Starting Small: Practical First Steps in Digital Preservation
1. Starting Small: Practical First
Steps in Digital Preservation
ALCTS-PARS Digital Conversion Interest Group Session
ALA Annual
June 23, 2012
Helen K. Bailey
3. Increasing e-Resource
Collections
v 35,000 e-journal titles
v 60,000 e-books
v 1800 digital collections and databases
4. e-Resource Preservation?
v “Final Report of the 2CUL LOCKSS Assessment
Team” - Cornell University Library & Columbia
University Library
v http://2cul.org/sites/default/files/
2CULLOCKSSFinalReport.pdf
v “less than 15% of Cornell e-journal titles as a whole”
preserved in either LOCKSS or Portico
11. Learning Resources
v ICPSR Digital Preservation Management Workshop:
http://www.dpworkshop.org/workshops/fiveday.html
v Charles W. Bailey, Jr’s Digital Curation and Preservation
Bibliography:
http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm
v Digital Preservation Coalition’s Digital Preservation
Handbook:
http://www.dpconline.org/advice/
preservationhandbook
20. Step Four-and-a-Half:
The Near Future
v File Information Tool Set (FITS)
v http://code.google.com/p/fits/
v Identifies, validates, characterizes file formats and
extracts technical metadata using:
v Jhove
v Exiftool
v National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor
v DROID
v FFIdent
v Windows File Utility
22. Current System: Pros
v Inexpensive
v Minimal staff time
v Low barrier to entry (esp. technical)
23. Current System: Cons
v Not scalable
v “Dark archive”… no clear access plan
v Lack of security
24. Step Five: The Future*
?
*Actual implementation decisions not yet made. Any resemblance to real or imagined
repository software is purely coincidental.
25. Other Considerations
v Awareness and buy-in
v Funding
v Policy:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/preservation/
docs/dartmouth_digital_preservation_policy.pdf
v Growth