title: On Preparedness of Memory Organizations for Ingesting Data
creators: Juha Lehtonen Heikki Helin Kimmo Koivunen Kuisma Lehtonen
abstract: The National Digital Library of Finland is an entity, which aims to create a nationally unified structure for contents and services ensuring the effective and high-quality management, dissemination, and especially digital preservation of cultural digital information resources. The National Digital Library’s basis is formed by libraries, archives and museums (partner organizations). Because of the diversity of the partner organizations, the digital content to be preserved makes up a very heterogeneous landscape. To find out preparedness of partner organization to join common digital preservation system, we established ten different pilots of preparing and ingesting submission information packages with common specifications. These specifications define technical requirements for the digital objects, their metadata, and package structure to be submitted for digital preservation. In this paper, we show the piloting process, the experiences and the results, believing that these findings might be useful for various organizations involved with digital preservation.
keywords: digital preservation designated community submission information package metadata lisbon