Records Mgmt & Archiving

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/

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

The uncertain future of saving the past.

Go to PDF

The SDSC has executed a pilot project for the Library of Congress.

Between May 2006 and October 2007, the Library of Congress (LC) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) conducted data-transfer and storage tests.
At the heart of the project was the issue of trust, specifically how the LC could
trust SDSC to reliably store several terabytes of the LC’s data. By what means
could SDSC prove to the LC that the data was intact, preserved, and well-cared for? What tests could the LC devise, and what metrics could SDSC produce, to guarantee the integrity of their remotely stored data?

Go to:
SDSC-Project (pdf, 1,399 KB)

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