Practical Digital Preservation: A How-To Guide for Organizations of Any Size

ISBN-13: 9781783303151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str.

Adrian Brown

Opis

A practical guide to the development and operation of digital preservations services for organizations of any size Practical Digital Preservation offers a comprehensive overview of best practice and is aimed at the non-specialist, assuming only a basic understanding of IT. The book provides guidance as to how to implement strategies with minimal time and resources. Digital preservation has become a critical issue for institutions of all sizes but until recently has mostly been the preserve of national archives and libraries with the resources, time and specialist knowledge available to experiment. As the discipline matures and practical tools and information are increasingly available the barriers to entry are falling for smaller organizations which can realistically start to take active steps towards a preservation strategy. However, the sheer volume of technical information now available on the subject is becoming a significant obstacle and a straightforward guide is required to offer clear and practical solutions. Each chapter in Practical Digital Preservation covers the essential building blocks of digital preservation strategy and implementation, leading the reader through the process. International case studies from organizations such as the Wellcome Library, Central Connecticut State University Library in the USA and Gloucestershire Archives in the UK illustrate how real organizations have approached the challenges of digital preservation. Key topics include: * Making the case for digital preservation * Understanding your requirements * Models for implementing a digital preservation service * Selecting and acquiring digital objects * Accessioning and ingesting digital objects * Describing digital objects * Preserving digital objects * Providing access to users * Future trends. Readership: Anyone involved in digital preservation and those wanting to get a better understanding of the process, students studying library and information science (LIS), archives and records management courses and academics getting to grips with practical issues.

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1. Introduction

• Introduction
• Who is this book for?
• Minimum requirements
• Some digital preservation myths
• The current situation
• A very brief history of digital preservation
• A note on terminology
• Getting the most from this book
• Notes

2. Making the case for digital preservation

• Introduction
• Understanding the drivers
• Developing a policy
• Developing a digital asset register
• Developing a business case
• Next steps
• Key points
• Notes

3. Understanding your requirements

• Introduction
• Identifying stakeholders
• Talking to stakeholders
• Modelling your processes
• Learning from other people’s requirements
• Documenting your requirements
• How to use your requirements
• Conclusion
• Key points
• Notes

4. Models for implementing a digital preservation service

• Introduction
• Options
• The current market
• Approaches to procurement
• Implementation
• Operating a digital repository
• Trusted digital repositories
• A digital preservation maturity model
• Case studies
• Key points
• Notes

5. Selecting and acquiring digital objects

• Introduction
• The selection and transfer process
• Starting points for selection and transfer
• Approaches to selection
• Legal considerations for selection
• Technical considerations for selection
• Standards and methods for transfer
• Transfer agreements
• Preparing for transfer
• Completing the transfer process
• Conclusion
• Key points
• Notes

6. Accessioning and ingesting digital objects

• Introduction
• Defining an accession process
• Creating or acquiring a Submission Information Package
• Quarantine
• Characterization
• Validating the SIP
• Enhancing SIP metadata
• Ingest: generating an AIP
• Normalization and other transformations
• Automating accession
• First aid for digital accessions
• Case studies
• Key points
• Notes

7. Describing digital objects

• Introduction
• The role of metadata
• Metadata standards
• Deciding on metadata standards
• Sources of metadata
• Storing and managing metadata
• Associating metadata and data
• Interoperability
• Case studies
• Key points
• Notes

8. Preserving digital objects

• Introduction
• The goals of preservation
• The nature of digital information
• The challenge: threats to preservation
• Preservation strategies
• Managing change: the concept of multiple manifestations
• Bitstream preservation
• Logical preservation
• Conclusion: preservation in practice
• Key points
• Notes

9. Providing access to users

• Introduction
• What do we mean by access?
• Finding digital objects
• Options for access: technical considerations
• Options for access: conditions of access
• Options for access: online versus on-site access
• Understanding user expectations
• Access and reuse
• Access systems in practice
• Designing a front end
• Citing digital records: persistent identifiers
• Case studies
• Key points
• Notes

10. Future trends

• Introduction
• Preservation tools and services
• Preservation-as-a-Service
• Representation information registries
• Storage
• Training and professional bodies
• Certification schemes
• New paradigms
• Current and future research
• Digital preservation in the developing world
• Moving to the mainstream
• Conclusion
• Notes

Appendices

• Creating a digital asset register
• Digital preservation maturity model
• Systems, tools and services