Overview of content related to 'digital preservation'
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Digital preservation is the active management of digital information over time to ensure its accessibility. Preservation of digital information is widely considered to require more constant and ongoing attention than preservation of other media. This constant input of effort, time, and money to handle rapid technological and organizational advance is considered a major stumbling block for preserving digital information. Indeed, while we are still able to read our written heritage from several thousand years ago, the digital information created merely a decade ago is in serious danger of being lost, creating a digital Dark Age. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Digital preservation)
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The Wellcome Library, Digital |
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections. |
July 2013, issue71, feature article |
ECLAP 2013: Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment |
Marieke Guy reports on the second international conference held by ECLAP, the e-library for performing arts. |
July 2013, issue71, event report |
CURATEcamp iPres 2012 |
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Hydra UK: Flexible Repository Solutions to Meet Varied Needs |
Chris Awre reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 |
Marieke Guy reports on the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held in Helsinki, Finland over 11-17 August 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012 |
Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
Book Review: User Studies for Digital Library Development |
Selenay Aytac reviews a collection of essays on user studies and digital library development that provides a concise overview of a variety of digital library projects and examines major research trends relating to digital libraries. |
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Book Review: Information 2.0 |
Milena Dobreva reviews the newly published book of Martin de Saulles which looks at the new models of information production, distribution and consumption. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 69 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69. |
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Book Review: I, Digital – A History Devoid of the Personal? |
Chris Rusbridge reviews an edited volume that aims to fill a gap in ‘literature designed specifically to guide archivists’ thinking about personal digital materials’. |
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The Future of the Past of the Web |
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
eSciDoc Days 2011: The Challenges for Collaborative eResearch Environments |
Ute Rusnak reports on the fourth in a series of two-day conferences called eSciDoc Days, organised by FIZ Karlsruhe and the Max Planck Digital Library in Berlin over 26-27 October 2011. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA) |
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
DataCite UK User Group Meeting |
Alex Ball reports on the 2nd UK User Group meeting for DataCite, held at the British Library in London, in April 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade |
Marion Tattersall, Carmen O'Dell and John Lewis report on Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the White Rose University Consortium and held 1-3 March 2011 at the University of Sheffield. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
Book Review: Preparing Collections for Digitization |
Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 66: Sanity Check |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 66. |
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RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
10 Cheap and Easy Ways to Amplify Your Event |
Marieke Guy describes new tools and services that can help you get your event heard. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles |
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records |
Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
Repository Fringe 2010 |
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Survive or Thrive |
Ed Fay reports on a two-day conference organised by UKOLN on behalf of JISC to consider growth and use of digital content on the Web, which was held in Manchester in June 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE |
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge |
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Blue Ribbon Task Force Symposium on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
Marieke Guy reports on a symposium which provided an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the recent Blue Ribbon Task Force report on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
A Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition |
Dave Thompson sets out the pragmatic approach to preferred file formats for long-term preservation used at the Wellcome Library. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
Volcanic Eruptions Fail to Thwart Digital Preservation - the Planets Way |
Matthew Barr, Amir Bernstein, Clive Billenness and Manfred Thaller report on the final Planets training event Digital Preservation - The Planets Way held in Rome over 19 - 21 April 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2010, issue63, news and events |
Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management |
Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers |
William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Enhancing Scientific Communication through Aggregated Publications |
Arjan Hogenaar describes changes in the publication and communication process which will mean that the role of authors will become a more prominent one. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
The RSP Goes 'Back to School' |
Stephanie Taylor reports on the three-day residential school for repository managers run by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), held on 14-16 September 2009 in Northumberland. |
October 2009, issue61, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2009, issue61, news and events |
Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers |
Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
The Norwegian National Digital Library |
Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Missing Links: The Enduring Web |
Alexandra Eveleigh reports on a workshop on Web archiving, organised by the DPC, JISC and UKWAC at the British Library on 21 July 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
JISC Digital Content Conference 2009 |
Michelle Pauli reports on a two-day conference on digital content held by JISC in South Cerney over 30 June - 1 July 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
