resources
NEDCC web resources
Conference and Workshop Resources
Persistence of Memory
General On-line Resources
Advice and Guidance from the National (UK) Archives.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/preservation/advice/digital.htm
Digital Curation Center (DCC).
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections.
Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub103abst.html
The Global Digital Format Registry – Beta version.
http://www.gdfr.info/
de Groat, Greta. Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators. Digital Library Federation. 2009
Museum Computer Network.
http://www.mcn.edu/
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
http://www.ninch.org/
PRONOM.
PRONOM is an on-line information system about data file formats and their supporting software products.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/
Puglia, Steven, Jeffrey Reed, and Erin Rhodes. Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images. June 2004.
http://www.archives.gov/preservation/technical/guidelines.html
UKOLN.
UKOLN is a research organization that aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Glossaries
Digital Preservation Management: Glossary.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/dpm-eng/terminology/g_resources.html
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative Glossary of Terms.
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/glossary.php
A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology.
http://www.archivists.org/glossary/
Standards and Best Practices
Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage, National Library of Australia. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001300/130071e.pdf
Digital Repository Audit and Certification Wiki for working toward an ISO standard.http://wiki.digitalrepositoryauditandcertification.org/bin/view
International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES).
http://www.interpares.org/
Library of Congress, Standards at the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/
Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG).
http://www.updig.org/
Metadata
ANSI/NISO Standard. Data Dictionary – Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images.
Z39-87-2006.pdf
BCR’s Collaborative Digitization Program Best Practices.
Includes imaging, metadata, and audio best practices.
http://bcr.org/cdp/best/index
Brand, Amy, Frank Daly, and Barbara Meyers. Metadata Demystified. 2003.
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Metadata_Demystified.pdf
Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for RLG Cultural Materials.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/culturalmaterials/rlg_desc_metadata.pdf
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio.
Metadata standards for moving pictures and audio.
http://xml.coverpages.org/MPEG21-WG-11-N3971-200103.pdf
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS). http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
Metadata Object Description System (MODS).
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, “Reference Model for an Open
Archival Information System (OAIS)” (Jan 2002).
http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf
Higgins, Sarah and Najla Semple, OAIS Five-year Review: Recommendations for Update. DCC and DPC, October 31, 2006. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/oais-fyr-2006/
Lavoie, Brian. The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide. DPC Technology Watch Report 04-01. Digital Preservation Coalition and OCLC, January 2004.
http://www.dpconline.org/docs/lavoie_OAIS.pdf
Open Archival Information System (OAIS). http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf
Overview of ongoing efforts related to OAIS.
http://nost.gsfc.nasa.gov/isoas/
The Open Archives Initiative.
http://www.openarchives.org/
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS).
http://public.scds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf;
PREMIS
Caplan, Priscilla and Rebecca Guenther, “Practical Preservation: the PREMIS Experience,” Library Trends 54 (Summer 2005): 111-124.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/caplan_guenther-librarytrends.pdf
Lavoie, Brian. “Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity,” D-Lib Magazine 10 (April 2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april04/lavoie/04lavoie.html
Lavoie, Brian and Richard Gartner, Preservation Metadata. DPC Technology Watch Report No. 05-01 (September 2005). http://dpconline.org/docs/reports/dpctw05-01.pdf
Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS). http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-2-0.pdf
Repositories and repository infrastructures
CLOCKSS.
http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Home
DSpace.
http://www.dspace.org/
e-Depot ,The National Library of the Netherlands.
http://www.kb.nl/dnp/e-depot/e-depot-en.html
Fedora.
http://fedoraproject.org/
The HathiTrust.
http://www.hathitrust.org/
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
JHOVE .
http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/
LOCKSS.
http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Home
Zorich, Diane. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. CLIR Publication 143. 2008.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/pub143.pdf
Trusted Digital Repository Criteria
Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA). http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/
Dobratz, Susanne, Astrid Schoger, Stefan Strathmann. The nestor Catalogue of Criteria for Trusted Digital Repository Evaluation and Certification. The Journal of Digital Information. Vol. 8(2). 2007.
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/viewArticle/199/180
RLG/OCLC, “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities” (May
2002). http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/trustedrep/repositories.pdf
Trustworthy Repositories: Audit and Certification (TRAC). http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58&l3=162&l4=91
Infrastructure
Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure: Report of the National Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp
American Council of Learned Societies, Our Cultural Commonwealth: The report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences.
http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/
David G. Messerschmitt, “Opportunities for Research Libraries in the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Program,” ARL Bimonthly Report 229 (August 2003).
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/229/cyber.html
Large-scale Digital Collections
Erway, Ricky, and Jennifer Schaffner. Shifting Gears: Gearing up to Get Into the Flow. 2007.
http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2007-02.pdf
Lyman, Peter and Hal Varian, How Much Information, 2003.
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/
Rieger, Oya, Preservation in the Era of Large-Scale Digitization. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2007. http://www.clir.org/activities/details/mdpres.html
Leetaru, Kalev, “Mass book digitization: The deeper story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance,” First Monday, Volume 13 Number 10 - 6 October 2008.
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2101/2037
Courant, Paul N., “Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google,”
First Monday 11 (August 2006). http://www.firstmonday.org/issue11_8/courant/index.html
The Association of Research Libraries. To Stand the Test of Time: Long-Term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering. 2006
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/digdatarpt.pdf
Gantz, John F., David Reinsel, Christopher Chcute, Wolfgang Schlichting, John
McArthur, Stephen Minton, Irita Xheneti, Anna Toncheva, and Alex Manfrediz. 2007.
“The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth
Through 2010.” IDC and EMC White Paper, available at
http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/expanding-digital-idc-white-paper.pdf
Pardo, Theresa A., G. Brian Burke, and Hyuckbin Kwon, “Preserving State
Government Digital Information: A Baseline Report,” (July 2006).
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/reports/digital_preservation_baseline/
Collaborative Models
Alabama Digital Preservation Network. http://adpn.org/
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries – LOCKSS/ETD Initiative. http://www.aserl.org/projects/lockss-etd-overview.html
Digital Preservation Coalition, United Kingdom.
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/
MetaArchive.
http://www.metaarchive.org/
Preserving Access to Digital Information, National Library of Australia. http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html
State Digital Resources compiled by the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/statememory/
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/avantgarde
The Global Resources Network (GRN).
http://www.crl.edu/grn/index.asp
Digitization, Electronic Documents, and the Law
Besek, June M. Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives. December 2005.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub135/pub135.pdf
Center for Intellectual Property. University of Maryland University College.
http://umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/cip.shtml
Copyright Management Center. Indiana University.
http://copyright.iupui.edu/
Cornell Copyright Information Center.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/
Covey, Denise Troll. Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books. October 2005.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub134/pub134col.pdf
Creative Commons.
http://creativecommons.org/
Digital Copyright Slider.
http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
Digital Future Coalition.
http://dfc.org/
Library of Congress. International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation. 2008.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/pubs/docs/digital_preservation_final_report2008.pdf
The Richmond Journal of Law and Technology.
http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v13i3/index.asp
The Sedona Conference Working Group Series.
http://www.thesedonaconference.org/wgs
Shapiro, Ari. E-Mail, the Workplace and the Electronic Paper Trail.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91363363
Digital Preservation
Center for Research Libraries, Long-Lived Digital Collections.
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58&l3=174
Digital Preservation Europe (DPE).
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-Term Problems.
A tutorial by the Cornell University Department of Preservation and Collections maintenance.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/dpm-eng/eng_index.html
D-Lib Magazine.
http://www.dlib.org/
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Information site.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/
NEDCC Digital Preservation Readiness Webliography. http://nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/6Reformatting/08DigitalPreservationReadiness.php
NEDCC. Stewardship of Digital Assets Toolkit.
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/sodatools.php
nestor - the German Network of expertise in digital long-term preservation
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng
Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked Storage (PLANETS). http://www.planets-project.eu/
The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook (PoWR). http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/powrhandbookv1.pdf
Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI).
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html
Xena: Software for Digital Preservation, developed by the National Archives of Australia. http://xena.sourceforge.net/
Select Webliography
Bradley, Kevin, “Defining Digital Sustainability” Library Trends 56 (Summer 2007).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib56.1.html
Canadian Council of Archives, Declaration of Principles Concerning the Relationship of Digitization to Preservation of Archival Records.
http://cdncouncilarchives.ca/digitarc.html#declaration
Conway, Paul, Preservation in the Digital World. Washington, DC: Commission on Preservation and Access, March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub62.html
Lavoie, Brian, The Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials: Roles, Scenarios, Economic
Decision-making. Dublin: OCLC, 2003.
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/digipres/incentives-dp.pdf
Lavoie Brian and Lorcan Dempsey, “Thirteen Ways of Looking At…Digital Preservation,” D-Lib Magazine 10 (July/August 2004). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html
Reilly, Bernard. Planning for Digital Preservation: 20 Questions for Providers of Digital Storage Services
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digital/downloads/QuestionstoAskProvidersofDigitalStoragefinal.pdf
Ross, Seamus, Digital Preservation, Archival Science and Methodological Foundations for Digital Libraries, Keynote Address at the 11th European Conference on Digital Libraries ECDL), Budapest (17 September 2007). http://www.ecdl2007.org/keynotes.php
Rusbridge, Chris, “Excuse Me… Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?” Ariadne 46 (January 2006). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/rusbridge/
Smith, Abby, Access in the Future Tense. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub126abst.html
Tools and Services
CONTENTdm, OCLC.
http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/default.htm
Digital Archive, OCLC.
http://www.oclc.org/digitalarchive/default.htm
Digital Library Federation/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters. http://www.oclc.org/digitalregistry/default.htm
Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), Tools and Services.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/resources/tools/index.html
Portico.
http://www.portico.org/
Registry of Digital Masters Record Creation Guidelines.
http://www.diglib.org/collections/reg/reg.htm
Digital Archives
Center for Research Libraries, Core Requirements for Digital Archives.
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=13&l2=58&l3=162&l4=92
Pearce-Moses, Richard. “Becoming an Archivist in the Digital Era.” Archival Outlook, May/June 2006.
Observations on the core knowledge that archivists need in the digital era.
http://rpm.lib.az.us/papers/AO5.pdf
Pearce-Moses, Richard. “The Perfect and the Possible: Becoming a Digital Archivist,” presented at the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists, May 2006.
Practical advice on learning to work with digital materials.
http://rpm.lib.az.us/papers/CIMA2006.pdf
Digital Art
The Open Museum, an "open-source" museum collection.
http://openmuseum.berkeley.edu/
Rinehart, Richard. The Media Art Notation System: Documenting and Preserving Digital / Media Art.
http://www.coyoteyip.com/rinehart_leonardo.pdf
Rhizome.
http://rhizome.org/
The University of Maine New Media Program.
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=685
The Variable Media Network.
http://www.variablemedia.net/e/welcome.html
Digital Audiovisual Materials
Ackerman, David and Chris Lacinak, Co-Chairs. Technical Committee on Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries. Report on Emerging Trends. February, 2007
http://www.aes.org/technical/documentDownloads.cfm?docID=291
The American Institute for Conservation Electronic Media Group Library.
http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/library/
Edmondson, Ray, Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles. Paris: UNESCO, 2004.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001364/136477e.pdf
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives.
http://www.iasa-web.org/
Samma Systems. White papers on various topics of digital preservation, digital files, and audiovisual preservation and reformatting. http://www.sammasystems.com/?q=whitepapers
Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe (TAPE)
http://www.tape-online.net/
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub54/index.html
Wright, Richard, Audiovisual Preservation Guide. PrestoSpace Project, 2006.
http://wiki.prestospace.org
Audio
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
http://www.arsc-audio.org/
Casey, Mike, and Bruce Gordon. Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio
Digitization. 2007.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/papersPresentindex.shtml
Council on Library and Information Resources. Capturing Analog Sound for
Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for
Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes. Washington, D.C.: CLIR. 2006.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub137/pub137.pdf
European Broadcasting Union. Broadcast Wave Format User Guide.
http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/publications/userguides/bwf_user_guide.php
The Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET) Format Characteristics and Preservation Problems.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/facet/facet_formats_large.pdf
The Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool (FACET) Procedures Manual.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/facet/facet_procedures.pdf
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. IASA TC-03, The
Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy. 2006.
http://www.iasa-web.org/IASA_TC03/TC03_English.pdf
_____. IASA TC-04, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital
Audio Objects. 2007.
http://www.iasa-web.org/pages/Default.htm
Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe (TAPE), Digitisation workflow for analogue open reel tapes.
http://www.jazzpoparkisto.net/audio/
http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v15/bp15-18.html
Video
Pearson, Glenn and Michael Gill, “An Evaluation of Motion JPEG 2000 for Video Archiving”, Proc. Archiving 2005 (April 26-29, Washington, D.C.), IS & T (www.imaging.org), pp. 237-243.
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/pearson/MJ2_video_archiving.pdf
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
http://www.smpte.org/home
Stauderman, Sarah. Preservation Priority Worksheet for Videotape Collections.
http://nedcc.org/education/conferences/pom2008/downloads/Sarah%20Stauderman%202.pdf
Texas Commission on the Arts. Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide. 2007.
http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video/
Vitale, Tim and Paul Messier. The Video Preservation Website.
http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/
http://www.amianet.org/resources/guides/WheelerVideo.pdf
Optical Media
Bradley, Kevin. Memory of the World Program: Risks Associated with the Use of Recordable CDs and DVDs as Reliable Storage Media in Archival Collections - Strategies and Alternatives. October 2006.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001477/147782E.pdf
Byers, Fred R. Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs. NIST Special Publication 500-252. October 2003 http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/docs/CDandDVDCareandHandlingGuide.pdf
Iraci, Joe. “The Relative Stabilities of Optical Disc Formats.” Restaurator. Vol. 26(2), 2005.
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Forum-Bestandserhaltung/downloads/iraci.pdf
Digital Lifecyle, Costs, and Business Models
100 Year Archive Task Force. Defining Storage Practices and Standardsfor Long-Term Digital Information Retention.
http://www.snia.org/forums/dmf/programs/ltacsi/100_year/
The espida Project
http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/index.shtml
Guthrie, Kevin, Rebecca Griffiths, Nancy Maron. Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources. May 2008
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2008/06/sca_ithaka_sustainability_report-final.pdf
Life Cycle Information for E-literature (LIFE).
The LIFE Project has developed a methodology to model the digital life cycle and calculate the costs of preserving digital information for the next 5, 10 or 100 years.
http://www.life.ac.uk/
Palm, Jonas. The Digital Black Hole.
http://www.tape-online.net/docs/Palm_Black_Hole.pdf
Shenton, Helen. Life Cycle Collection Management. Liber Quarterly/ 2003.
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000033/article.pdf
http://kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/USart.htm
December 2008
Erway, Ricky, and Jennifer Schaffner. 2007. Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow. Report produced by OCLC Programs and Research. Published online at: www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2007-02.pdf
Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist
http://www.crl.edu/PDF/trac.pdf
nestor, a cooperative project of libraries, archives and museums
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng
nestor Catalog of Criteria for Trusted Digital Repository
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/viewArticle/199/180
Planning for Digital Preservation: 20 Questions for Providers of Digital Storage Services http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digital/downloads/ QuestionstoAskProvidersofDigitalStoragefinal.pdf
The Long Now Foundation
http://www.longnow.org/
Forging the Future New Media at the University of Maine
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=685
http://rhizome.org/
Rhizome supports the creation, presentation, and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.
The MetaArchive Cooperative
http://metaarchive.org/
Xena, Digital Preservation Software
http://xena.sourceforge.net/
November 2007
December 2006
Pearce-Moses, Richard. Selected Publications and Presentations on Archival Lexicography and Digital Information
2005
Stewardship of Digital Assets
Stewardship of Digital Assets
A project supported by NEH
Stewardship of Digital Assets was a two-day workshop on sustaining digital collections. A faculty of digital experts taught the interactive, hands-on workshop at four locations across the country from Fall 2007 to Fall 2008. The workshop was created in partnership with PALINET, SOLINET, Amigos Library Services , and OCLC Western Service Center. Funding was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The toolkit consists of a number of tools to help you gauge and plan for digital preservation readiness at your institution: a questionnaire that will assist in planning, a digital preservation policy template, and numerous links to online resources. Click here to view this toolkit.
What's Wrong with This Picture
What’s Wrong with This Picture
A project supported by IMLS
What’s Wrong with This Picture was a three-day course that focused on the preservation and digitization of photographs in cultural heritage institutions. The toolkit consists of curriculum outlines and materials. This workshop series was created in partnership with The New England Museum Association (NEMA) and was funded by the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS).