This manual gives details of some of the techniques to be followed when old sound recordings are transferred to more modern carriers. It is aimed primarily at the professional archivist transferring them to conserve them, and it is generally assumed that the purpose is to preserve the original sound. With the rapid pace of change in audio technology, analogue formats …
This publication presents the requirements for a Trusted Digital Repository. It contains recommendations and describes the steps to be taken to achieve the status of TDR. A checklist is included.
As part of the Planets project, the British Library presented various reports on their own digital preservation approaches and technology. Angela Dappert (British Library) presented the PREMIS implementations at the British Library and the use of PREMIS in the Planets project in this presentation, delivered to the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale at the Round Table, ‘PREMIS – Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies’ …
This document, created by the US Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI), defines work activities relating to the digitization of cultural heritage materials and presents a generic sequence of high-level activities for planning and management purposes.The intention is to outline a generic sequence of high-level activities for planning and management purposes. In this document, a conceptual outline that accommodates most …
These extensive guidelines cover the entire spectrum of issues involved in migrating analogue audio carriers to digital files and managing those files in an OAIS compliant repository. It recommends formats, metadata standards, signal extraction techniques, and includes a chapter on how a small scale digital repository meeting the requirements of an OAIS might be established and managed. Audio carriers addressed …
This article introduces the JHOVE2 format characterization tool, comparing it with its predecessor JHOVE, the first characterization framework developed and used by international digital library programs and preservation repositories. Besides going into JHOVE2 development and specifications, it explains why characterization is essential in digital preservation workflows and emphasizes the addition of an assessment functionality which allows the repository to determine …
