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Digital library archiving

      Titles Descriptions
  1. Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data
  2. British Library Research and Innovation Centre Reports and Papers
  3. Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving
  4. CEDARS: CURL Exemplars for Digital Archives
  5. CURL: Consortium of University Research Libraries
  6. Digital Preservation Coalition
  7. EPIC: European Preservation Information Center
  8. Five Colleges Archives Digital Access Project
  9. Framework of Data Types and Formats, and Issues Affecting the Long Term Preservation of Digital Material
  10. Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community
  11. Investigation into the Digital Preservation Needs of Universities and Research Funders
  12. It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation
  13. Practical Advice for Preserving Publications on Disc
  14. Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records
  15. Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Material
  16. Responsibility for Digital Archiving and Long Term Access to Digital Data
  17. Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators

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Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data
Good practice report to documenting and organising aerial photography, remote sensing, archaeological, and digital data.
     Author: Bewley, Robert; Donoghue, Danny; Gaffney, Vince; Leusen, Martijn van & Wise, Alicia
     Subjects: digital library archiving, digital library standards, photography, remote sensing
     DeweyClass: 778.35
     Resource type: document
British Library Research and Innovation Centre Reports and Papers
Part of the UKOLN server carrying a selection of British Library Reports. Includes reports on Digital Libraries, the Impact of Electronic Publishing on Library Services, Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Materials and Networked Information in an International Context. Last updated 1998.
     Author: British Library and UKOLN
     Subjects: digital library archiving, digital library philosophy, electronic publishing, library and information science research, library internet use, library services, technology impact
     DeweyClass: 027.5
     Resource type: documents
Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving
US Library of Congress report discussing efforts to develop a national strategy for the preservation of digital information. The report is based on consultations between federal, scholarly, and non-profit organisations, and is presented in html format and as a PDF file.
     Author: Library of Congress and Council on Library and Information Resources
     Subjects: digital library archiving
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: document
CEDARS: CURL Exemplars for Digital Archives
Project aiming to address strategic, methodological, and practical issues associated with digital preservation and provide subsequent guidance for libraries. It intends to deliver guidelines for developing digital collection management policies which may ensure the long-term viability of any digital resources included in a collection, provide demonstrator projects to test and promote the technical and organisational feasibility of the chosen strategy, and an analysis of the cost implications of digital preservation.
     Author: CURL
     Subjects: digital library archiving
     DeweyClass: 025.8
     Resource type: document
CURL: Consortium of University Research Libraries
CURL is a group of UK research libraries whose mission is to promote, maintain and improve library resources for research in universities. The CURL database supports a record retrieval and reference service for library staff.
     Author: Consortium of University Research Libraries
     Subjects: digital library archiving, library resource sharing, research libraries
     DeweyClass: 020.6
     Resource type: institution
Digital Preservation Coalition
A collaborative organisation which aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK, and to promote related standards on a global scale. Provides access to a practical guide covering the management of digital resources over time and sustaining access to them. Also offers a quarterly publication jointly operated by the coalition and the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway informing the community of recent developments.
     Author: Digital Preservation Coalition
     Subjects: digital library archiving, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: documents
EPIC: European Preservation Information Center
Information on work concerning the preservation of the documentary heritage in Europe focusing on paper-based materials, as well as sound, film, photographs, and digital archives. Concentrates on preservation as an integral element in collection management and issues like mass conservation and conversion or substitution, rather than traditional restoration techniques.
     Author: European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
     Subjects: digital library archiving, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: documents
Five Colleges Archives Digital Access Project
Project to develop digitised versions of the archival records and manuscript collections from five western Massachusetts colleges, relating primarily to women's history and education. Browse or search by college or keyword.
     Author: Five Colleges
     Subjects: digital library archiving, women in history
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: documents
Framework of Data Types and Formats, and Issues Affecting the Long Term Preservation of Digital Material
Report of a study aiming to develop a framework for long-term preservation of digital material.
     Author: Bennett, John C.
     Subjects: digital library archiving
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: document
Impact of Electronic Publishing on the Academic Community
Proceedings of an international workshop organised by the Academia Europaea and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Stockholm, 1997. Focuses on electronic publishing from three viewpoints: the preservation of academic material, past, current and future, access to such material in digital form, and quality issues including peer refereeing and authentication.
     Author: Butterworth, Ian
     Subjects: digital library archiving, electronic publishing
     DeweyClass: 070.5
     Resource type: proceedings
Investigation into the Digital Preservation Needs of Universities and Research Funders
Report of a study carried out by staff of the UK Data Archive to explore the extent to which electronic materials being generated within the university sector, or with funding from the main research councils, were subject to preservation policies, and to discover the views of key people in universities and funding agencies on their future needs with respect to digital preservation.
     Author: Lievesley, Denise & Jones, Simon
     Subjects: digital library archiving
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: document
It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation
Final report of the workshop on research challenges in digital archiving and long-term preservation, April 12-13, 2002
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: digital library archiving, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: document
Practical Advice for Preserving Publications on Disc
Conference paper (January 1999) which provides guidance based on practical experience for those who wish to manage collections on computer disk. Appropriate materials, identification, metadata, copyright, preservation, and access considerations are dealt with in practical terms, to aid understanding and to show how this can be applied. Floppy disks, optical disks, CD-ROM, CD-R, and DVD-ROM are all considered, along with general principles and guidelines.
     Author: Woodyard, Deborah
     Subjects: digital library archiving, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: article, guide
Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records
Project which aimed to define the requirements for creating, handling, and preserving reliable and authentic electronic records.
     Author: Duranti, Luciana, Eastwood, Terry, MacNeil, Heather
     Subjects: archives, digital library archiving
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: documents
Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Material
At the end of 1994 the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) created a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information charged with investigating and recommending means to ensure 'continued access indefinitely into the future of electronic records stored in digital electronic form'. This is the final report of the task force in PDF format.
     Author: Commission on Preservation and Access and Research Libraries Group
     Subjects: archives, digital library archiving
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: document
Responsibility for Digital Archiving and Long Term Access to Digital Data
Report proposing that a publicly funded, permanent archive of digital materials produced in the UK and Ireland should be established, and that legal deposit legislation should be amended to cover electronic publications and other digital material.
     Author: Haynes, David et al
     Subjects: digital library archiving
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: document
Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators
Report summarising the findings of a study that evaluated Kodak Photo CD technology as a tool for preserving and making research materials available electronically.
     Author: Kenney, Anne R. and Rieger, Oya Y.
     Subjects: digital library archiving, imaging science, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.8
     Resource type: article