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Multi-spectral Imaging at the British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and holds over 150 million items with an additional three million new items added each year. The 625 km of shelving contains manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints, drawings, music scores and patents. The fundamental purpose of the Library is...Duffy, Christina
multi-spectral imaging, text-recovery, iron gall ink, digital, digitization, reagent, data, library, fire-damage, imaging, and erasure
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The Integrated Preservation Suite: Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections (long paper)
The Integrated Preservation Suite is an internally funded project at the British Library to develop and enhance the Library's preservation planning capabilities, largely focussed on automation and addressing the Library's heterogeneous collections. Through agile development practices, the project is iteratively designing and implementing the technical infrastructure for the suite as...May, Peter ; Pennock, Maureen ; Russo, David
software preservation, knowledge base, preservation watch, and preservation planning
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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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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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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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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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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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Prospects for a Big Data History of Music
This position paper sets out the possibility of a musicology based on the analysis of musical-bibliographical metadata as Big Data. It outlines the work underway, as part of the AHRC-funded project A Big Data History of Music, to align seven major datasets of musical-bibliographical metadata. After discussing some of the...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra
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Early printed books containing Andean languages in the British Library, London
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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