Contents: This report looks at preservation services, whether out-sourced or in-house and the considerations that are important when defining the service level agreement (SLA) with the service provider. The majority concerns a proposal of 21 capabilities, 12 features of interest, 15 metrics, 12 quality of service terms, 4 constraints, 6 pricing terms and 7 penalty terms to be included in …
D7.1.3 Audiovisual Digital Preservation Status Report
Contents: Scope Executive Summary 1. A very brief introduction to PrestoPRIME 2. Digitisation 3. Digital Management and Preservation 4. Access Conclusions Glossary Annex I – DPE briefing paper. This report presents an overview of the problems, the technology and the projects currently underway in the audiovisual preservation domain as of January 2010. Beginning with a look at digitisation and its …
Keeping Research Data Safe 2
The first Keeping Research Data Safe study (Beagrie, Chrusczcz and Lavoie, JISC 2008) made a major contribution to understanding of long-term preservation costs for research data by developing a cost model and indentifying cost variables for preserving research data in UK universities. This aim of this follow-on project (2009/2010) was to provide a larger body of material and evidence against which existing …
Audiovisual preservation strategies, data models and value chains
This orginal PrestoPRIME project deliverable covers three main aspects of preservation strategy: – The value chains and business models that underpin preservation strategy in the widest sense, i.e. addressing economics and sustainability. This addresses the need to understand where the money will come from, how to keep it coming, and how preservation and access should be done as a result. …
DataSpace: A Funding and Operational Model for Long-Term Preservation and Sharing of Research Data
At the May 5 meeting of the US National Research Board, the National Science Foundation announced that, as of October 2010, it will require that all grant proposals include a data management plan. This announcement represents the next step in what has been a growing trend on the part of government agencies to require researchers to plan for the preservation …
Format considerations in audiovisual preservation reformatting
This article’s subtitle is ‘Snapshots from the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative’. The author presents an overview of decisions the initiative’s Audio-Visual Working Group has made concerning format choices and the handling of embedded metadata for audio and moving image files. It describes its choice of WAVE/BWF formats for audio and its approach to embedding metadata in these formats. It …