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

ISBN-13: 9781856047555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str.

Adrian Brown

Opis

A practical guide, offering an overview of best practice, is intended at the non-specialist, assuming only a basic understanding of IT and offering guidance as to how to implement strategies with minimal time and resources. It covers the useful building blocks of digital preservation strategy and implementation.

Spis treści

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