Digital Preservation Resources
Standards and Guidelines
- Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative - "a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner"
- METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard) - Structure for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library
- NISO, A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (3rd ed., Dec. 2007)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, v2.0 (March 2008)
- Reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, 2002. CCSDS 650.0-B-1 Blue Book
- Scanning Standards (University of North Texas Libraries)
• Understanding Premis (Library of Congress 2/1/2009)
• The OAIS Reference Model: An Introduction (Michael Day, Reference Models Meeting, 25 January 2006)
LC / OCLC / RLG / CRL
- Best Practices for CONTENTdm and Other OAI-PMH Compliant Repositories: Creating Shareable Metadata (Oct. 2010)
- Certification and Assessment of Digital Repositories (CRL)
- Library of Congress Digital Preservation Blog: The Signal
- Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) - a collaborative initiative of the Library of Congress.
- National Digital Stewardship Alliance. An initiative of the NDIIPP, NDSA is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of citizens now and in the future.
- OCLC Digital Collection Management
- OCLC Digital Archive
- The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide (2004)
- RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description (2002)
- Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities; an RLG-OCLC Report (2002)
- Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) (version 1.0, Feb. 2007)
Other U.S.
- Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information, Final Report (Feb. 2010)
- California Digital Library: University of California Digital Preservation Repository
- Chronopolis at the San Diego Super Computer Center (Digital Preservation Demonstration Project)
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, v. 2, 01/17/2011, by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
- Digital Library Federation
- Establishing Trustworthy Digital Repositories: a Discussion Guide based on the ISO Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Standard Reference Model, Jan. 19, 2011 -- from the Interagency Science Working Group and NARA
- MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation - "Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network."
- HathiTrust, a collaboration of the 13 universities of the CIC and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities' digitized collections
- National Association of Secretaries of State, White Paper on Redaction Practives, Joint Report on Digital Archiving, Survey of Online State Services
- National Archives and Records Administration: Electronic Records Archives (ERA)
- Portico ("Working with libraries, publishers, and funders, we preserve e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in the future.")
International
- CLOCKSS - "a joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community"
- Digital Curation Centre (UK)
- Digital Preservation Coalition (UK)
- Digital Preservation Policies Study - "aims to provide an outline model for digital preservation policies and to analyse the role that digital preservation can play in supporting and delivering key strategies for Higher and Further Education Institutions" (JISC, Oct. 2008)
- European Commission on Preservation and Access
- International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (Joint report of JISC, NDIIPP, the OAK Law Project and the SURFfoundation, July 2008)
- Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability Project
- Keeping Research Data Safe: a Cost Model and Guidance for UK Universities (JISC funded, April 2008)
- LOCKSS - "an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content"
- Make It Digital Guides (New Zealand)
- NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (2002-2003)
- Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project (Australia)
- Open Planets Foundation -- Follow-on organization to Planets: Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, a four-year project co-funded by the European Union to address core digital preservation challenges
- Preserv2 -- PReservation Eprint SERVices. Towards Repository Preservation Services, Final Report (JISC funded; July 2009). Preserv Bibliography on Digital Preservation
Open Source Software for Digital Repositories
- DSpace (developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs)
- EPrints (developed at the University of South Hampton, UK)
- Fedora (developed by Cornell University Information Science and the University of Virginia Library)
- Greenstone (produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project)