title: Development of Organisational and Business Models for the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Objects
creators: Tobias Beinert Peter Rödig Michael Minkus Harald Hagel Uwe M. Borghoff Astrid Schoger Susanne Lang
abstract: The number of digital objects (and digital collections) will increase rapidly within the next years since mass digitisation activities have started all over the world. Although it is obvious that these objects are of enormous scientific and cultural value, some crucial aspects of ensuring their long-term preservation and access to them have so far not been thoroughly addressed. This means that there is an urgent need for developing (and implementing) new and reliable models in order to deliver a sound organisational and financial framework for institutions (and enterprises), that are concerned with digitisation and long-term preservation of digital objects. To this purpose the Bavarian State Library (BSB) and the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, are carrying out a study, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), that explicitly addresses the perceived shortcomings by analysing the current state of long-term preservation in Germany, developing solutions in the form of scalable business and organisational models and clarifying the agenda for further research.
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