Records Mgmt & Archiving : Rubrik:Preservation

New issue of International Journal of Digital Curation

jhagmann — 2009-12-13T21:07:00Z

Go and see the table of content

Link:
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc

BSI Technische Richtlinie 03125: Vertrauenswürdige elektronische Langzeitspeicherung

jhagmann — 2009-12-13T20:56:00Z

Das deutsche Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) hat
die neuen technischen Richtlinien betr. Langzeitarchivierung veröffentlicht.

BSI Richtlinien

Trends in der Langzeitarchivierung

jhagmann — 2009-11-17T19:37:00Z

Diese Disk hält 1000 Jahre - behauptet zumindest der Hersteller. Mit einer neuen Technik und besonders harten Materialien will ein US-Unternehmen Spezial-DVDs für Jahrhunderte haltbar machen. Die Idee könnte aber an einem simplen Grundproblem scheitern.

Spiegel Artikel v. 16.11.09

Team Digital Preservation (videos)

jhagmann — 2009-11-04T14:42:00Z

It's not only fun but bit rot can damage your digital environment ... if you do not
care about prevention measures.

Team Digital Preservation has to fight against a nuclear and an aeroplane disaster.

see Youtube videos, its great fun:

Digital Preservation nuclear disaster:

Digital Preservation aeroplane disaster

Its good to be ready for prevention!

8 things you need to know about Preservation of e-Documents for Litigation and Regulatory...

jhagmann — 2009-08-31T20:11:00Z

Good list of recommendations from John Okonkwo, who is a dual qualified US Attorney and UK Solicitor specialising in information governance, with a focus on e-discovery and e-fraud. He is a professional member of AIIM and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Most critical is this one:
5. Constantly monitor custodian based-retention practices.

Employees tend to store data in the most convenient manner regardless of policy. Portable media or storage devices can now hold vast amounts of data which can exist at any given time only on that device. Along with Web 2.0 social networking platforms, they can be crucial in establishing relationships, timelines, and exceptions to hearsay objections. (...)

New DVDs for long-term retention

jhagmann — 2009-08-02T18:35:00Z

A US startup has developed a new DVD-R technology that it claims will be readable for 1,000 years.

Who could prove and verify that kind of longevity ?

Go to link

Langzeiterhaltung digitaler Information bleibt ein ungelöstes Problem

jhagmann — 2009-06-11T12:16:00Z

Artikel von Heise:
Die Vielfalt von Contentformaten wird für Archivare zum Albtraum.
Mit zusätzlichen links zu Projekten, die sich mit der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung befassen.

go to Heise

XAM (eXtensible Access Method) - SNIA

jhagmann — 2009-06-11T07:44:00Z

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has developed XAM (eXtensible Access Method), an Interface specification which defines a standard access method (API) between Consumers (application and management software) and Providers (storage systems) to manage fixed content reference information storage services. XAM includes metadata definitions to accompany data to achieve application interoperability, storage transparency, and automation for ILM-based practices, long term records retention, and information security. XAM will be expanded over time to include other data types as well as support additional implementations based on the XAM API to XAM conformant storage systems.

Records Managers should like this: XAM provides a standardized set of management disciplines and semantics for fixed content, such as retention, expiration, etc.

for further information and to download the architecture paper go to: http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/xam/

Benefits

Application developers, storage vendors, and storage management professionals all benefit from XAM:

- Application developers benefit because the standard XAM interface no longer requires vendor specific code for reference information storage. This feature enables application developers to spend less time writing and maintaining vendor-specific code so that they can devote more time to features that add value to their applications. These developers can rely on a standard interface an interface that is designed and supported by the vendors that are involved in the reference information industry.

- Storage vendors benefit because XAM provides a consistent set of data access and data management capabilities across XAM-compliant storage systems. Therefore, these vendors can plug their hardware into a standard interface that enables application vendors using XAM to transparently use their storage platform. XAM also enables standards-based techniques to move data between diverse storage platforms and information management applications to design solutions based on a common set of features and functions.

- Storage management professionals benefit because they can easily relocate data to accommodate storage system replacement. In addition, they can select best-of-breed applicationprograms and storage systems without being constrained by integration issues.

Long-Term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative (SNIA)

jhagmann — 2009-03-21T07:38:00Z

This initiative by SNIA is a cooperative effort of end users, IT professionals, vendors, integrators, and service providers with interest in the challenges related to long-term digital information retention, preservation, and compliance-related storage practices.

Go to SNIA

There is also a Webcast
about database archiving fundamentals.

Grosse Herausforderungen für die NARA

jhagmann — 2009-02-01T15:26:00Z

George W. Bush ist aus dem Weißen Haus ausgezogen. Er hinterlässt nicht nur dem neuen US-Präsidenten Barack Obama gewaltige Aufgaben. Ein Mammut-Projekt ist es auch, die hinterlassenen Daten-Mengen in den Griff zu bekommen, berichtet computerworld.com.

go to: Computerworld

British Library warnt vor digitalem Gedächtnisschwund

jhagmann — 2009-02-01T15:07:00Z

Die Chefin der British Library, Lynne Brindley, fordert größere Anstrengungen zur Archivierung digitaler Dokumente zur Zeitgeschichte.

Artikel im Guardian:

deutscher Hinweis:
http://www.golem.de/0901/64853.html

Zum Archivprojekt der British Library

"Der Standard" zum Archivprojekt

Digital preservation conference - Nice (DPE & Planets)

jhagmann — 2008-10-12T10:46:00Z

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services (Planets), Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR) announce their 3rd annual Conference taking place in Nice, France, on 28-30 October 2008.

Programme online

International Journal for Digital Curation

jhagmann — 2008-08-04T08:56:00Z

High quality journal with free downloads. Really recommended!

Go to:
http://www.ijdc.net/./ijdc/issue/current

From the DCC: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

Results from LIFE2 Conference (UK)

jhagmann — 2008-07-17T19:43:00Z

LIFE (Life Cycle Information for E-Literature) is a collaboration between University College London (UCL) and the British Library.

Summary of the LIFE2 conference:
http://www.life.ac.uk/blog/

The presentation files from the LIFE2 Conference are now available on the
Conference Page

Especially interesting is the keynote (Paul Courant) about economics and cost models of digital preservation:
http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/9051

Digital preservation study (RAND Europe)

jhagmann — 2008-07-13T08:19:00Z

The uncertain future of saving the past.

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