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2023
Presentation
Exploring the scholarly communications ecosystem
This module provides an overview on the topics of scholarly publishing, rights management and copyright, research data management, persistent identifiers, and digital preservation accompanied with a breakout activity to discuss challenges and prioritise topics for an online follow up session.Holt, Ilkay
scholarly publishing, scholarly communications, persistent identifiers, digital preservation, and research data management
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2020
Conference paper (published)
Archiving Interactive Narratives at the British Library
This paper describes the creation of the Interactive Narratives collection in the UK Web Archive, as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries Emerging Formats Project. The aim of the project is to identify, collect and preserve complex digital publications that are in scope for collection under UK Non-Print Legal...Clark, Lynda ; Rossi, Giulia Carla ; Wisdom, Stella
Emerging Formats, digital storytelling, new media collection management, Interactive Narratives collection, digital preservation, and web archiving
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2019
Conference paper (published)
Preserving eBooks: Past, Present and Future - A Series of National Library Perspectives
This panel will present and discuss different eBook workflows and challenges from four national libraries, considering a range of issues from technical complexities to evolution of the content type and changes in the publishing/collecting landscape.Owens, Trevor ; Pennock, Maureen ; Smyth, Tom ; Steinke, Tobias
access, ingest, ebooks, digital preservation, formats, and scale
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2013
Conference paper (published)
Developing a robust migration workflow for preserving and curating hand-held media
Many memory institutions hold large collections of hand-held media, which can comprise hundreds of terabytes of data spread over many thousands of data-carriers. Many of these carriers are at risk of significant physical degradation over time, depending on their composition. Unfortunately, handling them manually is enormously time consuming and so...Dappert, Angela ; Jackson, Andrew ; Kimura, Akiko
disk-copying robot, iPRES, data-carrier stabilization, auto loader, and digital preservation
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2019
Poster (published)
Malware threats in digital preservation: Extending the evidence base (poster)
Virus checking is an established process in most pre-ingest digital preservation workflows. It is typically included as part of a general threat model response and there has to date been relatively little research into the virus checking function specifically within a long term context. The British Library recently began a...Pennock, Maureen ; Day, Michael ; Samaras, Evanthia
malware, Flashback, virus checking, and digital preservation
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2019
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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2014
Conference paper (published)
Identifying digital preservation requirements: Digital Preservation Strategy and collection profiling at the British Library
The British Library is increasingly a digital library. Over past decades, it has built up significant collections of digital content covering a very wide range of content types. In addition to the increasing amounts of digital content acquired by purchase or donation, the Library and its partners have also invested...Day, Michael ; McDonald, Ann ; Kimura, Akiko ; Pennock, Maureen
preservation planning, institutional contexts of preservation, collection content profiling, and digital preservation