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url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13929988
creators: ["Jörg Heseler", "Alexandra Büttner", "Matthias Arnold"]
type: Book
date: 2024-11-30T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Grundlagen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung. Eine Handreichung zur digitalen Langzeitarchivierung aus Perspektive der NFDI4Culture Community.

abstract:
<p>Dies ist die PDF-Publikation f&uuml;r die <a href="https://nfdi4culture.de/go/E5342">NFDI4Culture-Handreichung &bdquo;Grundlagen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung</a>&ldquo;.</p>


title: Foreword: A Critical Reflection
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14643967
creators: ["Maureen Pennock"]
type: Book chapter
keywords: ["digital preservation", "vocabulary", "concepts"]
date: 2025-01-14T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This is the final accepted manuscript version of the foreword to: Owens, Trevor, Rebecca D. Frank (eds.), Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary, which will be&nbsp;<br>published by The MIT Press in late 2025.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: iPRES2021 - 17th International Conference on Digital Preservation : Book of Proceedings
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14607647
creators: ["Zijun Chen"]
type: Conference proceeding
date: 2021-01-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This is the Book of Proceedings for iPRES2021, the 17th International Conference on Digital Preservation, 19-22 October, 2021 (Beijing, China).</p>
<p>Individual papers are also available via the Phaidra repository iPRES2021 collection:<br>https://hdl.handle.net/11353/10.1417044&nbsp;</p>
<p>This Book of Proceedings PDF is mirrored from:<br>https://files.sciconf.cn/upload/file/20211206/20211206163241_26411.pdf&nbsp;</p>


title: Long-Term Preservation and Archiving in NFDI consortia
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14212959
type: Presentation
date: 2024-11-24T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Matthias Arnold", "Michael Goedicke", "Jörg Holetschek", "Katharina Markus", "Nikolai Svoboda", "Juliane Watson"]

abstract:
<p><span>The slides detail long-term preservation and archiving strategies in various consortia in the National Research Data Infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI). They were provided and presented by representatives of the consortia NFDI4Culture, NFDIxCS, NFDI4Biodiversity, NFDI4Microbiota, FAIRAgro and NFDI4Objects in the workshop &ldquo;Long Term Data Issues: Workshop about Preservation, Archiving and Access in the NFDI&rdquo;.&nbsp;</span></p>


title: Introduction to Long-Term Preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14212952
creators: ["Katharina Markus"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2024-11-24T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>These slides introducing digital preservation (also called long-term preservation and long-term archiving) were presented in the workshop &ldquo;Long Term Data Issues: Workshop about Preservation, Archiving and Access in the NFDI&rdquo; (National Research Data Infrastructure, Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI). The workshop was organized by NFDI working group Long Term Archival and Access. The slide deck contains exemplary cases of data loss, defines digital preservation (with references to various digital preservation initatives), introduces the "Object Levels of Preservation" model, relevant metadata standards, preservation policies and certification in the context of digital preservation. The slides are derived from another slide deck (<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13862617" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13862617</a>).</p>


title: Demystifying Digital Preservation Risk with CHARM: What, Where, How?
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14238315
creators: ["Maureen Pennock"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "risk", "models"]
date: 2024-11-28T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>These slides were produced for an OPF webinar on the CHARM model. The&nbsp;session explored how the nature and complexity of digital preservation risk is demystified through the CHARM toolkit and its deep dive into digital preservation risk.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The presentation focuses in particular on the detail of the CHARM Reference Model. It introduces CHARM&rsquo;s definition of digital preservation, to demonstrate how this forms the foundations for a&nbsp; conceptual, meaningful and useful definition of the concept of digital preservation risk and associated target values. It then explores how this definition &ndash; and associated models &ndash; were used to establish a landscape, abstract model of risk sources in digital preservation. The presentation also includes an overview of how CHARM concepts, models, and vocabulary can be used in practice to develop secenario-based risk assessments with characterised risk statements.&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14199178
type: Presentation
date: 2024-11-21T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Building Trustworthy Data Repositories Through Certification: RDA/WDS Certification of Data Repositories IG

creators:
["Meredith Goins", "Dawei Lin", "Olivier Rouchon", "Hervé L'Hours", "Daniela Santos Oliveira", "Rebecca Koskela"]

abstract:
<p><strong>Meeting Objectives:&nbsp;</strong>The Certification IG serves the data repository community by offering space for feedback and sharing of research.<br><br>Join the CoreTrustSeal (CTS) board member(s) to learn more about their new leadership and have a discussion to give feedback on the curation and preservation levels discussed in a recent CTS position paper. See: CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board. (2024). Curation &amp; Preservation Levels: CoreTrustSeal Position Paper. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11476980.<br><br>The World Data System (WDS) will also share updates on the creation and outputs of the WDS Scientific Committee&rsquo;s SubCommittee on Standards and Certifications. This committee is examining relevant standards and certifications as an opportunity to reduce barriers to participating and broadening WDS membership. WDS will share outcomes of a survey of WDS members and other data repositories.</p>
<p><strong>Group Activities and Scope: </strong>In order to guarantee data sharing, the long-term preservation of these data in sustainable digital repositories is a sine qua non. Data that are created and used by science and scholarship need to be managed, curated and archived, making sure that the substantial investments in preparing and presenting the content and tools will not be lost. Researchers need to be sure that the resources the repositories offer remain meaningful and usable over time. Moreover, the repositories themselves need to have sustainable business models.</p>
<p>Preservation and sustainability raise challenges in many areas. The main issues related to long term preservation and sustainability remain basically unresolved, as many organizational, technical, financial and legal aspects remain open. Certification is therefore fundamental in guaranteeing the trustworthiness of digital repositories and thus in sustaining the opportunities for long-term data sharing.</p>
<p>The Interest Group builds on previous work in the area of certification and delivers a global overview and the necessary recommendations and requirements that allow the effective implementation of certification of digital repositories on national, regional, and global levels.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Beyond lifetimes. What does archiving mean for research data?
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14195681
creators: ["Kai Naumann"]
type: Presentation
date: 2024-11-21T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Archiving has different horizons, depending on purposes, e.g. 3, 10, 30 or 100 years and longer. Beyond 3 years, the academia has to find ways to preserve data beyond lifetimes of software, hardware, standards, people, and more. These slides describe some thoughts of archivists and data stewards embedded in NFDI.</p>


title: Aktuelle LZA-Lösungen: Ein kurzer Überblick
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14196818
creators: ["Micky Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
date: 2024-05-28T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Folien zum Vortrag gehalten am 28. Mai 2024 im Rahmen der Veranstaltung zur Vorbereitung der LZA Landesinitative Niedersachsen.</p>
<p>Die Folien beschreiben kurz die OAIS als Grundlage f&uuml;r LZA-Funktionalit&auml;ten, stellen notwendige Anforderungen an ein LZA-System in den Kontext des Spannungsverh&auml;ltnisses Anspruch vs. verf&uuml;gbare Ressourcen und geben einen kurzen &Uuml;berblick &uuml;ber die L&ouml;sungen CLOCKSS, Portico, LOCKSS, Archivematica, LibSafe, Preservica und Rosetta.&nbsp;</p>


title: Einführungskurs - Digitale Langzeitarchivierung
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14046313
creators: ["Franziska Schwab"]
type: Presentation
date: 2024-11-06T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Im Rahmen einer Lecture (am 09.10.2024) der Landesinitiative Forschungsdatenmanagement Niedersachsen (<a href="https://fdm-nds.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FDM-NDS</a>) wurde diese Pr&auml;sentation als Einf&uuml;hrung in das Thema &ldquo;Digitale Langzeitarchivierung&ldquo; gegeben. Es werden grundlegende Fachbegriffe und Konzepte der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung, Strategien der digitalen Bestandserhaltung und Tools erkl&auml;rt. Die verschiedenen Zugriffskonzepte auf archivierte Objekte werden vorgestellt und die Unterschiede zwischen einem light, dim und dark archive erl&auml;utert.</p>

keywords:
["Langzeitarchivierung", "long-term preservation", "digital preservation", "Digitale Langzeitarchivierung"]


title: File Integrity Checking: In-Class Exercise
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13913406
creators: ["Laura Isabel Sastoque Pabon"]
type: Lesson
keywords: ["digital preservation", "heritage", "cultural heritage", "fixity", "integrity", "obsolescence"]
date: 2024-11-07T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>In celebration of World Digital Preservation Day 2024, Digital Preservation Southampton presents an interactive lesson on file integrity checking, designed for educators and trainers to implement in their own classroom or workshop settings. This engaging activity invites participants to take on the role of digital detectives, where they will identify and restore corrupted files.</p>
<p>By utilizing this lesson, educators will enable their students to:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Develop a foundational grasp of integrity and fixity, exploring common causes of file corruption, such as bit rot, cyberattacks, file format obsolescence, and transfer errors.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Learn about checksums and cryptographic hashes, essential elements of the file integrity checking process that ensure data reliability.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Familiarize themselves with best practices in digital cultural heritage, including the creation of verifiable file manifests upon the ingestion of new materials.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>To facilitate this lesson, educators will find the following materials in the repository:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>integrity_checking_wdpd.pdf</code>: A set of slides to be shown during the lesson that guides participants through key concepts and the interactive activity.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>task_one_pager.pdf</code>: A handy handout offering quick instructions for the exercise, ensuring students can easily follow along.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>As well as a number of folders and spreadsheets to be utilized during the activity, as instructed by the core materials.&nbsp; <strong>To get started, refer to</strong> <code>integrity_checking_wdpd.pdf</code></p>
<p>This lesson is designed to be easily integrated into existing curricula, providing educators and trainers with the tools to enhance their students' understanding of file integrity checking and its vital role in the long-term preservation of digital cultural heritage.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Digital Preservation Southampton is an enterprise unit based at the University of Southampton Digital Humanities. We focus on providing training and guidance on good practices in digital preservation to institutions in the GLAM sector and beyond. For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:digitalpreservation@soton.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">digitalpreservation@soton.ac.uk</a>.</p>


title: Introduction to Digital Preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13862617
creators: ["Katharina Markus"]
type: Presentation
date: 2024-10-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>These slides introducing digital preservation (also long-term preservation) were presented in the workshop on Preservation of Life Science Data which was organized by NFDI4Microbiota. They contain exemplary cases of data loss, define digital preservation (with references to various digital preservation initatives), introduce the "Object Levels of Preservation" model, relevant metadata standards, preservation policies and certification in the context of digital preservation.</p>
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title: A Guide to Imaging Obscure Floppy Disk Formats
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13828372
creators: ["Leontien Talboom", "Tyler Thorsted", "Elizabeth Kata", "Chris Knowles"]
type: Other
date: 2024-09-16T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Memory institutions are grappling with the challenges posed by digital carriers in their collections. While solutions for more recent carriers like hard drives, optical discs, and flash storage are readily available, the landscape becomes trickier when dealing with older formats such as floppy disks. It is becoming increasingly difficult to source the hardware, such as 5.25&rdquo;floppy drives. There are many boards that can read flux streams, including the KryoFlux, and the Award-winning <a href="https://github.com/archivistsguidetokryoflux/archivists-guide-to-kryoflux">Archivist&rsquo;s Guide to KryoFlux</a> can help to get started. But KryoFlux is somewhat limited in the disk formats it can interpret and might be too expensive for smaller institutions. We came together as practitioners because we encountered disk formats that required additional efforts to read and extract files. We explored hardware such as Greaseweazle and using FluxEngine software to read less common disk formats. Sharing the knowledge we have gained, this tutorial and workshop present an opportunity for participants to delve into these formats, examining them from both hardware and formatting perspectives.</p>
<p>The session will start with a tutorial designed to showcase various options and tools (FluxEngine, GreaseWeazle), demonstrating how to make aging equipment compatible with contemporary machines. At the end of the tutorial, participants should have the knowledge to build their own forensic workstation for 5.25&rdquo;and 3.5&rdquo;floppy disks.</p>
<p>Commencing with case studies, the workshop in the second half of the session will unravel the complexities of dealing with obscure formats and share valuable lessons learned. Participants will be equipped with practical tips and tricks for identification and handling, including utilizing Hex Editors and using tools for specific obscure disk formats (such as WANG). The aim is to empower participants with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the challenges associated with older formats.</p>


title: Enabling Easier Discovery with a Controlled Vocabulary for iPres (Graphical Poster)
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13713511
creators: ["Maureen Pennock", "Nancy McGovern", "Andy Jackson"]
type: Poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "keywords", "controlled vocabulary"]
date: 2024-09-06T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><span>Conference proceedings are a major source of disciplinary knowledge but iPRES papers often receive relatively few citations, indicating limited impact and re-use. Controlled vocabularies are used in other fields to facilitate re-use, though there is currently no agreed vocabulary for iPRES. </span><span>Analysis of the corpus to date identifies &gt;1000 different keyword terms, over 80% of which are single use.</span><span> Fuzzy matching can go some way to consolidate semantic spread, but requires a technical solution and does not support consistent application of terms during keyword assignation. A domain specific controlled vocabulary is therefore proposed to support improved consistency, accuracy, searching, and greater re-use of conference materials in the future. This graphical poster presents v0.1 of the controlled vocabulary as a draft for comments from ipres participants, with a textual summary of the methodology, benefits, limitations, and next steps.</span></p>


title: Evaluation Report: Critical Cataloguing for Digital Preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13327836
creators: ["Simon Wilson"]
type: Report
date: 2024-08-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>An evaluation report commissioned as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project "Critical Cataloguing for Digital Preservation: a research commercialisation follow-on project" (Project Reference <a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY005546%2F1">AH/Y005546/1</a>).</p>


title: Enabling Easier Discovery with a Controlled Vocabulary for iPres papers
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12667272
creators: ["Maureen Pennock", "Andy Jackson", "Nancy Y McGovern"]
type: Poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "keywords", "controlled vocabulary"]
date: 2024-07-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Many iPRES papers often receive relatively few citations, indicating low levels of re-use. Whilst these low levels of usage cannot be attributed to a single reason, inconsistent approaches to sharing, publishing, and describing papers over the past twenty years have not helped. This poster abstract goes some way to explore a solution for more consistent description of papers, facilitating their findability and thus their potential for re-usability, by proposing a controlled vocabulary for iPRES submissions. Pending discussion with the community during iPRES and subsequent refinement of terms, the results (along with a user guide to facilitate consistent implementation) will be suggested to the iPRES Steering Group as a proposal for future events&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12515870
creators: ["Maureen Pennock"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["risk management", "reference model", "risk science", "digital preservation"]
date: 2024-06-24T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Scaling Up Knowledge of Digital Preservation Risk: From Concept to Reference Model and Risk Assessment with CHARM

abstract:
<p>Risk is a frequently used term in digital preservation, though the literature and solutions of the field often portray and describe risk in different ways. CHARM addresses this with a newly innovative, comprehensive reference model and corresponding vocabulary for the digital preservation risk domain. Inspired by risk science, a signature feature of CHARM is its applied distinction between conceptual and characterized digital preservation risk. CHARM establishes a conceptual definition of digital preservation risk built around a purposeful definition of digital preservation as a goal and value-based endeavour, then deconstructs this to develop a cascading and logical series of abstract models for the whole digital preservation risk domain.</p>
<p>This paper introduces the methodology through which CHARM was developed, presents and explains some of the key CHARM models, and discusses some of the methods through which CHARM can support scoped yet holistic risk identification and risk assessment exercises. This holistic, domain-level solution represents a significant 'scaling up' of our disciplinary understanding of digital preservation risk.</p>


title: Curation & Preservation Levels: CoreTrustSeal Position Paper
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11476980
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "curation levels", "digital curation"]
date: 2024-06-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This CoreTrustSeal Board-approved Position Paper is a revised version of a discussion paper shared with the community for comment in 2023. It is published with a view to&nbsp; providing input into future versions of the Requirements.&nbsp; In the future, integrated curation and preservation levels that have been agreed by the community would provide a valuable reference point for communicating the degree of care a digital object receives and which actors take responsibility for that care.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11186599
type: Project deliverable
date: 2024-05-13T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation: DPSC Planning Project Final Report

creators:
["Jessica Meyerson", "Jackson Huang", "Ryan Menefee", "Courtney Mumma", "Lydia Tang", "Alicia Wise", "Nathan Tallman", "Sibyl Schaefer"]

abstract:
<p>Community-supported, values-driven digital preservation services operate in a landscape where the increasing economic, labor, and climate challenges are too big for any one organization to tackle alone.</p>
<div>
<p>In the context of these challenges, the Educopia&nbsp;Institute&mdash;in partnership with APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, lyrasis, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the Texas Digital Library (six members of the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative)&mdash;sought funding from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) to reaffirm the need for&mdash;and to establish a shared vision for&mdash;the sustained viability of values-driven, community-supported approaches to distributed digital preservation (DDP).</p>
<p>As the project advanced we were reminded that, as technical service providers, we too are embedded in a broader cultural context that is unconsciously biased towards technocentric solutions, or solutions that foreground technological infrastructures and background social infrastructures. Acknowledging that there are technical and non-technical requirements across the information management continuum, our shared service model vision aims to offer two additional services at discrete moments in the institutional decision-making process: <strong>"advocacy-as-a-service,"</strong> best deployed at the institutional preservation strategy-forming moment; and <strong>"readiness-as-a-service,"</strong> assisting stewardship organizations that have recently formed their preservation strategy to identify the content, preservation needs, budget realities, etc., as they begin to research the digital preservation services landscape.</p>
<p>Beyond individual organizations, readiness-as- a-service is also a call for collective strategy among values-driven, community-supported bit- level6 service providers to anticipate and be prepared to respond to change (and to shocks) in a nimble, coordinated, collaborative way.</p>
<p>We think this vision offers an exciting and viable path forward for values-driven, community- supported service providers, and we hope this vision will attract additional service providers and grow our coalition of support.</p>
<p>Please visit the <strong><a href="https://educopia.org/research-project/dpsc-planning-project-sustainable-community-owned-partnerships-in-digital-preservation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project page</a></strong> for additional details and resources.</p>
</div>


title: Long-term Archiving in the NFDI
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11109480
creators: ["Katharina Markus", "Kai Naumann", "Marcus Schmalzl", "Juliane Watson", "Dagmar Triebel"]
type: Working paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "research data"]
date: 2024-05-10T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Long-term archiving (LTA) aims to prevent data and information loss over the long term and intends to ensure sustainable access to information. Failure to correctly implement LTA can put data at risk.</p>
<p>Research data holdings in the German science system are considered vulnerable in this regard, leading to the declaration that LTA is an important task for the German National Research Data Infrastructure e. V. (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI). Yet many aspects remain unclear, including the strategy and targets of LTA in various research disciplines, the status of implementation, and coverage of LTA services in NFDI. To clarify these points, NFDI Working Group Long Term Archiving, which forms part of the Section Common infrastructure has launched a survey in the NFDI consortia. The goal was to determine current status and requirements regarding LTA.</p>
<p>One of the survey&rsquo;s key findings indicated a need for a LTA consultation service, as many consortia and research organisations did not yet approach long-term preservation (i. e. LTA) of data. If they considered LTA at all, they usually did not target preservation beyond bitstream preservation. In general, knowledge gaps in various areas became clear. As a consequence, the consultation service should advise both consortia and institutions on long-term archiving of research data. Survey participants also called for dedicated LTA solutions which are tailored to individual research domains. Therefore, state-of-the-art solutions should be pursued in cooperation with the consortia, their disciplines, and the international LTA community. These solutions should also adopt jointly developed principles, regulations and standards. Other key requirements include improved long-term financial support of consortia and institutions with regard to LTA in accordance with FAIR principles and an increase in LTA-focused certification of existing research data services.</p>


title: CoreTrustSeal requirements vs TRUST principles
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11086867
creators: ["Olivier Rouchon"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["TRUST", "CTS", "CoreTrustSeal"]
date: 2024-04-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>CTS requirements vs TRUST principles mapping exercise.</p>
<p>Presented during RDA/WDS TRUST Principles Outreach and Adoption WG meeting</p>
<p>20240418</p>


title: PREMIS Events Through an Event-sourced Lens
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10883633
creators: ["Ross Spencer"]
type: Journal article
date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The PREMIS metadata standard is widely adopted in the digital preservation community. Repository software often include fully compliant implementations or assert some level of conformance. Within PREMIS we have four semantic units, but &ldquo;Events&rdquo;, the topic of this paper, are particularly interesting as they describe &ldquo;actions performed within or outside the repository that affects its capability to preserve Objects over the long term.&rdquo; Events can help us to observe interactions with digital objects and understand where and when something may have gone wrong with them. Events in PREMIS, however, are slightly different to events in software development paradigms, specifically event driven software development &ndash; though similar, the design of PREMIS event logs does not promote their &ldquo;being complete&rdquo; nor their consumption and reuse; and so, learning from logs in event driven software development, may help us to simplify the PREMIS data model; plug identified gaps in implementations; and improve the ability to migrate digital content in future repositories.</p>
<p>Further summary information can be found on my blog: <a href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-premis-events-through-an-event-sourced-lens/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/published-premis-events-through-an-event-sourced-lens/</a></p>


title: Langzeitarchivierung in der NFDI
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10822613
creators: ["Katharina Markus", "Kai Naumann", "Markus Schmalzl", "Juliane Watson", "Dagmar Triebel"]
type: Working paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "Langzeitarchivierung", "research data"]
date: 2024-04-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><span>Langzeitarchivierung (LZA) zielt darauf ab, Daten- und Informationsverlust zu vermeiden und nachhaltigen Zugriff zu Informationen zu erm&ouml;glichen. Fehlende oder nicht korrekt durchgef&uuml;hrte LZA kann Daten einer Vielzahl von Risiken aussetzen.</span></p>
<p><span>Datenbest&auml;nde im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem sind in dieser Hinsicht gef&auml;hrdet, was dazu f&uuml;hrt, dass Langzeitarchivierung als eine zentrale Aufgabe der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur e. V. (NFDI) deklariert wurde. Allerdings sind weiterhin viele Aspekte unklar, wie die Strategie und Ausrichtung von LZA in den Wissenschaftsdisziplinen, der Status der Implementierung und die Abdeckung durch LZA-Services in der NFDI. Um diese Punkte zu kl&auml;ren hat die NFDI Arbeitsgruppe Long Term Archiving der Sektion Common Infrastructures eine Umfrage in den Konsortien gestartet. Das Ziel war, den gegenw&auml;rtigen Status von LZA zu ermitteln und entsprechende Bedarfe zu ermitteln.</span></p>
<p><span>Die Umfrage ergab als zentrale Aussage, dass der Bedarf an Beratung zum Thema LZA gro&szlig; ist:<span>&nbsp; </span>Viele Konsortien und Forschungsorganisationen haben sich bis jetzt nicht ausreichend mit L&ouml;sungen zum langfristigen Erhalt von Daten bzw. LZA befasst. Wenn LZA &uuml;berhaupt ein Thema war, wurde oft allein der Erhalt auf dem Bitstream Level anvisiert. Generell wurden Wissensl&uuml;cken in verschiedenen Bereichen deutlich. Als Konsequenz erscheint es sinnvoll, <span>&nbsp;</span>einen LZA-Beratungsservice aufzubauen, der sowohl die NFDI-Konsortien als auch Institutionen hinsichtlich Langzeitarchivierung von Forschungsdaten ber&auml;t. In der Umfrage haben die meisten Konsortien au&szlig;erdem einen Bedarf an zielgerichteten LZA-L&ouml;sungen ge&auml;u&szlig;ert, der auf die spezifischen Forschungscommunities und dort etablierte L&ouml;sungen ausgerichtet ist. LZA L&ouml;sungen sollten daher in Kooperation mit den Konsortien, deren Fachdisziplin einerseits und der internationalen LZA-Community andererseits verfolgt werden und sollten sich nach gemeinsam entwickelten Prinzipien, Richtlinien und Standards richten. Nicht zuletzt wurde in den Antworten auf die Umfrage deutlich, dass vor allem eine bessere und langfristige finanzielle Unterst&uuml;tzung der Konsortien und von Institutionen bez&uuml;glich LZA-Aufgaben entsprechend der FAIR Prinzipien n&ouml;tig ist und dass die Zertifizierung von Forschungsdatenservices dringend anzustreben ist.</span></p>


title: LTDP-TF Recommendations & Assertions
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10848331
type: Working paper
date: 2024-03-21T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Lluís Anglada", "David Antos", "Thomas Bähr", "Pierre-Yves Burgi", "Draženko Celjak", "Chris De Loof", "Ingrid Dillo", "Olesea Dubois", "Rui Fernandes", "Pirjo-Leena Forsström", "Gerardo Ganis", "András Holl", "Didi Lamers", "Andrea Lammert", "Hervé L'Hours", "Mariusz Majdanski", "Jean-Yves Nief", "Florina Piroi", "Karl Presser", "Martina Stockhause", "Paul Stokes", "Ville Tenhunen", "Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman", "Matthew Viljoen", "Roxanne Wyns"]

abstract:
<p>The <a title="EOSC-A LTDP-TF" href="https://www.eosc.eu/advisory-groups/long-term-data-preservation">EOSC Association's Long Term Data Preservation Task Force</a> (LTDP-TF)[1], which functions under the <a title="EOSC-A Task Forces" href="https://eosc.eu/eosc-task-forces">Advisory Group (AG) Technical challenges EOSC</a>[2] has previously shared an <a title="Overview document" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7516259">overview document</a>[3] for public feedback. A <a title="Preservation in the context of EOSC. Sustainable repositories curating digital objects from a long term FAIR enabling perspective" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10020725">paper</a> on the frame of reference used to guide the task force approach was presented[4] at the PV2023 conference.</p>
<p>This paper updates the initial assertions and recommendations of the task force based on feedback received during the consultation process with the wider community. The decision was taken to minimise prose and maximise the presentation of brief assertions and recommendations. Numerous scoping assertions are included because the work of the task force revealed varying interpretations of key research infrastructure concepts, including preservation.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>This paper informs the final report from this iteration of the LTDP-TF. These assertions and recommendations remain valid for future reference by a range of actors.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>While the task force notes the importance of agreeing on standards and developing metrics and tests for assessment, it is important to recognise that repositories and digital objects are in the relatively early stages of a journey towards trustworthiness and FAIRness. Successes should be acknowledged and credited but less mature repositories and digital objects must be invested in for improvement. The Task Force has worked to provide targeted guidance through The Strategic Research &amp; Innovation Agenda and its Multi-Annual Roadmap &nbsp;that have already resulted in funding calls that will invest in preservation. However, the journey towards agreed community criteria and broad adoption must be seen as a marathon and not a sprint.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This report represents a consultation to collect feedback on the recommendations made, on the <a title="Recommendations Consultation" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10014698">LTDP TF_Recommendations Consultation</a> [5]. This report on assertions and recommendations reflects their long period of public consultation and feedback, related to: Repositories and the Digital Object Lifecycle, Curation &amp; Preservation Levels, FAIR + Time, Preservation Systems, Actions &amp; Outcomes, Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDR) and other Data and Metadata Services, Standards, Assessment, Certification &amp; Alignment, Outcomes, Judgement and Gatekeeping, Retention, Appraisal &amp; Re-Appraisal, Transparency of Services, Artefacts and Levels of Care for Objects, Generic versus Domain, Discipline and Object Type Specific Issues, Roles and Responsibilities, Finance &amp; Funders, and Network of TDRs.</p>
<p>[1]&nbsp;https://www.eosc.eu/advisory-groups/long-term-data-preservation&nbsp;</p>
<p>[2]&nbsp;https://eosc.eu/eosc-task-forces&nbsp;</p>
<p>[3] EOSC Preservation: Overview Discussion Paper&nbsp;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7516259&nbsp;</p>
<p>[4] Preservation in the context of EOSC. Sustainable repositories curating digital objects from a long term FAIR enabling perspective. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10020725</p>
<p>[5] Recommendations Consultation. EOSC-A Long Term Data Preservation Task Force. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10014698</p>

keywords:
["EOSC", "EOSC Association", "OpenScience", "HorizonEU", "Long term data preservation", "Trustworthy Digital Repositories", "FAIR", "Advancing Open Science", "EOSC Association Long Term Data Preservation Task Force", "Recommendations"]


title: LTDP-TF Final Report & Recommendations
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10820893
type: Working paper
date: 2024-03-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Lluís Anglada", "David Antos", "Thomas Bähr", "Pierre-Yves Burgi", "Draženko Celjak", "Chris De Loof", "Ingrid Dillo", "Olesea Dubois", "Rui Fernandes", "Pirjo-Leena Forsström", "Gerardo Ganis", "András Holl", "Didi Lamers", "Andrea Lammert", "Hervé L'Hours", "Mariusz Majdanski", "Jean-Yves Nief", "Florina Piroi", "Karl Presser", "Martina Stockhause", "Paul Stokes", "Ville Tenhunen", "Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman", "Matthew Viljoen", "Roxanne Wyns"]

abstract:
<p>This paper is a digest of and conclusion to the work of the EOSC Association&rsquo;s Long Term Data Preservation Task Force. The report provides an overview of the outputs produced, the vision for optimal preservation of FAIR Digital Objects within the context of EOSC, the conclusions from the task force and consultation process, and the final set of key recommendations.</p>
<p>This report is accompanied by a <a title="LTDP-TF Recommendations &amp; Assertions" href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10848331">revised version of the preservation assertions and recommendations document</a>[1] which has been updated in response to community feedback. Preservation depends upon much of the same knowledge, skill and technology that are necessary to retain, store, and provide access to digital objects, but &lsquo;active&rsquo; preservation goes further.</p>
<p>The LTDP Task Force focuses on the need for active preservation as a level of care for digital objects that goes beyond their retention and initial curation. Active preservation may not be deemed necessary for all digital objects, but an appraisal process should define the level of care (retention, initial curation and preservation) to be applied. A repository should demonstrate that it is capable of providing, and be transparent about any change to, that level of care. Repository transparency increases the trust of users and funders and supports the evaluation and improvement of services and the outcomes of research.</p>
<p><strong>Key recommendations</strong><br>Preservation aims to generate assets for research with long term value. Therefore, digital objects must be retained, stored, findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable over time. Deciding which digital object should, and which should not, be preserved must be done via transparent appraisal processes, any change to levels of care must also be transparent and justified. This includes criteria set at the point of deposit in a repository, initial curation actions, and measures to ensure long term preservation. Transparency goes beyond specific actions taken on specific objects and includes measures to monitor changes to the technical landscape and the needs of digital objects&rsquo; reusers. Classified and aligned standards, practices, policies and training materials are all candidates for inclusion in future registries of reference information for repositories. Creating and curating digital objects with a view to their long term usability through preservation actions should be embedded in education and professional development training.<br>Important work related to preservation has been done, is ongoing, and will be undertaken through projects funded by current calls. Maintaining a focus on preservation within EOSC provides assurances that the long term value of digital objects as research assets will be maintained. Any future focus on preservation in the context of EOSC should include connection points to digital objects&rsquo; curation, criteria to ensure organisational viability, and to the specification, procurement and financing of infrastructure.</p>
<p>[1]LTDP-TF Recommendations &amp; Assertions. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10848331</p>

keywords:
["EOSC", "EOSC Association", "OpenScience", "HorizonEU", "EOSC Associaton Long Term Data Preservation Task Force", "FAIR", "Trustworthy Digital Repositories", "Advancing Open Science in Europe"]


title: Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10800108
creators: ["Martin Paul Eve"]
type: Journal article
date: 2024-01-24T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<h3>Abstract</h3>
<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Digital preservation underpins the persistence of scholarly links and citations through the digital object identifier (DOI) system. We do not currently know, at scale, the extent to which articles assigned a DOI are adequately preserved.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Methods:</strong> We construct a database of preservation information from original archival sources and then examine the preservation statuses of 7,438,037 DOIs in a random sample.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 7,438,037 works examined, there were 5.9 million copies spread over the archives used in this work. Furthermore, a total of 4,342,368 of the works that we studied (58.38%) were present in at least one archive. However, this left 2,056,492 works in our sample (27.64%) that are seemingly unpreserved. The remaining 13.98% of works in the sample were excluded either for being too recent (published in the current year), not being journal articles, or having insufficient date metadata for us to identify the source.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Discussion:</strong> Our study is limited by design in several ways. Among these are the facts that it uses only a subset of archives, it only tracks articles with DOIs, and it does not account for institutional repository coverage. Nonetheless, as an initial attempt to gauge the landscape, our results will still be of interest to libraries, publishers, and researchers.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This work reveals an alarming preservation deficit. Only 0.96% of Crossref members (n = 204) can be confirmed to digitally preserve over 75% of their content in three or more of the archives that we studied. (Note that when, in this article, we write &ldquo;preserved,&rdquo; we mean &ldquo;that we were able to confirm as preserved,&rdquo; as per the specified limitations of this study.) A slightly larger proportion, i.e., 8.5% (n = 1,797), preserved over 50% of their content in two or more archives. However, many members, i.e., 57.7% (n = 12,257), only met the threshold of having 25% of their material in a single archive. Most worryingly, 32.9% (n = 6,982) of Crossref members seem not to have any adequate digital preservation in place, which is against the recommendations of the Digital Preservation Coalition.</p>
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<p><strong>Keywords:</strong> digital preservation, persistent identifiers, scholarly communications</p>
<p><strong>How to Cite:&nbsp;</strong>Eve, M. P., (2024) &ldquo;Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles&rdquo;, <em>Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication</em> 12(1). doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.16288">https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.16288</a></p>


title: Collecting, Curating, Preserving, and Researching Media Arts: A good practice report
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10710990
creators: ["Melanie Swalwell", "Helen Stuckey", "Cynde Moya", "Denise de Vries"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "media preservation"]
date: 2023-01-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
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<p>This report details progress to date on the &ldquo;Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and a national collection&rdquo; ARC Linkage Project. The project sought to develop a good practice method for preserving and emulating historic digital media artworks from a diverse range of case studies drawn from exhibitions and the media art collections that have been developing across the Australian cultural institutions partnering this project.</p>
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<h3>Copyright</h3>
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"> Copyright &copy; the authors 2023 except as otherwise noted. This work, excepting 3rd party contributed content, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. </a></p>
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url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10693476
creators: ["Jonas Recker", "Mari Kleemola", "Hervé L'Hours"]
type: Presentation
date: 2024-02-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Closing Gaps: A Model of Cumulative Curation and Preservation Levels for Trustworthy Digital Repositories

abstract:
<p><span>Curation and preservation measures carried out by digital repository staff are an important building block in maintaining the accessibility and usability of digital resources over time. The measures adequate to achieve long-term usability for a given audience strongly depend on scenarios of (re)use, the (intended) users&rsquo; needs and skills, the organisational setting (e.g., mission, resources, policies), as well as the characteristics of the digital objects to be preserved. The assessment of curation and preservation measures also forms an important part of existing certification procedures for trustworthy digital repositories (TDRs) as offered, for example, by the CoreTrustSeal foundation, the nestor network, or ISO. </span></p>
<p><span>The digital curation community is presented with the challenge of finding community-, organization-, and object-specific approaches to curation and preservation at the same time as defining the minimum level of curation and preservation measures expected from a TDR in sufficiently generic terms to ensure applicability to a wide array of repositories. Against this backdrop this presentation discusses the need for and benefits of community-agreed levels of curation and preservation to address this challenge, and considers the tiered model proposed by the CoreTrustSeal Board as an example.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>The proposed model is then applied in an analysis of successful CoreTrustSeal applications from 2018-2022 in an effort to better understand the capacity of the curation and preservation levels to capture the respective practices of repositories and to identify potential gaps.</span></p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "digital curation", "trustworthy digital repositories", "certification", "CoreTrustSeal"]


title: 15 Jahre und (k)ein wenig weiser !? Ein persönlicher Blick auf Lessons-Learned
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10581574
creators: ["Micky Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
date: 2024-01-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Vortrag im Rahmen des MWW-Fachgespr&auml;chs "Best Practice Erfahrungen beim Aufbau und Betrieb eines Digitalen (Langzeit-)Archivs" am 29./30.Januar 2024 (Online)</p>


title: Langzeitarchivierung an der TIB - Preservation as a service
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10276075
creators: ["Thomas Bähr"]
type: Presentation
date: 2023-12-06T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Diese Präsentation wurde im Rahmen von "Langzeitarchivierung in Forschungsdatenzentren" am 14.11.2023 virtuell gehalten.</p>


title: Preserving databases for the future, talk given November 15th, 2023
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10405758
creators: ["Kai Naumann"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["archiving", "databases"]
date: 2023-12-19T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>These slides were created for an international audience I presented to in November 2023. They represent the latest state of the topic of database archiving I have been working on since 2020.</p>


title: TIB - experiences made during re-certification
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10164453
creators: ["Micky Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Presentation given during the RDA Plenary 21 Breakout Session "TRUST Principles and Repository Certification Landscape".&nbsp;</p>


title: Zwei Einblicke in die LZA: Rosetta, PREMIS
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10164340
creators: ["Micky Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Vortrag auf der KonsortSWD Veranstaltung "Langzeitarchivierung in Forschungsdatenzentren am 14.11.2023".</p><p>Der Vortrag gibt einen kurzen Einblick in die Software Rosetta (Was ist Rosetta, Rosetta Community, Einsatz an der TIB) sowie in den de-facto Standard für Langzeitarchivierungsmetadaten PREMIS (Datenmodell, technische Neutralität).</p>


title: Modelling curation and preservation levels for trustworthy digital repositories
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10052805
creators: ["Jonas Recker", "Hervé L'Hours", "Mari Kleemola"]
type: Conference proceeding
date: 2023-10-30T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Broadly defined, digital curation and preservation refer to a set of practices that ensure the long-term accessibility, usability, and understandability of digital assets for a defined community of users. These practices are managed and performed in sustainable organizational settings with clearly defined responsibilities, are governed by policies, and require that the repository actively addresses any factors – legal, organizational, financial, technical, or cultural – which might put access and use of digital assets at risk.&nbsp;</p><p>Which specific practices are required to provide successful digital curation and preservation depends on a multiplicity of factors including the needs and 'knowledge base' of the users, the type of digital object to be preserved, and (re)use scenarios. Though there is no 'one-size-fits-all-approach' to curation and preservation, community agreement on the defining the levels of "care provided and the degree of responsibility taken by a repository or other data service" [1], is a helpful instrument in the management of heterogeneous collections, the development of preservation policies and practices, and the certification of trustworthy repositories.&nbsp;</p><p>Thus, many repositories have heterogeneous collections and may choose different curation and preservation approaches for groups of assets based on archival value, mission, in-house expertise, available resources, etc. Repositories currently planning and developing a preservation capacity benefit from a concise definition of levels to aspire to. Likewise, certification of trustworthy digital repositories such as undertaken by the CoreTrustSeal requires the definition of a minimum level of curation and preservation that repositories must have reached to be in scope for certification as trustworthy digital repositories.&nbsp;</p><p>This paper, presented at the PV2023 conference in May 2023, draws on the CoreTrustSeal Curation and Preservation Levels Discussion Paper [1] and feedback received&nbsp;as well as public responses of successful CoreTrustSeal applicants, to present a model for Levels of Curation and Preservation suitable for the purposes outlined above.&nbsp;</p><p>[1] CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board. (2022). Curation &amp; Preservation Levels: CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper (v01.00).&nbsp;Zenodo.&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6908019">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6908019</a>, p. 3. Following the conference, Version 2 of the Discussion Paper was published: CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board. (2023). Curation &amp; Preservation Levels: CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper (v02.00). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8083359&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10020725
creators: ["Hervé L'Hours", "Roxanne Wyns"]
type: Conference proceeding
date: 2023-12-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Preservation in the context of EOSC. Sustainable repositories curating digital objects from a long term FAIR enabling perspective

abstract:
<p>Sustainable, interoperable, research infrastructure depends on clear standards, expectations, and delivery of services around data and metadata. To realise the long-term value of digital objects we require preservation repositories that are prepared to act to ensure they remain understandable and usable as well as discoverable and accessible.&nbsp;</p><p>The Long-Term Data Preservation Task Force (LTDP TF)[1] is working to clarify the understanding and roles of data and metadata preservation within the context of the wide range of services that form the EOSC.&nbsp;The task force vision is that the digital objects made findable and accessible through repository environments, are subject to appraisal and reappraisal over time to assess their value, impact, and associated costs. This informs the levels of storage, curation and preservation required. Not all digital objects need to be preserved, but if long term need and usage potential have been identified, then preservation can maintain and bring new value to data and metadata for their communities of users.&nbsp;</p><p>This paper explores the first set of recommendations of the task force concerning the vision, roles, finance, and role and functioning of a network of trustworthy digital repositories (TDR) in the context of preservation in EOSC. These recommendations, which incorporate the feedback collected from&nbsp;stakeholders'&nbsp;consultation beginning of 2023 in combination with the progress made on the further alignment of the FAIR principles to CoreTrustSeal[2], the definition of different curation and preservation levels[3], and CoreTrustSeal applicability to other types of (meta)data services[4], where presented at the PV2023 conference [5]. &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.eosc.eu/advisory-groups/long-term-data-preservation">https://www.eosc.eu/advisory-groups/long-term-data-preservation</a></p><p>[2]&nbsp;In the framework of the FAIR-IMPACT project&nbsp;<a href="https://fair-impact.eu/">https://fair-impact.eu/</a>&nbsp;</p><p>[3]&nbsp;CoreTrustSeal Board Discussion papers&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LDezbr75uSI8j-KJd5bFQ4VnlgEqY644jbux_QRrDs/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs">https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LDezbr75uSI8j-KJd5bFQ4VnlgEqY644jbux_QRrDs/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs</a> as discussed and commented on by the LTDP TF members</p><p>[4]&nbsp;Review of CoreTrustSeal&nbsp;Applicability to non-Preservation (Trustworthy) Data Services by the UK Data Service&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D64iut7DcBe0HYJpdhS8RA-qpEQ40daclROD4RH6DWg/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D64iut7DcBe0HYJpdhS8RA-qpEQ40daclROD4RH6DWg/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs</a>&nbsp;as discussed and commented on by the LTDP TF members</p><p>[5] PV2023 conference <a href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1188041/">https://indico.cern.ch/event/1188041/</a></p>

keywords:
["EOSC Association", "OpenScience", "Advancing OpenScience in Europe", "EOSC", "HorizonEU", "Long term data preservation", "Trustworthy Digital Repositories", "FAIR", "EOSC Association Long Term Data Preservatin task force", "PV2023"]


title: The Significant Properties of Spreadsheets (OPF AIG Final Report)
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8387002
type: Report
keywords: ["Significant Properties", "Spreadsheet", "Digital Preservation"]
date: 2022-08-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Remco van Veenendaal", "Lotte Wijsman", "Asbjørn Skødt", "Kati Sein", "Jacob Takema", "Jack O'Sullivan"]

abstract:
<p>This is the final report of the&nbsp;Open Preservation Foundation&nbsp;Archives Interest Group&#39;s investigation of Significant Properties of Spreadsheets.&nbsp;</p>


title: Digital Preservation Staffing & Skills
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8351313
creators: ["Maureen Pennock"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2018-10-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Presentation on digital preservation staffing and skills, given at the DPC Memory Maker&#39;s training event, October 2018.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8337861
creators: ["PREMIS Editorial Committee", "The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["preservation", "metadata", "PREMIS"]
date: 2023-09-12T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
PREMIS Webinars to introduce the Spanish translation of the "Understanding PREMIS: An Overview of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata"

abstract:
<p>The PREMIS EC together with DPC held two webinars, one in English and one in Spanish to celebrate the release of the &quot;Understanding PREMIS: An Overview of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata&quot; translation into Spanish.</p>

<p>The event was recorded by DPC.</p>

<p>The slides are published here as both PDF and Microsoft Power Point for both versions of the webinars.</p>


title: Survey of the Video Game Reissue Market in the United States
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8161056
creators: ["Phil Salvador"]
type: Report
keywords: ["software preservation", "game preservation"]
date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This study examines the current extent of the video game reissue market in the United States. While the video game industry and cultural heritage institutions agree that video games should be preserved for both entertainment and study, there is disagreement about whether the commercial market preempts the need for libraries, museums, and archives to expand their preservation activities. To better inform these discussions, we gathered evidence about what portion of historical games are actually still in commercial distribution. We believe this is the first major study to analyze the availability rates for a broad sample of historical games in this manner.</p>

<p>The results are stark: Only 13 percent of classic video games published in the United States are currently in release (<em>n</em> = 1500, &plusmn;2.5%, 95% CI). These low numbers are consistent across platform ecosystems and time periods. Troublingly, the reissue rate drops below 3 percent for games released prior to 1985&mdash;the foundational era of video games&mdash;indicating that the interests of the marketplace may not align with the needs of video game researchers. Our experiences gathering data for this study suggest that these problems will intensify over time due to a low diversity of reissue sources and the long-term volatility of digital game storefronts.</p>

<p>Our results&nbsp;question whether the commercial market alone can adequately preserve the medium of video games, particularly for the needs of&nbsp;researchers. While this study does not make specific recommendations for improving the state of game availability, it instead offers statistics that can guide future discussions about the role of cultural institutions in video game preservation.</p>


title: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials. 3rd Edition
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7929962
creators: ["FADGI Still Image Working Group"]
type: Other
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2023-05-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Guidelines: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials<br>
Still Image Working Group</p>

<p>The <em>Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials: Third Edition</em>&nbsp;were developed by the Still Image Working Group in 2022-2023. This document is an update of the 2016&nbsp;<em>Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials: Creation of Raster Image Master Files</em>. The latest revision of the guidelines expands on earlier works and incorporates new material reflecting the advances in imaging science and cultural heritage imaging best practice. The <em>Guidelines</em> include shared best practices for still image materials (e.g., textual content, maps, and photographic prints and negatives) followed by agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI).These guidelines are intended to be used in conjunction with digital image conformance evaluation targets and software. Together, these guidelines and appropriate testing and monitoring systems provide the foundation for a FADGI-conforming digitization program. Please see the Still Image Guidelines Resources page linked below for additional documentation and software resources.</p>

<p>The guidelines were first published at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-technical.html ">https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-technical.html&nbsp;</a><br>
Please see that website for further information on the FADGI Still Image Working Group and additional information supporting the guideline.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>


title: Digital Curation Certificate and Master's Degree Programs
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7919282
creators: ["Charles W. Jr. Bailey"]
type: Other
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2023-05-10T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This document describes digital curation certificate and master&#39;s degree programs in North America, identifying those that are online. It does not cover individualized certificate programs, such as those at Indiana University Bloomington or the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Nor does it cover digital curation specializations within MLS and other master&#39;s degree programs in iSchools. It is alphabetized by the name of the granting university or other organization. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.</p>

<p>This record contains the website PDF with live links.<br>
The website is available at:&nbsp;https://digital-scholarship.org/digital-curation-programs/dc-programs.htm&nbsp;</p>


title: Living archaeologies of online collections
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7882458
creators: ["Tim Sherratt"]
type: Presentation
date: 2022-07-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Online collections themselves have a history and if we&rsquo;re going to depend on these collections for our research, we need to think about how this history shapes the types of questions we ask, and the arguments we create.</p>


title: Toolkit for managing digital collections
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7840130
creators: ["Digital Collections Toolkit Working Group"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2023-04-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Members of the London Museum Documentation Network have developed a new toolkit for managing accessioned digital collections, edited by Kevin Bolton with support from The National Archives. This version has been fully peer reviewed by GLAM sector colleagues during workshops held in May 2021 and November 2022.&nbsp; The feedback gathered has now been fully integrated into the toolkit.</p>

<p>The toolkit is designed as a companion piece to Spectrum with a chapter for each of the 21 procedures. It provides museum professionals with a practical suite of guidelines, taken from the digital preservation community and adapted for the needs of an accredited museum. The aim is to enable museum professionals to manage Digital Collections Objects (DCOs) in accordance with digital preservation and collections management best practice.</p>

<p>For info on Spectrum, see:&nbsp;https://collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum/&nbsp;</p>


title: Repository & (Meta)Data Services Activities & Functions Overview
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7689090
creators: ["Hervé L'Hours", "Darren Bell"]
type: Working paper
date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This draft working paper&nbsp;briefly defines a list of metadata and data services&rsquo; activities and functions derived from an analysis of the common features between relevant current standards. The headings are divided into four groups: digital object management, organisational infrastructure, technology and security.</p>


title: Repository & (meta)data Services Functions & Activities: Crosswalk
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7690658
creators: ["Hervé L'Hours", "Darren Bell"]
type: Other
date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This spreadsheet defines a list of metadata and data services&rsquo; activities and functions derived from an analysis of the common features of current requirements, standards and criteria. There are four top-level headings: digital object management, organisational infrastructure, technology and security.</p>

<p>This exercise to develop a comprehensive but high-level set of activities and functions relevant to (meta)data services is intended to support UK Data Service (UKDS) strategic planning, continuous improvement and engagement with the ongoing Future Data Services (FDS) programme.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Digital preservation language for agreements between libraries and publishers
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7688275
type: Report
date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Sara Bahnmaier", "Lorraine Estelle", "Evelyn Frangakis", "Melanie Kowalski", "Erik Limpitlaw", "Steve Marks", "Tim Morton", "Ann Okerson", "Rita Pinhasi", "Michelle Polchow", "Judy Russell", "Mark Sandler", "Daniël Steinmeier", "Ben Taplin", "Alicia Wise", "Kate Wittenberg"]

abstract:
<p>Libraries and publishers have a mutual obligation to ensure long-term preservation of the scholarly record - leveraging library expertise in preservation, publisher expertise in content production, and the author relationships and financial means of both parties.</p>

<p>Agreements between the parties are good places to document these mutual obligations. These might be subscription agreements, open access publishing agreements, or agreements that blend the two.</p>

<p>A review in 2022 revealed that digital preservation language in many existing agreements was vague, unclear regarding the precise content and time depth preserved, unnecessarily restrictive in terms of access and/or use, conflated post-cancellation access and long-term digital preservation and access, and was sometimes administratively burdensome to implement. It was also difficult to verify compliance with the agreements, and that the content was actually preserved properly.</p>

<p>This paper clarifies the distinction between long-term preservation and post-cancellation access; recommends improved language to use in agreements; and offers guidance on how to negotiate the language into agreements.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "preservation", "academic journals", "academic books", "academic libraries", "academic publishers", "research libraries"]


title: Anwendung einer Digitalisierungscheckliste auf einen fiktiven Bestand
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7671339
creators: ["Sheila Waldispühl", "Helga Wolf"]
type: Report
keywords: ["Digitalisierung", "Projektmanagement", "Nachlass", "Exilarchiv", "Deutsche Nationalbibliothek"]
date: 2023-02-11T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong><br>
Die Projektarbeit zeigt anhand eines fiktiven Bestandes exemplarisch, wie ein Digitalisierungsvorhaben mithilfe der Digitalisierungscheckliste nach Weymann et al. geplant und durchgef&uuml;hrt werden kann. Der Bestand &ndash; ein fiktiver Teilnachlass &ndash; umfasst verschiedene Materialien und Formate, an denen unterschiedliche Anforderungen an die konservatorische Behandlung, die Scantechnik und die Annotation gezeigt werden k&ouml;nnen. Als aufnehmende Institution wird &ndash; ebenfalls fiktiv &ndash; das Exilarchiv 1933&ndash;1945 der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek angenommen</p>

<p>Die&nbsp;Projektarbeit wurde im Rahmen des Moduls DIS 26b2 &raquo;Digitalisierung und Langzeitarchivierung&laquo; im Studiengang Data &amp; Information Science an der Fakult&auml;t f&uuml;r Informationswissenschaften der Technischen Hochschule K&ouml;ln erstellt.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Abstract (english):</strong><br>
The project report uses a fictitious collection as an example to showcase how a digitization project can be planned and carried out with the help of the digitization checklist according to Weymann et al. The collection - a fictitious partial estate - comprises various materials and formats, which can be used to demonstrate different requirements for conservation treatment, scanning technology and annotation. The receiving institution is assumed to be - also fictitiously - the Exile Archive 1933-1945 of the German National Library.</p>

<p>The project work was carried out as part of the DIS 26b2 module &quot;Digitization and Long-Term Archiving&quot; in the Data &amp; Information Science program at the Faculty of Information Science at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7568400
type: Working paper
date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
How a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Data Repositories can align to the vision of EOSC

creators:
["Lluís Anglada", "David Antos", "Pierre-Yves Burgi", "Cécile Cavet", "Draženko Celjak", "Ingrid Dillo", "Olesea Dubois", "Rui Fernandes", "Didi Lamers", "Hervé L'Hours", "Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman", "Matthew Viljoen", "Roxanne Wyns"]

abstract:
<p>This paper is a response from the EOSC Association Long Term Data Preservation Task Force to the working paper &ldquo;<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7034315">Toward a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories</a>&rdquo;. In this response the EOSC LTDP Task Force addresses the proposals in the paper and elaborates on how the suggested functions can contribute to realising the EOSC.</p>

keywords:
["EOSC Association", "OpenScience", "Advancing OpenScience in Europe", "EOSC", "HorizonEU", "Long term data preservation", "Trustworthy Digital Repositories", "FAIR", "EOSC Association Long Term Data Preservation Task Force", "Response paper"]


title: EOSC Preservation: Overview Discussion Paper
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7516259
type: Working paper
date: 2023-01-09T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Toni Andreu", "Lluís Anglada", "David Antos", "Thomas Bähr", "Maciej Brzeźniak", "Pierre-Yves Burgi", "Cécile Cavet", "Draženko Celjak", "Sabine Crépé-Renaudin", "Chris De Loof", "Ingrid Dillo", "Olesea Dubois", "Rui Fernandes", "Pirjo-Leena Forsström", "Gerardo Ganis", "Eileen Gibney", "András Holl", "Hervé L'Hours", "Didi Lamers", "Andrea Lammert", "Lara Lloret Iglesias", "Marcello Maggi", "Mariusz Majdanski", "Jean-Yves Nief", "Jiri Novacek", "Florina Piroi", "Karl Presser", "Bregt Saenen", "Sangeetha Shankar", "Riccardo Smareglia", "Martina Stockhause", "Paul Stokes", "Ville Tenhunen", "Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman", "Matthew Viljoen", "Mojib Wali", "Roxanne Wyns"]

abstract:
<p>The&nbsp;Long-Term Data Preservation Task Force&nbsp;(LTDP TF) of the EOSC Association has since its establishment worked on mapping the status and further clarification of the meaning of long-term preservation within the EOSC. This work has resulted in an&nbsp;overview and discussion paper&nbsp;to presents the context, activities and ongoing issues surrounding the EOSC Association Long Term Data Preservation Task Force. The paper describes our approach on preservation in the context of EOSC concerning outcomes, systems, and actions with attention to the vision, roles, finance, and networks needed to deliver preservation for FAIR digital objects in the EOSC. This document is intended to collect community feedback on our approach as well as future recommendations to be considered.</p>

<p>We kindly ask the community for feedback on our approach as well as future recommendations to be considered through a short survey: <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/TFLTDPsurvey2023">https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/TFLTDPsurvey2023</a></p>

keywords:
["EOSC", "EOSC Association", "OpenScience", "Advancing OpenScience in Europe", "HorizonEU", "Long term data preservation", "Trustworthy Digital Repositories", "FAIR", "EOSC Association Long Term Data Preservation Task force", "Overview Discussion Paper"]


title: Wheel Out the Digital Dark Age Klaxon!
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7390809
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Video/Audio
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2022-11-03T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Wheel Out the Digital Dark Age Klaxon, performed by the Digital Dark Age Crew.</p>

<p>Written and produced by Marinus Nullbyte for the Digital Dark Age Crew, on the occasion of World Digital Preservation Day 2022. Executive producer: Johan van der Knijff.</p>

<p>More information about this release, and about the Digital Dark Age Crew is available at:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.bitsgalore.org/2022/11/03/wheel-out-the-digital-dark-age-klaxon">https://www.bitsgalore.org/2022/11/03/wheel-out-the-digital-dark-age-klaxon</a></p>

<p>Vocals by the artificial voice of Alan Pope, which was channeled to the Digital Dark Age Crew through the mimic3 text to speech engine by Mycroft AI:</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3">https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3</a></p>

<p>All icons in the video were licensed from the Noun Project:</p>

<p><a href="https://thenounproject.com/">https://thenounproject.com/</a></p>

<p>Except the Myspace icon, which is public domain.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7272726
type: Report
keywords: ["software preservation", "digital preservation"]
date: 2022-11-02T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Supporting Software Preservation Services in Research and Memory Organizations: A White Paper from the Software Preservation Network's Research-in-Practice Working Group

creators:
["Jessica G. Benner", "Seth Erickson", "Wendy Hagenmaier", "Monique Lassere", "Christa Williford", "Lauren Work"]

abstract:
<p>This white paper outlines findings from a survey- and interview-based study of <em>software preservation service providers</em>&mdash;an expansive category that includes archivists, librarians, preservation specialists, technologists, and other professional roles. The survey and interviews were conducted in 2019 by the SPN Research-in-Practice Working Group. An analysis of the survey and interview data suggests broad support for inter-organizational collaboration in software preservation, despite challenges that surface because of the malleable concepts of &ldquo;software&rdquo; that can vary across preservation contexts. Results presented in this paper include a set of service provider personas, an overview of the conceptions of software that exist in research and memory organizations, a delineation of multilevel barriers to software preservation, and a related set of themes and targeted recommendations.</p>


title: Peter Wyatt and Duff Johnson on 30 Years of PDF (Episode 532 of Software Engineering Radio)
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7271275
creators: ["Henry Gavin", "Peter Wyatt", "Duff Johnson"]
type: Video/Audio
date: 2022-10-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><em>Originally published at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-532-peter-wyatt-and-duff-johnson-on-30-years-of-pdf/ ">https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-532-peter-wyatt-and-duff-johnson-on-30-years-of-pdf/&nbsp;</a><br>
All information below taken from Software Engineering Radio Episode Page</em></p>

<p><strong>Episode 532: Peter Wyatt and Duff Johnson on 30 Years of PDF</strong></p>

<p>Peter Wyatt, CTO at PDF Association and project co-leader of ISO 32000 (the core PDF standard), and Duff Johnson, CEO at PDF Association and ISO Project co-leader and US TAG chair for both ISO 32000 and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA), discuss the 30-year history of the portable document format (PDF). SE Radio&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.se-radio.net/team/gavin-henry/">Gavin Henry</a> spoke with Wyatt and Johnson about a wide range of topics, including the PDF/A Archival format, key dates in PDF history (including why 2007 was such an important year), and PDF security. They explore details such as redaction of information in a PDF, object models, what Adobe did right, choosing PDF versions, efficient paging of documents, SafeDocs, selecting a PDF SDK, Arlington PDF, veraPDF. They further consider when to use the PDF format, binary and XML, javascript in PDFs, PDF linters and validators, backward compatibility, how HTML and PDF complement each other, the biggest PDFs in the world, PDF as a website, and the guests&rsquo; top 3 PDF security tips.</p>

<p>Related Links</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2021/893400b902/1t0x9ObxH8Y">Breaking the Specification: PDF Certification</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-11960-x">Towards enhanced PDF maldocs detection with feature engineering: design challenges&nbsp;</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON47517.2019.8992996">PDFPhantom: Exploiting PDF Attacks Against Academic Conferences&rsquo; Paper Submission Process with Counterattack </a></li>
	<li><a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/SPW54247.2022.9833889">Research Report: Strengthening Weak Links in the PDF Trust Chain </a></li>
</ul>

<p>Other References</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.pdfa.org/"><em>PDF Association</em></a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.darpa.mil/program/safe-documents">https://www.darpa.mil/program/safe-documents</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://twitter.com/petervwyatt"><em>Peter Wyatt&rsquo;s Twitter: https://twitter.com/petervwyatt</em></a></li>
	<li><a href="https://twitter.com/duffjohnson">Duff Johnson&rsquo;s Twitter: https://twitter.com/duffjohnson</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://twitter.com/PDFAssociation"><em>PDFAssociation</em></a></li>
	<li><a href="https://openpreservation.org/tools/verapdf/">veraPDF &ndash; Open Preservation Foundation</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/pdf-association"><em>PDF Association</em></a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-issues">GitHub &ndash; pdf-association/pdf-issues: Industry-based resolutions for issues and errata reported against any PDF-related ISO standard</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/pdf-association/arlington-pdf-model"><em>GitHub &ndash; pdf-association/arlington-pdf-model: A vendor- and implementation-independent specification-derived, machine-readable model of PDF.</em></a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.pdfa.org/community/">PDF Association</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_(graphics_layer)#Use_of_PDF"><em>Quartz (graphics layer)</em></a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.pdfa.org/resource/iso-19005-pdfa/">ISO 19005 (PDF/A)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.pdfa.org/resource/iso-32000-pdf/"><em>ISO 32000 (PDF)</em></a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>About SE-Radio</strong></p>

<p>Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Now a weekly show, we talk to experts from throughout the software engineering world about the full range of topics that matter to professional developers.</p>

<p>All SE Radio episodes feature original content; we don&rsquo;t record conferences or talks given in other venues.</p>

<p>SE Radio is managed by the volunteers and staff of <a href="http://www.computer.org/software"><em>IEEE Software</em></a>, a leading technical magazine for software professionals published by the IEEE Computer Society. All content is licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/">Creative Commons 2.5</a> license.</p>

<p>SE Radio was founded in January 2006 by Markus Voelter.&nbsp; It joined forces with <em>IEEE&nbsp;Software</em> in February 2012 and has been run through the collaborative efforts of Computer Society staff and a team of volunteer editors since then.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7243336
creators: ["CCSDS MOMS DAI Working Group"]
type: Other
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2020-10-28T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) - Draft Recommended Practice CCSDS 650.0-P-2.1 Pink Book October 2020

abstract:
<p><strong>OAIS v3 Pink Book Release</strong></p>

<p>This is the Pink Book released as part of the OAIS Reference Model Review process (Review cycle: August 2016 - July 2024). The pink book has been passed to ISO for review. After ISO has finished the review, updates to the pink book may be made to ensure consistent documents between ISO standard and mangenta book.</p>

<p>Further information on the Pink Book status, taken from the publications Preface section:<br>
<br>
<em>&quot;This document is a draft CCSDS Recommended Practice. Its &lsquo;Pink Book&rsquo; status indicates that the CCSDS believes the document to be technically mature and has released it for formal review by appropriate technical organizations. As such, its technical contents are not stable, and several iterations of it may occur in response to comments received during the review process.</em></p>

<p><em>Implementers are cautioned not to fabricate any final equipment in accordance with this document&rsquo;s technical content.</em></p>

<p><em>This document is a draft technical Recommended Practice for use in developing and maintaining broader consensus on what is required for an archive to provide permanent, or indefinite long term, preservation of digital information.&quot;</em></p>


title: CoreTrustSeal Revision Working Group Change Log and Associated Materials
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051237
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Other
keywords: ["Certification", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "CoreTrustSeal"]
date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>These&nbsp;are the outputs of the&nbsp;CoreTrustSeal Revision Working Group and describe the CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2023-2025 and a change log of the revisions made with respect to the CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2020-2022.</p>

<p>The CoreTrustSeal Requirements describe the characteristics required to be a trustworthy repository for digital data and metadata. Each Requirement is accompanied by Guidance text describing the response statements and evidence that applicants must provide to enable an objective review. Applicants must respond to all of the Requirements.</p>


title: CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2023-2025
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051012
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Other
keywords: ["Certification", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "CoreTrustSeal"]
date: 2022-09-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The CoreTrustSeal Requirements describe the characteristics required to be a trustworthy repository for digital data and metadata. Each Requirement is accompanied by Guidance text describing the response statements and evidence that applicants must provide to enable an objective review. Applicants must respond to all of the Requirements.&nbsp;</p>


title: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Digital Repositories Requirements 2023-2025 Extended Guidance
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051096
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Other
keywords: ["Certification", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "CoreTrustSeal"]
date: 2022-09-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The CoreTrustSeal Requirements describe the characteristics required to be a trustworthy repository for digital data and metadata. Each Requirement is accompanied by Guidance text describing the response statements and evidence that applicants must provide to enable an objective review. Applicants must respond to all of the Requirements.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In addition to the full CoreTrustSeal Requirements text, which remains stable for the period 2023-2025, this document provides the Extended Guidance for CoreTrustSeal reviewers and applicants. Extended Guidance text is presented within a border and in blue within the document. This text may be updated during the 2023-2025 period.</p>


title: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements: Glossary 2023-2025
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051125
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Other
keywords: ["Certification", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "CoreTrustSeal"]
date: 2022-09-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This Glossary of Terms from other sources is provided to support the CoreTrustSeal Requirements and Extended Guidance.</p>


title: PREMIS Implementation Fair 2009
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7014442
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "preservation metadata"]
date: 2009-10-07T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Brian Lavoie", "Rebecca Guenther", "Francesco Lazzarino", "Bill Ingram", "Euan Cochrane", "Yair Brama", "Priscilla Caplan", "Evan Owens", "Bradley Westbrook", "Angela Di Iorio", "Nancy Hoebelheinrich", "Karo Salminen", "Jukka Kervinen", "Markus Enders"]

abstract:
<p>The PREMIS Implementation Fair Series is for anyone with some knowledge of PREMIS who might be planning or is<br>
already involved in a PREMIS implementation. The first fair took place on October 7 2009 in San Francisco, California, USA, immediately following iPres 2009.</p>

<p>This record contains the original annoucement and agenda as well as all presentations and a brief summary report.<br>
In detail, the files contained within this dataset are:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Agenda and Invitation<br>
	<em>00_Agenda_PREMIS_Implementation_Fair_2009.pdf</em></li>
	<li>Summary of the event<em><br>
	00_Summary_PREMISImplementationFair_2009.pdf</em></li>
	<li>Status of PREMIS (Brian Lavoie, OCLC)<br>
	<em>01_stateofPREMIS.ppt</em></li>
	<li>Implementation in METS (Rebecca Guenther, LC)<br>
	<em>02_premis-mets-pif.ppt</em></li>
	<li>PREMIS in METS Toolkit (Francesco Lazzarino, FCLA)<br>
	<em>03_PIM_presentation.pdf</em></li>
	<li>Hub and Spoke Framework Tool Suite (Bill Ingram, UIUC)<br>
	<em>04_hands_premis_fair.pdf</em></li>
	<li>Statistics New Zealand PREMIS tool (Euan Cochrane)<br>
	<em>05_PREMISfair-Euan_Cochrane.ppt</em></li>
	<li>Rosetta (Yair Brama, Ex Libris)<br>
	<em>06_PREMIS_Implementation_Fair-brama.ppt</em></li>
	<li>DAITSS (Priscilla Caplan, FCLA)<br>
	<em>07_PREMIS_and_DAITSS.ppt</em></li>
	<li>Discussion of potential changes to the PREMIS data model using Events in Portico as an exmaple (Priscilla Caplan and Evan Owens)<br>
	<em>08_PREMIS_Data_Model.ppt&nbsp; </em>09_Portico_PREMIS_Workshop.ppt</li>
	<li>Case Studies:
	<ul>
		<li>PREMIS Rights implementation at University of California San Diego (Bradley Westbrook, UCSD) <em>10_PREMISimpWorkshop09-UCSD.ppt</em></li>
		<li>Implementation in Italy (Angela Di Iorio, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale) <em>11_AngelaDiIorio_PREMIS_Implementation_Fair.ppt 12_ARTAT_PREMIS_SEMANTIC_UNITS_ROADMAP.xls</em></li>
		<li>PREMIS for geospatial data (Nancy Hoebelheinrich)<br>
		<em>13_PREMIS_ImplementFairnjh.ppt</em></li>
		<li>Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories (TIPR) project (Priscilla Caplan, FCLA) <em>14_PREMIS_in_TIPR.ppt</em></li>
		<li>National Library of Finland digitized monographs incl. PREMIS in Mets example (Karo Salminen and Jukka Kervinen, National Library of Finland)<br>
		<em>15_premis_implementation_at_NLF.ppt<br>
		16_mono_v0_53_modified_for_dt.xml</em></li>
		<li>PREMIS Implementation at the British Library (Markus Enders) <em>17_Premis_at_the_British_Library.ppt</em></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>Conformance:
	<ul>
		<li>New PREMIS conformance statement (Brian Lovoie, OCLC)<br>
		<em>18_premisConformance.ppt</em></li>
		<li>Controlled vocabularies, Library of Congress&#39; Authorities &amp; Vocabularies service (Rebecca Guenther, LC)<br>
		<em>19_controlled-vocabs-pif.ppt</em></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>


title: DRAFT Change Log and CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2023-2025
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6669515
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Other
keywords: ["Certification", "CoreTrustSeal", "Trustworthy Digital Repository"]
date: 2022-06-21T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>First and foremost, we&nbsp;would like to thank the CoreTrustSeal community for their continued support. Their input into this review of the CTS requirements has been an invaluable tool during this process. The CTS Board has taken three years of experience reviewing applications under the existing guidelines and input from the community to help shape their&nbsp;wishes into these new revisions. Suggested changes to the requirements listed in the community survey were overwhelmingly supported by the survey participants with 78% agreeing with proposed changes on average across the survey. The suggested changes combined with your feedback were shaped into the current final draft version of the new requirements.</p>

<p>As a community we understand that continual review of our policy&rsquo;s, processes and procedures is required to ensure we are good stewards of the digital objects we are assigned to protect. With that in mind, we remind you that this is an ongoing process and even as we finish the final minor edits to this version of the requirements, we are always gathering information for the next round of changes.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6636362
creators: ["David Leslie Giaretta"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "OAIS", "ISO 16363"]
date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Building LABDRIVE, a Petabyte scale, OAIS/ISO 16363 conformant, environmentally sustainable archive, tested by large scientific organisations to preserve their raw and processed data, software and documents

abstract:
<p>Vast amounts of scientific, cultural, social, business and government, and other, information is being created every day. There are billions of objects, in a multitude of formats, semantics and associated software. Much, perhaps the majority, of this information is transitory but there is still an immense amount which should be preserved for the medium and long term &ndash; perhaps even indefinitely.</p>

<p>Preservation requires that the information continues to be usable, not simply to be printed or displayed. Of course, the digital objects (the bits) must be preserved, as must the &ldquo;metadata&rdquo; which enables the bits to the understood which includes the software.</p>

<p>Before LABDRIVE no system could adequately preserve such information, especially in such gigantic volume and variety.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In this presentationwe describe the development of LABDRIVE and its ability to preserve tens or hundreds of petabytes in a way which is conformant to the OAIS Reference Model and capable of being ISO 16363 certified.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6636295
creators: ["David Leslie Giaretta", "Teo Redondo"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "OAIS", "ISO 16363"]
date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Building LABDRIVE, a Petabyte scale, OAIS/ISO 16363 conformant, environmentally sustainable archive, tested by large scientific organisations to preserve their raw and processed data, software and documents

abstract:
<p>Vast amounts of scientific, cultural, social, business and government, and other, information is being created every day. There are billions of objects, in a multitude of formats, semantics and associated software. Much, perhaps the majority, of this information is transitory but there is still an immense amount which should be preserved for the medium and long term &ndash; perhaps even indefinitely.</p>

<p>Preservation requires that the information continues to be usable, not simply to be printed or displayed. Of course, the digital objects (the bits) must be preserved, as must the &ldquo;metadata&rdquo; which enables the bits to the understood which includes the software.</p>

<p>Before LABDRIVE no system could adequately preserve such information, especially in such gigantic volume and variety.&nbsp;</p>

<p>In this paper we describe the development of LABDRIVE and its ability to preserve tens or hundreds of petabytes in a way which is conformant to the OAIS Reference Model and capable of being ISO 16363 certified.</p>


title: Digi-Kunst.nrw: Abschlussbericht (Vorprojekt)
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6614787
creators: ["Karsten Lehl"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital art"]
date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>Digi-Kunst.nrw (Vorprojekt) - Abschlussbericht</strong></p>

<p><strong>Projektbeteiligte:</strong> Folkwang Universit&auml;t der K&uuml;nste, Hochschule f&uuml;r Musik Detmold, Hochschule f&uuml;r Musik und Tanz K&ouml;ln, Kunstakademie M&uuml;nster, Kunsthochschule f&uuml;r Medien K&ouml;ln, Universit&auml;t zu K&ouml;ln: Regionales Rechenzentrum</p>

<p><strong>Projektlaufzeit: </strong>01.07.2020&ndash;30.06.2021</p>

<p><strong>Gef&ouml;rdert durch: </strong>Ministerium f&uuml;r Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen</p>

<p><strong>Aktenzeichen:</strong> 214-5.01.03.02 - 149408</p>

<p><strong>Projektbeschreiung:</strong></p>

<p>Die Kunst- und Musikhochschulen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen verf&uuml;gen &uuml;ber beeindruckende Best&auml;nde (retro-)digitaler multimedialer Inhalte. Diese sind nicht nur als Kulturarchivalien, sondern auch als Ausgangsdaten f&uuml;r weiterf&uuml;hrende Forschung und Lehre von Bedeutung. Im Projekt Digi-Kunst.nrw wird als Endziel, dessen Konditionen im Vorprojekt festzustellen sind, in Kooperation mit bestehenden Angeboten und Einrichtungen des Landes eine dauerhafte Sicherung der bislang dezentral gesammelten Archivalien angestrebt. Die entsprechenden Daten sollen &uuml;ber eine Web-Oberfl&auml;che dargestellt werden, deren Recherchem&ouml;glichkeiten neben bibliothekarischen und archivarischen Anforderungen auch fachspezifisch-technischen wie &auml;sthetisch-k&uuml;nstlerischen Ma&szlig;st&auml;ben gerecht werden.</p>

<p>Die so erstmals umgesetzte geb&uuml;ndelte Darstellung entsprechender Archivalien soll insgesamt das exzellente Niveau von Kultur und damit verbundener Wissenschaft in NRW f&uuml;r die nationale und internationale &Ouml;ffentlichkeit optimal erfahrbar machen. Hiermit langfristig verbunden sind eine arbeitsteilige Entwicklung von Standards und Strukturen zur Verzeichnung und Archivierung (retro-)digitaler multimedialer Inhalte, deren Umsetzung und Pflege den einzelnen Hochschulen erm&ouml;glicht werden soll.<br>
Zun&auml;chst ist eine exemplarische Bestandsaufnahme vorgesehen, auf deren Basis ein Umsetzungskonzept erstellt werden soll. Die gemeinsame Vision einer Struktur, die darstellungsvariabel einer breiten &Ouml;ffentlichkeit strukturierten Zugang zu k&uuml;nstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen digitalen Archivalien erm&ouml;glicht, soll parallel weiter pr&auml;zisiert werden und so perspektivisch weitere Konsorten aus dem Kreis der Universit&auml;ten, Hochschulen und anderen Landeseinrichtungen angesprochen werden.</p>

<p><strong>Quelle:</strong> https://www.dh.nrw/kooperationen/Digi-Kunst.nrw%20(Vorprojekt)-63</p>


title: Salt Lake Archives: A Report
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6331546
type: Report
date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Supurna Banerjee", "Anwesha Sengupta", "Sanjoy Kar", "Sharannyo Banerjee", "Syamantak Chattopadhyay"]

abstract:
<p>Salt Lake was developed as a township in the eastern fringe of Kolkata through reclamation of parts of the vast marshlands. In 2021, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata started the initiative of archiving Salt Lake city to commemorate 50 years of the township in 2022. The process began by tracing the origin of Salt Lake in old books, archival records, newspapers, assembly debates, census data and interviews of early residents, workers, planners etc. This report provides a clear, informative and concise account of the Salt Lake Archives.</p>

keywords:
["Digital Archives", "Bidhannagar", "Salt Lake", "Bidhan Chandra Roy", "Local History", "Urban Photography", "Cultural Heritage", "Peoples and Culture", "Salt Town", "Cultural History", "Green City", "City Planning", "East Calcutta Wetlands", "Central Park", "Laban Hrad Sambad", "Susambad", "Salt Lake Post", "Labaṇahrada", "Kolkata", "City Centre"]


title: La pérennisation de l'information numérique : une introduction
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6517238
creators: ["Bertrand Caron"]
type: Presentation
date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Cette pr&eacute;sentation, &agrave; l&#39;origine donn&eacute;e dans une formation M&eacute;diadix, s&#39;int&eacute;resse &agrave; la pr&eacute;servation num&eacute;rique en privil&eacute;giant le point de vue des biblioth&egrave;ques patrimoniales engag&eacute;es dans des processus de num&eacute;risation de leurs collections et/ou de collecte de contenus nativement num&eacute;riques. La plupart des consid&eacute;rations s&#39;appliquent n&eacute;anmoins aux autres institutions de conservation du patrimoine historique, culturel et scientifique.</p>

<p>Elle parcourt rapidement les probl&eacute;matiques li&eacute;es &agrave; cette activit&eacute; (pr&eacute;servation du train d&#39;octets : stockage, int&eacute;grit&eacute; et transfert ; empaquetage ; formats de fichiers ; m&eacute;tadonn&eacute;es ; identifiants p&eacute;rennes).</p>

keywords:
["préservation numérique", "identifiants pérennes", "formats de fichiers", "intégrité", "métadonnées"]


title: A 21st Century Technical Infrastructure for Digital Preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v40i4.13355
creators: ["Nathan Tallman"]
type: Journal article
keywords: ["digital preservation", "technological infrastructure", "tech stack"]
date: 2021-12-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>

<p>Digital preservation systems and practices are rooted in research and development efforts from the late 1990s and early 2000s when the cultural heritage sector started to tackle these challenges in isolation. Since then, the commercial sector has sought to solve similar challenges, using different technical strategies such as software defined storage and function-as-a-service. While commercial sector solutions are not necessarily created with long-term preservation in mind, they are well aligned with the digital preservation use case. The cultural heritage sector can benefit from adapting these modern approaches to increase sustainability and leverage technological advancements widely in use across Fortune 500 companies.</p>


title: Guidelines for Preserving New Forms of Scholarship
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6110821
creators: ["Jonathan Greenberg", "Karen Hanson", "Deb Verhoff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital scholarship"]
date: 2021-09-24T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>These recommendations will guide publishers to create digital publications that are more likely to be preservable. They are meant to be shared with authors, editors, digital production staff, software developers and those who design and maintain publishing platforms. An interactive web version of the guidelines is published at https://preservingnewforms.dlib.nyu.edu.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Vom Datensatz zum Archiv
url: https://doi.org/10.26254/med/6302
creators: ["Jürgen Enge"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2022-01-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Vom Datensatz zum Archiv<br>
Die Forschungs- und Archivinfrastruktur an der Hochschule f&uuml;r Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW Basel</p>

<p>Vortragsfolien zu Vortrag von H&uuml;rngen Enge, 21.01.2021 (virtuell)</p>

<p>Von der Archivvorstufe (inkl. Ingest), &uuml;ber die Katalogsysteme bis zum FAIRen Zugang mit Vermittlungssystemen (Displays) sowie der nachhaltigen Langfrist-Aufbewahrung mit teilautomatisierten Reportings wird ein &Uuml;berblick &uuml;ber die Funktionalit&auml;ten und Werkzeuge der Forschungs- und Archivinfrastruktur der HGK gegeben.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: PDF 2.0 Application Note 003: Clarification on locations for object metadata streams
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5814348
creators: ["Boris Doubrov", "Dietrich von Seggern"]
type: Technical note
keywords: ["Digital Preservation", "PDF"]
date: 2021-03-16T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This application note summarizes precisely where PDF creators should add XMP metadata to PDF 2.0 objects, and thus where PDF 2.0 processors should search for it.</p>

<p>In most cases metadata is all about interoperability; it is only useful if creator and processor agree on syntax and semantics. In the context of PDF this also means that creator and processor must agree on where metadata is present in the often-complex internal PDF structure.</p>

<p>Metadata locations are well defined for XMP metadata on the PDF document level and for some PDF objects, but not for all objects where metadata can occur (pages, page objects and resources such as fonts or ICC profiles). However, in almost all cases sufficient guidance can be derived from the PDF specification, albeit sometimes in an indirect way.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Back to Basics: The Minimum Preservation Tool
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5788586
creators: ["Maureen Pennock", "John Beaman", "Peter May", "Kevin Davies"]
type: Conference paper
date: 2021-12-17T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This paper presents the Minimum Preservation Tool (MPT), designed and developed by the British Library to provide a basic and local technical digital preservation storage environment for collections awaiting ingest to a more formal digital preservation repository. The MPT can satisfy fundamental preservation storage requirements that are not typically otherwise supported in a standard corporate technical environment more focused on cyber-security. Replication, checksum generation and validation, and regular reporting are all key features of the MPT, written as a set of Python Utilities and freely available on Github. MPT is an entry-level tool that lowers the bar for early participation in preservation endeavors, in contrast with larger scale and more expensive, complex end-to-end technical solutions.</p>

keywords:
["minimum preservation tool", "checksum", "integrity", "replication", "open source", "file preservation", "risk reduction"]


title: Data for Generations - Keeping data reusable for really long periods of time
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5786303
creators: ["Katharina Markus", "Uta Parmaksiz", "Nikolai Svoboda", "Marcus Schmidt", "Kristin Meier"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "research data management", "bonares"]
date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>An increasing amount of published data with various data types and formats generates challenges for reusability of research data. Since published content is essential for scientific research over long time periods, reusability should not be limited by the life-time of a format. Various other limitations like unclear usage rights may also impact reuse in the scientific context.</p>

<p>This presentation regarding format recommendations, including surveys and an exercise, was held at the international BonaRes Data Workshop &quot;Make the best of your data&quot; (29. 09. 2021) by ZALF and ZB MED. The workshop&#39;s aim was introducing scientists to efficient management and proper tools that support scientists in their daily work in general and specifically when using the BonaRes Data Repository.</p>

<p>The presentation introduces the challenge of format diversity, which is explained in relation to digital preservation methods. Recommendations for format types when publishing data are given: open, text-based and popular formats. Further recommendations regarding files are conveyed: files without passwords, sufficient rights information and metadata. Following the recommendations supports data reusability over the long term. An exercise for the participants, ranking formats according to their suitability for digital preservation, is included. Similarly, the participants&#39; answers to surveys&nbsp;regarding used data types and file formats, as well as data reuse issues are added.</p>


title: Report on Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5786960
creators: ["Jonathan Greenberg", "Karen Hanson", "Deb Verhoff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital scholarship"]
date: 2021-12-10T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report describes preservation activities, methods, and context for the Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship project. Digital preservation institutions, libraries, and university presses examined a variety of enhanced digital publications and identified which features can be preserved at scale using tools currently available.</p>


title: A specification for using PDF to package and represent email
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5747194
creators: ["EA-PDF Working Group"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "e-mail preservation", "PDF"]
date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This document establishes high-level functional requirements for an idealized use of ISO 32000 Portable Document Format (PDF) technology as a model for packaging email for archival or other purposes. These requirements provide a framework within which interested people from the archives, library, museum, digital preservation, and developer communities can collaborate to develop a technically detailed specification and implementation reference model. Its development was supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.</p>


title: nestor Seal & TRUST
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5679760
creators: ["Micky Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "trustworthy repository certification"]
date: 2021-11-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This presentation was held at the 18th Plenary of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) - Breakout Session 5 &quot;TRUST Principles and challenges on implementation&quot;. The session included 3 presentations on perspectives of certification bodies on their implementation of TRUST.</p>

<p>The 5 minute talk answers, after a short introduction of TIB and it&#39;s relationship to nestor Seal and TRUST, the following questions that were given to all presenters:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Introduction of the certification standard (slide 3)</li>
	<li>Current Use of the certification standard (slide 4)</li>
	<li>Relationship between the certification standard and TRUST (slide 5)</li>
	<li>Initial thoughts on a mapping between the certification standard and TRUST (slide 6)</li>
	<li>Example of TRUST implementation (slide 7)</li>
</ul>


title: Op weg naar duurzame toegang
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5675823
creators: ["Mara Kamerling", "Hans Laagland"]
type: Journal article
keywords: ["duurzaamheidsbeleid", "voorkeursformaten", "wegwijzer", "duurzame toegang", "digitaal erfgoed"]
date: 2021-11-11T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Duurzaamheidsbeleid en beleid op bestandsformaten helpen bij het inrichten van duurzame toegang in de organisatie, zodat medewerkers een heldere leidraad hebben bij het uitvoeren van hun dagelijkse werkzaamheden en gebruikers de garantie hebben dat er goed voor de informatievoorziening en het digitale erfgoed van Nederland wordt gezorgd. &nbsp;Er bestaan bovendien twee handige hulpmiddelen: de &nbsp;Wegwijzer Duurzaamheidsbeleid en de &nbsp;Wegwijzer Voorkeursformaten. In dit artikel lees je hoe de wegwijzers kunnen helpen bij&nbsp;het beheren van overheidsinformatie.&nbsp;</p>


title: Presentation on the nestor Endorsement of TRUST Principles
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5639578
creators: ["Micky Lindlar", "Denis Arnold", "Jonas Recker", "Astrid Schoger", "Natascha Schumann"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "trustworthy repository certification", "TRUST principles"]
date: 2021-11-02T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Short presentation given at RDA17 Breakout 5, April 21st 2021.</p>

<p>The presentation introduces the nestor endorsement of the TRUST principles (see&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4120926">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4120926</a>) as well as the identified benefits and recommendations made by the nestor ad-hoc working group TRUST. It was part of a Breakout Session discussing implementations and use of the&nbsp;TRUST principles (<a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/trust-principles-rda-community-effort">https://www.rd-alliance.org/trust-principles-rda-community-effort</a>). TRUST stands for <strong>T</strong>ransparency, <strong>R</strong>esponsibility, <strong>U</strong>ser Focus, <strong>S</strong>unstainability and <strong>T</strong>echnology..&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5600878
creators: ["Micky Lindlar", "Merle Friedrich", "Miriam Reiche"]
type: Conference paper
date: 2021-10-26T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
When Digital Remembers Analogue – Conservation Metadata for Analogue Film as Preservation Description Information in a Digital Archive

abstract:
<p>While &quot;Digitization is not Digital Preservation&quot;, the two processes are often closely connected. This is especially true for audiovisual (AV), where the analogue materials, much like their digital counterparts, come in a variety of formats and are only accessible via rendering equipment such as projectors. This indirect accessibility of analogue audiovisual makes autopsy a resourceintensive<br>
process. Nevertheless, it&rsquo;s a necessary process prior to digitization, as the digital objects&rsquo; quality depends on the quality of its analogue source material. But is analogue conservation data helpful in the preservation process of the digital object as well? Can it be used as Preservation Description Information in the OAIS sense? TIB, the German National Library of Science and Technology, has authored a Cconservation Metadata Schema for Analogue Film as part of the large digitization and digital preservation<br>
project DELFT. The schema includes metadata which TIB considers important knowledge for the contextualization<br>
and interpretation of the digital AV object. This paper outlines motivation and background for this development, discusses the connection of analogue and digital in an overarching analogue conservation and digital preservation<br>
workflow and gives a detailed insight into the TIB Conservation Metadata Schema.<br>
Keywords &ndash; audiovisual preservation, conservation<br>
metadata, preservation description information<br>
Conference Topics &ndash; Scanning the New Development;<br>
Exploring New Horizons</p>

keywords:
["audiovisual preservation", "conservation metadata", "preservation description information", "digital preservation", "PREMIS"]


title: Report on sample Preservation Planning for 3D Objects
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5596655
creators: ["Michael Panitz", "Ujwal Gadiraju"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "preservation planning", "3D data"]
date: 2016-01-31T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This deliverable describes a sample preservation planning of 3D objects through the example of migration of IFC files. It provides a workflow for preservation planning and features an in-depth discussion on requirements and constraints for preservation planning,<br>
such as significant properties or preservation policies. A sample preservation plan was conducted based on the defined workflow and requirements. The in Deliverable D6.6.1 identified best practices solutions are also taken into account within this deliverable.<br>
Additionally, policies are described which formalize the interaction of DURAARK&#39;s SDA with a OAIS-compliant archive. A exemplary ingestion of RDF snapshots of the SDA is provided at the end of this deliverable.</p>


title: Making Sense of PDF Structures in the Wild at Scale
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5539013
type: Presentation
keywords: ["content extraction", "Portable Document Format", "file processing"]
date: 2021-09-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Timothy Allison", "Chris Mattman", "Wayne Burke", "Michael Fedell", "Dustin Graf", "Anastasia Menshikova", "Michael Milano", "Philip Southam", "Ryan Stonebraker"]

abstract:
<p>PDFs in the wild offer a bewildering amount of variation in syntax, features and structure.&nbsp; For those building parsers or evaluating parsers, it is critical to have a broad coverage corpus available to assess and discover distributions of issues &quot;in the wild&quot; or on specific client document sets.&nbsp; In this talk, our team will present our work building a File Observatory to support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)&#39;s SafeDocs program, which has an initial primary focus on PDF and related formats (e.g. jpeg, ICC, fonts, XMP).&nbsp; The talk will focus on a) gathering interesting PDFs and b) making features searchable and patterns easily discoverable with open source search technologies.&nbsp; In the first part, we&#39;ll discuss gathering millions of PDFs from Common Crawl and thousands of files from open source PDF parser bug tracker sites. In the second we&#39;ll outline the capabilities of the File Observatory to run multiple parsers against the files, extract features (runtime exceptions and error messages as well as structural features, including PDF DOM keys and values and other semantic components within the PDFs&#39; structures) and make those features searchable with Elasticsearch.&nbsp; We will also briefly demonstrate how the observatory enables the discovery of spelling variations (e.g. /Subtype vs. /SubType), and structural features which are statistically correlated with specific creator tools.</p>


title: Preservation Metadata for Software - Describing Software in Archives.
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5503994
creators: ["Eoin O'Donohoe", "Claudia Röck", "Jesse de Vos"]
type: Report
keywords: ["Software preservation", "Preservation metadata", "Metadata", "PREMIS", "Software Archiving"]
date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Software preservation is concerned with the long-term storage of and access to computer programs in order to keep software alive. As archival objects, software presents us with many challenges. The notion of software covers a huge variety of applications that have complex relationships with often specific hard- and software environments that are maybe considered quite standard at the time of release, but over time become obsolete. In order for archived software to remain accessible we need a lot of information about the original environments in which the software worked at the time of release so that it can be reconstructed, either by using original hard- and software or, more likely, by setting up an emulation of the original environment.&nbsp;This report addresses the challenges of how to capture information about the original environment in (preservation) metadata.&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5482349
creators: ["Micky Lindlar", "Natascha Schumann"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "research data management"]
date: 2020-06-17T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Forschungsdaten und digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Überschneidungen und Unterschiede in den Perspektiven der Communities

abstract:
<p>Der Vortrag gibt einen kurzen &Uuml;berblick &uuml;ber Unterschiede und &Uuml;berschneidungen zwischen Forschungsdatenmanagement und digitaler Langzeitarchivierung aus den Blickwickeln der Theorie und Praxis. Der Vortrag wurde anl&auml;sslich des nestor Praktikertags 2020 gehalten. Das volle Programm des Praktikertags inkl. der Videoaufzeichnungen der Vortr&auml;ge findet sich auf der nestor Seite:</p>

<p>https://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Webs/nestor/DE/Veranstaltungen_und_Termine/Praktikertag/2020praktikertag.html</p>


title: Preserving Virtual Reality Artworks Report
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5274102
creators: ["Tom Ensom", "Jack McConchie"]
type: Report
keywords: ["diigtal preservation", "virtual reality", "immersive media", "digital art"]
date: 2021-08-13T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report introduces virtual reality (VR) technologies and identifies the challenges artists and the cultural heritage sector face in achieving the long-term preservation of artworks which make use of them. This report is intended to inform those interested in the preservation of VR artworks, particularly time-based media conservators, as to the components they are likely to receive when acquiring VR artworks, their characteristics and dependencies, and their vulnerability in terms of long-term preservation. The report concludes with recommendations for artists and institutions who are dealing with the immediate problem of caring from VR artworks, and with recommendations for further research.</p>


title: WWW Webarchivierung Wieso? Weshalb? Warum?
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5164057
creators: ["Astrid Schoger", "Tobias Beinert", "Katharina Schmid", "Simon Donig", "Markus Eckl"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "web archiving"]
date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Pr&auml;sentationsfolien der nestor virtuell Veranstaltung vom 22.07.2021</p>

<p>Abstract:<br>
Websites sind ein wichtiger Teil des kulturellen Ged&auml;chtnisses in der digitalen Gesellschaft. Der Aufgabe, diese Inhalte im Web als eine neue Form von Quellenmaterial f&uuml;r die Forschung dauerhaft zu sichern und zug&auml;nglich zu machen, haben sich Ged&auml;chtnis- und Forschungsinstitutionen inzwischen angenommen. Wir bieten im ersten Teil unseres Webseminars einen Einblick, wie Sammlungen von Webarchiven aufgebaut werden k&ouml;nnen.<br>
Derartige Sammlungen bieten einen wertvollen Fundus f&uuml;r die Untersuchung und Beantwortung von Forschungsfragen verschiedenster Fachrichtungen. Doch wie lassen sich diese Potenziale als Quellen der Forschung &uuml;berhaupt nutzen?<br>
Dieser Frage gehen wir im zweiten Teil unseres Webseminars nach. Neben den fachspezifischen Potenzialen eines &bdquo;Close Reading&ldquo;, er&ouml;ffnen Werkzeuge aus dem Bereich der Digital Humanities auch M&ouml;glichkeiten zu einem &bdquo;Distant Reading&ldquo; des archivierten Webs. Nach der Einf&uuml;hrung von Werkzeugen zur Text- und Linkextraktion aus den Webarchiven werden einfache und fortgeschrittene Methoden f&uuml;r deren Analyse und Visualisierung vorgestellt (etwa Frequenz- und Kollokationsanalyse, Keyword in Context oder Topic Modeling f&uuml;r Texte sowie die Modellierung von Netzwerkdaten), um exemplarisch aufzuzeigen, wie Webarchive als Forschungsdaten genutzt werden k&ouml;nnen.<br>
Das Webseminar richtet sich an alle, die Webarchivsammlungen aufbauen oder wissenschaftlich nutzen wollen, von Ged&auml;chtnisinstitutionen bis zu Forschenden.</p>


title: 1, 2 oder 3? a, b oder u? –Der PDF/A-Standard und seine verschiedenen Versionen
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5060307
creators: ["Fabienne Metzger"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "PDF/A", "file formats"]
date: 2021-06-24T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>Vortragsfolien des<em> nestor virtuell </em>Webinars zum Thema &quot;1, 2 oder 3? a, b oder u? &ndash; Der PDF/A-Standard und seine verschiedenen Versionen&quot;</strong></p>

<p>Veranstaltung der Reihe nestor virtuell<br>
<strong>Beginn</strong> 24.06.2021, 10:00 Uhr<br>
<strong>Ende</strong> 24.06.2021, 11:30 Uhr</p>

<p>Moderierende und Vortragende: Fabienne Metzger (Kreisarchiv Esslingen, Mitglied der nestor-AG Formaterkennung)</p>

<p>Inhalt des Webseminars</p>

<p>In der Langzeitarchivierung von Textdokumenten spielt das Dateiformat PDF/A eine bedeutende Rolle. Die meisten Textdokumente werden in einem Format an das Archiv &uuml;bergeben, das nicht den Anspr&uuml;chen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung entspricht. Die Dateien ben&ouml;tigen daher eine Konvertierung. Hierbei stellt PDF/A meist die L&ouml;sung dar. Das PDF/A-Format existiert in drei verschiedenen Versionen 1, 2, oder 3 sowie deren jeweiligen Konformit&auml;tsstufen a, b und u. Doch welche PDF/A-Version und welche Konformit&auml;tsstufe ist die richtige? Gibt es &uuml;berhaupt die richtige Version f&uuml;r mein Archiv? Was unterscheidet die Versionen von einander? Wir bieten in unserem Webseminar einen Einblick in Theorie und Praxis in der Arbeit mit PDF/A. Das Online-Seminar richtet sich an Praktiker*innen aus der Langzeitarchivierung, die sich mit dem PDF/A-Standard noch nicht auseinandergesetzt haben oder/und n&auml;heres dazu erfahren m&ouml;chten.</p>


title: Dateiformatidentifizierung - Was, warum, wie, womit, …
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4948002
creators: ["Micky Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital curation", "file format identification"]
date: 2021-06-09T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Der Vortrag gibt eine kurze Einf&uuml;hrung in Dateiformatidentifizierung im Rahmen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung. Es wird dargestellt was Dateiformatidentifizierung ist und welche unterschiedliche M&ouml;glichkeiten zur Identifizierung existieren. Neben einer exemplarischen Vorstellung von Softwaretools zur Identifizierung gibt der Vortrag einige kurze Beispiele f&uuml;r Probleme, die im Rahmen des Prozesses auftreten k&ouml;nnen.&nbsp;</p>


title: Server-Side Web Archiving
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4889460
creators: ["Eoin O'Donohoe"]
type: Report
date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report explores the area of server-side web preservation in an archival context by<br>
examining the significant properties of the dynamic web, providing an overview of the tools<br>
currently available for capturing such projects, and offering some examples and use cases that<br>
can display where server-side archiving can be employed as a strategy for heritage institutions.</p>

keywords:
["webarchiving", "digital preservation", "duurzame toegankelijkheid", "Server-side content", "web preservation", "software archiving"]


title: D7.3 User Case Long Term Archiving
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4836228
creators: ["Martin Tamke", "Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital curation", "Building Information Models", "3D"]
date: 2015-01-31T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This deliverable evaluates the fit of the proposed DURAARK methods and tools against existing practises, expectations and future visions of stakeholders with an interest in long-term availability and interpretability of building information data: building owners / facility maintenance, cultural heritage / research institutions and IT-software developers / system providers. As part of the evaluation, the deliverable analyzes emerging scenarios and evaluates the outcomes of stakeholder engagement and surveying through workshops, questionnaires and targeted interviews. The results from the evaluation process are used to assess the future of digital archiving of architectural 3D data in the three domains andto check if and where the DURAARK processes need to be adapted.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4761975
creators: ["Pia Rudnik", "Micky Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Foliensatz: Crashkurs Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Ebenen-Modelle der LZA (3-Ebenen-Modell von K. Thibodeau & Levels of Digital Preservation der NDSA)

abstract:
<p>Dies ist der Foliensatz zum dreiteiligen Video-Crashkurs &quot;Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Ebenen-Modelle der LZA (3-Ebenen-Modell von K. Thibodeau &amp; Levels of Digital Preservation der NDSA)&quot;.</p>

<p>Dieser Crashkurs wurde als Lehrvideo f&uuml;r den Kurs &bdquo;Vom Konzept zur Praxis &ndash; Modelle und Normen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung&ldquo; unter Leitung von Micky Lindlar und Pia Rudnik erstellt, der 2021 vom <a href="https://www.th-koeln.de/weiterbildung/weiterbildungsangebote_5867.php">Zentrum f&uuml;r Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Technischen Hochschule K&ouml;ln</a> ausgerichtet wurde.</p>

<p>Die Videos finden sich hier:&nbsp;<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4761919#.YJ5efbczaWU">https://zenodo.org/record/4761919#.YJ5efbczaWU&nbsp;</a></p>

keywords:
["Digital Preservation", "NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation", "Levels of Preservation", "LoP", "Kenneth Thibodeau", "Bitstream Preservation", "Logical Preservation", "Semantic Preservation", "Digitale Langzeitarchivierung", "LZA", "Crashkurs", "Open Educational Resources", "Introduction", "Einführung", "Ebenen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung"]


title: Foliensatz: Crashkurs Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Einführung in PREMIS
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4761923
creators: ["Micky Lindlar", "Pia Rudnik"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["Digital Preservation", "PREMIS", "Preservation Metadata", "Open Educational Resources"]
date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Dies ist der Foliensatz zum dreiteiligen Video-Crashkurs &quot;Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Einf&uuml;hrung in PREMIS&quot;.<br>
<br>
Dieser&nbsp;Crashkurs wurde als Lehrvideo f&uuml;r den Kurs &bdquo;Vom Konzept zur Praxis &ndash; Modelle und Normen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung&ldquo; unter Leitung von Micky Lindlar und Pia Rudnik&nbsp;erstellt, der 2021 vom Zentrum f&uuml;r Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Technischen Hochschule K&ouml;ln ausgerichtet wurde.</p>

<p>Die Videos finden sich hier:<br>
<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4761823">https://zenodo.org/record/4761823</a></p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4761919
creators: ["Pia Rudnik", "Micky Lindlar"]
type: Video/Audio
date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Video: Crashkurs Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Ebenen-Modelle der LZA (3-Ebenen-Modell von K. Thibodeau & Levels of Digital Preservation der NDSA)

abstract:
<p>Dieser dreiteilige Video-Crashkurs f&uuml;hrt in das Thema &quot;Ebenen-Modelle der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung&quot; ein:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Video 1: Allgemeine Einf&uuml;hrung in Ebenen-Modelle der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung</li>
	<li>Video 2: Einf&uuml;hrung in das 3-Ebenen-Modell von Kenneth Thibodeau, auf das die Begriffe &bdquo;Bitstream Preservation&ldquo;, &bdquo;Logical Preservation&ldquo; und &bdquo;Semantic Preservation&ldquo; zur&uuml;ckzuf&uuml;hren sind.</li>
	<li>Video 3: Einf&uuml;hrung in die Levels of Digital Preservation der National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA),&nbsp;die seit 2021 auch in einer <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4718662#.YJ5ayrczaWU">deutschen &Uuml;bersetzung</a> zur Verf&uuml;gung stehen.</li>
</ul>

<p>Dieser&nbsp;Crashkurs wurde als Lehrvideo f&uuml;r den Kurs &bdquo;Vom Konzept zur Praxis &ndash; Modelle und Normen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung&ldquo; unter Leitung von Micky Lindlar und Pia Rudnik&nbsp;erstellt, der 2021 vom <a href="https://www.th-koeln.de/weiterbildung/weiterbildungsangebote_5867.php">Zentrum f&uuml;r Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Technischen Hochschule K&ouml;ln</a> ausgerichtet wurde.</p>

<p>Der Foliensatz zu dem Video-Crashkurs findet sich hier:&nbsp;<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4761975#.YJ5g_rczaWU">https://zenodo.org/record/4761975#.YJ5g_rczaWU</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

keywords:
["Digital Preservation", "NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation", "Levels of Preservation", "LoP", "Kenneth Thibodeau", "Bitstream Preservation", "Logical Preservation", "Semantic Preservation", "Digitale Langzeitarchivierung", "LZA", "Crashkurs", "Open Educational Resources", "Introduction", "Einführung", "Ebenen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung"]


title: Video: Crashkurs Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Einführung in PREMIS
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4761823
creators: ["Micky Lindlar", "Pia Rudnik"]
type: Video/Audio
keywords: ["Digital Preservation", "PREMIS", "Preservation Metadata", "Open Educational Resources"]
date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Dieser dreiteilige Video-Crashkurs f&uuml;hrt in das Thema &quot;PREMIS&quot; ein:</p>

<p>Video 1: &Uuml;berblick &uuml;ber PREMIS und kurze Einf&uuml;hrung in das Datenmodell<br>
Video 2: Beispiele f&uuml;r Semantic Units und deren Einsatz<br>
Video 3: Technische Neutralit&auml;t und Einsatz von PREMIS<br>
<br>
Dieser&nbsp;Crashkurs wurde als Lehrvideo f&uuml;r den Kurs &bdquo;Vom Konzept zur Praxis &ndash; Modelle und Normen der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung&ldquo; unter Leitung von Micky Lindlar und Pia Rudnik&nbsp;erstellt, der 2021 vom Zentrum f&uuml;r Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Technischen Hochschule K&ouml;ln ausgerichtet wurde.</p>

<p>Der Foliensatz zu dem Video-Crashkurs findet sich hier:<br>
<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4761923">https://zenodo.org/record/4761923</a></p>


title: PID-beheer en PID-gebruik in de praktijk
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4738476
creators: ["Marian Hellema", "Remco van Veenendaal"]
type: Project deliverable
keywords: ["persistent identifier", "PID", "digitale duurzaamheid", "collectieregistratie", "erfgoed"]
date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Veel erfgoedinstellingen hebben de afgelopen jaren persistent identifiers (PIDs) ge&iuml;mplementeerd. Maar wat moet je als instelling na de implementatiefase nog doen aan je PIDs? Wat voor werk heb je aan het beheer? En wat betekent het voor de gebruikers van je collectie?</p>

<p>In de praktijk kost het beheer van PIDs weinig tijd als ze eenmaal goed zijn ge&iuml;mplementeerd. Wel is er een aantal punten om rekening mee te houden. Het NDE heeft verschillende hulpmiddelen om je op weg te helpen met PIDs. Een daarvan is deze handreiking&nbsp;met&nbsp;tips en praktijkervaringen van instellingen die er al mee werken.</p>


title: Deutsche Übersetzung der 2019 NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4718662
creators: ["Micky Lindlar", "Pia Rudnik"]
type: Other
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2021-04-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Dies ist die deutsche &Uuml;bersetzung der NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation Matrix (2019) (https://osf.io/36xfy/). Die &Uuml;bersetzung beinhaltet beide Sichten.</p>

<p>&nbsp;<strong>Anmerkung zur &Uuml;bersetzung:</strong></p>

<p><em>In der englischen Version der Levels of Preservation wird die Bezeichnung &ldquo;content&rdquo; synonym zu &ldquo;digital content&rdquo; verwendet (s. </em><a href="https://www.dpconline.org/blog/introducing-the-new-ndsa-levels-of-preservation"><em>https://www.dpconline.org/blog/introducing-the-new-ndsa-levels-of-preservation</em></a><em> )</em></p>

<p><em>In der deutschen &Uuml;bersetzung wird der Begriff &ldquo;content&rdquo; in den vier Levels sowie in dem dazugeh&ouml;rigen Ma&szlig;nahmenkatalog jeweils als &ldquo;digitaler Inhalt&rdquo; &uuml;bersetzt. Dies macht deutlich, dass sich die in den LoPs beschriebenen Ma&szlig;nahmen auf digitale (Inhalts-)Objekte mit sowohl physischen, logischen als auch semantischen Eigenschaften beziehen und der Fokus nicht nur auf semantisch-intellektuellen Inhalten liegt. </em></p>

<p><em>Die Funktionsbereiche &ldquo;Control&rdquo; und &ldquo;Content&rdquo; sind in der deutschen &Uuml;bersetzung zum Zwecke der besseren Verst&auml;ndlichkeit und zur Konkretisierung mit Erg&auml;nzungen versehen worden, die jeweils in Klammern stehen: Im Funktionsbereich &ldquo;(Zugriffs-)Kontrolle&rdquo; beziehen sich die beschriebenen Kontroll-Ma&szlig;nahmen vordergr&uuml;ndig auf die Zugriffsrechte f&uuml;r Personen und Softwareanwendungen und auf damit verbundene Zugriffsma&szlig;nahmen (wie z.B. L&ouml;schen einer Datei). Die Erg&auml;nzung des Funktionsbereichs &ldquo;Inhalt&rdquo; um den Zusatz &ldquo;(essenzielle Eigenschaften)&rdquo; wurde vorgenommen, um zu verdeutlichen, dass sich die hier beschriebenen Ma&szlig;nahmen insbesondere auf technische Eigenschaften wie zum Beispiel Dateiformate beziehen, die im Kontext der Langzeitarchivierung als essenziell f&uuml;r digitale Inhalte angesehen werden. </em></p>

<p><em>Die Erg&auml;nzungen erfolgten in Abstimmung mit dem NDSA &ldquo;Levels of Digital Preservation&rdquo; Steering Committee.&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;</p>


title: FAIR Forever? Accountabilities and responsibilities in the preservation of research data
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4701299
creators: ["Amy Currie", "William Kilbride"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital curation", "research data management", "EOSC", "FAIR"]
date: 2021-04-19T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Within the open science and research data communities, digital preservation has a close alignment to the FAIR principles and is delivered through a complex specialist infrastructure comprising technology, staff and policy. Capacity erodes quickly, establishing a need for ongoing examination and review to ensure that skills, technology, and policy remain fit for changing purpose.</p>

<p>This presentation draws from the DPC&nbsp;&#39;FAIR Forever&#39; study,&nbsp;commissioned by the EOSC Sustainability Working Group and funded by the EOSC Secretariat Project in 2020, to&nbsp;highlight the study&#39;s key findings on the need for clarity on digital preservation in the EOSC vision and for elucidation of roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities to mitigate risks of data loss, reputation, and sustainability.</p>

<p>The nineteen recommendations of the study are&nbsp;presented with discussion on how they might be extended and applied to various research data stakeholders in and outside of EOSC, and ways to bring together research data curation, management, and preservation communities to better ensure FAIRness now and in the long term.</p>


title: The use of Preservation Tools among Dutch Heritage Organisations
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4600963
creators: ["Ania Molenda"]
type: Report
keywords: ["Digital Preservation", "Preservation Tools"]
date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Appendices with the Report &quot;The use of Preservation tools among Dutch Heritage organisations&quot;.&nbsp;http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4162315&nbsp;</p>

<p>This report is based on the results of a survey &#39;Digital Tools in The Netherlands &#39;conducted in 2019 as part of the project Preservation tools (preserveringstools) of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network. It was carried out among the twenty-seven heritage organisations which in 2018 reported that they have a digital repository. It focussed on understanding how those institutions use automation for processing digital collections at the level of pre-ingest and ingest. The survey looking at the current state of tool usage, but also at future needs, the development of workflows, the use of standards and the influence of the quality of acquired collections on pre-ingest workflows.</p>


title: Erkennungstiefe bei Identifikations- und Validierungstools
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4593851
creators: ["Mario Röhrle"]
type: Lesson
keywords: ["Digital Preservation", "File Format Validation", "File Format Identification"]
date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Bei der Benutzung von Software zur Identifikation oder Validierung von Dateiformaten st&ouml;&szlig;t man in der Praxis immer wieder auf F&auml;lle, bei denen unterschiedliche Werkzeuge abweichende Ergebnisse zum Format oder zur Validit&auml;t einer Datei ergeben.</p>


title: CoreTrustSeal 2020 Annual Report
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4585611
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Report
date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report gives an overview of the CoreTrustSeal&#39;s activities, developments, and milestones reached in 2020, including a list of publications and other outputs by the CoreTrustSeal Board and/or individual Board members. It highlights and acknowledges the importance of the community&#39;s contributions to the CoreTrustSeal.</p>


title: FAIR Forever? Long Term Data Preservation Roles and Responsibilities, Final Report
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4574234
creators: ["Amy Currie", "William Kilbride"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "EOSC", "research data", "data preservation"]
date: 2021-02-17T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Digital preservation is a fast-moving and growing community of practice of ubiquitous relevance, but in which capability is unevenly distributed. Within the research community, digital preservation has a close alignment to the FAIR principles and is delivered through a complex specialist infrastructure comprising technology, staff and policy. Capacity erodes quickly, so skills, technology, and policy need to remain fit for changing purpose.</p>

<p>To address this challenge, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) conducted the FAIR Forever study, commissioned by the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Sustainability Working Group and funded by the EOSC Secretariat Project in 2020, to assess the current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the preservation of research data across EOSC, and the feasibility of establishing shared approaches, workflows and services that would benefit EOSC stakeholders.</p>

<p>The study involved three stages of research: 1. a desk-based assessment of the emerging EOSC vision, 2. interviews with representatives of EOSC stakeholders, and 3. focus groups with digital preservation specialists and data managers in research organizations.</p>

<p>This report documents the study. It summarizes key findings on the need for clarity on digital preservation in the EOSC vision and for elucidation of roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities to mitigate risks of data loss, reputation, and sustainability. To better ensure that European Open Science can be FAIRer for longer, nineteen recommendations are made and tabulated with respect to owners, and five candidate services are delineated to address use cases that were identified.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: White paper on preferred formats
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4518486
creators: ["Hans Laagland", "Sam Alloing", "Valentijn Gilissen", "Marjolein Steeman", "Walter Swagemakers"]
type: Report
keywords: ["Preferred Formats", "Digital Preservation"]
date: 2020-06-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Data and their carriers work in tandem with each other. Data needs a carrier, whether it is a sheet of parchment, a glass negative plate or a PDF file.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Clearly, if you work with digital information objects, you&rsquo;ll need to find out as much as possible about the media that carry the information in question, i.e. file formats. The organisation curating the information needs to have a policy on file formats. That means deciding what guarantees it is willing and able to give about preservation, and how it should communicate about preservation issues with suppliers (and users) of the material.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) is currently preparing an on-line tool for helping archives and heritage organisations to formulate a policy on file formats. This tool will be known as the <em>Guide to Preferred Formats</em>. It will consist of two parts, i.e. explanations and examples intended to help organisations in formulating a policy on preferred formats, plus a list of file formats with detailed information on each of them.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The <em>Guide to Preferred Formats </em>will be overseen by an &lsquo;expert group on preferred formats&rsquo;. The expert group&rsquo;s remit will be to bring together, share and refine the expertise currently available in the Netherlands.</p>


title: An Overview of Social Media Archiving Tools
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4493594
creators: ["Zefi Kavvadia"]
type: Report
keywords: ["social media archiving", "archivering van sociale media", "software"]
date: 2021-02-02T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report is the outcome of a project funded by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network/Netwerk&nbsp;Digitaal Erfgoed (DDHN/NDE) between 2019 and 2020, which called for cultural heritage&nbsp;institutions in the Netherlands to conduct research in order to build knowledge and capacity&nbsp;in social media archiving. The projects that were selected ranged from looking into criteria for&nbsp;appraising and selecting social media collections, to legal issues in social media archiving&nbsp;and the problematics of offering access to such collections.</p>

<p>As part of developing our born-digital archiving expertise, the International Institute of&nbsp;Social History in Amsterdam proposed to NDE and undertook a project on social media&nbsp;archiving tools. The project looked specifically at tools for the capturing of social media&nbsp;content, and its aim was to assist professionals working mainly but not exclusively at cultural&nbsp;heritage organizations to select appropriate tools for social media archiving. The result is an&nbsp;overview of a range of tools for social media capturing falling into two broad categories: those&nbsp;preserving the &ldquo;look and feel&rdquo; of social media, and those preserving structured social media&nbsp;data. The tool survey is accompanied by a contextualization of social media archiving tool&nbsp;selection as an archival issue, and by the description of use cases that display tool usage in&nbsp;different contexts.</p>


title: Risks and Opportunities in Dark Archives
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4382027
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Franziska Schwab"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "dark archive"]
date: 2020-02-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This presentation was given as part of the nestor export workshop on Access in Digital Preservation, held in Fulda, Germany on February 4th 2020.</p>

<p>The presentation highlights the following questions:</p>

<ol>
	<li>&bdquo;What it says on the Tin&ldquo;<br>
	- Definitions of Dark / Dim / Light Archive<br>
	- Dark Archive in OAIS<br>
	- Where it gets difficult: Dark Archives in Certification</li>
	<li>&quot;Why a dark Archive?&ldquo;<br>
	- Opportunities and Requirements<br>
	- Generic &amp; TIB Use cases</li>
	<li>&bdquo;Oops! How did that happen?&ldquo;<br>
	- Scenarios of Access Loss<br>
	- TIB Use Case</li>
	<li>Outlook and Conclusion</li>
</ol>


title: Challenges & Solutions for Preserving 3D Models : A Practical Case Study About Metadata
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4381990
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Presentation given as part of the dpc Briefing Day &quot;Building a Digital Future : Challenges &amp; Solutions for Preserving 3D Models&quot;</p>

<p>https://www.dpconline.org/events/past-events/preserving-3d-digital-engineering-models-a-briefing-day</p>


title: Skeleton Test Suite and PRONOM Archive v97
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4297109
creators: ["Ross Spencer"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["PRONOM", "digipres", "digital-preservation", "file-formats"]
date: 2020-10-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Skeleton test suite and PRONOM archive for the v97 release of the PRONOM signature file.&nbsp;</p>

<p>For more information see the&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/exponential-decay/pronom-archive-and-skeleton-test-suite/releases/tag/skeleton-test-suite-2020-10-01-sig-file-v97">v97 skeleton suite release notes</a>.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4274229
creators: ["Niels Komen"]
type: Report
keywords: ["Duurzame toegang", "digitale collecties", "fysieke dragers"]
date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Bedreigd digitaal erfgoed op fysieke dragers. Onderzoek naar de landelijke omvang van de problematiek

abstract:
<p>Veel erfgoedinstellingen hebben fysieke dragers zoals cd-roms, dvd&rsquo;s, cd&rsquo;s, floppy&rsquo;s of USB-sticks in hun collecties. Deze dragers kunnen belangrijke informatie bevatten die behoort tot het cultureel erfgoed van Nederland. Vaak weten instellingen niet goed wat ze met deze dragers aan moeten, omdat er bijvoorbeeld geen apparatuur in huis is om ze uit te lezen of omdat de drager door de jaren heen beschadigd is geraakt. Als niet tijdig actie wordt ondernomen, gaat in veel gevallen de inhoud van de drager voorgoed verloren.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Het Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed (NDE) heeft onderzoek gedaan naar de landelijke omvang van deze problematiek. 144 erfgoedinstellingen hebben hiertoe een vragenlijst ingevuld. Daarnaast zijn enkele praktijkvoorbeelden dieper uitgewerkt in casestudies. Instellingen van iedere omvang en binnen ieder domein hebben aan het onderzoek deelgenomen. Hierdoor mag worden aangenomen dat dit onderzoek een goede weergave is van de stand van zaken binnen de erfgoedsector.</p>


title: The Collection Management System Collection - Crowd-sourcing a list of digital repository options
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4273107
creators: ["Ashley Blewer"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["digital preservation", "repository systems"]
date: 2017-08-09T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>The Collection Management System Collection - Crowd-sourcing a list of digital repository options</strong></p>

<p>This dataset contains a list of digital repository options for collection management systems. It has been started and complited by Ashley Blewer.<br>
The data set contains:</p>

<ul>
	<li>a PDF capture of the blog describing motivation and background, columns of the spreadsheet and further resources; originally published at https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2017/08/09/collection-management-system-collection/</li>
	<li>The dataset / spreadsheet of The Collection Management System Collection, originally published at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cXOug3qM0pNNeD_wssiVEv9c0W1Y5I1VDTnSPTk7fb4/<br>
	The data was exported from the google spreadsheet on November 14th 2020 into the following formats:
	<ul>
		<li>PDF</li>
		<li>XLSX</li>
		<li>CSV</li>
		<li>TSV</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

<p>The list contains basic information, administration considerations, interface considerations, technical considerations and social considerations for 70 different repository systems.</p>


title: Levels of Born-Digital Access
url: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/R5F78
type: Journal article
keywords: ["digital preservation", "born digital", "access"]
date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez", "Kelly Bolding", "Danielle Butler", "Alston Cobourn", "Brian Dietz", "Jessica Farrell", "Alissa Helms", "Kyle Henke", "Charles Macquarie", "Shira Peltzman", "Camille Tyndall Watson", "Ashley Taylor", "Jessica Venlet", "Paige Walker"]

abstract:
<p><em>Note: This is a copy of the report available with the same DOI under https://osf.io/hqmy4/ </em></p>

<p><strong>Introduction </strong></p>

<p>Providing access to archival materials in any format requires finding a balance between two responsibilities. First, to provide<br>
equitable and open access to collections for current researchers. Secondly, to take necessary security measures to protect<br>
and preserve the integrity of collections so that they will continue to be available for future researchers. The Levels of Born-Digital<br>
Access project was developed by an inter-institutional group of archivists and information professionals as part of the Digital Library<br>
Federation (DLF) Born-Digital Access Working Group. Conceived in response to the need for the development of standards and benchmarks to be shared by the professional community, and informed by our Shared Values, the Levels present five areas of consideration organized into three levels of complexity, from minimal to advanced.<br>
This document aims to contextualize the history, use, and scope of the Levels, as well as address sustainability methods for future work. For accessibility purposes, this document is also available in Google Drive.</p>

<p>Early drafts of the Access Levels included a number of recommendations that either encouraged or built upon activities and practices related to digital preservation standards, including ISO 14721 and ISO 16363. This stemmed from the authors&rsquo; belief that if an institution has endeavored to collect and make accessible borndigital material, it should be prepared to be held accountable to the standards that guide its long-term care. However, this strategy was abandoned in favor of an approach that focused more narrowly on access in and of itself. We intend that this document work in concert with digital preservation-focused literature such as the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Preservation in order to reinforce the correlation between preservation and access.</p>


title: The use of Preservation tools among Dutch Heritage organisations
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4162315
creators: ["Ania Molenda"]
type: Report
date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report is based on the results of a survey &#39;Digital Tools in The Netherlands &#39;conducted in 2019 as part of the project Preservation tools (greserveringstools) of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network. It was carried out among the twenty-seven heritage organisations which in 2018 reported that they have a digital repository. It focussed on understanding how those institutions use automation for processing digital collections at the level of pre-ingest and ingest. The survey looking at the current state of tool usage, but also at future needs, the development of workflows, the use of standards and the influence of the quality of acquired collections on pre-ingest workflows.</p>

<p>From the research it is clear that these heritage organizations face challenges at different levels. Many of them are still developing and implementing their digital preservation systems. Some are ready and willing to improve the systems and workflows they have in place to process bigger and more complex collections faster, but at the moment only a few can implement advanced improvements such as chain-automation and quality control. Several institutions recognize the need for pre-ingest in their workflows and report that automating parts of pre-ingest and ingest is relevant to them. That is the case not only for institutions with large and/or complex collections, but also for small institutions that do not have the manpower to process even relatively small collections without the help of preservation tools. It is also clear that digital collections are changing both in scope and level of complexity. For more than half of the interviewed organizations, digital collections will change in the coming two years and will include a bigger array of complex digital objects such as social media, email, and three-dimensional digital objects.</p>

keywords:
["Preservation Tools", "preserveringssoftware", "duurzame toegang", "Digital Preservation", "Ingest", "Workflows"]


title: nestor endorsement of TRUST Principles
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4120927
creators: ["nestor ad-hoc WG TRUST"]
type: Working paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "research data management"]
date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Nestor - the German-speaking competence network for digital preservation - welcomes the TRUST principles as outlined in the white paper (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0486-7</a>) and joins the call for endorsement by the Research Data Alliance (<a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-community-effort-trust-principles-digital-repositories">https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-community-effort-trust-principles-digital-repositories</a>).</p>

<p>nestor clearly sees the need for further development of the principles as they move into practise. As part of this, an ad-hoc WG TRUST discussed the principled and has released the statement &quot;nestor endorsement of TRUST Principles&quot;.</p>

<p>Benefits and recommendations at a glace<br>
&bull; provides a common framework to facilitate discussion by all stakeholders<br>
&bull; mnemonic helps to raise awareness<br>
&bull; provides a low-threshold entry point<br>
&bull; principles do not convey a sufficiently comprehensive picture of the requirements<br>
&bull; preservation planning and suitable long-term preservation strategies are missing<br>
&bull; TRUST Principles must be linked with established and accepted criteria suited to measuring trust-worthiness</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Digital preservations in state universities of Andhra Pradesh: A survey
url: https://doi.org/10.5897/IJLIS12.037
creators: ["T. Raghunadha Reddy", "K. Kumar"]
type: Journal article
keywords: ["digital preservation", "survey"]
date: 2013-02-28T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This article was published in: International Journal of Library and Information Science: 5 pp. 43-49 (2) and is identical to the version found at: https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJLIS/article-abstract/53351F55444</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The purpose of this paper is to find out the awareness of librarians about digital preservation. This article intends to describe the emerging role and fit of digital types of information in scholarly practice and to observe the impact of metadata standards on their learning. A structured online questionnaire was arranged to gather data from the librarians in state universities. Based on the findings of the survey, it is concluded that there exists adequate awareness of digital preservation among librarians. Document scanning program seems to be the major available source system in state universities of Andhra Pradesh. Dublin core metadata are used in most of the state universities&#39;&nbsp; libraries.</p>

<p><strong>Key words:</strong> Digital preservation, universities, librarians.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: 2014-2015 Digital Preservation Community Survey
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4073070
creators: ["Open Preservation Foundation"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["digital preservation", "survey"]
date: 2015-10-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The OPF (Open Preservation Foundation) conducted the 2014/2015 community survey between October 2014 and January 2015 and the results provide a detailed picture of the digital preservation landscape at that time.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This data set contains:</p>

<ul>
	<li>the OPF result report of the survey</li>
	<li>the raw data</li>
	<li>the survey guidance notes as supplied alongside the questionnaire</li>
	<li>a poster presenting a glimpse at the results</li>
</ul>

<p>All results are also available at: https://openpreservation.org/resources/surveys/</p>

<p><strong>About the Survey: </strong></p>

<p>The digital preservation community survey in December 2014 - January 2015. The goal of the survey was to assess the current state-of-the-art in digital preservation and identify adoption of digital preservation tools and approaches. It followed on from the OPF&nbsp; member survey carried out in October 2014 to build an evidence base about OPF members, and steer the annual plan. Selected information from the members responses have also been included in the results.</p>

<p><strong>About the OPF:</strong></p>

<p>The OPF (Open Preservation Foundation) is a global, not-for-profit membership organisation. It leads a collaborative effort to create, maintain and develop the reference set of sustainable, open source digital preservation tools and supporting resources.</p>


title: 2019 - 2020 Digital Preservation Community Survey
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4066912
creators: ["Open Preservation Foundation"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["digital preservation", "survey"]
date: 2020-09-28T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The OPF (Open Preservation Foundation) conducted the 2019/2020 community survey between November 2019 and Februrary 2020 and the results provide a detailed picture of the digital preservation landscape today.&nbsp;</p>

<p>This data set contains:</p>

<ul>
	<li>the OPF result report of the survey</li>
	<li>the raw data</li>
	<li>the list of questions as supplied in the questionnaire</li>
	<li>the survey guidance notes as supplied alongside the questionnaire</li>
</ul>

<p>All results are also available at: https://openpreservation.org/resources/surveys/</p>

<p><strong>About the Survey: </strong></p>

<p>The OPF 2019 Digital Preservation Community Survey aims to understand the current approach to digital preservation, identify the tools the community relies on and which resources are used to support day-to-day digital preservation work.<br>
The results shall help to identify shared priorities and gaps in digital preservation today.<br>
The survey is organised into four sections:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Your Organisation</li>
	<li>Your Digital Preservation Technology</li>
	<li>Knowledge Sharing and Best Practice</li>
	<li>OPF membership</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>About the OPF:</strong></p>

<p>The OPF (Open Preservation Foundation) is a global, not-for-profit membership organisation. It leads a collaborative effort to create, maintain and develop the reference set of sustainable, open source digital preservation tools and supporting resources.<br>
&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4008896
creators: ["Amelia Acker"]
type: Lesson
keywords: ["digital preservation", "emulation", "case study", "teaching resource"]
date: 2020-06-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Fostering Community of Practice Teaching Resources: Software Preservation and Emulation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

abstract:
<p>This set of open educational resources (OER) was designed by Dr. Amelia Acker as part of the FCoP project. There are three kinds of resources that are intended to serve as discussion handouts to be used by educators training information professionals. The overall learning objectives are to introduce early graduate students to preservation contexts where software emulation would occur, and how it is accomplished. The resources draw upon emulation projects observed by Amelia, reported by FCOP cohort participants, and cases used in the IDCC workshop from February 2020.</p>

<p><strong>The resources include the following, and are available both online and as handouts:&nbsp;</strong></p>

<p>An introduction to emulation in libraries, archives, and museums; a glossary; two case studies; and educator instructions to accompany the case studies.</p>

<p><strong>How to use the resources:</strong></p>

<p>Each <strong>case study</strong> covers different learning objectives and has discussion questions that encourage groups to consider questions, challenges, and strategies in similar institutional contexts. These case study handouts can be used as stand alone resources or as an iterative unit. The <strong>glossary</strong> contains key words that explain concepts and technologies mentioned in detail throughout the handouts.</p>

<p>Each of these resources are open for reuse under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>) license.</p>

<p>----------</p>

<p>This Zenodo data set is a copy of the information found at&nbsp;https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/teaching-resources/&nbsp;<br>
It does not currently include the FCoP Teaching Case Study Template, which can be found here:&nbsp;https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/fcop-teaching-case-study-template/&nbsp;</p>


title: Video: Crashkurs Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Dateiformate
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3985075
creators: ["Pia Rudnik"]
type: Video/Audio
date: 2020-08-14T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Dieser Crashkurs gibt einen &Uuml;berblick &uuml;ber das Thema &quot;Dateiformate&quot; und dessen&nbsp;Relevanz im Bereich der Digitalen Langzeitarchivierung.</p>

<p>Zu Beginn wird das Verh&auml;ltnis zwischen einem digitalen Signal,&nbsp;einer Datei und einem Dateiformat veranschaulicht. Im Anschluss werden mit der Formatidentifizierung und der Formatvalidierung von Dateien zwei einander erg&auml;nzende Verfahren beschrieben, welche die&nbsp;technische Verf&uuml;gbarkeit von digitaler Information langfristig gew&auml;hrleisten. Beide Verfahren sind somit ein wichtiger&nbsp;Bestandteil der Langzeitarchivierungs-Praxis.</p>

<p>Dieser&nbsp;Crashkurs wurde als Lehrvideo f&uuml;r das Teil-Modul&nbsp;&quot;Digitale Langzeitarchivierung&quot; des&nbsp;<a href="https://www.th-koeln.de/weiterbildung/zertifikatskurs-data-librarian_63393.php">Zertifikatskurses &quot;Data Librarian&quot;</a>&nbsp;erstellt. Der Zertifikatskurs wurde&nbsp;2019/2020 vom Zentrum f&uuml;r Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Technischen Hochschule K&ouml;ln unter&nbsp;wissenschaftlicher&nbsp;Leitung von Prof. Dr. Konrad F&ouml;rstner ausgerichtet.</p>

keywords:
["Digital Preservation", "Digitale Langzeitarchivierung", "LZA", "Dateiformat", "File Format", "Dateiformatidentifizierung", "Dateiformatvalidierung", "file format identification", "file format validation", "Einführung", "Introduction", "Lecture", "Crashkurs", "Tutorial"]


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3984982
creators: ["Pia Rudnik"]
type: Video/Audio
date: 2020-08-14T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Video: Crashkurs Digitale Langzeitarchivierung - Das Referenzmodell Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

abstract:
<p>Dieser Crashkurs stellt das&nbsp;Referenzmodell&nbsp;Open Archival Information System (OAIS) vor, das die verschiedenen T&auml;tigkeitsbereiche eines Langzeitarchivs beschreibt. Als internationaler&nbsp;Standard (ISO 14721) bietet&nbsp;das OAIS-Modell eine Kommunikationsgrundlage zum Thema der Digitalen Langzeitarchivierung. So sind zentrale OAIS-Begriffe wie Preservation Planning, Archival Information Package und Designated Community in der Langzeitarchivierungs-Community etabliert.</p>

<p>In dieser Einf&uuml;hrung werden die Aufgaben eines Digitalen Langzeitarchivs anhand der verschiedenen OAIS-Funktionseinheiten&nbsp;beschrieben. Ebenso bietet der Crashkurs einen &Uuml;berblick &uuml;ber die verschiedenen Verarbeitungsstadien von Informationspaketen (SIP, AIP, DIP) in einem Langzeitarchiv.</p>

<p>Dieser&nbsp;Crashkurs wurde als Lehrvideo f&uuml;r das Teil-Modul&nbsp;&quot;Digitale Langzeitarchivierung&quot; des&nbsp;<a href="https://www.th-koeln.de/weiterbildung/zertifikatskurs-data-librarian_63393.php">Zertifikatskurses &quot;Data Librarian&quot;</a> erstellt. Der Zertifikatskurs wurde&nbsp;2019/2020 vom Zentrum f&uuml;r Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung der Technischen Hochschule K&ouml;ln unter&nbsp;wissenschaftlicher&nbsp;Leitung von Prof. Dr. Konrad F&ouml;rstner ausgerichtet.</p>

keywords:
["Digital Preservation", "Digitale Langzeitarchivierung", "LZA", "Open Archival Information System", "OAIS", "ISO 14721", "Introduction", "Einführung", "Tutorial", "Lecture", "Crashkurs"]


title: OSSArcFlow Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3980318
creators: ["Alexandra Chassanoff", "Colin Post"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital curation", "case study", "guide", "workflow description"]
date: 2020-06-23T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The purpose of the <em>Guide to Documenting Born-Digital Archival Workflows </em>is to encourage and assist collecting institutions of all shapes, sizes, and types to begin documenting their born-digital workflows. In our experience, both through the <a href="https://educopia.org/ossarcflow/">OSSArcFlow project</a> and in consultation with many collecting institutions, the vast majority of today&rsquo;s born-digital archiving activity is not well documented. Most collecting institutions believe that their born-digital archiving workflows are still too <em>ad hoc</em> or nascent to deserve formal documentation, and the lack of formal documentation keeps collecting institutions from being able to see, share, compare, and build upon their collective successes, failures, gaps, challenges, and opportunities.</p>

<p>In the <em>Guide</em>, we aim to make the daunting task of selecting, implementing, and refining born-digital archiving workflows more achievable. To do so, we first document and describe the steps that are commonly included in digital curation workflows, from acquisition to access and preservation. We then provide a process map and detailed guidance to help you produce your own born-digital workflows documentation in both visual and descriptive formats. Finally, we provide a set of use cases for this visual and descriptive documentation, illustrating with case studies and examples how you can use it to help your institution improve its born-digital archiving practices over time.</p>

<p>The <em>Guide</em> includes four main sections:</p>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Introduction </strong>&ndash; provides a brief background of the project, the research questions that have driven our inquiry, and how to use this <em>Guide</em> in your own work as an archivist and curator of born-digital collections.</li>
	<li><strong>Common Steps in OSS Born-Digital Archival Workflows </strong>&ndash; provides brief descriptions of each of the main steps in born-digital archiving (13 in total) and what tools are commonly used to accomplish each of these steps today.</li>
	<li><strong>Documenting Born-Digital Workflows</strong> &ndash; provides detailed guidance to help you use the OSSArcFlow survey, interview questions, and visualization model to document and depict your own workflow.&nbsp;</li>
	<li><strong>Using Workflows</strong> &ndash; provides guidance and examples of how an institution can use its existing workflows to identify growth/maturity goals, to advocate for resources, and to transform roles/relationships as needed to improve its born-digital archiving practices.&nbsp;</li>
</ol>

<p>We are grateful to the Institute of Museum and Library Services for its generous support of this project work, and to our project partners for willingly and excitedly participating in every step of this work with us.</p>


title: JTS2019 Collaborative Notes
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3835666
creators: ["Erwin Verbruggen", "Joshua Ng", "Rasa Bočytė", "Ross Garrett"]
type: Journal article
keywords: ["av archiving", "avpres", "digipres", "reformatting", "conference"]
date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Collaborative Notes of sessiones at the Joint Technical Symposium. JTS is the international scientific and technical event hosted by the audiovisual archives associations that make up the CCAAA.&nbsp; Held every few years, this joint event brings together technical experts from around the world to share information and research about the preservation of original image and sound materials.&nbsp; The 2019 JTS was organized by AMIA, FIAF, FIAT/IFTA, and IASA on behalf of the CCAAA. JTS 2019 was held October 3-5, 2019 in conjunction with the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) conference&nbsp; and hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, the Netherlands.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3828636
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Report
date: 2020-05-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Change file: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements: Extended Guidance 2017–2019 to 2020–2022

abstract:
<p>This document supplements the CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements:Extended Guidance 2020-2022 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3632533). It documents the changes made from the 2017-2019 version to the 2020-2022 version of the CoreTrustSeal Extended Guidance.</p>

<p>Note that for reasons of readability, all updates to the text of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements included in the Extended Guidance were not tracked. A document tracking the changes from the CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2017-2019 to the 2020-2022 version is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3828622.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

keywords:
["Certification", "CoreTrustSeal", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "World Data System", "Data Seal of Approval"]


title: Change file: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements 2017-2019 to 2020–2022
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3828622
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Report
date: 2020-05-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This document supplements the CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements 2020-2022 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3638211). It documents the changes made from the 2017-2019 version to the 2020-2022 version of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements.</p>

keywords:
["Certification", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "CoreTrustSeal", "Data Seal of Approval", "World Data System"]


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3718996
creators: ["Henk Vanstappen"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "file formats", "architectural data"]
date: 2019-09-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
SketchUp in digital archives. Software and file format analysis and exploration of the options for digital preservation.

abstract:
<p><strong>Publication: SketchUp in digital archives</strong></p>

<p>The 3D drawing software SketchUp can be found in many architectural firms. Architects use it to test their first design ideas, but also to support the further elaboration and execution of an architectural project. Moreover, 3D models are very accessible and readable for a non-architectural audience.</p>

<p>The Flanders Architecture Institute therefore wants to focus on preserving this valuable digital heritage of the future. In the report &#39;SketchUp in digital archives&#39;, researcher Henk Vanstappen (<a href="http://datable.be">Datable</a>) analyzes the SketchUp software down to the smallest details.</p>

<p>The report contains:</p>

<ul>
	<li>A history of the SketchUp software, its functionality and related tools;</li>
	<li>An analysis of the SketchUp file format (logical model, internal structure and compatibility with other formats)</li>
	<li>Possible risks and vulnerabilities for preservation of SketchUp files<br>
	on the long term</li>
</ul>

<p>Additionally, this project resulted in an enhanced capacity for archivists to identify the version of a SketchUp-file (version 1-19), by adding the file signature of each SketchUp version to the <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/Default.aspx">Pronom technical registry</a>.</p>


title: Introducing the DPC Rapid Assessment Model
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3674726
creators: ["Jenny Mitcham"]
type: Poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "maturity model", "assessment tool"]
date: 2020-02-19T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization&rsquo;s digital preservation capability.</p>

<p>This model aims to be:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Applicable for organizations of any size and in any sector</li>
	<li>Applicable for all content of long-term value</li>
	<li>Preservation strategy and solution agnostic</li>
	<li>Based on existing good practice</li>
	<li>Simple to understand and quick to apply</li>
</ul>

<p>The model used Adrian Brown&#39;s Digital Preservation Maturity Model (published in Practical Digital Preservation: a how-to guide for organizations of any size, 2013) as a starting point and has been developed, tested and refined with input from DPC Members and Supporters. It was created in conjunction with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority as part of a two year collaborative digital preservation project. It was released in September 2019 at the iPRES conference in Amsterdam.</p>

<p>The model is designed to be relatively quick and easy to use for any organization charged with preserving digital information for the long term. Some institutions have applied this model in less than one hour but for others it is a longer process, particularly if wider consultation with a range of colleagues is required.</p>

<p>DPC RAM has continuous improvement at its core. Although it can be applied as a one-off exercise it is recommended that it is revisited on a more regular basis to highlight progress or demonstrate where further resource or effort is required. It has been designed to provide a rapid assessment of current capabilities so it should not be too onerous a task to apply it on a regular schedule.</p>

<p>The poster will draw on some of the highlights of DPC RAM since its release 6 months ago, reflecting on uptake, findings and community feedback collected so far. We are keen to bring DPC RAM to new audiences and discuss with the research data curation community how they could use it internally to discuss digital preservation maturity, highlight gaps and make the case for additional resource.</p>


title: Sentencing Your Darlings: Appraisal and Disposal in Research Data Management at Monash University
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3674719
creators: ["Ali Hayes-Brady", "Catherine Nicholls"]
type: Presentation
date: 2020-02-19T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Monash University has been actively sentencing legacy electronic research data since 2017.<br>
In 2018 we had $AUD413 million in research income and it has become obvious that while &ldquo;data storage is cheap&rdquo;, it is not unlimited. However, there is still a mentality of &ldquo;keep everything&rdquo; in our research data space and we need to address this idea head-on to effect any change. Keeping everything is not only not an option but is detrimental to the discoverability, accessibility and reusability of research data.</p>

<p><br>
To date we have been using traditional corporate records management practices to sentence<br>
research data. We are now looking at the value of incorporating traditional archival principles into Research Data Management as well - with regards to appraisal and collection management.<br>
&nbsp;</p>

<p>This lightning talk will look at:</p>

<ul>
	<li>What the Research Data Culture looks like at Monash University</li>
	<li>The value of sentencing data</li>
	<li>Case studies we have undertaken with different sets of electronic research data</li>
	<li>Pros and cons of what we have discovered during these case studies</li>
	<li>The creation of a specific item type for research data in our current -RMS and the benefits of including research data metadata in a recordkeeping system</li>
	<li>Communicating to our stakeholders about the changes needed in our current research data culture - especially the researchers and IT professionals</li>
</ul>

<p>The questions we are asking (and attempting to answer) are:</p>

<ul>
	<li>When we appraise, what do we look for? How do we identify what to keep and what to dispose of?</li>
	<li>How can we foster a cultural shift in the way research data is created and sustained - how do we make it &ldquo;naturally FAIR&rdquo;?</li>
	<li>Who is responsible for what actions, and when do we need to collaborate?</li>
	<li>How can we articulate our storage and sentencing needs to those without archival or records management experience?</li>
	<li>What is next?</li>
</ul>


title: DMPRoadmap: pursuing machine-actionable use cases in the global open source codebase for DMPs
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3673920
creators: ["Sam Rust"]
type: Presentation
date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Demo given by Sam Rust at the 15th International Digital Curation Conference (#IDCC20) on&nbsp;how the <a href="https://github.com/DMPRoadmap/roadmap">DMPRoadmap codebase</a> used for <a href="https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/">DMPonline</a>, DMPTool and other Data Management Planning services supports machine-actionable DMPs. The demonstration covered the use of the<a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/dmp-common-standards-wg/outcomes/rda-dmp-common-standard-machine-actionable-data-management"> Research Data Alliance (RDA) Common Standard for DMPs</a></p>

keywords:
["Data Management Plan", "DMP", "machine actionable DMPs", "DMPRoadmap", "DMPonline", "Research Data Alliance"]


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3672773
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Pia Rudnik", "Laurence Horton", "Sarah Jones"]
type: Journal article
date: 2020-02-12T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
"You say potato, I say potato" - Mapping Digital Preservation and Research Data Management Concepts towards Collective Curation and Preservation Strategies

abstract:
<p>Pre-print of a paper presented at the IDCC conference.&nbsp;This paper will explore models, concepts and terminology used in the Research Data Management and Digital Preservation communities. In doing so we expect to identify several overlaps and mutual concerns where the advancements of one professional field can apply to and assist another. By focusing on what unites rather than divides us, and by adopting a more holistic approach we will advance towards collective curation and preservation strategies.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "research data management", "FAIR", "OAIS", "curation lifecycle model", "Data Management Plan"]


title: Curating the institutional scholarly record using open APIs for Scholix and DataCite
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3668736
creators: ["Chris Gibson"]
type: Poster
date: 2020-02-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>A widespread problem for institutions is how to curate the institutional scholarly record when researchers deposit their data in external repositories but don&rsquo;t necessarily inform their institution.</p>

<p>This poster outlines how The University of Manchester Library addressed this problem by using open APIs for Scholix and DataCite to identify relevant datasets, and harvest their metadata to populate the institutional Current Research Information System (CRIS).</p>

<p>This work resulted in the addition of more than 6,000 dataset records to the institutional CRIS, including two-way links with associated publication records.</p>

<p>The University of Manchester Library is openly sharing&nbsp;code that was created for this work so that others can also benefit from this approach. This poster includes links to the Github resource that hosts this code, and a blog post that describes the work in more detail.</p>

keywords:
["Curation", "Scholarly Record", "Data Catalogue", "Current Research Information System", "Research Data Management", "Harvesting", "Metadata", "API"]


title: Digital stewardship from start to finish: decision-making and workflows for born-digital content
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3668326
creators: ["Somaya Langley"]
type: Presentation
date: 2019-10-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The Digital Stewardship End-to-End Workflow Model and the Digital Streams Matrix &ndash; developed as part of the Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge project &ndash; are two tools that can be used by archivists and collecting institutions to assist in handling born-digital content. The model outlines fourteen stages that digital content passes through (from conception to use and/or reuse). The matrix provides a practical mechanism for applying the model, guiding decision-making when stewarding digital content.</p>

<p>Organisations that are beginning to develop processes for handling born-digital content will find that on the one hand, it may be difficult to know where to start but on the other hand, it may be overwhelming to consider the many tasks they may need to undertakeall the various steps that they may need to take. It is hard to know where responsibilities for digital archiving, digital curation and digital preservation should lie. Collecting institutions should consider adopting a &lsquo;digital stewardship&rsquo; approach as a means of holistically managing digital content throughout its lifecycle.</p>

<p>As part of the Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge project (2016 &ndash; 2018), the author developed two &lsquo;alpha release&rsquo; tools: the Digital Stewardship End-to-End Workflow Model and the Digital Streams Matrix. These tools provide practical mechanisms for managing born-digital content. The tools were based on previous born-digital collecting and preservation activities, undertaken collaboratively with former colleagues in Australia, and informed by international dialogue.</p>

<p>The Digital Stewardship End-to-End Workflow Model identifies fourteen &lsquo;stages&rsquo; that digital content needs to pass through from conception through to use and/or reuse. Several other models for managing digital content already exist, including the Records Continuum Model (1990s), the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model (1999), the Digital Curation Centre&rsquo;s Curation Lifecycle Model (2007), An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS) (2011), and the Research360 Institutional Research Lifecycle Concept (2012). However, based on real-world experiences, it was identified that the existing models contained various gaps. Additional stages are needed when acquiring, processing, managing, preserving and making available born-digital content. Hence, the Digital Stewardship End-to-End Workflow Model was developed.</p>

<p>In order to be able to practically apply the Digital Stewardship End-to-End Workflow Model, it was also necessary to create the Digital Streams Matrix. The Digital Streams Matrix indicates a series of tasks that may be undertaken at each stage of the end-to-end workflow. Depending on the type of digital content, or the form in which it exists (on a carrier, a website etc.), and coupled with the &lsquo;class&rsquo; the digital content belongs to (such as unpublished born-digital manuscripts, audiovisual or published research outputs), decisions can be made about which tasks could be carried out. This matrix can assist archivists, guiding their decision-making regarding what is &lsquo;bare minimum&rsquo; or &lsquo;good practice&rsquo; for their organisation.</p>

<p>Until such times that managing digital content becomes &lsquo;business as usual&rsquo;, tools assisting the step-by-step approaches to managing digital content &ndash; such as this model and matrix &ndash; will be required.</p>

keywords:
["digital stewardship", "digital archiving", "digital preservation", "Digital Stewardship End-to-End Workflow", "Digital Streams Matrix", "Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge", "DPOC", "The Polonsky Foundation"]


title: Australasia Preserves - 2 Years On
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3666953
creators: ["Ali Hayes-Brady", "Jaye Weatherburn"]
type: Poster
date: 2020-02-14T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Australasia Preserves is a digital preservation community of practice for Australia, New Zealand, and the Australasian region. It is a safe, fun, open, and welcoming community.</p>

<p><br>
AusPreserves was founded after the VALA 2018 conference when a group of people from The University of Melbourne came together and thought about how a digital preservation community of practice could function on our side of the world while utilising and expanding our knowledge. All too often it can feel like you are on your own when it comes to digital preservation and having a group that you can ask questions of, or even just commiserate with, can be a huge help.</p>

<p><br>
We have monthly meet-ups covering wide-ranging topics, from digital curation within the Indigenous Data Network, to what the landscape of digital preservation education looks like in Australasian Universities and the directions for continued development.<br>
In 2019 we focused on the need for specific and technical digital preservation training and education and at IDCC 2019 we were lucky enough to be able to showcase our pilot Digital Preservation Carpentry Workshop. This workshop looks at workflows and ingest for information professionals, with a focus on the tool BagIt, and the methods by which this can be incorporated into existing procedures. This focus on training is one of the key aspects of AusPreserves as we aim to both provide opportunities and facilitate the creation of opportunities for developing digital preservation education and training for students and practitioners alike. As such, later in the year an Introduction to Automation for Archivists course was, developed and run by one of our members at his own behest. This course has been very well received by all who attended, and we have received many requests for online distribution.</p>

<p><br>
In addition to our monthly meet-ups we have a vibrant online forum where our nearly 300 members ask questions, provide insight and feedback, discuss successes (and failures) and generally chat about all things digital preservation! Online platforms like Google groups and Twitter (#AusPreserves) have proved invaluable and make the distance between our far-flung members seem small, no mean feat when thinking about the size of our region! We have also been lucky enough to have some of our co-organisers and members present at conferences around the world, including IPRES and IDCC, and we hope to continue this tradition.</p>

<p><br>
This poster showcases some of the work we have been doing on the other side of the world over the past two years. We hope it can inspire other people to join us, follow our progress, or even think about starting their own community of practice! Just remember - we will always have the best cakes.</p>

<p><br>
Australasia Preserves &ndash; Digital Preservation is our jam.</p>

keywords:
["Digital Preservation, Australasia Preserves, AusPreserves, Digital Curation, Community of Practice"]


title: Three Rs for Re-Use in Digital Preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3648019
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "sustainability", "data management"]
date: 2020-02-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This presentation was given at the &quot; Hergebruik / Re-use Seminar &quot; held for and by Barbara Sierman at the KB Netherlands on February 5th, 2020.</p>

<p>4 speakers were given the topic &quot;Re-Use&quot;, asking for their take on the subject.</p>

<p>This presentations highlights how three attributes are closely connected / describe re-use: research-based, reproducible, responsible.<br>
It is shown how they connect to re-use and digital preservation and where the digital preservation community has room for improvement.</p>


title: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements: Extended Guidance 2020–2022
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3632533
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Other
keywords: ["CoreTrustSeal", "Certification", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "Digital Preservation"]
date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This document contains the full text of the CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements for 2020&ndash;2022 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3638211">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3638211</a>) with introductory paragraphs on Background &amp; General Guidance.</p>

<p>In addition to the CoreTrustSeal Requirements, which remain stable for the period 2020&ndash;2022, this document provides the Extended Guidance for CoreTrustSeal reviewers and applicants. The Extended Guidance text may be updated during the period 2020&ndash;2022 subject to approval by the CoreTrustSeal Board. The document also contains a reference to the Glossary of Terms. The document is intended to maximize consistency of reviews across the wide range of CoreTrustSeal applicants. The primary audience is reviewers, but it is also useful for applicants when preparing an application self-assessment.</p>


title: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements 2020–2022
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3638211
creators: ["CoreTrustSeal Standards and Certification Board"]
type: Other
date: 2019-11-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements (formerly: Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements) were developed by the DSA&ndash;WDS Partnership Working Group on Repository Audit and Certification, a Working Group (WG) of the Research Data Alliance. The goal of the effort was to create a set of harmonized common requirements for certification of repositories at the core level, drawing from criteria already put in place by the Data Seal of Approval (DSA) and the World Data System (WDS) of the International Science Council. An additional goal of the project was to develop common procedures to be implemented by both DSA and WDS. Ultimately, the DSA and WDS plan to collaborate on a global framework for repository certification that moves from the core to the extended (nestor-Seal DIN 31644), to the formal (ISO 16363) level.</p>

<p>The CoreTrustSeal Requirements are reviewed and updated if necessary every three years. To prepare the release of the CoreTrustSeal Requirements 2020&ndash;2022, a review and revision process was undertaken in several distinct phases. Feedback was included&nbsp;from applicants during past reviews, other communication and outreach activities, as well as&nbsp;an open review period that ran from 1 March 2019 to 31 May 2019. A WG&nbsp;of&nbsp;the CoreTrustSeal Board met face-to-face on 23&ndash;25 July 2019 to review each item of feedback, and incorporate them into revisions of the Requirements, Extended Guidance, and Glossary as necessary.</p>

<p>Given the feedback received and that past WDS and DSA repositories are continuing to transition to the CoreTrustSeal certification, the number, structure, and content of the Requirements remain fundamentally stable for 2020&ndash;2022. This stability enables the CoreTrustSeal Board to work to support a wider range of repository types and repository technical infrastructure providers in the future. It also provides an established baseline from which to consider other external demands on the CoreTrustSeal.</p>

keywords:
["Certification", "Trustworthy Data Repositories", "Data Seal of Approval", "World Data System", "CoreTrustSeal"]


title: PREMIS in Rosetta - A Play in 3 Acts
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3626829
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "preservation metadata", "PREMIS"]
date: 2018-03-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This is the preservation given as part of a nestor expert workshop on preservation metadata in Maintal, Germany on March 15th 2018.</p>

<p>The presentation briefly describes TIB&#39;s preservation rationale and setup to give background to the implementation (Act 1). shows how the PREMIS semantic entities Object, Event, Agent and Right are implemented in the system and used by TIB (Act 2) and concludes with a brief outlook on shared community and vendor maintenance of a PREMIS implementation (Act 3).</p>


title: Recovering '90s Data Tapes - Experiences From the KB Web Archaeology project
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3572342
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["tapes", "digital preservation", "digital forensics", "web archaeology"]
date: 2019-12-09T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The recovery of digital data from tape formats from the mid to late &#39;90s is not well covered by existing digital preservation and forensics literature. This paper addresses this knowledge gap with a discussion of the hardware and software that can be used to read such tapes. It introduces tapeimgr, a user-friendly software application that allows one to read tapes in a format-agnostic manner. It also presents workflows that integrate the discussed hardware and software components. It then shows how these workflows were used to recover the contents of a set of DDS-1, DDS-3 and DLT-IV tapes from the mid to late &#39;90s. These tapes contain the source data of a number of &quot;lost&quot; web sites that the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) is planning to reconstruct at a later stage as part of its ongoing Web Archaeology project. The paper also presents some first results of sites from 1995 that have already been reconstructed from these tapes.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3562251
creators: ["Merle Friedrich"]
type: Poster
keywords: ["Digital Preservation", "Audiovisual Material", "AV", "Preservation Planning", "Obsolescence"]
date: 2019-12-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Preferred, Obsolete or In-Between? Developing a Criteria Catalogue for AV-Material - Preservation Planning at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

abstract:
<p>The born-digital audio-visual (AV) holdings of the German National Library of Science and Technology are analyzed regarding the present file formats. The most frequent AV file formats are examined in terms of suitability as preservation format based on a catalogue of criteria. Furthermore their risk of obsolescence is evaluated using view paths. The examined file formats are not preferred as preservation formats, but they are not obsolete either. Poster at the 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation<br>
iPRES 2019, Amsterdam</p>


title: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation 2017: An NDSA Report
url: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3RCQK
creators: ["Atkins Winston", "Carol Kussmann", "Katherine Kim", "Aliya Reich"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["digital preservation", "survey", "staffing"]
date: 2017-09-13T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>DESCRIPTION </strong></p>

<p>The 2017 Digital Preservation Staffing Survey provides a useful snapshot of the way digital preservation is accomplished in 2017 and how its practitioners feel about the effectiveness of their current organizational structures. It also builds on the 2012 survey and begins to establish data with which the digital preservation community can identify trends in staffing in the field.</p>

<p>This dataset contains the publication, the codebook and the raw data originally published on OSF&nbsp; (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3RCQK).</p>

<p><strong>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY</strong></p>

<p>In 2017, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) received completed survey responses from 133 institutions engaged in digital preservation, enabling the Staffing Survey Working Group to investigate how these organizations staffed and organized their<br>
digital preservation functions, and to identify any changes since the NDSA&rsquo;s 2012 survey on the same topic, published in &ldquo;Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation: An NDSA Report.&rdquo;2 We received 78% of the responses from the US, down from 86% in the 2012<br>
survey. Other countries responding were the United Kingdom (8), Germany (4), Switzerland (3), the Netherlands (2), and one each from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Luxembourg, Pakistan, Slovenia, Sweden, and Uruguay.</p>

<p>One of the main focuses of the survey is on staffing levels. In response to these questions related to staffing levels, organizations reported an average of 13.6 FTE working in digital preservation activities. However, respondents indicated they would double that to 27.5 FTE in ideal circumstances. They expressed a particular need for more digital archivists, software developers, and cataloger/metadata analysts. Most respondents&rsquo; organizations (68%) retrained existing staff for at least some digital preservation functions, while 42% also hired experienced digital preservation specialists.</p>

<p>The findings on collection holdings show that the volume of holdings was larger than in the previous survey, but the expected rate of future growth had moderated. Whereas in 2012, 68% expected up to a 49% growth, in 2017, the largest percentage of respondents (73.2%), expected less than 25% growth in the collection. As in the 2012 survey, images and text documents continue to be the majority of digital files being preserved.<br>
The survey also queried respondents about which digital preservation functions and activities were performed in-house and which were outsourced, and what the future plans for these functions and activities were. Most respondents appear to prefer conducting most digital preservation activities in-house. Emulation, which led the list of services considered for outsourcing, was selected by only 35% of respondents.</p>

<p>In 2017, 46% of respondents were not satisfied with how the digital preservation function was organized within their organization, while 25% believed it was organized properly. This is a significant decrease in satisfaction from 2012, when 43% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that their digital preservation functions were well-organized. Only 32% of respondents reported that their organization had a dedicated digital preservation department, which is down 1% from organizations responding in 2012.<br>
The 2017 Digital Preservation Staffing Survey provides a useful snapshot of the way digital preservation is accomplished in 2017 and how its practitioners feel about the effectiveness of their current organizational structures. It also builds on the 2012 survey and begins to establish data with which the digital preservation community can identify trends in staffing in the field.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3529423
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Pia Rudnik"]
type: Conference paper
date: 2019-11-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Eye On CoreTrustSeal - Recommendations for Criterion R0 from Digital Preservation and Research Data Management Perspectives

abstract:
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p>

<p>The CoreTrustSeal (CTS) is an accepted trustworthy digital repository certification process for both, research data management and digital preservation communities alike. But does it build on concepts known and understood by both of these communities? We take an in-depth look at the CTS requirement <em>R0 - Background Information / Context</em>, in which the applicants are asked to define their repository&nbsp; type, designated community and level of curation performed. By extracting information from the publicly available assessment reports and cross-checking these against available supporting information, we reflect on CTS from three viewpoints: the process, the institutional, and the community view. We distill concrete recommendations, which will be fed back to the CTS Board as part of the 2019 public call for review.</p>

<p>This record includes the paper and the presentation held at iPRES2019.<br>
The accompanying dataset can be found at:&nbsp; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3267689</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "trustworthy digital repositories", "certification", "core trust seal", "research data management"]


title: Jpylyzer 2 trailer
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3529327
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Video/Audio
keywords: ["jpeg2000", "jpylyzer", "digital preservation", "open preservation foundation"]
date: 2019-10-29T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Trailer video for the jpylyzer 2 release. Check out the Jpylyzer web site for more information about jpylyzer:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fjpylyzer.openpreservation.org&amp;v=gIutpFxGy28&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=wmER-ekYD8ROh5FI3P11Iucf3v58MTU3MzAzNjk4OUAxNTcyOTUwNTg5">http://jpylyzer.openpreservation.org</a></p>

<p>Image credits: - The Man From Planet X - artist unknown</p>

<p>Illustrations from Journey to the Center of the Earth by &Eacute;douard Riou (public domain)</p>

<p>Squid holding sailor by Alphonse de Neuville &amp; &Eacute;douard Riou (public domain)</p>

<p>Font credit: Ghoulish Font by Gary Pullin, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fghoulishgary.com&amp;v=gIutpFxGy28&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=wmER-ekYD8ROh5FI3P11Iucf3v58MTU3MzAzNjk4OUAxNTcyOTUwNTg5">http://ghoulishgary.com</a></p>


title: Time-travel with PRONOM - The fourth dimension of DROID
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3517767
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Yvonne Tunnat"]
type: Poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "file format identification", "tool benchmarking", "file format"]
date: 2019-10-24T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This entry contains the poster and extended abstract of the iPRES 2018 poster submission.</p>

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p>

<p>In a domain dealing with risks associated with the often quoted fast-changing technological landscape, it is surprising that one of the main tools we rely on has been more or less stable for so long. More or less? DROID signature patterns undergo changes as identification methods improve. The question at hand is how frequent those changes and updates are and what their impact is. The poster presents the findings of a brief study taking a closer look at DROID signature pattern changes over the course of time.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3466182
creators: ["International Council on Archives International Record Management Trust"]
type: Lesson
keywords: ["training material", "digital preservation"]
date: 2016-05-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Understanding Digital Records Preservation Initiatives. / Series: Digital Preservation in Lower Resource Environments: A Core Curriculum

abstract:
<p>This module is part of the International Council on Archives &quot;<strong>Digital Preservation in Lower Resource Environments: A Core Curriculum</strong>&quot; series.</p>

<p><strong>Understanding Digital Records Preservation Initiatives</strong> is designed to support records professionals working in lower resource countries in a range of organisational types, including public, private and academic organisations. It provides information needed to develop strategies and take practical steps to protect the integrity of digital records through time, as well as to discuss the issues involved with key stakeholders. The module is also designed to support records professionals in engaging with the emerging themes of transparency, openness and accountability, such as Open Data, Open Government and Access to Information, that are of growing interest to governments and to bilateral and multilateral development agencies around the world.</p>

<p><strong>Content and Structure of the Module</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>Lesson 1: Concepts and terminology: What is digital preservation, what factors influence the preservation of the integrity of digital records over the long-term, and what are the implications for organisations of not preserving digital records properly?</li>
	<li>Lesson 2: Digital preservation initiatives: What is their importance and relevance, and how can international initiatives contribute to national and regional initiatives?</li>
	<li>Lesson 3: What to do next? Based on the contributions being made by international initiatives, what practical strategies can organisations employ to begin addressing the complex challenges of managing the integrity of digital records that need to be retained and preserved over the long term?</li>
	<li>Lesson 4: Communicating the message and securing support: What should the messages to key stakeholders look like and how should they be delivered?</li>
</ul>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3466166
creators: ["International Council on Archives International Record Management Trust"]
type: Lesson
keywords: ["training material", "digital preservation"]
date: 2016-05-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Managing Metadata to Protect the Integrity of Records. / Series: Digital Preservation in Lower Resource Environments: A Core Curriculum

abstract:
<p>This module is part of the International Council on Archives &quot;<strong>Digital Preservation in Lower Resource Environments: A Core Curriculum</strong>&quot; series.</p>

<p><strong>Managing Metadata to Protect the Integrity of Digital Records</strong> is designed to support records professionals working in lower resource countries in a range of organisational types, including public, private and academic organisations. It provides information needed to develop strategies and take practical steps to manage the metadata needed to protect the integrity of digital records through time and to discuss the issues involved with key stakeholders. The module is also designed to support records professionals in engaging with the rapidly emerging themes of transparency, openness and accountability, such as Open Data, Open Government and Access to Information, that are of growing interest to governments and to bilateral and multilateral development agencies around the world.</p>

<p><strong>Content and Structure of the Module</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>Lesson 1: Concepts and terminology: what are metadata and how do they relate to the realities of managing and using records, data and statistics, particularly in lower-resource environments?</li>
	<li>Lesson 2: Why is Metadata Management Essential? Why is metadata management important and what are the consequences if metadata are not managed?</li>
	<li>Lesson 3: Where and How are Digital Records Generated? How are digital records created, used and retained as the result of typical work processes? What are the characteristics of the various computing environments in an organisation?</li>
	<li>Lesson 4: Practical Steps: What to do next? What practical steps should records professionals take to engage a range of stakeholders in supporting improvements in the management of metadata in their organisations?</li>
</ul>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Considerations on the Acquisition and Preservation of Mobile eBook Apps
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3460450
creators: ["Maureen Pennock", "Peter May", "Michael Day"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["mobile apps", "challenges", "access", "acquisition", "digital preservation"]
date: 2019-09-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>In 2018 and 2019, as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries&rsquo; sponsored &lsquo;Emerging Formats&rsquo; project, the British Library&rsquo;s digital preservation team undertook a program of research into the preservation of new forms of content. One of these content types was eBooks published as Mobile Apps. Research considered a relatively small number of apps in an attempt to better understand the preservation challenges associated with them and make recommendations for a way forwards. It found that whilst the content landscape is extremely varied, the technical challenges are similar for both Android and Apple apps. The greatest challenges appear to lie in the acquisition and access areas, particularly in enabling delivery to appropriate rendering environments and devices, though other challenges remain around the use of device sensors and content stored on remote servers rather than the user&rsquo;s device. Whilst these challenges may be surmountable with sufficient resource and investment, the lack of growth in this content area in recent years makes large scale investment questionable.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3386323
creators: ["Merle Friedrich"]
type: Thesis
keywords: ["Digital Preservation", "Preservation Planning", "Audiovisual Media", "Migration"]
date: 2019-09-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Preservation Planning for Digital Audio-Visual Material at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) – Developing a Catalogue of Criteria and a Migration Plugin

abstract:
<p>The German Nation Library of Science and Technology (TIB) runs a digital archive in order to preserve its digital holdings which consists amongst others of audio-visual material. In order to identify obsolete audio-visual file formats a catalogue of criteria is developed and file formats which represent the majority of TIB&rsquo;s audio-visual holdings are examined. The assessment reveals that the examined file formats are not a preferred file format for digital preservation, but on the other hand they are not at risk to become obsolete to TIB&rsquo;s designated community. Furthermore, a migration plugin for the digital archive&rsquo;s software environment is developed and successfully deployed. The migration plugin can be used during preservation planning in order to migrate the examined formats into TIB&rsquo;s chosen archival file format if a migration becomes necessary.</p>


title: Skeleton Test Suite and PRONOM Archive v95
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3269467
creators: ["Ross Spencer"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["digital preservation, archives, digipres, file formats, skeleton suite, glam,"]
date: 2019-05-10T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>PRONOM Skeleton Suite V95</strong></p>

<p>Also available via <a href="https://github.com/exponential-decay/pronom-archive-and-skeleton-test-suite/releases/tag/skeleton-test-suite-2019-05-09-sig-file-v95">Github</a>.</p>


title: Eye on Core Trust Seal - Data Set
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3267690
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Pia Rudnik"]
type: Dataset
date: 2019-07-03T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This data set includes extracted information from 40 CoreTrustSeal (CTS) self-assessment reports,&nbsp;which were publicly available by January 15th 2019 at https://www.coretrustseal.org/why-certification/certified-repositories/. The authors extracted general information from the title pages of the self-assessment reports, as well as responses to criterion &quot;R0 - Background Information / Context&quot;.<br>
Sheet &quot;Extracted_Information&quot; includes all extracted info, whereas &quot;Level_of_Curation&quot;, &quot;Designated_Community&quot; and&nbsp;&quot;Repository_Type&quot; include normalized and categorized data. The data cleansing / normalization and analysis processes are&nbsp;described in the paper &quot;Eye on Core Trust Seal - Recommendations for Criterion R0 from Digital Preservation and Research&nbsp;Data Management Perspectives&quot; to be released as part of the Proceedings of iPRES2019, the 16th International Conference on&nbsp;Digital Preservation. The data set forms the basis for an extended analysis of Core Trust Seal criterion R0 from the perspectives of the digital preservation and research data management domain.</p>

<p><strong>Abstract of the accompanying paper:</strong></p>

<p>The CoreTrustSeal (CTS) is an accepted trustworthy digital repository certification process for both, research data management and digital preservation communities alike. But does it build on concepts known and understood by both of these communities? We take an in-depth look at the CTS requirement <em>R0 - Background Information / Context</em>, in which the applicants are asked to define their repository&nbsp; type, designated community and level of curation performed. By extracting information from the publicly available assessment reports and cross-checking these against available supporting information, we reflect on CTS from three viewpoints: the process, the institutional, and the community view. We distill concrete recommendations, which will be fed back to the CTS Board as part of the 2019 public call for review.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "trustworthy digital repositories", "core trust seal", "certification", "research data management"]


title: Australasia Preserves June 2019 Monthly Meetup
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246983
creators: ["Australasia Preserves"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["Digital preservation", "Digital curation", "Communities of practice"]
date: 2019-06-07T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Since the beginning of the Australasia Preserves digital preservation community of practice in February 2018, the Digital Scholarship team at the University of Melbourne has been running monthly meetups for the community, featuring practitioners and academics working in the field of digital preservation in the Australasian region. This June monthly meetup for 2019 was organised in collaboration with the National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA) digital preservation community of practice. This meetup was held on Friday 7 June, 9.30am-12pm (AEST), and the community&nbsp;welcomed guest speakers Micky Lindlar &nbsp;and Melanie Swalwell. This dataset contains a video recording of Micky Lindlar&#39;s presentation (introduced by Jaye Weatherburn), Micky Lindlar&#39;s slides, community collaborative notes, and a collection of Tweets from the event.&nbsp;</p>


title: The Oxford Common File Layout: A Common Approach to Digital Preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020039
type: Journal article
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital repositories", "digital objects", "object stores", "storages"]
date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Andrew Hankinson", "Donald Brower", "Neil Jeffries", "Rosalyn Metz", "Julian Morley", "Simeon Warner", "Andrew Woods"]

abstract:
<p>This is a copy of the article found in the<em> Publications - </em>Open Access Journal:<br>
<em>Publications</em>&nbsp;<strong>2019</strong>,&nbsp;<em>7</em>(2), 39;&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020039">https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020039</a><br>
Received: 1 March 2019 / Revised: 24 April 2019 / Accepted: 23 May 2019 / Published: 4 June 2019<br>
(This article belongs to the Special Issue&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications/special_issues/OR2018">Selected Papers from Open Repositories 2018</a>)</p>

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The Oxford Common File Layout describes a shared approach to filesystem layouts for<br>
institutional and preservation repositories, providing recommendations for how digital repository<br>
systems should structure and store files on disk or in object stores. The authors represent institutions<br>
where digital preservation practices have been established and proven over time or where significant<br>
work has been done to flesh out digital preservation practices. A community of practitioners is<br>
surfacing and is assessing successful preservation approaches designed to address a spectrum of use<br>
cases. With this context as a background, the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) will be described<br>
as the culmination of over two decades of experience with existing standards and practices.</p>


title: The State of Digital Preservation in 2018
url: https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.310626
creators: ["Oya Y. Rieger"]
type: Report
date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Our cultural, historic, and scientific heritage is increasingly being produced and shared in digital forms. The ubiquity, pervasiveness, variability, and fluidity of such content raise a range of questions about the role of research libraries and archives in digital preservation in the face of rapid organizational and technological changes and evolving organizational priorities. Ithaka S+R is interested in exploring the current landscape of digital preservation programs and services in order to identify research and policy questions that will contribute to the advancement of strategies in support of future scholarship. To this end, during June and July 2018, I talked with 21 experts and thought leaders to hear their perspectives on the state of digital preservation.<sup><sup><a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-state-of-digital-preservation-in-2018/#post-310626-footnote-2">[1]</a></sup></sup> The purpose of this report is to share a number of common themes that permeated through the conversations and provide an opportunity for broader community reaction and engagement, which will over time contribute to the development of an Ithaka S+R research agenda in these areas.</p>

<p>The digital preservation ecology is rich with many initiatives and significant contributors.<sup><sup><a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-state-of-digital-preservation-in-2018/#post-310626-footnote-3">[2]</a></sup></sup> Rather than making broad generalizations, this paper aims to provide a snapshot of what is going through the minds of a selected group of individuals with expertise and responsibility in the related program areas. The primary goal of the interviews was to identify opportunities and needs, rather than to celebrate the successes of the community. Therefore, inevitably, the report focuses on the gaps and challenges, with more limited coverage of the significant advances that have been registered in the field during the last two decades. We recognize the substantial contributions of the individuals interviewed, all the members of their organizations, and the field more broadly. Through their valuable work we see the beginning groundwork for a technical, service, and policy infrastructure. The community is getting larger and stronger and is committed to exploring how we can strengthen collaborations in this complicated landscape.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "collections and preservation", "digital scholarship and data management", "libraries"]


title: iPRES2015 Collaborative Notes
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2641126
creators: ["Abigail Potter", "Julie Seifert", "Thu-Mai Christian", "Nathan Moles"]
type: Dataset
keywords: ["digital preservation", "conference notes"]
date: 2015-11-06T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This is the <em>iPRES Amplified</em> content&nbsp; of the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), 2nd - 6th November 2015 in Chapel Hill, USA.</p>

<p>This includes all content made available as part of the iPRES2015 Google Drive ( <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzatfUW9_tT4UDQzeVN0dlNiMTQ">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzatfUW9_tT4UDQzeVN0dlNiMTQ</a> ) which contained information [empty templates with no takers were not archived here]. Collaborative note taking was facilitated through Google Docs, those documents also still resides at the above mentioned link. The document deposited here is considered version 1.0, captured on April 15th 2019.</p>

<p><strong>General Information:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>ipres2015_general_3 Nov (9_00 - 10_00) - Spotlight_ This Year&#39;s Noteworthy Progress and Achievements in Digital Preservation</li>
	<li>ipres2015_general_4 Nov (10_30 - 12_00) - Preservation Storage Community Discussion</li>
	<li>ipres2015_general_Get a Room_ for Organizational Assessment</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Panels:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>iPRES2015_Panels_3 Nov (10_30 - 12_00) - Good, Better, Best_ Examining the Range and Rationales of Institutional Data Curation</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Panels_3 Nov (15_00 - 16_30) - Preserving Born-Digital News</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Panels_4 Nov (13_00 - 14_30) - Long-Term Preservation Strategies &amp; Architecture_ Views from Implementers</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Panels_4 Nov (13_00 - 14_30) - Preservation of Research Data for Reuse</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Sessions:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>iPRES2015_Sessions_3 Nov (10_30 - 12_00) Frameworks for Digital Preservation</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Sessions_3 Nov (10_30 - 12_00) Institutional Opportunities and Challenges</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Sessions_3 Nov (13_00 - 14_30) Infrastructure Opportunities and Challenges</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Sessions_3 Nov (13_00 - 14_30) Preservation Strategies and Workflows</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Sessions_4 Nov (10_30 - 12_00) Digital Preservation Frameworks, Strategies, and Workflows</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_Sessions_4 Nov (10_30 - 12_00) Dimensions of Digital Preservation</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Workshop and Tutorials:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>iPRES2015_workshops_tutorials_2 Nov (09_00 - 15_00) - Fedora 4 Tutorial</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_workshops_tutorials_2 Nov (09_00 - 17_00) - From Theory to Practice_&nbsp; Using ISO 16363</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_workshops_tutorials_2 Nov (09_00 - 17_00) - Roles &amp; Responsibilities for Sustaining Open Source Platforms &amp; Tools</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_workshops_tutorials_2 Nov (09_00 - 17_00) - Testing the Proposed METS 2</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_workshops_tutorials_6 Nov (09_00 - 17_00) - Curating Research Assets and Data Using Lifecycle Education</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_workshops_tutorials_6 Nov (09_00 - 17_00) - Using Open-Source Tools to Fulfill Digital Preservation Requirements</li>
	<li>iPRES2015_workshops_tutorials_Policy and Documentation Clinic</li>
</ul>

<ul>
</ul>

<p><strong>iPRES Flash Drive content:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_abrams_foundational-framework</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_altman_advancing-the-evidence-base</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_boutard_participatory-digital-repositories</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_brunelle_archiving-deferred-representations</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_caron_experiment-document-and-decide</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_currier_copyright-and-the-digitization-of-state-government-documents</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_darcy-project-chrysalis</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_duretec_benchmarks-for-digital-preservation-tools</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_faniel_preservation-of-research-data</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_mccain-preserving-born-digital-news</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_molinaro_long-term-preservation-strategies</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_posters-demos</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_program-at-a-glance</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_rice_good-better-best</li>
	<li>ipres2015_USB-drive_smith_engaging-content-creators</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Additionally, the content of two iPRES2015 Amplifeid tricider pages were stored as PDFs:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>ipres2015_tricider_watch_next_year</li>
	<li>ipres2015_tricider_significant_developments_past_year</li>
</ul>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2611277
creators: ["Kai Naumann", "Tim Dahlmanns"]
type: Conference paper
date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Von der Theorie zur Praxis: Bestandserhaltung digitaler Unterlagen. Tagungsdokumentation zum Workshop des KLA-Ausschusses Digitale Archive in Koblenz, November 2018

abstract:
<p>Workshop on the issues of how to preserve born-digital information of KLA, the Conference of German state archive directors. Part German, part English.</p>


title: Towards Trusted Identities for Swiss Researchers and their Data
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2415996
creators: ["René Schneider", "Julien A. Raemy"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["persistant identifiers, hub,"]
date: 2018-12-19T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>In this talk we present the efforts done to enhance the Swiss persistent identifier (PID) ecosystem. We describe the current situation and the need for improvement in order to describe in full detail the steps undertaken to create a Swiss-wide model. A case study was undertaken by using several data sets from the domains of art and design in the context of the ICOPAD project. We provide a set of recommendations to enable a PID service that could mint Archival Resource Key (ARK) identifiers as complement to Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). We conclude with some remarks concerning the transferability of this approach to other areas and the requirements for a national hub for PID management in Switzerland.</p>


title: Identification of preservation risks in PDF with Apache Preflight - a first impression
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2556637
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2012-12-19T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report explores the feasibility of using the Apache Preflight PDF/A validator to detect &#39;risky&#39; features in &#39;regular&#39; (i.e. non-PDF/A) PDF documents.</p>

<p>The specific objectives of this work were:</p>

<ul>
	<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To get a first impression of the Apache Preflight (part of PDFBox) PDF/A-1b validator.</li>
	<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To investigate if Apache Preflight is able to detect unwanted (from a preservation point of view) features in PDF files (i.e. PDFs that are not necessarily of the PDF/A sub-type) such as password protection, encryption and non-embedded fonts.</li>
	<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To provide a comparison with the Preflight module of Adobe Acrobat 9.5.</li>
	<li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To decide if doing more work on Apache Preflight (more elaborate testing, possible involvement in its development) are worthwhile.</li>
</ul>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2556122
type: Other
keywords: ["digital preservation", "conference output", "audio-visual", "collaborative notes", "nttw"]
date: 2018-12-10T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
#NTTW3 Output: Collaborative Notes & Presentations of "No Time to Wait! 3" conference, October 25-26 2018, BFI Southbank, London

creators:
["Richard Wright", "Lars Gaustad", "Jimi Jones", "Dave Rice", "Martin Wrigley", "Reto Kromer", "Peter Bubestinger-Steindl", "Evanthia Samaras", "Jack McConchie", "Tom Ensom", "Erwin Verbruggen", "Judy Wilcocks", "Caylin Smith", "Patricia Falcao", "Ernesto Coto", "Andrew Brown", "Kieran Kunhya", "Derek Buitenhuis", "Ben Cartwright-Cox", "Yvonne Ng", "Jérôme Martinez", "Ben Turkus", "Kelly Haydon", "Jonas Svatos", "Merle Friedrich", "Steve Daly", "Callie Holmes", "Caroline Gil", "Peter Oleksik", "Esther Harris", "Miriam Reiche", "David Pfluger", "Helen Hockx-Yu", "Somaya Langley", "Johan Oomen", "Joshua Ng", "Michelle Lindlar", "Stephen McConnachie", "Ashley Blewer"]

abstract:
<p>This dataset contains the output of #NTTW3 - the third installment of the yearly &quot;No Time to Wait!&quot; Conference, held at BFI Southbank, London on October 25-26 2018.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The output consists of:</p>

<ol>
	<li>Collaborative Notes document<br>
	Collaborative note taking was facilitated through a Google Doc, that document also still resides at https://bit.ly/nttw3notes . The document deposited here is considered version 1.0, captured on Februrary 3rd 2019&nbsp;with the last documented change in the Google Doc having been made on December 10th 2018.<br>
	&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Slides of Presentations<br>
	As taken from&nbsp;https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait3&nbsp;</li>
</ol>

<p>In addition, videos of the presentations are available at&nbsp;https://www.youtube.com/c/MediaAreaNetOfficial and are linked from the respective presentation sections in the collaborative notes document.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>#NTTW3 Presentations Line-up&nbsp;</strong></p>

<p>Day 1:</p>

<ul>
	<li>No Time to Wait Introduction - Alessandra Luciano (no slides)</li>
	<li>Review of Audiovisual Preservation - Richard Wright&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Presenting the initial IASA TC 06 - Lars Gaustad</li>
	<li>So Many Standards, So Little Time - Jimi Jones&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Status of CELLAR - Dave Rice&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Panel: How we FFV1, How we Matroska - Sophie Bunz (chair), Joanna White, Carl Eugen Hoyos, Dave Rice (no slides)</li>
	<li>Preservation Action Registry - Martin Wrigley&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Beyond RGB: Multispectral imaging and FFV1 - Reto Kromer</li>
	<li>Open Source &amp; Long Term - Peter Bubestinger-Steindl&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Archiving VFX - Evanthia Samaras&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Developing a High Level Preservation Strategy for Virtual Reality Artworks - Jack McConchie &amp; Tom Ensom&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Panel: Emerging Media - Stephen McConnachie (chair), Erwin Verbruggen, Judy Wilcocks, Caylin Smith, Patricia Falcao&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Automated Tagging of Image and Video Collections using Face Recognition - Ernesto Coto &amp; Andrew Brown&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Supporting niche formats and niche hardware - Kieran Kunhya&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Every Solution is Wrong: Normalizing Ambiguous, Broken, and Pants-on-Head Crazy Media - Derek Buitenhuis&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Archiving DAB-DAB+ Feeds - Ben Cartwright-Cox&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<p>Day 2:</p>

<ul>
	<li>No time to Wait symposium: How did this happen - Dave Rice&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Video evidence for human rights - Yvonne Ng&nbsp;</li>
	<li>RAWcooked - J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Martinez&nbsp;</li>
	<li>If we could turn back... timecode - Ben Turkus &amp; Kelly Haydon&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Building digital audio-visual pipelines using standards IT tools - Jonas Svatos&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Monitoring the risk of file format obsoles cence in TIBs AV holdings - Merle Friedrich&nbsp;</li>
	<li>BBC Audio and Video Preservation - Steve Daly&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Panel: The Developer-Archivist - Ashley Blewer (chair), Ashley Blewer, Stephen McConnachie, Kieran O&#39;Leary, Edward Anderson (no slides)</li>
	<li>Open Media Adoption at the University of Georgia - Callie Holmes&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Assessing the preservation of DPX image sequences with MoMA - Caroline Gil &amp; Peter Oleksik&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Multiple Masters: Case studies from the Tate Collection - Esther Harris&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Project DELFT: Digitizing ethnological films - Miriam Reiche&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Born Compressed: Should the Preservation Community Embrace Lossy Video Compression? - David Pfluger&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Media Asset Management: challenges and considerations related to balancing operational and long term archiving needs - Helen Hockx-Yu&nbsp;</li>
	<li>What steps to take when AV is yet to become a priority for your organisation - Somaya Langley&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Panel: Open $ource Hustle - Alessandra Luciano (chair), Callie Holmes, Kieran O&#39;Leary, Ben Turkus, Alessandra Luciano (no slides)</li>
</ul>


title: Portability of tar features
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2542512
creators: ["Michał Górny"]
type: Other
keywords: ["file format sustainability", "digital preservation"]
date: 2018-11-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Originally published on Michał G&oacute;rny&#39;s blog at: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2018/11/25/portability-of-tar-features/</p>

<p><strong>P</strong><strong>reface</strong></p>

<p>The tar format is one of the oldest archive formats in use. It comes as no surprise that it is ugly &mdash; built as layers of hacks on the older format versions to overcome their limitations. However, given the POSIX standarization in late 80s and the popularity of GNU tar, you would expect the interoperability problems to be mostly resolved nowadays.</p>

<p>This article is directly inspired by my proof-of-concept work on new binary package format for Gentoo. My original proposal used volume label to provide user- and file(1)-friendly way of distinguish our binary packages. While it is a GNU tar extension, it falls within POSIX ustar implementation-defined file format and you would expect that non-compliant implementations would extract it as regular files. What I did not anticipate is that some implementation reject the whole archive instead.</p>

<p>This naturally raised more questions on how portable various tar formats actually are. To verify that, I have decided to analyze the standards for possible incompatibility dangers and build a suite of test inputs that could be used to check how various implementations cope with that. This article describes those points and provides test results for a number of implementations.</p>

<p>Please note that this article is focused merely on read-wise format compatibility. In other words, it establishes how tar files should be written in order to achieve best probability that it will be read correctly afterwards. It does not investigate what formats the listed tools can write and whether they can correctly create archives using specific features.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2536685
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Thesis
keywords: ["digital preservation", "audio"]
date: 2010-06-30T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Stand und Entwicklungslinien im Umgang mit Audiodateien für die digitale Langzeitarchivierung in Gedächtnisorganisationen

abstract:
<p>Masterarbeit im Rahmen des postgradualen Fernstudiums Master of Arts (Library and Information Science) an der Humboldt-Universit&auml;t zu Berlin. 2010.</p>

<p>&quot;Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, den Stand im Umgang mit Audiodateien darzustellen und Entwicklungslinien im Hinblick auf die digitale Langzeitarchivierung eben dieser Materialien f&uuml;r Ged&auml;chtnisinstitutionen festzulegen. Der schnelle Fortschritt der technologischen Entwicklung der letzten Jahrzehnte hat gezeigt, dass eine Prognose &uuml;ber zuk&uuml;nftige technologische Entwicklungen schwer zu treffen ist. Entwicklungslinien m&uuml;ssen somit in Form von Handlungsempfehlungen und Leitlinien ausgesprochen werden, die derzeitige wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse ber&uuml;cksichtigen und auf Best Practice Beispielen aufbauen, um eine gr&ouml;&szlig;tm&ouml;gliche Nachhaltigkeit zu erzielen. Die Arbeit soll somit Ged&auml;chtnisorganisationen unterschiedlicher Auspr&auml;gungen und Gr&ouml;&szlig;en - mit daraus resultierenden unterschiedlichen personellen und finanziellen Ressourcen - als Leitfaden f&uuml;r den Umgang mit Audiomaterialien dienen.&quot;</p>

<p>Anhang B der Arbeit gibt hierbei einen &Uuml;berblick der Entwicklungslinien in Form eines 3-Stufen Modells</p>


title: nestor Thema 12: Rechtliche Abhängigkeiten der LZA-Strategie Emulation
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2246695
creators: ["Nathalie Küchler"]
type: Journal article
keywords: ["digital preservation", "emulation", "legal issues"]
date: 2018-11-14T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>&quot;Die Erhaltungsstrategie Emulation bietet Ged&auml;chtnisinstitutionen eine geeignete L&ouml;sung f&uuml;r die langfristige Bereitstellung komplexer digitaler Sammlungsobjekte, dennoch wird diese Technologie bislang nur vereinzelt eingesetzt. Zu den zentralen Hemmnissen z&auml;hlen rechtliche Ungewissheiten, die insbesondere die Lizenzierung von Betriebssystem-Software betreffen.&quot;</p>

<p>Eine Publikation aus der Reihe nestor Themen:&nbsp;<br>
https://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Subsites/nestor/DE/Publikationen/Thema/thema.html&nbsp;</p>

<p>###</p>

<p>&quot;Emulation as a preservation stragegy offers cultural heriatge institutions a suitable solution for the long-term access to complex digital collection items, however, this technology is currently only used sparingly.&nbsp;&nbsp;A central inhibitor is the insecurity&nbsp;around legal issues, in particular pertaining to the licensing of operational-system software.&quot;</p>

<p>A publication from the series nestor topics:<br>
https://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/Subsites/nestor/DE/Publikationen/Thema/thema.html&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Community Cultivation: A Field Guide
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1491172
type: Report
keywords: ["community lifecycle"]
date: 2018-11-07T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Katherine Skinner", "Hannah Ballard", "Alex Chassanoff", "Christina Drummond", "Martin Halbert", "David Horth", "Nick Krabbenhoeft", "Sarah Lippincott", "Sam Meister", "Jessica Meyerson", "Caitlin Perry", "Matt Schultz", "Melanie Schlosser", "David Seaman", "Cal Shepard", "John Sherer", "Tyler Walters", "Courtney Vukasinovic"]

abstract:
<p>Community Cultivation &ndash; A Field Guide (November 7 Release)</p>

<p>Issued by the Educopia Institute in November 2018, this publication provides a powerful lens that can provide both emerging and established communities with ways to understand, evaluate, and plan their own growth, change, and maturation.</p>

<p>The Field Guide is designed for use by directors, managers, facilitators, governance bodies, officers, and staff members. It provides mechanisms for assessing, developing, managing, and sustaining community projects, programs, and organizational operations. It also offers a snapshot of the tools, resources, and training modules Educopia regularly uses in its consulting and community-building work, including templates, workshops, and guides.</p>

<p>We are offering this Field Guide freely in the hope that it will empower more community facilitators and leaders to invest in the health and sustainability of their own collaborative networks. We highly recommend printing a copy of the Field Guide as it does contain meaningful &ldquo;spreads&rdquo; in its layout that will be best experienced in a full, printed version.</p>

<p>For more information about the Field Guide and how it can be used to improve the viability of a broad range of library, archives, museum, and publisher communities, please contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:katherine@educopia.org">katherine@educopia.org</a>.</p>

<p>(Info taken from:&nbsp;https://educopia.org/cultivation/)&nbsp;</p>


title: Systeminterne Langzeitspeicherung ist keine Archivierung!
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1468333
type: Other
keywords: ["digital preservation", "regional archives"]
date: 2018-09-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Horst Gehringer", "Walter Bauernfeind", "Miriam Eberlein", "Ulrich Fischer", "Britta Günther", "Michael Habersack", "Thomas Heiler", "Alexandra Lutz", "Britta Meierfrankenfeld", "Harald Stockert", "Michael Wettengel", "Peter Worm"]

abstract:
<p>Empfehlungspapier der Bundeskonferenz Kommunalarchiv (BKK) zur Abgrenzung von systeminterner Langzeitspeicherung, wie vermehrt von Anbietern von Fachverfahren angeboten, zu digitaler Langzeitarchivierung nach archivfachlichen Standards. Handreichung / Beschluss der Bundeskonferenz Kommunalarchive in Rostock vom 25.09.2018.</p>

<p>Die Bundeskonferenz der Kommunalarchive (BKK) ist das archivische Fachgremium beim Deutschen St&auml;dtetag als dem gesch&auml;ftsf&uuml;hrenden Verband der Bundesvereinigung der kommunalen Spitzenverb&auml;nde. Die BKK dient dem Erfahrungsaustausch &uuml;ber fachspezifische Themen und Probleme kommunaler Archive und der Beratung<br>
der Hauptgesch&auml;ftsstellen der kommunalen Spitzenverb&auml;nde zu Fragen des kommunalen Archivwesens.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Server-side Preservation of Dynamic Websites
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1464745
creators: ["Bocyte"]
type: Report
date: 2018-07-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The aim of this report is to offer new insights into the possibilities for website preservation. Server-side preservation complements large-scale web crawling solutions with an in-depth conservation approach for individual online productions. The method relies on the belief that digital preservation needs to start with website creators at the pre-ingest stage before the umbilical cord connecting the website to its server-side environment is cut off. Websites are complex ecosystems, most of which lie hidden under the surface of a webpage. A server-side preservation approach aims to include individual components of that ecosystem and dependencies between them in order to preserve a fully functioning and contextualised dynamic website. Since there are few publicly available examples of this strategy, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision has recently initiated research around the subject. This report is the result of a five-month internship exploring the topic. It provides advice for the institute on the server-side preservation of dynamic websites, highlights further steps to be taken and offers a reflection on the challenges that might be encountered along the way.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "websites", "interactives", "web archiving", "benglabs", "Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision"]


title: Preserving Interactives White Paper
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1464636
creators: ["Erwin Verbruggen"]
type: Working paper
keywords: ["benglabs, digital preservation, web archiving, emerging formats, storytelling"]
date: 2018-05-31T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This white paper seeks to answer the question of how we can preserve interactive documentaries &mdash; a loosely undefined amalgam of works that are represented online, via browser applications or mobile apps. It gives a critical outline of current preservation practices for complex interactive documentaries that are supported through an industry loosely affiliated with film and documentary festivals: IDFA, Tribeca, Sundance, and in the East certain markets focusing on VR. It describes what solutions we currently have available and identifies lingering problem areas. It points to practical examples of works that have been stored and preserved and, where possible, kept accessible on-line. It also proposes categories of works that could benefit from the same approaches.</p>


title: iPRES Authors 2004 - 2017 by Country
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1462500
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Other
date: 2018-09-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>Introduction</strong><br>
This infographic compiles information for iPRES authors 2004 - 2014, grouped by the country associated with their affiliated institution. Motivation for this work was an analysis for the 15th Interational Conference on Digital Preservation, looking back at how globally spread participation is. While iPRES originally started out as&nbsp;&nbsp;the&nbsp;&bdquo;Chinese-European Workshop on Digital Preservation&rdquo; (Beijing July 14 &ndash; 16, 2004), the series locale now alternates between&nbsp;Asia/Oceania &ndash; Americas &ndash; Europe<br>
<br>
<strong>Methodology</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>pulled all author names &amp; country of their affiliated institution out of conference program / proceedings, as linked from&nbsp;https://ipres-conference.org/&nbsp;</li>
	<li>included: authors of presentations (2004-2007), long/short/full paper (2008/2009),&nbsp;long/short/full paper (since 2010),&nbsp;posters (since 2010), demos (since 2011), tutorials (since 2010), workshops (since 2010), panels (since 2010)</li>
	<li>not Included: Keynotes</li>
	<li>counts are by hit per country, i.e. each time an author from a country appears on the list, the counter rises by 1&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Linitations </strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>graphic shows overall participation 2004 - 2017 (no breakdown by year)</li>
	<li>graphic shows hits by country (no unique author list)</li>
	<li>graphic&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Future work</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>unique author list</li>
	<li>look at how country participation changes over the course of the years</li>
	<li>look at typical multi-country co-authorships</li>
</ul>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1435097
creators: ["Laura Molloy"]
type: Presentation
date: 2018-09-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
"It's not the kind of thing that gets taught in art school, is it?": Digital Preservation in Contemporary Visual Art Workflows

abstract:
<p>Slides presented at the International Digital Preservation Conference, iPres 2018 (ipres2018.org) at MIT, Boston, on 25 Sep 2018.&nbsp; Talk by Laura Molloy on digital preservation practices identified by qualitative enquiry in contemporary visual art practice in the UK.&nbsp; More information from @LM_HATII on Twitter or email laura[at]codata.org.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "digital curation", "visual art", "digital skills", "research data management", "information science", "qualitative research", "digital information literacy"]


title: iPRES 2017 Kyoto - Collaborative Notes
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1433826
type: Working paper
keywords: ["digital preseration", "conference notes"]
date: 2018-04-05T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Michelle Lindlar", "Joshua Ng", "William Kilbride", "Euan Cochrane", "Jaye Weatherburn", "Rachel Tropea"]

abstract:
<p>These are notes that were collabroatively taken during the 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES), 25th - 29th September 2017 in Kyoto, Japan.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Collaborative note taking was facilitated through a Google Doc, that document also still resides at http://bit.ly/ipres2017. The document deposited here is considered version 1.0, captured on September 23rd 2018 with the last documented change in the Google Doc having been made on April 5th 2018.</p>


title: The Archivist's Guide to KryoFlux
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1413524
type: Preprint
keywords: ["disc imaging", "digital preservation", "user guide", "media migration"]
date: 2018-08-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Jennifer Allen", "Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez", "Kelly Bolding", "Faith Charlton", "Patricia Ciccone", "Yvonne Eadon", "Matthew Farrell", "Allison Hughes", "Victoria Maches", "Shira Peltzman", "Alice Prael", "Scott Reed", "Dorothy Waugh"]

abstract:
<p>The Archivist&rsquo;s Guide to KryoFlux aims to provide a comprehensive resource for practitioners<br>
working with born-digital materials in an archival context.</p>

<p>This is the version of <a href="https://github.com/archivistsguidetokryoflux/archivists-guide-to-kryoflux/commit/29a146dcc2b1d6f7d82d38bebb445ce970b7ada2#diff-4a643372d38d134a8d46498682a3563f">Archivist&#39;s Guide to KryoFlux_20180801.pdf</a>&nbsp; as per github repository commit https://github.com/archivistsguidetokryoflux/archivists-guide-to-kryoflux/commit/29a146dcc2b1d6f7d82d38bebb445ce970b7ada2</p>

<p>One of the author&#39;s has indicated that it should be cited as version 0.9.</p>


title: The DURAARK Project– long-term preservation of architectural 3D-Data
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1326653
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Hedda Saemann"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["digital preseration", "architectural data", "3D"]
date: 2014-09-06T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>Abstract&nbsp;</strong></p>

<p>The preservation of scientific and cultural heritage is increasingly linked to the maintenance of long-term availability of digital information, for which no general strategy has been developed yet. In the cultural heritage domain, a digital representation may exist as a documentary representation of an existing analogue object &ndash; however, in some cases, it may also be the only remaining documentation of an analogue object which has been destroyed or lost.<br>
In the documentation of architecture, a diversified mixture of analogue materials, like notes and sketches, as well as of &ldquo;born digitals&rdquo;, like CAD drawings and 3D-laserscans, is being generated. With the shift from analogue 2D plans to digital 3D representations in architecture, these materials create a growing data pool ideally documenting an object&rsquo;s life cycle. Such complex time studies can be irreplaceable cultural heritage objects, as they document architectural structures over changes due to remodeling, planned demolition or unplanned destruction.<br>
In February 2013, the EU-funded project DURAARK &ndash; Durable Architectural Knowledge was launched under participation of the Leibniz University Hanover (L3S/TIB). The three-year project aims at the development of methods for the long-term preservation of architectural 3D data. From the ingest, storage and retrieval of 3D objects to measurements for the preservation of long-term availability DURAARK covers a wide range of processes and methods. The paper presents first findings of the project and covers identified requirements for the preservation of 3D data from the data storage, the file format choice as well as the semantic perspective.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1326587
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Martin Tamke"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital curation", "3D data", "architectural data"]
date: 2014-05-13T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Presentation: A Domain-driven Approach to Digital Curation and Preservation of 3D Architectural Data - Stakeholder Identification and Alignment in the DURAARK project

abstract:
<p>Presentation held at the&nbsp;Archiving 2014 Conference of the Society for Imaging Science &amp; Technology (IS &amp; T) in Berlin, May 13th &ndash; 16th 2014.</p>

<p>Abstract:&nbsp;</p>

<p>DURAARK is an interdisciplinary EU FP7 project which researches and develops processes and methods for the digital preservation of architectural three dimensional data. Challenges addressed within the project relate to different aspects of the curation and preservation process, including semantic and geometric enrichment, consistent naming schemas and ontologies, as well as pre-ingest tasks in OAIS compliant digital preservation workflows. In a first step, the project identified stakeholders for methods and processes. Since the project strives for a holistic digital preservation approach, different models were taken into account to align the identified stakeholders with the overall curation and preservation workflow. This alignment leads to a better understanding of stakeholder involvement in the process and of the implications this involvement has on preservation decisions. It furthermore outlines the basis for future work in this area.<br>
&nbsp;</p>


title: The Flashback Project: rescuing disk-based content from the 1980's to the current day
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1321630
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "digital forensics", "preservation planning", "collection profiling"]
date: 2016-02-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Maureen E Pennock", "Michael Day", "Peter May", "Kevin Davies", "Simon Whibley", "Akiko Kimura", "Edith Halvarsson"]

abstract:
<p>This paper introduces the British Library&#39;s Flashback project, a proof-of-concept that explored the practical challenges of preserving digital content stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks) using a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between 1980 and 2010. It describes some of the activities undertaken by the project, including: the initial collection profiling and sampling of content, the extraction of the content from discs, and the project team&#39;s experiments with identifying and applying preservation approaches to the content, which included both emulation and migration. It concludes with some general observations on the approaches taken and looks forward to the second phase of the project.</p>


title: "Varying realities?" – a SWOT analysis of a consortially operated digital preservation system
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1309333
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Thomas Bähr"]
type: Poster
date: 2013-06-26T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Poster presented at LIBER Conference. Munich, Germany, 26.&ndash;29. June 2013.</p>

<p><strong>Abstract for poster submission:</strong><br>
&bdquo;Varying realities?&ldquo; &ndash; a SWOT analysis of a consortially operated digital preservation<br>
system<br>
<em>Michelle Lindlar and Thomas B&auml;hr &ndash; TIB / Goportis</em><br>
<br>
It was the Austrian-American communications theorist and philosopher Paul Watzlawick who said that &bdquo;The belief that one&rsquo;s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions&ldquo;. Current discourse shows how strongly this statement applies to digital preservation &ndash; may it be in form of the discussions lead on terminology, such as &ldquo;digital preservation&rdquo; versus &ldquo;digital curation&rdquo; - or in form of debates on whether either migration or emulation or a combination of the two is the better preservation strategy available. While standards like the OAIS reference model give the digital preservation community a common<br>
vocabulary, the interpretation of that vocabulary can differ greatly.<br>
The implementation and operation of a digital preservation system within a consortium offers great chances in form of synergies shared, but also bears the great risk of &ldquo;varying realities&rdquo;. Internal and external risks need to be carefully considered. The first factors that come to mind usually regard budgeting and staffing questions, followed by implications of shared hardware.<br>
Furthermore, a consortially operated system also needs to support the preservation strategies of the singular institutions. Do those strategies align, or is a system implementation required which supports several strategies?<br>
A careful analysis of all factors is a necessary prerequisite for successful system implementation and operation. But how can the factors be adequately captured and weighed against each other?<br>
A SWOT analysis is a classical management tool which in a library context is often applied in the field of marketing. However, the grid display of strengths (S), weaknesses (W), opportunities (O) and threats (T) allows a differentiated view of internal and external chances and risks which makes an ideal supporting tool for any decision making and strategic planning process. As such, it may allow us to detect &ldquo;alternate realities&rdquo; of a joint digital preservation system.<br>
The poster will exemplify how a SWOT analysis can be used in the context of a consortially operated digital preservation system. It will include an analysis based on the Goportis digital preservation pilot project (2009-2011) as well as on the experiences TIB has made as the hosting institution of the system since 2010. The Goportis consortium is the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information, which consists of the three German national subject libraries TIB, ZB MED and ZBW.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "collaboration", "distributed preservation", "organization", "risk analysis"]


title: "Time to change" – Effects and Implications of Digital Preservation in an Organizational Context
url: https://doi.org/10.29173/iq471
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Journal article
keywords: ["digital preservation", "organization", "change processes"]
date: 2014-03-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p><strong>Abstract</strong><br>
Digital preservation is not a pure technical task &ndash; the first paragraph of the OAIS, the probably most cited work in the context of digital preservation, clearly says so: &ldquo;An OAIS is an archive, consisting of an organization, which may be part of a larger organization, of people and systems that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community&rdquo; (CCSDS 2012). But what prerequisites does an institution have to fulfill for &ldquo;digital preservation readiness&rdquo;? And what effect does digital preservation have on the organization itself? How does the task digital preservation fare in juxtaposition with the necessary resources &ldquo;organization&rdquo;, &ldquo;people&rdquo; and &ldquo;systems&rdquo;? Digital preservation within an organizational context requires different layers of change: During the implementation process the necessary resources have to be allocated and aligned. Since digital preservation is a cross-sectional task, drawing from the expertise of different stakeholders, this may require organizational change in form of new team structures. Furthermore, digital preservation is a rather fluid task, which requires constant monitoring and adaptability. Both change layers &ndash; the initial one as well as the ongoing one &ndash; have direct effects and implications on an organization.</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1309299
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital curation", "BIM", "3D", "architecture", "cultural heritage"]
date: 2018-07-11T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Presentations from "DEDICATE - Design's Digital Curation for Architecture". Final Seminar, 21st October 2013, University of Glasgow

creators:
["Michelle Lindlar", "Alex Ball", "Graham Hayne", "John McKechnie", "Adam Frost", "Emily Nimmo", "Christina Gonzalez-Longo"]

abstract:
<p>Presentations from &quot;DEDICATE - Design&#39;s Digital Curation for Architecture&quot;. Final Seminar, 21st October 2013, McGregor Building Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow.<br>
Workshop organizer: Dr Ruggero Lancia<br>
http://architecturedigitalcuration.blogspot.com/</p>

<p><strong>Introduction:</strong></p>

<p>Proprietary data formats, undisclosed specifications, partial standardisation, lack of adequate open formats, and the fast obsolescence of hardware, supporting operative systems and software are the major issues undermining both the data survival and reuse.<br>
The cultural impact of data curation in these practices is a new phenomenon that reshapes established contextual procedures, legal requirements and professional definitions.<br>
This DEDICATE seminar gathers together speakers from different institutions and background to demonstrate a variety of initatives addressing the management of built environment related at athat converge investigative methods, cultural approaches to data production and management and digital techniques.</p>

<p><strong>Presentations:</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>DURAARK - Michelle Lindlar, German National LIbrary of Science and Technology</li>
	<li>Preserving CAD, the dpc report - Alex Ball, University of Bath</li>
	<li>BIM Centre - Graham Hayne, Glasgow Caledonian University</li>
	<li>The RIBA Enterprises BIM Programme - John McKechnie, RIBA Enterprises</li>
	<li>Cyark Europe - Adam Frost, Cyark Europe</li>
	<li>Curating the RCAHMS collections - Emily Nimmo, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland</li>
	<li>Beyond built heritage documentation: digital applications needs for research and conservation - Christina Gonzalez-Longo, University of Srathclyde<br>
	&nbsp;</li>
</ul>


title: Non-textual materials at TIB - an emulation use case?
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1309239
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: Presentation
keywords: ["digital preservation", "emulation"]
date: 2012-11-17T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Presentation held at the OPF Hackathon &quot;Emulation, learn from the experts&quot; at University of Freiburg, Freiburg i.Breisgau, Germany November 17 2012</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1309201
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Thomas Bähr", "Sven Vlaeminck"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "education", "training", "gap anaysis"]
date: 2011-06-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Puzzling over digital preservation – Identifying traditional and new skills needed for digital preservation

abstract:
<p>Abstract:<br>
Digital preservation is a task requiring library and information science as well as information technology skills. It simultaneously utilizes traditional library skills and requires knowledge from information technology that goes far beyond the traditional roles of library and archive staff. But where does one start when implementing a digital preservation program? What knowledge is needed? What tasks can be covered by existing personnel?<br>
Where can one acquire expert knowledge needed? What information resources exist? Can a scalable approach be implemented to gain necessary skills?<br>
The paper is based upon a gap analysis conducted by the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information &ldquo;Goportis&rdquo;. It describes necessary know-how identified, ranging from digital curation skills needed to evaluate digital data carriers to specialist digital preservation knowledge of file formats needed to describe information with the goal of sustaining accessiblilty over long-term. It shows how central tasks of digital preservation like process description and preservation planning require expert knowledge of traditional librarian and information technology skills as well as new knowledge which is described as digital preservation skills.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1308845
creators: ["Eld Zierau"]
type: Conference paper
date: 2017-09-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
OAIS and Distributed Digital Preservation in Practice. An exploration of Danish and other use cases that contributed to the development of the Outer OAIS–Inner OAIS Model for Distributed Digital Preservation

abstract:
<p>ABSTRACT<br>
The aim of the paper is to illustrate how the distributed aspects of digital preservation can be aligned in practice, with the concepts and principles of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model.<br>
There has been a growing awareness within the digital preservation community of the need for cooperation between organizations to address digital preservation requirements. One common example is that replicas of preservation copies of digital objects need to be independently preserved (e.g., stored, managed, monitored, documented) to ensure that at least one correct replica will survive for as long as needed. Such independence can be achieved through distributed digital preservation that relies upon specific agreements between participating and contributing organizations. The OAIS Reference Model does not address the challenges of distributed digital preservation in detail, though it acknowledges the potential benefits and the options.<br>
A model in form of an extension to the OAIS Reference Model was developed by a Danish bit repository project, as there was an urgent need for such a model. This model has evolved to the Outer OAIS&ndash;Inner OAIS (OO-IO) Model through the international project &ldquo;Framework for Applying the OAIS Reference Model to Distributed Digital Preservation&rdquo;. Previous papers have presented the theoretical basis for the OO-IO model as a model to describe distributed digital preservation systems in a way that conforms to the OAIS Reference Model, but practical examples of applying the model have been sparse.<br>
This paper provides detailed descriptions of how the need for the OO-IO model emerged, how it has been used for both design and audit of the Danish bit repository, how we plan to use it for minimal effort ingest, and what other use cases there are for applying the OO-IO model for distributed digital preservation purposes. This will illustrate how using the OO-IO model can assist in the analysis of complex digital preservation tasks of a distributed OAIS-conformant repository, where the OO-IO model provides terminology and contribute to break down analysis and audit questions.</p>

keywords:
["OAIS Reference Model, Distributed Digital Preservation, Standards, Audits, Analysis, Collaboration"]


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1308117
creators: ["Eld Zierau"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "distributed digital preservation", "distributed systems", "OAIS"]
date: 2018-07-06T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
OAIS e a Preservação Digital Distribuída na Prática. Uma exploração de casos de uso, dinamarqueses e outros, que contribuíram para o desenvolvimento do Modelo OO-IO (OAIS Externo – OAIS Interno) para Preservação Digital Distribuída

abstract:
<p>Translated from English to Portugese by&nbsp;Miguel Rio Branco Nabuco de Gouv&ecirc;a and&nbsp;Rubens Ribeiro Gon&ccedil;alves da Silva with the permission of the author.</p>

<p>Original Title: &quot;OAIS and Distributed Digital Preservation in Practice. An exploration of Danish and other use cases that contributed to the development of the Outer OAIS&ndash;Inner OAIS Model for Distributed Digital Preservation&quot; In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation. Ipres2017. Kyoto, Japan, September 25th - 29th 2017.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>


title: Preservation Planning for Emerging Formats at the British Library
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1303008
creators: ["Michael Day", "Maureen Pennock", "Caylin Smith", "Jeremy Jenkins", "Ian Cooke"]
type: Preprint
date: 2018-07-02T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The British Library and the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries have been collecting various forms of born-digital digital publications since 2013 as part of what is known as Non-Print Legal Deposit (NPLD). In 2017, the UK Legal Deposit Libraries established an Emerging Formats project to look at selected types of content that were potentially in scope for NPLD. At the beginning of 2018, the British Library&rsquo;s digital preservation team commenced research, as part of the project, into the preservation implications of some of these new forms of publication. Over the course of three months, the project analysed a small sample of interactive narrative works and mobile eBook apps from the Apple store. The evaluation revealed specific characteristics including: the automated personalisation of narrative content; the integration of images taken by device cameras; movement-driven behavioural changes to item displays; the use of third party content to drive narratives forward; and, game-like features with a high dependency on visual, illustrated displays. Engagement with content experts underlined the significance of the interactive elements, suggesting that any subsequent preservation plans need to take this into account. Accompanying technical analysis using the Library&rsquo;s format sustainability assessment framework identified issues around DRM (digital rights management), proprietary environments, and the use of third-party content. Whilst further research is clearly needed to validate the findings beyond the initial sample size and to resolve the technical challenges identified, other more conceptual questions remain about such matters as ownership, authority, provenance, versioning, and personalisation. Engagement with content providers will be key to resolving all of these in a satisfactory manner.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "significant properties", "preservation planning", "non print legal deposit", "mobile apps", "interactive narratives", "interactive fiction"]


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1299966
creators: ["Maureen E Pennock", "Peter May"]
type: Poster
date: 2018-06-28T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections: the Integrated Preservation Suite.

abstract:
<p>This poster describes the Integrated Preservation&nbsp;Suite (IPS) project. IPS is a British Library initiative to develop and populate an&nbsp;infrastructure capable of supporting&nbsp;preservation planning of highly diverse digital collections at scale.&nbsp;&nbsp;IPS is comprised of the following conceptual components:</p>

<ul>
	<li>A Representation Information Registry with information about formats and wider technical environments relevant to the Library&rsquo;s digital collections;</li>
	<li>A Preservation Software Repository containing requisite current and legacy software for implementing preservation plans and rendering files;</li>
	<li>An actionable Policy &amp; Planning Repository of collection-specific data including collection profiles, preservation policies, and collection-specific preservation plans.</li>
</ul>

<p>These are accessed by a Preservation Workbench that interfaces between the components and the repository solution, accompanied by an Execution Platform upon which to test and execute actions, and a Preservation Watch function to trigger generation of a preservation plan within the Workbench interface for a known and imminently manifesting risk.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "preservation planning", "OAIS", "Representation Information", "Software preservation"]


url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1255965
creators: ["Barbara Signori", "Steve Knight", "Natasa Milic-Frayling"]
type: Other
keywords: ["iPRES", "digital preservation", "proceedings"]
date: 2016-10-06T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
title:
iPRES 2016 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation: iPRES 2016 – Swiss National Library, Bern

abstract:
<p>Full iPRES2016 proceedings document, also available at University of Vienna Phaidra Repository: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:502812</p>

<p>Proceedings contain:</p>

<p>Short Papers</p>

<ul>
	<li>A Decade of Preservation: System Migrations in Chronopolis (Sibyl Schaefer, Mike Smorul, David Minor, Mike Ritter)</li>
	<li>Digital Preservation through Digital Sustainability (Matthias Stuermer, Gabriel Abu-Tayeh)</li>
	<li>Building a Future for our Digital Memory: A National Approach to Digital Preservation in The Netherlands (Marcel Ras)</li>
	<li>Status of CELLAR: Update from an IETF Working Group for Matroska and FFV1 (Ashley Blewer, Dave Rice)</li>
	<li>PREMIS 3.0 Ontology: Improving Semantic Interoperability of Preservation Metadata (Angela Di Iorio, Bertrand Caron)</li>
	<li>Exhibiting Digital Art via Emulation - Boot-to-Emulator with the EMiL Kiosk System (Dragan Espenschied, Oleg Stobbe, Thomas Liebetraut, Klaus Rechert)</li>
	<li>Project &bdquo;The Digital City Revives&ldquo;: A Case Study of Web Archaeology (Tjarda de Haan)</li>
	<li>Ellipse &ndash; Long-term and Permanent Protection and Accessibility of Geodata (Tobias M&eacute;rinat, Chiara Marciani, Krystyna Ohnesorge, Alain Mast)</li>
	<li>Preserving Research Data: Linking Repositories and Archivematica (Jenny Mitcham, Matthew Addis, Chris Awre, Julie Allinson, Richard Green, Simon Wilson)</li>
	<li>Implementing Automatic Digital Preservation for a Mass Digitization Workflow (Henrike Berthold, Andreas Romeyke, J&ouml;rg Sachse, Stefan Fritzsche, Sabine Krug)</li>
	<li>Applied Interoperability in Digital Preservation: solutions from the E-ARK Project (Kuldar Aas, Janet Delve, Andrew Wilson)</li>
	<li>Copyright in Cultural Heritage Institutions: Snapshot of the Situation in Switzerland from a librarian perspective (Andrea Ruth Schreiber)</li>
	<li>The Ties that Bind - On the Impact of Losing a Consortium Member in a Cooperatively Operated Digital Preservation System (Michelle Lindlar)</li>
	<li>A Method for Acquisition and Preservation of Email (Claus Jensen, Christen Hedegaard)</li>
	<li>Processing Capstone Email Using Predictive Coding (Brent West, Joanne Kaczmarek)</li>
	<li>Using RMap to Describe Distributed Works as Linked Data Graphs: Outcomes and Preservation<br>
	Implications (Karen Hanson, Sheila Morrissey, Aaron Birkland, Tim Dilauro, Mark Donoghue)</li>
</ul>

<p>Long Papers</p>

<ul>
	<li>An OAIS-oriented System for Fast Package Creation, Search, and Access (Sven Schlarb, Rainer Schmidt, Roman Karl, Mihai Bartha, Jan R&ouml;rden, Janet Delve, Kuldar Aas)</li>
	<li>Securing Trustworthy Digital Repositories (Devan Ray Donaldson, Raquel Hill, Heidi Dowding, Christian Keitel)</li>
	<li>Will Today&rsquo;s Data Be Here Tomorrow? Measuring The Stewardship Gap (Jeremy York, Myron Gutmann, Francine Berman)</li>
	<li>What Makes a Digital Steward: A Competency Profile Based On The National Digital Stewardship Residencies (Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Peggy Griesinger, Julia Kim, Shira Peltzman, Vicky Steeves)</li>
	<li>Identifying Barriers To File Rendering In Bit-level Preservation Repositories: A Preliminary Approach (Kyle Rimkus, Scott Witmer)</li>
	<li>Practical Analysis of TIFF File Size Reductions Achievable Through Compression (Peter May, Kevin Davies)</li>
	<li>Towards a Risk Model for Emulation-based Preservation Strategies: A Case Study from the Software-based Art Domain (Klaus Rechert, Patricia Falcao, Tom Ensom)</li>
	<li>A Case Study on Emulation-based Preservation in the Museum: Flusser Hypertext (Frank Padberg, Philipp T&ouml;gel, Daniel Irrgang, Martin H&auml;berle)</li>
	<li>Precise Data Identification Services for Long Tail Research Data (Stefan Proell, Kristof Meixner, Andreas Rauber)</li>
	<li>CERN Services for Long Term Data Preservation (Jamie Shiers, Frank Berghaus, German Cancio Melia, Suenje Dallmeier Tiessen, Gerado Ganis,Tibor Simko, Jakob Blomer)</li>
	<li>Designing Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Metadata Extraction in Billion-Record Archives (Gregory Jansen, Richard Marciano, Smruti Padhy, Kenton McHenry)</li>
	<li>Navigating through 200 Years of Historical Newspapers (Yannick Rochat, Maud Ehrmann, Vincent Buntinx, Cyril Bornet, Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Kaplan)</li>
	<li>Towards a Systematic Information Governance Maturity Assessment (Diogo Proen&ccedil;a, Ricardo Vieira, Jose Borbinha)</li>
	<li>Conceptualising Optimal Digital Preservation and Effort (Sean Mosely, Jessica Moran, Peter McKinney, Jay Gattuso)</li>
	<li>Mapping Significance of Video Games in OAIS (Rhiannon Bettivia)</li>
	<li>Database Preservation Toolkit: A relational database conversion and normalization tool (Bruno Ferreira, Luis Faria, Jos&eacute; Carlos Ramalho, Miguel Ferreira)</li>
	<li>Exploring Friedrich Kittler&rsquo;s Digital Legacy on Different Levels: Tools to Equip the Future Archivist (Heinz Werner Kramski, J&uuml;rgen Enge)</li>
	<li>Persistent Web References &ndash; Best Practices and New Suggestions (Eld Zierau, Caroline Nyvang, Thomas Kromann)</li>
	<li>Preserving Websites of Research &amp; Development Projects (Daniel Bicho, Daniel Gomes)</li>
</ul>

<p>Posters</p>

<ul>
	<li>A Demonstration of BitCurator Access Webtools and Disk Image Redaction Tools (Christopher Lee, Kam Woods)</li>
	<li>Assigning Rights Statements to Legacy Digital Collections (Laura Capell, Elliot Williams)</li>
	<li>Autonomous Preservation Tools in Minimal Effort Ingest (Asger Askov Blekinge, Thorbj&oslash;rn Ravn Andersen, Bolette Ammitzb&oslash;ll Jurik)</li>
	<li>Born Digital 2016: Generating public interest in digital preservation (Sarah Slade)</li>
	<li>Building Archival Storage Component Using New Open Standard Infrastructure (Dariusz Paradowski)</li>
	<li>Caring For Live Art That Eludes Digital Preservation (Louise Curham)</li>
	<li>Consortial Certification Processes &ndash; The Goportis Digital Archive. A Case Study (Yvonne Friese, Thomas Gerdes, Franziska Schwab, Thomas B&auml;hr)</li>
	<li>Digital Preservation with the Islandora Framework at Qatar National Library (Armin Straube, Arif Shaon, Mohammed Abo Ouda)</li>
	<li>Establishing a generic Research Data Repository: The RADAR Service (Angelina Kraft, Matthias Razum, Jan Potthoff, Ena Brophy)</li>
	<li>Establishing Digital Preservation At the University of Melbourne (Jaye Weatherburn)</li>
	<li>Exit Strategies and Techniques for Cloud-based Preservation Services (Matthew Addis)</li>
	<li>Geospatial Data: Conservation and Archiving Planning (Helen Gollin, Urs Gerber, Martin Schlatter)</li>
	<li>HydraDAM2: Building Out Preservation at Scale in Hydra (Heidi Dowding, Michael Muraszko)</li>
	<li>Project EMiL &ndash; Emulation of Multimedia Objects (Tobias Steinke, Frank Padberg, Astrid Schoger, Klaus Rechert)</li>
	<li>Should We Keep Everything Forever?: Determining Long-Term Value of Research Data (Bethany Anderson, Susan Braxton, Elise Dunham, Heidi Imker, Kyle Rimkus)</li>
	<li>The Status of Compliance with OAIS Reference Model in the National Diet Library Digital Collections (Tsukasa Kimezawa, Shuji Kamitsuna)</li>
	<li>To Act or Not to Act &ndash; Handling File Format Identification Issues in Practice (Matthias T&ouml;we, Franziska Geisser, Roland Suri)</li>
	<li>Web Archiving Environmental Scan (Gail Truman, Andrea Goethals</li>
</ul>

<p>Panels</p>

<ul>
	<li>OAIS for all of us (Marcel Ras, William Kilbride, Sabine Schrimpf, Barbara Sierman)</li>
	<li>Software Sustainability and Preservation: Implications for the Long-Term Access to Digital Heritage (Euan Cochrane, Jessica Meyerson, Natasa Milic-Frayling, David Rosenthal, Zach Vowell)</li>
	<li>Challenges and benefits of a collaboration of the Collaborators: How can we learn and benefit from experiences and set next steps in international collaboration (Marcel Ras, William Kilbride, Sabine Schrimpf, Joachim Jung)</li>
</ul>

<p>Workshops &amp; Tutorials</p>

<ul>
	<li>Workshop 01 What is Preservation Storage? (Andrea Goethals, Steve Knight, Jane Mandelbaum, Nancy McGovern, Gail Truman, Kate Zwaard, Sibyl Schaefer)</li>
	<li>Workshop 02 Personal Digital Archiving: How Can the Cultural Heritage Community Help Individuals Curate Their Own Materials? (Maurizio Lunghi, Helen Tibbo, Christopher Lee, Natascha Schumann, Achim Osswald, Martin Iordanidis)</li>
	<li>Workshop 03 Quality Standards for Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage (Claudio Prandoni, Antonella Fresa, B&ouml;rje Justrell, Peter Pharow, Magnus Geber, Erwin Verbruggen)</li>
	<li>Workshop 04 OSS4Pres 2.0: Building Bridges and Filling Gaps (Sam Meister, Carl Wilson, Shira Peltzman, Heidi Dowding)</li>
	<li>Workshop 05 Innovative Practices in Digital Preservation, Data Life Cycle Management (DLCM): A Swiss Initiative (Pierre-Yves Burgi, Eliane Blumer, Aude Dieud&eacute;, Ana Sesartic)</li>
	<li>Workshop 06 Symmetrical Web Archiving with Webrecorder (Dragan Espenschied, Ilya Kreymer)</li>
	<li>Tutorial 07 Persistent Identifiers for Digital Cultural Heritage (Jonathan Clark, Maurizio Lunghi, Remco Van Veenendaal, Marcel Ras, Juha Hakala)</li>
	<li>Workshop 08 Relational Database Preservation Standards and Tools (Luis Faria, Marcel B&uuml;chler, Kuldar Aas)</li>
	<li>Tutorial 09 Understanding and Implementing PREMIS (Peter McKinney, Eld Zierau, Evelyn McLellan, Angela Dappert)</li>
	<li>Tutorial 10: Introduction to Fedora 4 (David Wilcox, Andrew Woods)</li>
	<li>Workshop 11: How can the UNESCO PERSIST Programme Bring about Digital Sustainability<br>
	through Legacy Software Services? (Janet Delve, David Anderson, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Christopher Lee)</li>
	<li>Workshop 12 Building the Business Case and Funding Advocacy for Data Management Services<br>
	(Paul Stokes, Neil Beagrie, William Kilbride)</li>
	<li>Workshop 13 Towards Smarter Persistent Identifiers (Jonathan Clark, Juha Hakala, Marcel Ras, Carol Riccalton)</li>
	<li>Tutorial 14 Acquiring and Providing Access to Born-Digital Materials with the BitCurator Environment<br>
	and BitCurator Access Webtools (Christopher Lee)</li>
	<li>Workshop 15 PREMIS Implementation Fair (Peter McKinney, Eld Zierau, Evelyn McLellan, Angela Dappert)</li>
	<li>Tutorial 16 Relational Database Preservation: Operational Issues and Use Cases (Kuldar Aas, Janet Delve, Krystyna Ohnesorge, Marcel B&uuml;chler, Anders Bo Nielsen, Phillip Mike T&oslash;mmerholt, Zoltan Lux)</li>
	<li>Workshop 17 Sharing, Using and Re-using Format Assessments (Andrea Goethals, Kate Murray, Michael Day, Kevin L. De Vorsey, Jay Gattuso, Paul Wheatley)</li>
	<li>Workshop 18 Active Data Management Planning: chances and challenges (Felix Engel, Heike G&ouml;rzig, Rob Baxter, Helen Glaves, Simon Waddington, Matthias Hemmje)</li>
</ul>


title: NDSA 2017 Fixity Survey
url: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/SNJBV
type: Dataset
keywords: ["digital preservation", "fixity", "survey"]
date: 2018-04-28T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
creators:
["Katherine Kim", "Bethany Nowviskie", "Wayne Graham", "Becca Quon", "Carol Kussmann", "Winston Atkins", "Aliya Reich", "Matt Schultz", "Lauren Work"]

abstract:
<p>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY<br><br>Fixity checking, or the practice of algorithmically reviewing digital content to insure that it<br>has not changed over time, is a complex but essential aspect in digital preservation<br>management. To date, there have been no broadly established best practices surrounding<br>fixity checking, perhaps largely due to the wide variety of digital preservation systems and<br>solutions employed by cultural heritage organizations. In an attempt to understand the<br>common practices that exist for fixity checking, as well as the challenges institutions face<br>when implementing a fixity check routine, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA)<br>Fixity Working Group developed and published a survey on fixity practices in fall of 2017. A<br>total of 164 survey responses were recorded, of which 89 completed surveys were used in<br>results analysis. Several themes emerged from the survey results:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;● The vast majority of respondents are fixity checking their content or are planning to<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; do so.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;● Fixity checking at specific times, such as to establish an initial baseline fixity value<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; after acquiring content and rechecking fixity values after data transfers, is<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; recognized as good practice.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;● Fixity checking practices varied widely based on the organization, the amount of<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; resources (human and technical) available, the types of software and hardware<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; implemented, and the size of the data corpus to be preserved.</p>
<p><br>The most common challenges associated with implementing a fixity check routine appear<br>to be related to a lack of resources available to set up and maintain the infrastructure<br>necessary to run fixity checks.</p>


title: A PDF Test-Set forWell-Formedness Validation in JHOVE - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228650
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Yvonne Tunnat", "Carl Wilson"]
type: Conference paper
date: 2018-04-25T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Digital preservation and active software stewardship are both cyclical processes. While digital preservation strategies have to be reevaluated regularly to ensure that they still meet technological and organizational requirements, software needs to be tested with every new release to ensure that it functions correctly. JHOVE is an open source format validation tool which plays a central role in many digital preservation workflows and the PDF module is one of its most important features. Unlike tools such as Adobe PreFlight or veraPDF which check against requirements at profile level, JHOVE&#39;s PDF-module is the only tool that can validate the syntax and structure of PDF files. Despite JHOVE&#39;s widespread and long-standing adoption, the underlying validation rules are not formally or thoroughly tested, leading to bugs going undetected for a long time. Furthermore, there is no ground-truth data set which can be used to understand and test PDF validation at the structural level. The authors present a corpus of light-weight files designed to test the validation criteria of JHOVE&#39;s PDF module against &quot;well-formedness&quot;. We conclude by measuring the code coverage of the test corpus within JHOVE PDF validation and by feeding detected inconsistencies of the PDF-module back into the open source development process.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "file format validation", "test data", "quality assurance", "JHOVE", "PDF"]


title: Wikidata for Digital Preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1214319
creators: ["Katherine Thornton", "Kenneth Seals-Nutt", "Euan Cochrane", "Carl Wilson"]
type: Preprint
keywords: ["Wikidata, digital preservation, metadata"]
date: 2018-04-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The Wikidata knowledge base provides a public infrastructure for machine-readable metadata about computing resources. To optimize the Wikidata knowledge base for digital preservation professionals we need to create additional structured descriptions about file formats and software titles. To facilitate this process, we introduce the Wikidata for Digital Preservation portal. This free software portal allows people to browse, and to contribute data to, the Wikidata knowledge base. The interface guides users in contributing data in alignment with current data models for the domain of computing, which are collaboratively created by members of the Wikidata community.</p>

<p>Structured data about file formats, the many versions of software titles, and computing environments are already available in Wikidata. The content of Wikidata is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, meaning that anyone can reuse the data for any purpose. The content in Wikidata is available in more than 350 human languages. The data in Wikidata is FAIR data, and it is five-star linked open data. Our portal provides a streamlined interface designed for the needs of the digital preservation community. When using the Wikidata for Digital Preservation portal, users will be enriching a multilingual repository of data open for reuse across institutional boundaries. The vision we share of using Wikidata as a registry of technical metadata for the domain of computing is a vision of semantic integration of data from multiple sources.</p>

<p>We publish the source code for the Wikidata for Digital Preservation portal under&nbsp; the Gnu General Public License, v3 to ensure that this tool will remain in the public domain. We aligned our license decision with those of other tools in the Wikidata ecosystem and the enabling software infrastructure of Wikidata itself to ensure the sustainability of this infrastructure over time. Active developer communities maintain and provision this public infrastructure, and cultural heritage organizations are able to freely reuse the descriptive and technical metadata for software, file formats, and all other resources in the domain of digital preservation in hundreds of human languages.</p>


title: DPN Digital Preservation Curriculum
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1183284
creators: ["AVPreserve"]
type: Lesson
keywords: ["digital preservation", "workshop curriculum"]
date: 2018-02-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>In response to <a href="https://www.dpn.org">DPN</a> members&rsquo; concerns around the issues of workflow for digital preservation, DPN engaged AVPreserve&nbsp;to develop a digital preservation workflow curriculum to share with DPN members and others in the digital preservation community. The curriculum is being released with a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) license. (License details&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">here</a>.)</p>

<p>This workshop curriculum will equip participants with a set of skills and knowledge that will enable them to enact programmatic digital preservation within their organization and is focused on equipping organizations with the capability to implement and manage a digital preservation program. The workshop modules present the requirements of a digital preservation ecosystem from two parallel viewpoints: &nbsp;governance and program management as well as asset management.</p>

<p>Each of the six modules is estimated to require approximately two hours and it is suggested that the workshop take place over two full days. The modules are:</p>

<p>&bull; Enabling Programmatic Digital Preservation<br>
&bull; Selection<br>
&bull; Preparing for Submission<br>
&bull; Submission &amp; Ingest<br>
&bull; Post-Submission<br>
&bull; Sustainability</p>

<p>DPN is pleased to make this valuable curriculum available and only asks that terms of the CC-BY-SA license be observed. (Details&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">here</a>.) You may download the files below. We trust it will be an effective asset as organizations continue in the critical work of preserving the scholarly, historical, and cultural record for this and future generations.</p>


title: A PDF Test-Set forWell-Formedness Validation in JHOVE - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1115541
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Yvonne Tunnat", "Carl Wilson"]
type: Conference paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "file format validation", "test data", "quality assurance", "JHOVE"]
date: 2017-09-27T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Full Paper - ipres 2017&nbsp;14th International Conference on Digital Preservation / Kyoto, Japan / September 25 &ndash; 29, 2017</p>

<p>Digital preservation and active software stewardship are both cyclical processes. While digital preservation strategies have to be reevaluated regularly to ensure that they still meet technological and organizational requirements, software needs to be tested with every new release to ensure that it functions correctly. JHOVE is an open source format validation tool which plays a central role in many digital preservation workflows and the PDF module is one of its most important features. Unlike tools such as Adobe PreFlight or veraPDF which check against requirements at profile level, JHOVE&rsquo;s PDF-module is the only tool that can validate the syntax and structure of PDF files. Despite JHOVE&rsquo;s widespread and long-standing adoption, the underlying validation rules are not formally or thoroughly tested, leading to bugs going undetected for a long time. Furthermore, there is no ground-truth data set which can be used to understand and test PDF validation at the structural level. The authors present a corpus of light-weight files designed to test the validation criteria of JHOVE&rsquo;s PDF module against &ldquo;well-formedness&rdquo;. We conclude by measuring the code coverage of the test corpus within JHOVE PDF validation and by feeding detected inconsistencies of the PDF-module back into the open source development process.</p>


title: Ingest and Storage of 3D Objects in a Digital Preservation System
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1115512
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Michael Panitz", "Ujwal Gadiraju"]
type: Project deliverable
date: 2015-01-31T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The DURAARK project is developing methods and tools for the Long-Term Preservation (LTP) of architectural knowledge, including approaches to: enrich Building Information Models with &ldquo;as built&rdquo; information from scans, semantically enrich building models with additional data sets, preserve 3D models for future reuse.</p>

<p>This deliverable defines the necessary steps for ingest and storage of 3D objects into anexisting OAIS compliant digital preservation system. It discusses how the gaps, which were previously identified and presented in deliverable D6.6.1, have been addressed in<br>
the DURAARK project so far. Developed methods and tools will be run against the DURAARK test set. Lastly, the existing drafts of the metadata schemas buildm for descriptive information and e57m and ifcm as technical metadata schemas for E57 and<br>
IFC respectively, will be extended significantly and presented in a digital preservation context.<br>
&nbsp;</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "digital curation", "3D", "Building Information Models", "point cloud scans", "metadata"]


title: Current state of 3D object digital preservation and gap-analysis report
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1115504
creators: ["Michelle Lindlar", "Hedda Saemann", "Sebastian Ochmann", "Östen Jonsson", "Ujwal Gadiraju"]
type: Project deliverable
date: 2014-01-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The DURAARK project is developing methods and tools for the Long-Term Preservation (LTP) of architectural knowledge, including approaches to: enrich Building Information Models with &ldquo;as built&rdquo; information from scans, semantically enrich building models with additional data sets, preserve 3D models for future reuse.</p>

<p>This deliverable identifies gaps in existing processes for the digital preservation of 3D objects. The gap analysis is approached through an in-depth analysis of two areas. One area is that of fundamental digital preservation tools and processes regardless of<br>
their content type. It describes processes and standards adapted by the global digital preservation community and implemented in archives of varying domains, e.g., archives dealing predominantly with e-publications as well as AV-archives. The second area is<br>
that of current existing processes for the digital preservation of 3D objects. It describes aspects and challenges which are uniquely tied to the long-term archiving process of this content-type and lists existing tools and standards. The gaps are identified through a<br>
comparison of the content type agnostic and the 3D-specific state of the art descriptions.</p>

keywords:
["digital preservation", "digital curation", "3D", "Building Information Models", "point cloud scans"]


title: TIFF to JPEG2000: report on migration and characterisation experiments
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.840711
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "jpeg2000", "JP2"]
date: 2010-06-15T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report describes a number of experiments on the characterisation (i.e. extraction of the &lsquo;significant characteristics&rsquo;) of JPEG2000 files. The objective of these experiments is twofold: first, the experiments serve to assess the performance of existing characterisation tools with JPEG2000 files. Second, the characterisation results provide information that can be used to verify the behaviour of tools that are used for the creation and processing of JPEG2000 files.</p>

<p>The used methodology is very simple: starting out with a simple test image (in TIFF format), I converted this image to JPEG2000 using a number of different tools. The resulting images were then analysed using different characterisation tools, and the characteristics of the images were compared to those of the source image.<br>
&nbsp;</p>


title: Evaluation of characterisation tools - Part 1: Identification
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.840345
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff", "Carl Wilson"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2011-09-21T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report contains an evaluation of 5 file format identification tools:</p>

<p>&bull; DROID 6.0<br>
&bull; Fido 0.9<br>
&bull; Unix File tool<br>
&bull; FITS 0.5<br>
&bull; JHOVE2</p>


title: Identificatie in het Digitaal Magazijn: Unix File en Apache Tika
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.840196
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2014-04-08T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Deze notitie gaat in op de geschiktheid van de softwaretools <em>Unix File</em> en <em>Apache Tika</em> voor het automatisch identificeren van bestandsformaten in het Digitaal Magazijn van de KB. De notitie begint met een overzicht van de belangrijkste kenmerken van beide tools:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Welke formaten worden ge&iuml;dentificeerd?</li>
	<li>Welke output krijg je, en hoe gedetailleerd is die?</li>
	<li>Op welke informatie is de identificatie gebaseerd?</li>
	<li>Wat gebeurt er als een formaat niet wordt herkend?</li>
	<li>Hoe kun je de tool inbedden in een (Java) workflow?</li>
</ul>

<p>Vervolgens worden resultaten gepresenteerd van een aantal tests. Deze zijn bedoeld om een indruk te krijgen van de kwaliteit van de identificatie, en eventuele verschillen tussen beide tools. Daarnaast geven ze een indruk van de performance. Dit wordt gevolgd door een overzicht van de inzet van identificatietools bij enkele collega-instellingen. De slotparagraaf zet de belangrijkste conclusies op een rijtje, en geeft op basis hiervan een advies over welke tool het meest geschikt lijkt voor gebruik in het DM.</p>


title: Knowledge base of format-specific preservation risks: the OPF File Format Risk Registry
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.839802
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Project deliverable
keywords: ["digital preservation"]
date: 2014-07-22T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>Many file formats have features that are not compatible with the aims of long-term preservation. For example, the use of encryption may result in content becoming inaccessible over time, and files that have dependencies on external resources (e.g. fonts that are not embedded) may not be rendered correctly. Such features are potential preservation risks, and for digital archives it is important to be aware of the fact what risks are associated with a specific format, and how files can be assessed for the presence of a risk. The overall aim of this deliverable is to address this situation by presenting an open knowledge base of format-specific preservation risks.</p>

<p>This was realised by creating a platform that is called the OPF File Format Risk Registry (FFRR), which is part of the Open Planets Knowledge Base Wiki. For a given format, FFRR lists the risks that are associated with it, it provides information on how to test if a file is affected a risk, and it gives recommendations on how to deal with file objects that are affected by a risk. It also provides evidence in the form of sample files. FFRR content was created for the formats JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) and PDF. These formats were chosen because of their particular importance to other SCAPE partners, and they are used here as a proof of concept of the FFRR approach. Research was done on tools that are able to detect preservation risks for these formats. The results of this research were included in FFRR. As no suitable tool existed for JP2, a new tool was developed for this format. As file format risks may be explicitly addressed by institutional policies, a general methodology was developed for an automated assessment (or validation) of files against a policy.</p>


title: Improved validation and feature extraction for JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) images: the jpylyzer tool
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.839783
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff", "René van der Ark", "Carl Wilson"]
type: Preprint
keywords: ["digital preservation", "jpeg2000", "JP2"]
date: 2012-01-01T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This paper presents jpylyzer, a dedicated software tool for validation and feature extraction of JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) images. We first discuss the importance of format validation, and show that for the JP2 format, current tools have deficiencies that make their use in a preservation context problematic. We describe the main characteristics of the new jpylyzer software, and provide some case studies that illustrate its utility in operational imaging workflows.</p>


title: EPUB for archival preservation
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.839711
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["epub", "digital preservation"]
date: 2012-07-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>This report addresses the suitability of the EPUB format for archival preservation. Chapter 2 gives a brief introduction to EPUB. It presents a simple example that illustrates the general structure of an EPUB file. Chapters 3 and 4 go more in-depth, focusing on Core Media Types and the Package and Navigation Documents. Chapter 5 discusses the functionality that is provided by EPUB. In particular, it covers layout and appearance, and the support for multimedia and scripting. For each of these aspects it also explains the differences that exist between versions 2 and 3 of the format. Processing EPUB in an operational (pre-)ingest workflow requires software tools that are able to provide information about each file object (characterisation). Chapter 6 reviews the main available tools. It also includes some tests on 3 data sets. Chapter 7 reviews the overall suitability of EPUB as a preservation format. This is done by evaluating the format against a set of widely used criteria (adapted from The National Archives and Library of Congress). Finally, Chapter 8 wraps up the main conclusions, and provides some recommendations.</p>


title: Adobe Portable Document Format - Inventory of long-term preservation risks
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.801661
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["PDF", "digital preservation", "Portable Document Format"]
date: 2009-10-20T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>The aim of the this report is to provide an overview of features of the Portable Document Format (PDF) that are important from a long-term preservation and accessibility point of view. It starts with an overview of the file structure of a PDF document, the object types that are the building blocks of the format, and the logical document structure these objects are organised into. This is followed by a discussion of some general features of the different PDF versions, such as file identifiers, and how specific PDF versions relate to versions of Adobe&rsquo;s Acrobat Reader. The remaining chapters each focus on a specific theme. For each theme (e.g. &lsquo;fonts&rsquo;, &lsquo;password-protection&rsquo;, etc.), its relevance to digital preservation and accessibility is explained, and the important features that are associated with it are discussed. The risks that are associated with each theme and the implementation history of all discussed features are summarised in separate tables. This will hopefully facilitate getting an overview of the most important risks and understanding the &lsquo;history of PDF&rsquo;. The final section of each chapter explains how &lsquo;risky&rsquo; features can be identified at the level of objects and object attributes in a file.</p>


title: httpreserve/eaccession-research: eAccessions Hyperlinks Version 1.0.0
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.495809
creators: ["Ross Spencer"]
type: Software
date: 2017-04-10T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>eAccessions Hyperlinks Version 1.0.0</p>

<p>Part of my submission to Archives and Manuscripts (2017): Binary Trees? Automatically identifying the links between born-digital records.</p>


title: Behoud offline optische dragers
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.292341
creators: ["Johan van der Knijff"]
type: Report
keywords: ["digital preservation", "optical media"]
date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00
language: en
source: Zenodo Digital Preservation Community
source_url: https://zenodo.org/communities/digital-preservation
abstract:
<p>De Koninklijke Bibliotheek bezit een omvangrijke collectie offline optische dragers. Naar schatting gaat het hierbij om ongeveer 15.000 fysieke dragers. Zo&rsquo;n 60% hiervan bestaat uit CD-ROMs, en 30% uit audio CD&rsquo;s. De resterende 10% bestaat vooral DVD&rsquo;s. Veel van onze CD-ROMs bevatten software, die bedoeld is om in een specifieke omgeving (bijvoorbeeld Windows 95) ge&iuml;nstalleerd te worden. De toegankelijkheid van deze materialen wordt bedreigd door een combinatie van fysieke achteruitgang van de dragers zelf, de teruglopende beschikbaarheid van hardware om de dragers uit te lezen, en het vaak niet beschikbaar zijn van de hard- en softwareketen om de inhoud van de dragers correct te renderen. Dit rapport is een verkennend onderzoek naar de beschikbare mogelijkheden om de toegankelijkheid van deze materialen op de lange termijn te kunnen waarborgen. Het combineert hiermee Preservation Watch (wat zijn de risico&rsquo;s waaraan deze collectie blootstaat) en Preservation Planning (wat is er nodig om deze risico&rsquo;s het hoofd te bieden).</p>


url: http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/fixing-broken-links/#save_page
categories: ["Get Started > Save Digital Stuff Right Now"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Save web pages via:Internet Archive Nominationsarchive.is - Also known as archive.today. perma.ccwebcitation.orgUK Web Archive Site Nomination - Suggest URLs for the UK Web Archive. Note that UKWA is offline at present. 


url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation
categories: ["Get Started > Learn About Digital Preservation"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
For material that describes the broader issues, you can refer to Digital Preservation on Wikipedia, and consider contributing to the Digital Preservation Wikipedia Project.


url: http://www.curationexchange.org/
categories: ["Get Started > Learn About Digital Preservation"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Understanding your costs can help to plan your preservation work more effectively. The Curation Costs Exchange allows you to compare your costing data with that of many other organisations.


url: https://archiving.witness.org/
categories: ["Get Started > Learn About Digital Preservation"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Learn how to Authenticate, Manage, and Preserve Video -- WITNESS trains activists to archive and preserve their video so that human rights abuses cannot be denied or forgotten over time.


title: Explore and contribute to the DP Requirements and Solutions wiki
categories: ["Get Started > Learn About Digital Preservation"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
url:
http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/REQ/Digital+Preservation+and+Data+Curation+Requirements+and+Solutions


url: https://www.brainscape.com/p/1FA8-LH-5DKH7
categories: ["Get Started > Learn About Digital Preservation"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Brainscape Digital Preservation Flash Cards - See https://github.com/ross-spencer/brainscape-digital-preservation#readme for more information.


categories: ["Get Started > Find Formats"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Game File Format Central (archived version) - Community project documenting over 1300 game related file-formats.

url:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230314075220/http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/Game_File_Format_Central


url: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
categories: ["Get Started > Experiment with Tools > In-Browser Tools"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife. Capable of running lots of basic data operations on text or files, including computing things like MD5 or SHA hashes.


url: https://edsu.github.io/warc-analyzer/
categories: ["Get Started > Experiment with Tools > In-Browser Tools"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
warc-analyser - Proof-of-concept that analyses WARC files in your browser. See https://github.com/edsu/warc-analyzer for more information.


url: https://ross-spencer.github.io/demystify-lite/
categories: ["Get Started > Experiment with Tools > In-Browser Tools"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Demystify Lite - This runs Siegfried WASM on your files in your browser and outputs a Demystify formatted report profiling your collection and highlighting files that might require specific attention during appraisal, such as duplicates; and through various preservation activities, such as caring for file names encoded using specific character-encodings.


url: http://www.flickr.com/groups/2121762@N23/
categories: ["Get Started > Engage Stakeholders"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Visual examples of digital preservation challenges, such as graphic corruption, can be incredibly useful in communicating the digital preservation message. That's why we built the Atlas of Digital Damages Gallery and website. Please add your own images of a digital preservation challenge, failed rendering, encoding damage, corrupt data, or visual evidence documenting to the Atlas of Digital Damages.


url: https://twitter.com/anjacks0n/status/809343452995522560
categories: ["Get Started > Engage Stakeholders"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Working with your IT department (some responses arising from this question on twitter:Backup versus preservation: "I had useful discussions about 'for the long-term' and what issues that might throw up as a starting point.""often it comes down to language - avoid the word archiving. means 1 thing to IT & another DP professionals"Ten IT skills you need to have to work with digital preservation - written by Dave Thompson"Am going to go all Bruce Lee 'adjust to the object'. What drives IT? Delivery, efficiency, user needs etc."


url: http://qanda.digipres.org
categories: ["Get Started > Become Part Of The Digital Preservation Community"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Q&A:Ask and answer digital preservation questionsWe tried to run a Digital Preservation Stack Exchange, but it didn't work out. The content is available here


url: http://dpconline.org/blog
categories: ["Get Started > Become Part Of The Digital Preservation Community"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
ForumsDiscussion forums and active blogs provide the opportunity to share informal advice and war stories, get recommendations and discuss the finer points of digital preservation. By sharing both your intentions for digital preservation work and your results, you can ensure your work benefits from a wealth of community experience.Discuss preservation issues on the Digital Curation forumShare war stories on OPF blogsMastodon - Join these federations with a digital preservation or general GLAM focus:https://digipres.clubhttps://glammr.ushttps://ausglam.spacehttps://code4lib.socialTwitter - Use these lists to find people to follow:https://twitter.com/DavidUnderdown9/lists/digipres1https://twitter.com/An_Old_Hand/lists/digi-pres-rdmhttps://twitter.com/digipresnews/followershttps://twitter.com/NKrabben/listsr/DataHoarder - "We are digital librarians." r/Archiveteam - "Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage." Join the Digital POWRR Slack


url: https://www.meetup.com/digital-cultural-heritage-dc/
categories: ["Get Started > Become Part Of The Digital Preservation Community"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Face-to-Face communities/support groups:Digital Cultural Heritage DCMid Michigan Digital PractitionersXFR Collective: NYC-based media preservation membership organization preserving at-risk and obsolete audiovisual artwork by providing low-cost migration services


url: https://github.com/amiaopensource
categories: ["Get Started > Become Part Of The Digital Preservation Community"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Collaborations (inc. groups that build things together):Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Open Source Committee on GitHubZenodo Digital Preservation Community - Building a comprehensive bibliography of publications, presentations, instructions and data sets related to digital preservation.


url: http://www.oais.info/
categories: ["Get Started > Become Part Of The Digital Preservation Community"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Models, Standards & Certification:The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)CoreTrustSeal - CoreTrustSeal offers to any interested data repository a core level certification based on the Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements.


url: http://dpconline.org/
categories: ["Get Started > Become Part Of The Digital Preservation Community"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Membership organizations:DPC (International)OPF (International)NCDD (Netherlands)NDSA (USA)NESTOR (Germany)


url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagIt
categories: ["Store Digital Content"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
File system conventions:BagItBagIt - BagIt's page on the File Format Wiki.Unexpected errors in the BagIt area - Detailed advice on how to approach testing your Bags.Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL)


url: https://c2pa.org/
categories: ["Create Preservation Metadata"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) - A related, emerging industry standard.WITNESS and the C2PA Harms and Misuse Assessment ProcessFirst Camera With CAI Content Credentials IntroducedMark the good stuff: Content provenance and the fight against disinformation (BBC)Some criticism and exploration of the the limitations of the C2PA approach:C2PA's Butterfly Effect - Broad context as well as limitations.IEEE, BBC, and C2PA - Includes detailed analysis of a specific case.


url: http://www.webarchive.org.uk/datasets/ipres.ds.1/
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
The iPres System Showcase Test Suite - Hosted by the UK Web Archive. Note that UKWA is offline at present. 


url: https://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaOfGraphicsFileFormatsCompanionCd-rom
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
The Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats Companion CD-ROM contains lots of test files for image formats:EGFF ISO Image


url: https://web.archive.org/web/20191231165648/https://openpreservation.org/technology/corpora/
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Open Preservation Foundation had a corpora page (archived version).OPF govdocs hereOPF also created a by-format subset of govdocs1.


url: https://github.com/exponential-decay/skeleton-test-suite
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
The Skeleton Test Suite - Builds test files from PRONOM binary and container signatures. These can be used to test DROID and other (compatible) identification tools.


url: https://web.archive.org/web/20180402195758/http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org/specs/
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
The Metadata Working Group specifications (archived version) and embedded image metadata test corpus (archived version)


url: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1302
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Apache Tika issue about setting up a nightly test corpus - See also tika-parsers/src/test/resources/test-documents


url: https://github.com/artefactual-labs/rdss-archivematica-test-data-corpus
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
RDSS Archivematica Test Data Corpus - A collection of research dataset files used for testing Archivematica integration and functionality in the JISC Research Data Shared Service (RDSS).


url: https://github.com/preforma/groundtruth
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
PREFORMA Ground Truth Classes - Instructions how to reproduce validation-failing files for Matroska, FFV1, LPCM, TIFF, and PDF formats.


url: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/small
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
"Small" - Collection of "the smallest possible syntactically valid files in different programming/scripting/markup languages."


url: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaArea-RegressionTestingFiles
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
MediaArea-RegressionTestingFiles - Public regression testing files for MediaArea. Contains AVI, FLV, MPEG Audio, MOV, MPEG-4, MPEG-PS, and Matroska files.


url: http://web.archive.org/web/20220124205507/http://techslides.com/sample-files-for-development
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
TechSlides sample files for web development (archived version) - Sample files for various image formats, video files, data structures, fonts, and web development files.


url: https://archive.org/details/internet-file-formats-cd
categories: ["Find Test Files > Multi-format Corpora"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Internet File Formats - Companion CD-ROM to Internet File Formats, contains Sample Files and some File Format Specifications for a variety of common file formats circa 1995.


url: https://web.archive.org/web/20141019002403/http://acroeng.adobe.com/wp
categories: ["Find Test Files > Format-specific Corpora > PDF"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Adobe Acrobat Engineering (archived version) - Site has lots of useful test documents (archived version).


url: http://doi.org/10.22000/53
categories: ["Find Test Files > Format-specific Corpora > PDF"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Synthetic PDF Testset for File Format Validation - Test set for well formedness validation in JHOVE - see associated paper.


url: https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-differences
categories: ["Find Test Files > Format-specific Corpora > PDF"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
PDF Differences - Targeted test files that highlight specific portability and interoperability issues by the PDF Association.


url: https://github.com/KBNLresearch/epubPolicyTests
categories: ["Find Test Files > Format-specific Corpora > ePub"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
KBNLresearch/epubPolicyTests - Some #epub samples with encryption, DTBook content and foreign resources, with corresponding #epubcheck output.


title: NITF version 2.1 JPEG 2000 Sample Imagery (archived version)
categories: ["Find Test Files > Format-specific Corpora > JPEG2000"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
url:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180413152928/http://www.gwg.nga.mil/ntb/baseline/software/testfile/Jpeg2000/index.htm


url: http://web.archive.org/web/20080510121012/http://www.crc.ricoh.com/~gormish/jpeg2000conformance/
categories: ["Find Test Files > Format-specific Corpora > JPEG2000"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
JPEG 2000 Part 4 Conformance Test Files (archived version) (v.1.5 with earlier versions also available in the archive history)


title: DROID/PRONOM also has this official guide
categories: ["Improve The Tools > Improving Identification"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
url:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/pronom-file-signature-research.pdf


url: http://jhove.openpreservation.org/documentation/dev-module/
categories: ["Improve The Tools > Improving Characterisation/Metadata Extraction"]
metadata: {}
language: en
source: Awesome Digital Preservation
source_url: https://github.com/digipres/awesome-digital-preservation/
title:
Develop a new file characterisation capability and turn it into a JHOVE module, or an Apache Tika module.


title: Towards Next Generation Digital Preservation Philosophy and Systems
url: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34406
type: thesis
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
New emulation technologies have emerged in the form of Emulation as a Service, and are currently in the late stages of development. These projects have the potential to have positive implications for digital preservation and access. The nature and scope of these projects however, requires examination. A look at what these technologies can do, as well as how they fit into current archival systems, is a necessity. As these technologies allow for the presentation and maintenance of previously neglected properties of the record, there emerges a need to understand why these interactive aspects are important. Archivists will need to begin to think about how these technologies function and can fit into current and prospective archival methods, in order to most effectively make use of them.


title: Emulation: Context and Current Status
type: document
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090331095647/http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/docs/White_paper_emulation_UK.pdf


title: Finding the Material in the Virtual: The Case of Emulation
url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7932795
type: bookSection
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
In 2003, Pittburgh's Andy Warhol Museum revealed a series of artworks by Warhol that had been lost for many years (Heddaya 2014). In collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel and computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University, the museum had recovered a number of digital images that Warhol had created on an early Commodore Amiga personal computer.


title: An Overview of Emulation as a Preservation Method
type: report
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/07/An_Overview_of_Emulation_as_a_Preservation_Method_CLIRpub194.pdf


title: Developing Virtual CD-ROM Collections: The Voyager Company Publications
url: https://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/226
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Over the past 20 years, many thousands of CD-ROM titles were published; many of these have lasting cultural significance, yet present a difficult challenge for libraries due to obsolescence of the supporting software and hardware, and the consequent decline in the technical knowledge required to support them. The current trend appears to be one of abandonment – for example, the Indiana University Libraries no longer maintain machines capable of accessing early CD-ROM titles.In previous work, we proposed an access model based upon networked ‘virtual collections’ of CD-ROMs which can enable consortia of libraries to pool the technical expertise necessary to provide continued access to such materials for a geographically sparse base of patrons, who may have limited technical knowledge.In this paper, we extend this idea to CD-ROMs designed to operate on ‘classic’ Macintosh systems with an extensive case study – the catalog of the Voyager Company publications, which was the first major innovator in interactive CD-ROMs. The work described includes emulator extensions to support obsolete CD formats and to enable networked access to the virtual collection.


title: Quattro Pro for DOS revisited: an obsolete format no more?
url: https://bitsgalore.org/2025/05/28/quattro-pro-for-dos-revisited-an-obsolete-format-no-more
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
This post provides an update to my 2014 attempts at reading old Quattro Pro for DOS spreadsheets with modern software.


title: Emulating Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheets in DOSBox-X
url: https://bitsgalore.org/2025/05/19/emulating-microsoft-multiplan-spreadsheets-in-dosbox-x
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
This post documents how I set up the Microsoft Muliplan software in the DOSBox-X emulator, and how I used this emulation to gain access to some old Multiplan files.


title: How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy
url: https://archive.is/Dqqe2#selection-325.0-353.11
type: magazineArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”


title: Hex Marks The Spot: Extracting files from Amstrad Disks
abstract: Leontien Talboom, Technical Analyst, Cambridge University Library (CUL)
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/hex-marks-the-spot-extracting-files-from-amstrad-disks-c97f811273ac


url: https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121110
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
EaaSI Preservation of Mobile Applications: Progress with the long-term preservation of access to mobile applications using the EaaSI platform


url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551505052347
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Development of a Universal Virtual Computer (UVC) for long-term preservation                 of digital objects

abstract:
Emulation has been proposed as a preservation strategy for longevity of digital objects. An advantage of emulation is the relative platform independency. Emulation with a high degree of platform independency requires a Universal Virtual Computer (UVC), as described by Lorie. This paper describes the realization of the enhanced UVC developed for the National Library of the Netherlands. The preservation method of the UVC at preservation time and at retrieval time (in the future) is concisely described, the conceptual model of the UVC is given, and the object design and the logical data viewer of the UVC are presented. The UVC has been realized and proven to work for image types using the JPEG and GIF87a formats, although performance of the present UVC can still can be improved. The UVC demonstration tool is freely available at the Alphaworks web site to let the general public experience this approach on long-term access.


url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00799-009-0057-1
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Systematic planning for digital preservation: evaluating potential strategies and building preservation plans


url: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/hac.2000.12.3.374
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Jeff Rothenberg, Using emulation to preserve digital documents (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 2000). ISBN 9-06259145-0.


title: A gift to another age: Evaluating virtual machines for the preservation of video games at MoMA
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
This paper investigates the use of virtual machines for the preservation of video games. The study uses Rand and Robyn Miller’s classic adventure game ‘Myst’ (1993) as a sample record to evaluate the performance of four different emulation options for the Mac OS 9
operating system — SheepShaver, QEMU, Apple’s ‘Classic Environment’ and Yale University Library’s emulation-as-a-service-infrastructure platform. Serving as the control for the experiment, Myst is first documented running natively on an original PowerMac G4 and
iMac G3 at MoMA. The native performance is then compared with each emulation software. Finally, a fully configured virtual machine is packaged as a single file and tested in different contemporary computing environments. Due to both its performance and accessibility, SheepShaver is found to
be the optimal choice for Mac OS 9 emulation for the purposes of accessing classic Macintosh computer games. The paper concludes with a call for further research into the issue of emulator obsolescence. More generally, this project clarifies the risks and challenges that arise when using virtual
machines for the long-term preservation of computer and software-based art.


title: Preserving Software: Motivations, Challenges and Approaches
type: report
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://www.dpconline.org/docs/technology-watch-reports/2312-preserving-software-motivations-challenges-and-approaches/file


url: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:294265
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
TOTEM: Trusted Online Technical Environment Metadata - A Long-Term Solution for a Relational Database / RDF Ontologies: Paper - iPRES 2011 - Singapore


url: https://ipres2024.pubpub.org/pub/tc52q3z1/release/1
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Preserving Users’ Knowledge of Contemporary and Legacy Computer Systems: Automated Analysis of Recorded User Activity


title: Remembering ‘Amnesia’: Digital preservationists reboot classic video game
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://news.yale.edu/2024/09/19/remembering-amnesia-digital-preservationists-reboot-classic-video-game

abstract:
A new exhibit at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library examines “Amnesia,” a groundbreaking video game released in 1986, and the library’s efforts to preserve it.


title: THE COMPUTER AS UNIVERSAL TIME MACHINE
type: bookSection
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://empac.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/research-documents/Universal-Time-Machine_TimeCapsule_Goebel-Johannes_web_2022.pdf


type: thesis
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
EaaS as a Condition Assessment Tool for Victoria Vesna's Bodies INCorporated: Master-Thesis zum Erwerb des Masterdiploms in Konservierung-Restaurierung


url: https://www.proquest.com/docview/2553524301/abstract/FD10F4F3F59E4DEDPQ/1
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
From the Presupposition of Doom to the Manifestation of Code: Using Emulated Citation in the Study of Games and Cultural Software

abstract:
For the field of game history to mature, and for game studies more broadly to function in a scholarly manner in the coming decades, one necessity will be improvement of game citation practices. Current practices have some obvious problems, such as a lack of standardization even within the same journal or book series. But a more pressing problem is disguised by the field’s youth: Common citation practices depend on the play experiences and cultural knowledge of a generation of game studies scholars and readers who are largely old enough to have lived through the eras they are discussing. More sustainable and precise alternatives cannot fall back on the tools available for fixed media — such as the direct quotations and page numbers used for books or the screenshots (of images that appear to all viewers) and timecode used for video. Instead, this essay imagines an alternative approach, working in the digital humanities traditions of speculative collections and tool-based argumentation. In the speculative future we present, there are scholarly collections of software, as well as tools available for citing software states and integrating these citations into scholarly arguments. A working prototype of such a tool is presented, together with examples of scholarly use and the results of an evaluation of the concept with game scholars.


title: Preserving Secondary Knowledge: Using Language Models for Software Preservation
url: https://ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/930
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Emulation and migration are still our main tools for digital curation and preservation practice. Both strategies have been discussed extensively and have been demonstrated to be effective and applicable in various scenarios. Discussions have primarily centered on technical feasibility, workflow integration, and usability. However, there remains one important aspect when discussing these two techniques: managing and preserving operational knowledge. Both approaches require specialized knowledge but especially emulation requires future users to also have a great variety of knowledge about past software and computer systems for successful operation. We investigate how this knowledge can be stored and utilized, and to what extent it can be rendered machine-actionable, using modern large language models. We demonstrate a proof-of-concept implementation that operates an emulated software environment through natural language.


title: Getting Eaasi in the Cloud
url: https://blog.timowens.io/getting-eaasi-in-the-cloud/
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
One of many driving factors for us to finding a container-based hosting solution like Reclaim Cloud was not just to enable a whole slew of new applications for the web, but also to dive deeper into what containers could mean for archival purposes. In fact one of the earlier conversations


title: Efficient Access to Emulation-as-a-Service – Challenges and Requirements
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
The shift of the usually non-trivial task of emulation of obsolete software environments from the end user to specialized providers through Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) helps to simplify digital preservation and access strategies. End users interact with emulators remotely through standardized (web-)clients on their various devices. Besides offering relevant advantages, EaaS makes emulation a networked service introducing new challenges like remote rendering, stream synchronization and real time requirements. Various objectives, like fidelity, performance or authenticity can be required depending on the actual purpose and user expectations. Various original environments and complex artefacts have different needs regarding expedient and/or authentic performance.


title: Accessing Software: Emulation in Information Institutions
url: https://www.utexaspressjournals.org/doi/10.7560/IC59101
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
This article presents a study of preservationists implementing emulation workflows in three information institutions that collect and provide access to software: an academic research library, a university technology lab and archive, and a museum of technology. Drawing on participant observation and interviews (N = 25), I present a theory of emulation for preservation based on visions of accessing software, building a vocabulary to represent the temporality and durability of software as both an object and experience. The findings reveal issues preservationists now face in representing multiple temporalities when emulating software and software-dependent resources. These findings contribute to social studies of information institutions where emulation workflows are being planned and implemented as part of providing access to evidence and knowledge. The article also contributes to the study of the invisible technicians and information professionals who maintain computational infrastructure for longterm digital preservation.


url: https://kia.pleio.nl/attachment/entity/931f65cb-2058-4fe9-a500-99bc53dfde40
type: report
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Walking a tightrope across the gap of digital preservation and environmental sustainability: The National Archives of the Netherlands and the challenge of achieving a climate-neutral digital archive

abstract:
In response to the National Climate Agreement of the Netherlands, the National Archives
of the Netherlands (NANETH) needs to become more environmentally sustainable in
every part of the organisation. This includes the category IT & Data storage (and thus
the digital archive). How can NANETH responsibly reduce without sacrificing the
necessary digital sustainability? Taking the first step towards a green digital archive,
this paper describes several examples of more climate-friendly considerations in digital
preservation. Described cases tackle emulation versus migration as a method to preserve
access to digital objects, preservation tools for performing impact assessments, and
fixity checking to preserve the integrity of the digital objects, resulting in realistic
advice for NANETH. This paper is also intended to be an open appeal to the international
GLAM sector to be aware of the impact of the digital archive on the environment, and
that further research on minimising our digital footprint is highly required.


title: Collecting, Curating, Preserving and Researching Media Arts: A good practice report
url: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/476262
type: report
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
This report details progress to date on the “Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and a national collection” ARC Linkage Project. The project sought to develop a good practice method for preserving and emulating historic digital media artworks from a diverse range of case studies drawn from exhibitions and the media art collections that have been developing across the Australian cultural institutions partnering this project.


title: The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from 1990, can we open it?
url: http://blog.jgc.org/2024/02/the-original-www-proposal-is-word-for.html
type: blogPost
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
The W3C has a page with the original WWW proposal  from Tim Berners-Lee. One of the downloads says  The original document file (I think - I ...


title: A Performance Model and Process for Preserving Digital Records for Long-term Access
url: https://library.imaging.org/archiving/articles/2/1/art00006
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
The National Archives of Australia, as the archives and records authority for the Government of Australia, has a requirement to ensure that high value digital records created through the business activity of Australian Government agencies are accessible indefinitely. However, indefinite preservation is extremely difficult when dealing with digital records encoded in proprietary data formats.The National Archives of Australia's digital preservation project, which has been underway since late 2000, aims to develop a methodology for preserving digital records so they will remain accessible over time. The National Archives approach is focussed on the centrality of data formats as the key to viable long-term preservation of digital records. To implement the approach the Archives is developing or adopting a range of open data formats in XML which will be used as schema to transform original digital objects into XML data formats, a process we refer to as &#x2018;normalisation&#x2019;.The first section of the paper provides the context for the NAA digital preservation project. It will discuss the policy approach developed by the National Archives and the performance model adopted. The second half of the paper will describe briefly the preservation process being trialled at the National Archives.


title: Preserving Access to Web Servers
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
With the advent of the so-called Web 2.0 technologies, web resources became the primary platform for internal and external collaboration, knowledge exchange, and self-publication. Many of these services cannot be fully preserved by solely relying on client-side technologies like crawlers. In particular, their dynamic and reactive character will be lost by generating static snapshots. In this article, we develop concepts and describe infrastructure built on emulation to address the problem of retiring obsolete web service infrastructure while keeping the service long-term accessible and usable. We show the practicability of this approach by the example of three use-cases from academic projects.


title: Preserving Born-Digital Design and Construction Records
type: report
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://www.dpconline.org/docs/technology-watch-reports/2555-techwatchreporttemplate-v06-leventhal-thompson-final/file


title: Adding Emulation Functionality to Existing Digital Preservation Infrastructure
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
The emulation of obsolete hardware and software environments to enable information to be read, and to facilitate interaction in a way that simulates the original user experience, is a wellestablished part of digital preservation solutions. Excellent tools have been developed to work with emulators, but these have remained in the research domain rather than being able to be exploited at scale. This paper explores a real example of how an emulation framework has been added to existing digital preservation infrastructure. This integration has enabled information has been extracted from obsolete hardware, held in a digital preservation system at Yale University Library (YUL), and linked to an appropriate emulator (provided by the University of Freiburg’s Emulation as a Service framework). All of this enables YUL to recreate the user experience of interacting with content using the original software quickly and easily whenever a user requests it. This integration offers the prospect of large scale emulation as a service linked to real preserved data that is in need of this approach and this paper will examine the next steps needed to make this a reality.


url: https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121102
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
(How) It Works!: A manifesto..towards establishing a functional software collection at the Vienna museum of science and technology


url: https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121102
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Around for Decades, Gone in a Flash: How We Dealt with Flash objects at the National Archives of the Netherlands


title: Emulation as Mimicry: Reading the Salman Rushdie Digital Archive
url: https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2019.1599552
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
When the Salman Rushdie collection opened in 2011 at Emory University, it drew attention not only for its famous author, but also for the innovative creation of a virtualized representation of the author’s computer, known as an “emulation.” While technically impressive, Rushdie’s emulated computer also carries with it a set of ideological assumptions about what digital literary archives should be and how such archives should be made available to researchers. In this article, I place the Rushdie digital literary archive into dialog with the legacy of colonial and postcolonial archives. Specifically, I demonstrate that emulation-as-access can and should be read in the context of colonial mimicry, as described by Homi K. Bhabha. As with colonial mimicry, emulation is an ambivalent term/technique that aspires to a form of authenticity that is undermined by its own constructedness. Using a number of examples drawn directly from the Rushdie digital archive, I demonstrate that the “slippage” (to use Bhabha’s term) between Rushdie’s actual computers and the (re)presentation of them through emulation, gives us insight into news spaces of reading that illuminate the author, his work, and the possibilities and dangers of the postcolonial digital literary archive writ large.


title: Long term preservation of digital information
url: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/379437.379726
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
The preservation of digital data for the long term presents a variety of challenges from technical to social and organizational. The technical challenge is to ensure that the information, generated today, can survive long term changes in storage media, devices and data formats. This paper presents a novel approach to the problem. It distinguishes between archiving of data files and archiving of programs (so that their behavior may be reenacted in the future).


type: book
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
The state of digital preservation: an international perspective ; conference proceedings, Documentation Abstracts, Inc. Institutes for Information Science, Washington, D.C., April 24-25, 2002


title: Emulation as a Service (EaaS) at Yale University Library | The Signal
url: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2014/08/emulation-as-a-service-eaas-at-yale-university-library/
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Emulation as a Service (EaaS) at Yale University Library. A blog post at "The Signal" on 2014-08-20.


url: http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/836
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Automation is Documentation: Functional Documentation of Human-Machine Interaction for Future Software Reuse

abstract:
Preserving software and providing access to obsolete software is necessary and will become even more important for work with any kind of born-digital artifacts. While usability and availability of emulation in digital curation and preservation workflow has improved significantly, productive (re)use of preserved obsolete software is a growing concern, due to a lack of (future) operational knowledge. In this article we describe solutions to automate and document software usage in a way, such that the result is not only instructive but also productive.


title: A Digital Preservation Wikibase
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
The Wikidata for Digital Preservation (WikiDP) Wikibase is a project of the Yale University Library’s department of digital preservation. The WikiDP Wikibase is an open knowledge base that is publicly available on the web. We outline the relationship of Wikibase to other software of the Wikimedia Foundation, and pro- vide examples of where it is being used. We describe the data models, data sources, and connections between the WikiDP Wikibase and the Wikidata knowledge base. We discuss our decision to use Wikibase for this project which involves transforming a data set related to software into a knowledge base using technologies of the Semantic Web.


title: How Long Can We Build It? Ensuring Usability of a Scientific Code Base
url: //ijdc-test.journals.ed.ac.uk/ijdc/article/view/770
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Software and in particular source code became an important component of scientific publications and henceforth is now subject of research data management.&nbsp; Maintaining source code such that it remains a usable and a valuable scientific contribution is and remains a huge task. Not all code contributions can be actively maintained forever. Eventually, there will be a significant backlog of legacy source-code. In this article we analyse the requirements for applying the concept of long-term reusability to source code. We use simple case study to identify gaps and provide a technical infrastructure based on emulator to support automated builds of historic software in form of source code.
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title: A Gift to Another Age: Evaluating Virtual Machines for the Preservation of Video Games at MoMA
type: thesis
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
This preservation project investigates the use of virtual machines for the preservation of video games. From MoMA’s collection, Rand and Robyn Miller’s classic adventure game Myst (1993) is used as a sample record to evaluate the performance of four different emulation options for the Mac OS 9 operating system—SheepShaver, QEMU, Apple’s “Classic Environment,” and Yale’s University Library's Emulation-as-a-Service-Infrastructure (EaaSI) platform. Serving as the control for the experiment, Myst is first documented running natively on an original PowerMac G4 and iMac G3 at MoMA. The native performance is then compared with each emulation software. Finally, a fully configured virtual machine is packaged as a single file and tested in different contemporary computing environments. More generally, this project clarifies the risks and challenges that arise when using virtual machines for the long-term preservation of computer and software-based art.


url: https://isea-archives.org/docs/2023/3rd_SNMAA_Provisional_Proceedings.pdf
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Preserving a Hardware-Dependent Digital Artwork: Investigating Disk Imaging and Emulation Strategies


title: Whole-system preservation: The future of records transfers
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Digital records have traditionally been transferred and subsequently preserved by exporting them from their source systems into individual files. After export, the files must be arranged, described and ingested into long-term preservation systems. Over time, the content in the files
may also have to be migrated into newer formats. These steps are all time-consuming and costly, and as a result can be barriers to transfer. As many organisations cannot afford the cost of this process, there is a clear risk that their records will never be transferred to appropriate archives.
There is also a risk that the steps described may alter the records, undermining their value as evidence and introducing issues of trust for the organisations involved. This paper discusses how recent work to develop the ability to emulate the servers and client computers needed to run large
enterprise systems and keep them available on demand is providing a new option for addressing these challenges. With this new technology, organisations can leave records in their source systems and transfer working copies of entire systems to appropriate archives for long-term preservation.
Leaving records in place also ensures that the existing documentation in source systems is retained, minimising the need to create additional documentation. The paper also discusses emerging technology that allows for the recording and re-execution of common processes within the preserved
systems so that tasks such as finding and printing or exporting records can be semi-automated, further reducing long-term management costs.


title: Resurrecting the Digital Past: Access to Artistic Content on CD-ROMs
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/collection-care-research/resurrecting-the-digital-past-access-to-artistic-content-on-cd-roms


title: Emulation-as-a-Service - The Past in the Cloud
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Until now, emulation of legacy architectures has mostly been seen as a tool for hobbyists and as technical nostalgia. However, in a world in which research and development is producing almost entirely digital artifacts, new and efficient concepts for preservation and re-use are required. Furthermore, a significant amount of today's cultural work is purely digital. Hence, emulation technology appeals to a wider, non-technical, user-group since many of our digital objects cannot be re-used properly without a suitable runtime environment. This article presents a scalable and cost-effective Cloud-based Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) architecture, enabling a wide range of non-technical users to access emulation technology in order to re-enact their digital belongings. Together with a distributed storage and data management model we present an implementation from the domain of digital art to demonstrate the practicability of the proposed EaaS architecture.


url: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/10.17723/0360-9081-82.1.214
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
The Future of Email Archives: A Report from the Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives


title: In between performance and documentation
url: https://rhizome.org/editorial/2023/may/05/in-between-performance-and-documentation/
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
<p>Digital artworks, even if they appear technically simple, are dependent on computer systems to be performed. Documentation is supposed to be consulted when that performance is not available, in particular when conservators restore a dysfunctional artwork and need guidance on what they should be working towards. However, artworks can also be effectively preserved by becoming a technical hybrid of their original performance and documentation materials.</p>


type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
EaaSI Training Module #8: Beyond the PC – Emulating Closed Systems | Software Preservation Network (SPN)

url:
https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-training-module-8-beyond-the-pc-emulating-closed-systems/


url: https://zenodo.org/record/7272726
type: report
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Supporting Software Preservation Services in Research and Memory Organizations: A White Paper from the Software Preservation Network's Research-in-Practice Working Group

abstract:
This white paper outlines findings from a survey- and interview-based study of software preservation service providers—an expansive category that includes archivists, librarians, preservation specialists, technologists, and other professional roles. The survey and interviews were conducted in 2019 by the SPN Research-in-Practice Working Group. An analysis of the survey and interview data suggests broad support for inter-organizational collaboration in software preservation, despite challenges that surface because of the malleable concepts of “software” that can vary across preservation contexts. Results presented in this paper include a set of service provider personas, an overview of the conceptions of software that exist in research and memory organizations, a delineation of multilevel barriers to software preservation, and a related set of themes and targeted recommendations.


title: Abandonware "After Dark"—How Fair Use Powers Media Studies
type: blogPost
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
http://thetaper.library.virginia.edu/2023/02/23/abandonware-after-dark-how-fair-use-powers-media-studies.html


title: A Preservationist’s Guide to the DMCA Exemption for Software Preservation, 2nd Edition
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1201-Preservationists-Guide-to-DMCA-Exemption_11182022.pdf


type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Authenticity Amidst Change: The Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects | The Signal

url:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2015/12/authenticity-amidst-change-the-preservation-and-access-framework-for-digital-art-objects/

abstract:
The following is a guest post by Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University. In this edition of the Insights Interview series for the NDSA Innovation Working Group, I was excited to talk with collaborators on Cornell University Library&#8217;s Preservation &amp; Access Framework for Digital Art Objects project: Madeline [&hellip;]


url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09406-2
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Slide decks as government publications: exploring two decades of PowerPoint files archived from US government websites

abstract:
Over the last three decades, US government agencies have published hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of PowerPoint files on the web. Hundreds of thousands of these files have been captured and preserved in web archives. With that noted, it remains difficult to find and interact with these files. This paper analyzes a public dataset of 1,000 PowerPoints from US government websites in the Library of Congress web archives to explore the properties of these kinds of files. This publicly available dataset published in 2019 includes a random sample of a thousand files from the more than 300,000 files that purport a PowerPoint media type in the Library of Congress web archives. The study focuses on characterizing the nature of these publications, the extent to which embedded metadata in these documents could be used to improve access to them and exploring what properties of these files are likely to be important to future users. Exploring these data provides a means to begin to understand the value and nature of PowerPoint files as a format of government publishing and government records.


title: The Australian Emulation Network: Accessing Born Digital Cultural Collections
type: conferencePaper
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ISEA2022_Proceedings-of-the-Second-Summit-on-New-Media-Art-Archiving.pdf


title: Emulation makes WORM media a reasonable digital... - digitalcontinuity
type: blogPost
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://digitalcontinuity.org/post/699948992483770368/emulation-makes-worm-media-a-reasonable-digital

abstract:
I’m posting this on my personal blog as it’s not ready for anywhere more formal. There are few citations, and it’s not fully formed, but hopefully of interest. 

 

 In a paper (P225-labeled/P226-actual) I recently presented with Daniel Chadash from Twist BioScience at iPRES 2022 Dan and I discussed how Write Once Read Many (WORM) media is becoming a more viable and attractive option for ensuring the long term preservation of digital content. In the paper we go into detail about why WORM media is now more attractive and discuss how DNA data storage is becoming a particularly practical WORM storage option (and soon part of a write-many solution also). As part of the explanation we briefly discuss the role of emulation in making WORM media more viable. It wasn’t the focus of the paper (which was primarily about DNA data storage) and therefore didn’t get a great deal of exposition. So for this year’s World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2022) I thought I’d spend a little time expanding on it.  

 Most organizations doing digital preservation, and most digital preservation software systems assume and are designed around regular content migration (i.e. some information from interactive software-dependent experiences stored in software and “data” files is going to be selected and reimplemented in new, more modern, software and data files - a process often called “format migration”). Content migration based approaches don’t seem to be compatible with WORM media as they seem to require stored data to be regularly changed or deleted. For example: 

 
 There seems to be an expectation of regular file deletion: If content migration is ever going to happen (it’s hard to find many large scale examples of it “in the wild” so I’m going to be particularly cagey with my language) the process should result in new files being added to the organization’s storage. And the old files that make up the original content are usually proposed to be deleted to save resources. Alternative, (at least in theory) sometimes the original and most recent sets of files after multiple content migrations are kept and interim file sets deleted.  So, content migration as an approach likely requires files to regularly be deleted from storage. 

 There may be a requirement for changing the stored file structure: There is sometimes an expectation in the digital preservation community that the files that make up preserved digital objects, along with their metadata, should be stored in a file structure that maintains them together as a findable intellectual unit. Whether or not any of us agree with that (in my opinion there are good arguments both ways in different contexts), if we assume this is a requirement, a content migration approach likely requires regularly adding new files to those file structures in order to ensure each digital object remains together on the storage media.  In other words, content migration requires changing the file structure of the stored content.  


 This expectation of having to delete or change stored objects if following a content migration based digital preservation approach has led to an assumption that WORM media is not a great solution for long term digital preservation as it doesn’t allow for either action. 

 Emulation changes this. A digital preservation approach that instead assumes that we will preserve and use emulation to maintain access to the original software files that make up the digital experiences we’re preserving, doesn’t have this same problem. With an emulation based approach, outside of unavoidable changes resulting from the right to be forgotten, or take-down requests, files never need to be changed once stored on WORM media. Provided the original interaction software files are stored with the “data” files, and emulators stored along with them, then the content should still be accessible at any point in the future. 

 A concern could be raised that at some point, our current emulators will not work on modern computers. We have at least two options for managing this. 

 
 We can rewrite the emulators 

 We can create new emulators that can run the operating systems required to run the emulators we already have, then nest the old emulators inside the new ones 


 Both of these have pros and cons and both require writing new software which could be considered expensive. In our iPRES 2022 paper on the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) Program of work we briefly discuss the economics involved which also seem to come out in favour of emulation: “Re-writing one emulator could ensure access to many emulated computers, which could ensure access to many legacy software applications which could ensure access to virtually unlimited digital objects.” 

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 But most importantly, once either solution has been selected, the new emulators can be added to the same type of storage and don’t need to be stored in the same folder structure. Given the economy of scale of emulation (indicated in the quote and diagram above), even if we re-write the emulators occasionally and store those along with the old “obsolete” ones, that should only add a relatively insignificant amount of additional storage usage to our requirements. In other words, an emulation based approach can treat storage as something we only ever add to. By only being additive, and not destructive or requiring changes, an emulation based approach makes WORM media much more feasible. 

 To finish, we do seem to be living in interesting times. If there were a major event after which society one day rebuilt itself such that it could recover data from long life WORM media, having usable software available to decode all the other digital files out there seems like an additional valuable benefit of this approach. In alignment with this, the team I manage recently deposited a collection of both software installation media, and usable emulated environments with software installed on them (along with the EaaSI source code and binaries), to the Arctic World Archive stored on Piql film (a WORM media). And as the paper that motivated this post (P225) describes, we’re also testing DNA storage as a long-life WORM storage option. With large scale use of emulation now practical through endeavours like our EaaSI program of work I hope that we’re helping to ensure some digital artifacts persist regardless of how “interesting” our times become.


type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
title:
Accessing Our Digital Past in the Manuscript Division Reading Room | Unfolding History: Manuscripts at the Library of Congress

url:
//blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2022/11/accessing-our-digital-past-in-the-manuscript-division-reading-room/

abstract:
The Manuscript Division holds born-digital collection materials in hundreds of file formats. Remember HyperCard? WordStar? MacDraw Pro? WordPerfect? No? Find out how these obsolete file formats are being made accessible in the Manuscript Division Reading Room.


title: The evolution of Smalltalk: from Smalltalk-72 through Squeak
url: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386335
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
This paper presents a personal view of the evolution of six generations of Smalltalk in which the author played a part, starting with Smalltalk-72 and progressing through Smalltalk-80 to Squeak and Etoys. It describes the forces that brought each generation into existence, the technical innovations that characterized it, and the growth in understanding of object-orientation and personal computing that emerged. It summarizes what that generation achieved and how it affected the future, both within the evolving group of developers and users, and in the outside world.
            The early Smalltalks were not widely accessible because they ran only on proprietary Xerox hardware; because of this, few people have experience with these important historical artifacts. To make them accessible, the paper provides links to live simulations that can be run in present-day web browsers. These simulations offer the ability to run pre-defined scripts, but also allow the user to go off-script, browse the details of the implementation, and try anything that could be done in the original system. An appendix includes anecdotal and technical aspects of how examples of each generation of Smalltalk were recovered, and how order was teased out of chaos to the point that these old systems could be brought back to life.


title: Leveling Up Emulation: The Benefits of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays in Video Game Preservation
url: https://miap.hosting.nyu.edu/program/student_work/2022spring/22s_thesis_Stetz_deposit_copy_y.pdf
type: thesis
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
It is worthwhile for cultural institutions to stay in tune with hardware emulation to accurately preserve video games. Gaming culture is deeply entrenched in nostalgia, specifically, how games looked and played when gamers were younger. This “feel” of a game is something the gaming community holds dearly and any alteration to game-feel is normally met with animosity. Many quirks of early console games were found within how the original hardware ran them, and so the preservation of game-feel could be a task well suited for hardware emulation, notably Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. Many retro enthusiasts have turned to these malleable integrated circuit boards to reproduce original gaming console components and run their games as they did decades ago, stating they are more accurate than current software emulators. To investigate the benefits of hardware emulation, this paper conducts an experiment, utilizing the Sega Genesis and an FPGA from the MiSTer Project as a case study. The history of both the original console and the FPGA are examined, metrics are established for which to judge the MiSTer’s emulation against, and results are presented, detailing how well the MiSTer can emulate the original hardware.


title: Responding to obsolescence in Flash-based net art: a case study on migrating Sinae Kim’s Genesis
url: https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2021.2007412
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Many internet artworks from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s used Adobe Flash technology for creating animated content. However, in the light of recent web standard developments (HTML5), Adobe has stopped supporting Flash and its related tools. The removal of Flash has made those net artworks non-functional and unviewable, including Sinae Kim’s Genesis (2001), the focus of this study. Recently proposed emulation- and virtualisation-based strategies are not always suitable, particularly if there is a desire to keep the artwork on the ‘live web’. This article outlines an alternative method of migration facilitated by reverse engineering techniques—specifically decompilation—and foregrounds the significance of maintaining online access to the obsolete Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF) files through the source code. On this premise, the source code is re-imagined as a site for further re-enactment, allowing a departure from its current role as a marker of ‘authenticity’.


title: EaaSI Training Module #7: Implementing Metadata Standards | Software Preservation Network (SPN)
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-training-module-7-implementing-metadata-standards/


title: In-browser emulation
url: https://blog.dshr.org/2013/11/in-browser-emulation.html
type: blogPost
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
Jeff Rothenberg's ground-breaking 1995 article Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents  described and compared two techniques to combat ...


title: Preservation In Vivo
url: https://www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/preservation-in-vivo
type: webpage
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
abstract:
A single gram of synthetic DNA could potentially store 215 petabytes of information, which would be the equivalent of almost 12,000 LTO-9 18-terabyte tapes, the current industry standard.


title: SCOPE and EaaSI: Software Emulation and the Future of Architectural History
type: journalArticle
categories: ["Emulation Bibliography"]
language: en
source: Ethan Gates's Emulation Library
source_url: https://forum.eaasi.cloud/t/emulation-resources-in-the-spn-software-preservation-bibliography/250
url:
https://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article/81/1/122/120422/SCOPE-and-EaaSI-Software-Emulation-and-the-Future

abstract:
An archival revolution began unfolding a few years back at the Canadian Centre for Architecture alongside three blockbuster exhibitions featuring materials from the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital collection.1 As the center amassed a vast number of files across twenty-five architectural projects from the heyday of the digital (that is, from the end of the 1980s through the early 2000s), collections staff began to set up a search-and-access system to make this digital archival material available to scholars.2 This has been an ambitious project. Rather than using the relatively simple approach of making only easily viewable files available (e.g., by turning everything into PDFs), the archivists have taken the much more technically challenging route of reanimating historical files (digital drawings, models, documents, and so on) within re-created historical computing environments that open in a seamless manner right on the scholar’s desktop—a method called “software emulation.”The two main components of the CCA’s system are SCOPE, a search interface, and EaaSI, providing software emulation through the search interface. SCOPE is up and running now in the CCA’s study room, allowing anyone who visits to access the CCA’s roughly six terabytes of born-digital material. Testing of the system with EaaSI integrated is expected to begin in January 2022, according to Martien de Vletter, associate director of the collection at the CCA.Software emulation is particularly important for historians concerned with how technics affect design.3 How, for example, have digital modeling and parametric manipulation, or older techniques like photography and orthographic drawing, affected the ways in which architects have conceptualized and carried out their practice? This line of questioning becomes especially tricky when software is involved. For at least twenty years now, virtually every aspect of architects’ practice, from modeling and drafting to visualization and communication, has relied on the use of software platforms that were themselves undergoing perpetual change. Moreover, these changes in software have frequently given rise to new design agendas. Put bluntly, software has now become an indispensable form of evidence for architectural historians.“Let’s study software,” you may say. But here historians face a dilemma. Software disappears. The problem has to do with the nature of software itself. Software runs on specialized hardware and in conjunction with other software applications—specific versions of operating systems, drivers, and dependencies. Computational platforms and their software resemble fragile ecosystems: remove a keystone species (or a key hardware component), and the whole system ceases to function. Inert software is arguably not software at all—what really matters is not the code but the interaction between a user and an interactive environment as it plays out fleetingly across the screen.The situation is not hopeless for architectural historians, however. Just as biomes can be re-created in controlled terraria, computational environments can be preserved as “virtual machines” and reanimated through software emulation. Obsolete physical hardware is discarded in favor of virtual hardware—that is, hardware emulated by software. Imagine booting up a ca. 1995 computer on whatever computer you currently use, and being greeted by the rolling hills and blue sky of the default Windows 95 background. You might then open up an old copy of form·Z, a digital modeling software package popular at the time, to view Asymptote’s New York Stock Exchange project from 1997, a work in the CCA’s collection.4Robust emulation environments of this sort have been available for many years, in both commercial and open-source options (e.g., VMware and VirtualBox, respectively). Large-scale computing environments such as those run by Google and Amazon make extensive use of virtual machines. Portals into remotely run virtual machines can be made available over the Internet, which turns out to be a great way to make old video games and Internet art accessible to wide audiences. For example, Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology (https://anthology.rhizome.org) works fabulously on this principle.The dream of software emulation for architectural history is to allow historians to open archived digital drawings and models in their native computational environments even after those environments have become obsolete. Librarians, archivists, and scholars have nurtured this dream for many years as the best answer to the conundrum of what to do with the material they have collected since architecture went digital. The FACADE project at MIT was an early effort, and more recently the Building for Tomorrow initiative has brought together architectural historians, architects, archivists, librarians, and digital preservationists to address collectively the challenges of accessing digital design documents.5 The various options for digital archiving and access are well known, and methods involving software emulation seem to be the most successful of these, although they are by no means the easiest to achieve. The investment and coordination required to bring such a system to fruition are finally happening at the CCA.The CCA’s digital archival access project is really a partnership among three organizations: the CCA, Yale University, and the open-source software company Artefactual Systems. Yale University Library’s Digital Preservation Services team has put together an “emulation as a service infrastructure” (EaaSI) as well as a collection of virtual machines that remote users can launch in their web browsers and in which they can easily open files from the library’s search interface. The next step for the project is to feed architectural files into this system, and this is where the CCA comes in, with its extensive Archaeology of the Digital collection. To connect these files to Yale’s emulation system, the CCA has partnered with Artefactual to develop SCOPE, a search-and-access interface for the digital collection that will allow users not only to locate desired files but also to open them in a virtual machine with the proper software.Once this search-and-access system is up and running, the process of using it ought to be easy enough that architectural historians can begin to experiment. It is at this point that emulation may affect historiography by allowing historians to experience a range of digital design techniques firsthand. The experiential dimension is key: among the foundational ideas of the cultural techniques school of media history is the notion that techniques come before concepts.6 For instance, architects worked with digitally malleable form before the emergence of the concept of parametrics. Emulated digital work environments will allow historians not only to view historical files but also to bring them to life at the sites of their conception. There is nothing to hinder the historian from playing around—editing files, manipulating forms, tweaking parameters—and in the process reenacting the moment of creation. (Note that the files available to historians are copies, not originals.) Where historians may once have resorted to vague accounts of authorial intention from the point of view of the principal of a firm, they will now have the means to develop a rich enough understanding to describe the genesis of a project within its technical and cultural milieu, including the perspective of the computer operators who carried out the technical labor of designing the project.It is possible that this sort of investigation will interest only historians of early digital design and specialists in design technics. It may turn out that architectural software will stabilize into an industry standard—perhaps some combination of free-form modeling software (e.g., McNeel Rhinoceros 3D), parametric software (e.g., McNeel Grasshopper), and building information management software (e.g., Autodesk Revit)—thus rendering the last decades especially interesting to historians as an unusual period of technological change. Or it may turn out that there is not much to see in the files that end up in research archives if they are sanitized of all the messy evidence of the process of creation. But if software continues to change, and if the files in the archives continue to hide within themselves evidence of their technical genesis, architectural historians will want to experience the files in the environments from which they emerged. Software emulation offers the best means of doing that. With its SCOPE+EaaSI implementation, the CCA is likely beginning an archival revolution that will transform architectural historiography in the coming decades.


