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 …

D2.1.2 Tools for modelling and simulating migration based preservation

Contents: Scope Executive summary 1. Introduction 2. ‘The cost of compromise’ 3. Overview of the tools 4. Walkthrough of the long-term storage planning tool 5. Walkthrough of the interactive storage simulation tool 6. Parameters: What do they mean, where do they come from 7. Assumptions and simplifications 8. Implementation of the models 9. Conclusion and future developments This report describes …

DSHR’s blog

This is David Rosenthal’s blog, discussing his work in digital preservation at LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) of Stanford University. David Rosenthal is investigating peer-to-peer techniques for fault and attack tolerance in the LOCKSS program at Stanford, and is also responsible for the OpenBSD-based network appliance technology that most LOCKSS peers use. The LOCKSS program is aimed at …

Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories

Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Overview of Audit and Certification Criteria 3 Organizational Infrastructure 4 Digital Object Management 5 Infrastructure and Security Risk Management Met deze CCSDS Recommended Practice is een aanbeveling uitgewerkt op basis waarvan een audit is uit te voeren voor het beoordelen van de betrouwbaarheid van een digitaal archief (digital repository). De aanbeveling is gebaseerd op OAIS en …

QC — and long-term archiving experience

During the digitisation of legacy archive material at ORF, the Austrian public-service broadcaster, hundreds of thousands of video cassettes will need to be converted to digital file formats over the next decade. To guarantee the sustainable usability of this file-based material, thoroughly-planned guidelines for Quality Control (QC) have to be worked out. Although some QC tools already exist, their detailed …

The Economics of Long-Term Digital Storage

Kryder’s Law refers to the rapid increase in areal storage density of digital storage media in the past decades and has often been used in digital preservation economic forecasts. Presented at UNESCO’s conference ‘Memory of the World in the Digital Age”, this paper presents a growing body of evidence suggesting that Kryder’s Law will not necessarily hold in the future …