Records Mgmt & Archiving

Das neue Toolkit für risikobasierte Audits von digitalen Ablagen / Archiven
kann erworben werden durch Registrierung auf der neuen Website:

Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA)

http://www.repositoryaudit.eu

(since 9th April 2008)

Vortrag von A. McHugh (HATII, Glasgow) anlässlich der Archiving 2008 Konferenz in Bern (24.-27.6.08)

Bringing Self Assessment Home: Repository Profiling & Key Lines of Enquiry Within DRAMBORA
Drambora (ppt, 406 KB)

"Long-term preservation of digitally represented information (abbreviated LDP below) has been
discussed for over a decade in articles by librarians, archivists, and information scientists, an
informal group sometimes called the digital preservation community (DPC). This literature is
mostly disjoint from that of computer science, software engineering, and information technology
industry. From the perspective of an engineer accustomed to the pace of I/T research and
development, progress reported in the DPC literature is surprisingly slow."

We need more common activities. This means that archivists have to develop more skills in
IT architecture, engineering etc.

Read the excellent report on Economics and engineering for preserving digital content

Download article

... it's really amazing.
In one year, the amount of photos uploaded to Facebook equal all of the data and images collected by the Hubble space telescope. All of the videos on YouTube are nearly five times the size of the data & images collected by Hubble. And the amount of data processed by Google every 72 minutes?

interesting post from Jill Hurst's blog

WIRED article

Zwei getrennte Hochsicherheits-Datenspeicher sollen die österreichischen Bestände für Jahrhunderte archivieren. Als erstes soll das bestehende Staatsarchiv digital erfasst werden.

siehe:
http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/hightech/370601/index.do

Three new studies are available online on the DCC Website:

- Investigative Study of Standards for Digital Repositories and Related Services
- A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories
- The European Repository Landscape

(all from Amsterdam University Press)

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/case-studies/

Digital Preservation Europe

see:
http://planets-project.eu/docs/newsletters/PlanetsNewsletterIssue3.pdf

3rd International Digital Curation Conference
"Curating our Digital Scientific Heritage:
a Global Collaborative Challenge"


Papers for download:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2007/programme/

Ergebnisse einer Fachkonferenz.
u.a. hat auch das Frauenhofer-Institut ihre Lösung TransiDoc vorgesetellt.

siehe:
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/711741/

und:
http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb7/provet/konferenz-bmwi/agenda.ghk

Transidoc: download
http://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/forschungsbereich/tad/transidoc.jsp

This one-day workshop provided a useful overview of legal considerations for non-legal professionals who work with data. The day comprised talks by experts in the following areas:
Intellectual property rights and licensing
Data protection, freedom of information and privacy
Data as evidence

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/legal-env-dig-cur-2007/

Minutes from public meetings about the ERA project (NARA):
(April 2007)

There are some issues however ... e.g. with ingest and timelines etc.

and we learn that archivists have no power: as usual

"Dr Thibodeau – The records coming to NARA are available immediately. But archivists do not have enforcement power."

check on your own what are the problems of developing the largest (or most costly) archive for digital objects history has ever seen.

http://archives.gov/era/pdf/acera-minutes-040407-draft.pdf

http://archives.gov/era/pdf/acera-minutes-040507-draft.pdf