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Cinderella Collections: History of Official Publications Collection in the British Library
Jenkins, Jeremy
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Early printed books containing Andean languages in the British Library, London
West, Geoffrey
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El fondo vasco de E.S. Dodgson de la British Library: su identificación y catalogación
West, Geoffrey
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Issues raised by a 'rap' translation of a poem by Velimir Khlebnikov 'Kamennaia baba'
Chadwick, Brian
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Los libros españoles que fueron del Baron Achille Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Los libros que fueron de la Biblioteca de Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Where are they now? The dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850
West, Geoffrey
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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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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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Risk Assessment; using a risk based approach to prioritise handheld digital information
The British Library (BL) Digital Library Programme (DLP) has a broad set of objectives to achieve over the next few years, from web-archiving to the ingest of e-journals through to mass digitisation of newspapers and books. These projects are decided by the DLP programme board and are managed by the...McLeod, Rory
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Modeling Organizational Preservation Goals to Guide Digital Preservation
Digital preservation activities can only succeed if they go beyond the technical properties of digital objects. They must consider the strategy, policy, goals, and constraints of the institution that undertakes them and take into account the cultural and institutional framework in which data, documents and records are preserved. Furthermore, because...Dappert, Angela ; Farquhar, Adam
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Costing the Digital Preservation Lifecycle More Effectively
Having confidence in the permanence of a digital resource requires a deep understanding of the preservation activities that will need to be performed throughout its lifetime and an ability to plan and resource for those activities. The LIFE (Lifecycle Information For E-Literature) and LIFE2 Projects have advanced understanding of the...Wheatley, Paul
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Adapting Existing Technologies for Digitally Archiving Personal Lives. Digital Forensics, Ancestral Computing, and Evolutionary Perspectives and Tools
The adoption of existing technologies for digital curation, most especially digital capture, is outlined in the context of personal digital archives and the Digital Manuscripts Project at the British Library. Technologies derived from computer forensics, data conversion and classic computing, and evolutionary computing are considered. The practical imperative of moving...John, Jeremy Leighton
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Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals: Paper - iPRES 2008 - London
As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. In addition to deciding on the more traditional descriptive and administrative metadata, particular care needs to be given to the choice of structural and preservation metadata, as well as to integrating...Dappert, Angela ; Enders, Marcus
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Are you ready? Assessing whether organisations are prepared for digital preservation
In the last few years digital preservation has started to transition from a theoretical discipline to one where real solutions are beginning to be used. The Planets project has analyzed the readiness of libraries, archives and related organizations to begin to use the outputs of various digital preservation initiatives (and,...Sinclair, Pauline ; Billenness, Clive ; Duckworth, James ; Farquhar, Adam ; Humphreys, Jane …
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ArchivePress: A Really Simple Solution to Archiving Blog Content
Blog archiving and preservation is not a new challenge. Current solutions are commonly based on typical web archiving activities, whereby a crawler is configured to harvest a copy of the blog and return the copy to a web archive. Yet this is not the only solution, nor is it always...Pennock, Maureen ; Davis, Richard
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A framework for distributed preservation workflows
The Planets project is developing a service-oriented environment for the definition and evaluation of preservation strategies for human-centric data. It focuses on the question of logically preserving digital materials, as opposed to the physical preservation of content bit-streams. This includes the development of preservation tools for the automated characterization, migration,...Schmidt, Rainer ; King, Ross ; Steeg, Fabian ; Melms, Peter ; Jackson, Andrew …
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LIFE3: Predicting Long Term Digital Preservation Costs
As we develop our ability to preserve digital collections through techniques such as migration and emulation, the decision process of what action to take and when to take it becomes increasingly complex. Cost is a crucial factor to consider but the financial implications of preservation planning decisions are not typically...Wheatley, Paul ; Hole, Brian
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