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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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El fondo vasco de E.S. Dodgson de la British Library: su identificación y catalogación
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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Early printed books containing Andean languages in the British Library, London
West, Geoffrey
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cross-disciplinary Collaborations to Enrich Access to Non-Western Language Material in the Cultural Heritage Sector
The British Library is home to millions of items representing every age of written civilisation, including books, manuscripts and newspapers in all written languages. Large digitisation programmes currently underway are opening up access to this rich and unique historical content on an ever increasing scale. However, particularly for historical material...Derrick, Tom ; McGregor, Nora
HTR, page analysis, layout analysis, recognition, Bangla script, Arabic script, OCR, and datasets
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Dawn of Digital Repositories Certification under ISO 16363. Exploring the Horizon and beyond
The dawn of Trustworthy Digital Repository Certification under the ISO 16363:2012 standard is on the horizon. Across the digital preservation community, institutions are eager to learn more about the processes of preparing for and undergoing an ISO 16363 audit from an accredited third-party organization. As the first ISO 16363 audits...Giaretta, David ; LaPlant, Lisa ; Shiers, Jamie ; Tieman, Jessica ; Pennock, Maureen …
repository, certification, trustworthy, audit, and standards
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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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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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ICIDS2020 Panel: Building the Discipline of Interactive Digital Narratives
Building our discipline has been an ongoing discussion since the early days of ICIDS. From earlier international joint efforts to integrate research from multiple fields of study to today’s endeavours by researchers to provide scholarly works of reference, the discussion on how to continue building Interactive Digital Narratives as a...Bernstein, Mark ; Palosaari Eladhari, Mirjam ; Koenitz, Hartmut ; Louchart, Sandy ; Nack, Frank …
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Developing an Open-Source Corpus of Yoruba Speech
This paper introduces an open-source speech dataset for Yoruba — one of the largest low-resource West African languages spoken by at least 22 million people. Yoruba is one of the official languages of Nigeria, Benin and Togo, and is spoken in other neighboring African countries and beyond. The corpus consists...Gutkin, Alexander ; Demirşahin, Işın ; Kjartansson, Oddur ; Rivera, Clara ; Túbọ̀sún, Kọ́lá
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Latinised Arabic and connections to bilingual ability
As software support for non-Latin scripts is becoming more readily available, the continuing use of Latinised forms in online discourse highlights an interesting phenomenon. This paper focuses on Latinised Arabic (LA) as one manifestation of this trend. While there appears to be significant variation in the conventions used to Latinise...Aboelezz, Mariam
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