Digital preservation: standing the test of time

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USMARC Format Integration, Part I: What, Why, and When?

Introduces and briefly describes modifications to the Library of Congress cataloging rules, to be implemented January 1, 1994, which will allow catalogers to describe multiple formats in a single bibliographic record using both fixed and variable field data

Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR)

The TIPR Project, Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories, was begun in October 2008, its participants being the Florida Center for Library Automation, the Bobst Library at New York University, and Cornell University Library. Our goal has been to develop, test, and promote a standard format for exchanging information packages among dissimilar preservation repositories - an intermediary information package that all repositories can read and write, overcoming the mismatch between repository types

USMARC Format Integration, Part II: Implications for Local Systems

When we last left USMARC format integration (see "USMARC Format Integration, Part I: What, Why, and When?" The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 3, no. 5 (1992): 33-36; GET CAPLAN PRV3N5 F=MAIL), it was defined, approved, and in imminent danger of being implemented. We concluded then that format integration would have to offer substantial benefits to the end users of our public catalogs to be worth the bother. Before going on to consider what some of those benefits might be, it's worth spending a little time belaboring the bother

DCC Digital Curation Manual: Instalment on Preservation Metadata

Instalment on the role of preservation metadata within the digital curation life-cycle. The term is usually reserved for metadata that specifically supports the functions of maintaining the fixity, viability, renderability, understandability, and/or authenticity of digital materials in a preservation context

Cataloging Internet Resources

Let Archie Do It? How do we accommodate networked electronic information when our cataloging rules are designed to describe physical items owned by and residing in libraries? How do we provide access to that information? Do we let Archie do it instead? Questions like these must be addressed before we can move into the future and provide our patrons with information the way they are coming to expect it. It isn't sufficient that we simply debate these issues at conferences and write about them in the literature. Action is needed, and well-established rules and practices must be changed. All of that is easy to agree with, but deciding how to change established rules and practices is another matter, not to mention actually revising them

Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR)

The TIPR Project, Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories, was begun in October 2008, its participants being the Florida Center for Library Automation, the Bobst Library at New York University, and Cornell University Library. Our goal has been to develop, test, and promote a standard format for exchanging information packages among dissimilar preservation repositories - an intermediary information package that all repositories can read and write, overcoming the mismatch between repository types