Automatic preservation watch using information extraction on the Web: a case study on semantic extraction of natural language for digital preservation

The ability to recognize when digital content is becoming endangered is essential for maintaining the long-term, continuous and authentic access to digital assets. To achieve this ability, knowledge about aspects of the world that might hinder the preservation of content is needed. However, the processes of gathering, managing and reasoning on knowledge can become manually infeasible when the volume and heterogeneity of content increases, multiplying the aspects to monitor. Automation of these processes is possible [11,21], but its usefulness is limited by the data it is able to gather. Up to now, automatic digital preservation processes have been restricted to knowledge expressed in a machine understandable language, ignoring a plethora of data expressed in natural language, such as the DPC Technology Watch Reports, which could greatly contribute to the completeness and freshness of data about aspects of the world related to digital preservation. This paper presents a real case scenario from the National Library of the Netherlands, where the monitoring of publishers and journals is needed. This knowledge is mostly represented in natural language on Web sites of the publishers and, therefore, is dificult to automatically monitor. In this paper, we demonstrate how we use information extraction technologies to end and extract machine readable information on publishers and journals for ingestion into automatic digital preservation watch tools. We show that the results of automatic semantic extraction are a good complement to existing knowledge bases on publishers [9, 20], finding newer and more complete data. We demonstrate the viability of the approach as an alternative or auxiliary method for automatically gathering information on preservation risks in digital content.KEEP SOLUTION

The KB e-Depot: Building and Managing a Safe Place for e-Journals

This article describes the policies behind the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands and the experience of running an operational digital archive, focussing on the lessons learned after six years of operations in terms of collections, technology, organisation and staff. It concludes with an international collaborative perspective on digital preservation

Building a Future for our Digital Memory A National Approach to Digital Preservation in The Netherlands: Paper - iPRES 2016 - Swiss National Library, Bern

In 2015 the national Network for Digital Heritage was established. This network is based on three pillars: to make the digital heritage wider visible, better usable and more sustainable preserved. A series of collaborative projects are in progress since Summer 2015, framed within three working programs, all with their own but integrated set of dedicated actions in order to create a national infrastructure in the Netherlands, based on an optimal use of existing facilities. In this paper the focus is on the activities related to the sustainable preservation of the Dutch national digital heritage. What are the developments and where are we now, with the program running for a year and the first results are delivered

Earning trust: A case of digital preservation at two private archives: iPres 2018 - Boston

In this paper a comparison is made between two private Dutch archives (Het Nieuwe Instituut and International Institute of Social History) and how they collect and preserve born digital collections. In dealing with archival donors, preservation policies and IT implementations they have as much in common as they differ from each other. For instance, gaining the trust of the archival donors in the archival policies of the institute is a top priority for both organizations. Nonetheless, how precisely that trust is shaped is entirely dependent on the type of archives being collected, the context in which the institutes have to operate and the collection and preservation policies of either institute. This paper gives insight in these differences and similarities with the aim to find the areas where the organizations might truly support each other