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LIFE: bibliography
The following bibliography came out of the research which formed the first phase of the joint British Library-UCL LIFE (Lifecycle Information for E-Literature) project.
The references are not an exhaustive review of digital preservation activities, they are a reflection of the aims of the LIFE project. Any suggestions for additions or comments can be emailed to [email protected]
Curating E-Mails; A life-cycle approach to the management and preservation of e-mail messages
E-mail forms the backbone of communications in many modern institutions and organisations and is a valuable type of organisational, cultural, and historical record. Successful management and preservation of valuable e-mail messages and collections is therefore vital if organisational accountability is to be achieved and historical or cultural memory retained for the future. This requires attention by all stakeholders across the entire life-cycle of the e-mail records.
This instalment of the Digital Curation Manual reports on the several issues involved in managing and curating e-mail messages for both current and future use. Although there is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution, this instalment outlines a generic framework for e-mail curation and preservation, provides a summary of current approaches, and addresses the technical, organisational and cultural challenges to successful e-mail management and longer-term curation.
Archiving Web Site Resources: A Records Management View
In this paper, we propose the use of records management
principles to identify and manage Web site resources with
enduring value as records. Current Web archiving activities,
collaborative or organisational, whilst extremely valuable in their own right, often do not and cannot incorporate requirements for proper records management. Material collected under such initiatives therefore may not be reliable or authentic from a legal or archival perspective, with insufficient metadata collected about the object during its active life, and valuable materials destroyed
whilst ephemeral items are maintained. Education, training, and collaboration between stakeholders are integral to avoiding these risks and successfully preserving valuable Web-based materials.
Invest to Save: Report and Recommendations of the NSF-DELOS Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation
Digital archiving and preservation are important areas for research and development, but there is no agreed upon set of priorities or coherent plan for research in this area. Research projects in this area tend to be small and driven by particular institutional problems or concerns. As a consequence, proposed solutions from experimental projects and prototypes tend not to scale to millions of digital objects, nor do the results from disparate projects readily build on each other. It is also unclear whether it is worthwhile to seek general solutions or whether different strategies are needed for different types of digital objects and collections. The lack of coordination in both research and development means that there are some areas where researchers are reinventing the wheel while other areas are neglected.
Digital archiving and preservation is an area that will benefit from an exercise in analysis, priority setting, and planning for future research. The WG aims to survey current research activities, identify gaps, and develop a white paper proposing future research directions in the area of digital preservation. Some of the potential areas for research include repository architectures and inter-operability among digital archives; automated tools for capture, ingest, and normalization of digital objects; and harmonization of preservation formats and metadata. There can also be opportunities for development of commercial products in the areas of mass storage systems, repositories and repository management systems, and data management software and tools.
JISC Preservation of Web Resources (PoWR) Handbook
Handbook of Web Preservation produced by the JISC-PoWR project which ran from April to November 2008.
The handbook specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management community”.
The project was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at the University of Bath and ULCC Digital Archives department
Economic evaluation of LIFE methodology
Background:
The LIFE project (Lifecycle Information For E-Literature) was carried out during 2004-2006
by a consortium consisting of The British Library and University College London Library
Services . The project was joint venture funded by JISC under the programme area
Institutional Management Support and Collaboration. The project has received favourable
feedback, for instance during a workshop organised at the end of it, and JISC has agreed to
fund a second phase during 2007-2008. The consortium has been strengthened by three
associate partners (SHERPA-LEAP Consortium, SHERPA-DP and the Medical Research
Council). In addition some funds were reserved for the use of an outside economic consultant
for an evaluation of the life-cycle models that emerged as the key results from the first phase.
The LIFE-2 project consists of five work packages, and this report is part of the first of these.
The objective of WP 1 is formulated in the LIFE
2
Project proposal as follows:
Validation of the economic modelling and methodology for the Lifecycle and Generic
Preservation formulae developed in Phase 1 of the LIFE project, with technical and
presentational development of the models.
Cloudlake Consulting Oy has been commissioned by the consortium to carry out this
validation. The report has been written by Bo-Christer Björk. He is professor of Information
Systems Science at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in
Helsinki, Finland. He has been conducting research concerning the scientific publishing
process since 2000 and has published several peer reviewed journal articles as well as
conference papers on the subject. He is often an invited speaker at international workshops in
this area
The selection, appraisal and retention of digital scientific data: dighlights of an ERPANET/CODATA workshop
CODATA and ERPANET collaborated to convene an international archiving workshop on the selection, appraisal, and retention of digital scientific data, which was held on 15-17 December 2003 at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop brought together more than 65 researchers, data and information managers, archivists, and librarians from 13 countries to discuss the issues involved in making critical decisions regarding the long-term preservation of the scientific record. One of the major aims for this workshop was to provide an international forum to exchange information about data archiving policies and practices across different scientific, institutional, and national contexts. Highlights from the workshop discussions are presented
espida Bibliography
This is the bibliography pulled together during research for the espida Project
Digital Preservation Services : State of the Art Analysis
Research report funded by the DC-NET project.An overview of the state of the art in service provision for digital preservation and curation. Its focus is on the areas where bridging the gaps is needed between e-Infrastructures and efficient and forward-looking digital preservation services. Based on a desktop study and a rapid analysis of some 190 currently available tools and services for digital preservation, the deliverable provides a high-level view on the range of instruments currently on offer to support various functions within a preservation system.European Commission, FP7peer-reviewe
LIBER's involvement in supporting digital preservation in member libraries
Digital curation and preservation represent new challenges for universities. LIBER
has invested considerable effort to engage with the new agendas of digital preservation
and digital curation. Through two successful phases of the LIFE project, LIBER
is breaking new ground in identifying innovative models for costing digital curation
and preservation. Through LIFE’s input into the US-UK Blue Ribbon Task Force on
Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, LIBER is aligned with major international
work in the economics of digital preservation. In its emerging new strategy and
structures, LIBER will continue to make substantial contributions in this area, mindful
of the needs of European research libraries
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