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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RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for Day-to-day Use |
Richard Green and Chris Awre describe work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart of its personalised digital repository provision. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2008, issue54, news and events |
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides |
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative |
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections |
Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean and Jeremy Leighton John describe initial findings of the AHRC-funded Digital Lives Research Project studying personal digital collections and their relationship with research repositories such as the British Library. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Libraries of the Future |
Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2008, issue55, news and events |
Preservation of Web Resources: Making a Start |
Stephen Emmott reports on a one-day workshop aimed at all those interested in issues relating to institutional Web resource preservation. The event was held by the JISC-PoWR team at the University of London in June 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting |
Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Open Repositories 2008 |
Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 57:Achieving the Balance |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 57. |
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Implementing E-Legal Deposit: A British Library Perspective |
Ronald Milne and John Tuck summarise progress towards implementation of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 which extended provision to non-print materials. Particular reference is made to the British Library. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation |
Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future With Planets |
Frances Boyle and Jane Humphreys report on the one-day workshop on digital preservation planning jointly organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Planets held at the British Library, on Tuesday 29 July 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
iPRES 2008 |
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2008, issue57, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58. |
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Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility |
Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) Fall Meeting |
Paul Walk reports on the Sun-PASIG winter meeting held in Baltimore, USA on 18-20 November 2008. |
January 2009, issue58, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 59: The Loneliness of the Long-distance Worker |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 59. |
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The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment |
Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
EThOS: from Project to Service |
Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation |
Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2009, issue59, 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
