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Conference paper (published)
Co-operation for digital preservation and curation: Collaboration for collection development in institutional repository network
The digital preservation problem is a series of interrelated technical and organizational challenges that can only be met co-operatively by the many different stakeholders that are involved. The rise of the institutional repository paradigm backs this up with its focus on co-operation within national or subject-based networks and the wider...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; Allinson, Julie
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Supporting practical preservation work and making it sustainable with SPRUCE
Wheatley, Paul ; Pennock, Maureen
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Poster (unpublished)
Managing an ISO 16363 self-assessment: a how-to guide
Audit and certification standards help demonstrate whether a repository is trustworthy. Their guidelines provide a framework with which to assess the on-going viability of a digital repository as well as the surrounding resources and infrastructurePennock, Maureen ; Smith, Caylin
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Conference paper (published)
Implementing Digital Preservation Strategy: Developing content collection profiles at the British Library
The British Library is increasingly a digital library. Through both digitization and acquisition, it has built up significant collections of digital content covering a very wide range of content types. Most recently, the extension of legal deposit provisions to non-print works in 2013 has meant that it - working in...Day, Michael ; McDonald, Ann ; Pennock, Maureen ; Kimura, Akiko
content management, digital libraries, content collection profiles, Internet, and digital preservation
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Conference paper (published)
The Flashback Project: Rescuing disk-based content from the 1980s to the present day
This paper introduces the British Library's Flashback project, a proof-of-concept that explored the practical challenges of preserving digital content stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks) using a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between 1980 and 2010. It describes some of the activities undertaken by...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael ; Davies, Kevin ; Whibley, Simon …
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Conference paper (published)
Archiving web site resources: a records management view
In this paper, we propose the use of records management principles to identify and manage Web site resources with enduring value as records. Current Web archiving activities, collaborative or organisational, whilst extremely valuable in their own right, often do not and cannot incorporate requirements for proper records management. Material collected...Pennock, Maureen ; Kelly, Brian
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Poster (published)
Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections: the Integrated Preservation Suite
This poster describes the Integrated Preservation Suite (IPS) project. IPS is a British Library initiative to develop and populate an infrastructure capable of supporting preservation planning of highly diverse digital collections at scale. IPS comprises: A Representation Information Registry with information about formats and wider technical environments relevant to the...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter
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Conference paper (published)
Adventures with ePub3: when rendering goes wrong
The role of standards in digital preservation is widely acknowledged. The current version of the ePub standard, used for publishing and disseminating eBooks, is ePub3, specifically 3.1 (January 2017). A marked difference from ePub2 is support for fixed layout files and, whilst several different ePub readers are available, not all...Pennock, Maureen ; Day, Michael
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Conference paper (published)
Considerations on the acquisition and preservation of ebook mobile apps
In 2018 and 2019, as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries’ sponsored ‘Emerging Formats’ project, the British Library’s digital preservation team undertook a program of research into the preservation of new forms of content. One of these content types was eBooks published as Mobile Apps. Research considered a relatively...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael
access, mobile apps, acquisition, digital preservation, and preservation
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Presentation
The Integrated Preservation Suite: Demonstrating a scalable preservation planning toolset for diverse digital collections (demonstration)
The Integrated Preservation Suite is an internally funded project at the British Library to develop automated and scalable preservation planning capability for a highly diverse and growing digital collection. Core components include a technical knowledge base, a software repository, a policy and planning repository, and a preservation watch function, all...May, Peter ; Pennock, Maureen ; Russo, David
software preservation, preservation planning, preservation watch, digital preservation strategies, and knowledge base