Florida Digital Archive (Florida Center for Library Automation) <http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/index.htm> (accessed May 21, 2007)

Digital Archive (OCLC) - storage and access for digital collections <http://www.oclc.org/digitalarchive/default.htm> (accessed December 8, 2007)

iRODS: Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System - Integrates data from independent or distributed data systems to enable "virtual" sharing and preservation of the data. <https://www.irods.org/index.php/IRODS:Data_Grids,_Digital_Libraries,_Persistent_Archives,_and_Real-time_Data_Systems>

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) <http://lockss.org/lockss/LOCKSS_Alliance> (accessed December 8, 2007)
A distributed system for storing scholarly journals.

MetaArchive (Educopia Institute) <http://www.metaarchive.org/> (accessed June 8, 2010)

Portico: a permanent archive of scholarly literature published in electronic form. <http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/>

Preserv (Preservation EPrints Services) <http://preserv.eprints.org/> (accessed June 8, 2010)
Preserving long-term open access to materials in institutional repositories (IRs).

Rosetta (ExLibris) <http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/ExLibrisRosettaOverview> (accessed October 8, 2009)
A highly scalable, secure digital preservation system.

Safety Deposit Box (Tessella) <http://www.digital-preservation.com/> (accessed June 8, 2010)

SHAMAN: Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg (EU) - A large-scale preservation framework <http://shaman-ip.eu/shaman/>

Risk Assessment, Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories

Catalogue of Criteria for Trusted Digital Repositories, version 1, December 2006 (nestor) <http://edoc.hT-berlin.de/series/nestor-materialien/8/PDF/8.pdf> (accessed June 6, 2007)

Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment - DRAMBORA (Digital Curation Centre/DigitalPreservationEurope) <http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/> (accessed June 6, 2007)

Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification: Criteria and Checklist, version 1.0, February 2007 (maintained by the US Center for Research Libraries) <http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf> (accessed December 21, 2010) <urn:nbn:de:0008-2006060703>

Preservation Utilities

http://dvdisaster.net/en/ - DVD Archiving and Recovery Tool

Xena - Software to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. <http://xena.sourceforge.net/> (accessed April 07)

File management

Alternative File Formats for Storing Master Images of Digitisation Projects <http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/alternative_file_formats_for_storing_masters_2_1.pdf>. Robert Gillesse, et al. National Library of the Netherlands. March 7, 2008.[PDF]
Also read the Postscriptum<http://www.kb.nl/hrd/dd/dd_links_en_publicaties/publicaties/KB_file_format_evaluation_method_27022008.pdf> (December 2010) (accessed December 21, 2010)

Are your memories safe? (International Imaging Industry Association) <http://www.savemymemories.org/> (accessed April 27, 2007)Advice on preserving image files.

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