Bibliography
The first section (I) of annotated citations were sources for the meat of this paper.� For further research, there is also included (II) a listing of non-annotated references used - these are sources that were read (and are important!) but were not necessarily crucial to the paper.� Important to mention are various readings by David Bearman, Richard Cox, Margret Hedstrom, and Donald Waters - anyone interested in the topic of Digital Preservation should read everything by these excellent thinkers.� To point you in the right direction, included here is a listing (III) of several comprehensive bibliographies of digital preservation resources.
I - Annotated
Beagrie, Neil and Greenstein, Daniel.� A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collection. Arts and Humanities Data Service. Version 4.0, 7/14/98.
Available from: http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/framework.htm
(Abstract provided by Scout Report)
"The study presents thirteen recommendations in the areas of long-term digital preservation, standards, the policy framework, and future research.� Six case studies highlight some of the real-life considerations concerning digital preservation.� At a time when content providers and libraries are racing headlong towards digitization of information resources, this study provides critical guidance."
Brand, Stewart.� Escaping the Digital Dark Age.� Library Journal.� February, 1999, Vol. 124, Issue 2; pg46
A good general article on the issues surrounding digital preservation with two good insets: one about the Long Now Foundation, and the other by documentary filmmaker Terry Sanders.
Casey, Carol.� The Cyberarchive:� A Look at the Storage and Preservation of Web Sites.� College & Research Libraries.� July, 1998, Vol. 59, Number 4; pg.304-310.
One of the trickiest areas of digital preservation is trying to figure out how to archive networked information that may be spread across several machines.� Carol Casey provides a good introduction to what promised to be one of the most fascinating threads in the digital preservation tangle.
Hedstrom, Margret and Montgomery, Sheon.� Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions.� Research Libraries Group, 1998.
Available from: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html
A detailed study commissioned by the RLG, this paper takes a look at 54 institutions (15 of those in targeted interviews) to assess how these places were dealing with digital preservation issues.� The study also sets forth recommendations for RLG and member institutions.
Lyman, Peter and Kahle, Brewster.� Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts.� D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1998.
Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07lyman.html/
The two directors of the Internet Archive, give a good introduction to the problems of preserving networked information on the web, and set out the ways in which the Internet Archive is attempting to do something about it.
Pockley, Simon.� Killing the Duck to Keep the Quack (Using the World Wide Web for Digital Preservation)� Stanford University, Conservation On-Line, 1996.
Available from: http://www.cinemedia.net/FOD/FOD0055.html
An interesting article and evolving experiment with preserving web based information, with one of his claims being that long-term access and preservation are now inseparable.
Rothenberg, Jeff.� Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation. Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.� Available from: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html
Rothenberg provides a good introduction to the problems, stating that we need a sound technical approach on which to base policy.�� He then looks at and dismisses many of the popular ideas for digital preservation, arguing that emulation is best solution.� Although in the end this is a paper arguing for further thinking on the emulation issue, the beginning parts provide a very good framework of the issues.
Rothenberg, Jeff.� Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents.� Scientific American.� January, 1995; pg. 42-47.
With this now famous article, Rothenberg sends out the alarm in short, clear, intelligent, writing.� And in a mainstream journal none the less!
Sanders, Terry.� Into the Future.� A documentary film in Association with CPA and American Council of Learned Societies.� 30 min., color. 1997.
A sequel to Slow Fires, this extremely well done documentary film is the perfect introduction to the pressing problem of our vanishing digital heritage. With great footage and interviews with some of the big guns like Donald Waters, Sherry Turkle, Jeff Rothenberg, and Tim Berners-Lee, this is a must see for anyone interested in the topic!
Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information.� Preserving Digital Information. Commission on Preservation and Access & Research Libraries Group. May, 1996.
Available from:� http://www.clir.org/programs/cpa/cpa.html
This is the final report from the task force commissioned in 1994 by the CPA and RLG.� The report provides a good introduction to the issues, as well as lays out a framework for digital preservation.� It covers a broad amount of ground including migration strategies, costs, questions of deep infrastructure, as well as a call for a national system of archives.
Waters, Donald.� Towards a System of Digital Archives: Some Technological, Political and Economic Considerations. Association of Research Libraries, 1998.
Available from:� http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/131/waters.html
A talk given by Donald Waters, focussing on digital preservation as it relates to scholarly communication.� His call for deep infrastructure includes distributed repositories, dependence on contracts, and systems of discovery and retrieval.
Webb, Colin.� Preservation of Electronic Information:� What We Should be Thinking About Now.� International Preservation News.� IFLA.� N.18, March 1999.
This is the keynote speech from the 9th Symposium on Preservation at the National Diet Library.� Colin Webb speaks about Australia's PANDORA project which aims to archive (and preserve) the nation's networked digital publications
Web Resources:
"AfterLife is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to archive Web sites after their authors die and can no longer support them": http://www.afterlife.org/
Digital Preservation of sorts.� A site to keep your eyes on ? not much as of yet, and they would not give me any specifics on how they plan to go about this task, but I suspect that someday something as odd as this may be well known.
Cedars Project: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/
A U.K. project, working on strategies for digital preservation to deal with both the tangle of copyright laws and the speed of technical obsolescence.� There is a link to Cedars 2, which will do research and testing on emulation for preservation (actual testing to be done in U. of Mich.) - one to watch!
Colorado Digitization Project: http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/
The page for a digital collection of Colorado's heritage.� It has some interesting information on Standards and Metadata.
Digital objects as manuscripts: How to select material that is born digital for long-term preservation.� By Ellis Weinberger: http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ew206/d-as-m-article/
A CEDARS Project Officer, Weinberger gives a brief page or two on one of the hardest tasks of any form of preservation� - Selection.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://purl.org/dc/
The Dublin Core's home page supplies a plethora of great information on their metadata initiative, including the important element descriptions.
(description from their site)
Eva is a joint project by libraries, publishers and expert organizations, being part of the strategy program Education, Training and Research in the Information Society by the Finnish Ministry of Education. The central aim of the project is to create methods and tools to collect, register and archive electronic publications distributed on the Internet and to investigate conditions for long-term preservation of them in libraries.
The Getty's Metadata Page: http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/intrometadata/
The Getty, as usual, spares nothing and this series of pages is a wonderful introduction and explanation to the world of metadata and its importance in digital preservation.
Howard Besser's home page: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard/
Among the many fascinating things this man is thinking about is digital preservation issues.� After checking out the rest of his world, scroll down to the section: "Digital Libraries, Standards, Metadata, & Longevity Activities"
Into the Future Website (with further resources): http://www.clir.org/programs/otheractiv/otheres.html#res
Ordering information for the Terry Sanders'� film, plus links to other good digital preservation resources.
Our Digital Island: The State Library of Tasmania Web Preservation Site
Nothing less than an attempt to preserve Tasmanian Web sites just as a library would any other national cultural heritage.� An excellent example is being set for the rest of the world!
PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information): http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html
Australia's National Library's PADI is a comprehensive and informative, wonderfully put together site that offers a great overview, as well as focused details, on the current issues involved with digital preservation.
PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pandora/
The National Library of Australia's project to set up a digital archive of the country's online publications.� As usual, the Australians are out far ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to library and archive matters.� This site has a link to many staff papers as well as a link to their growing archive.
Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records -
University of Arizona: http://www.asu.edu/it/events/ecure/
Conference proceedings from October, 1999.� The focus here is on the management and preservation of the rapidly growing numbers of electronic records that universities must deal with.
Preservation of Scientific Serials: Three Current Examples - by William Y. Arms.
An article in JEP: Journal of Electronic Publishing:
A good article focussing on the preservation of scientific journals in electronic form.� Good links are also provided to a wide assortment of digital preservation resources.
The State of the Art in Digital Preservation: A perspective from the Digital Library Federation.�� A slide show by Donald Waters: http://www.clir.org/diglib/presentations/fdlc/index.htm
A good general presentation on the issues - more of Donald Waters presentations can be found at: http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfpresent.htm
The Web Preservation Society: http://www.uccs.edu/~bjsimpso/history/
This looks both promising and interesting, but I can get no response from them.
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