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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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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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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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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