This article presents an analysis of costs for digitizing and long-term storage at the Riksarkivet (National Archives, RA) in Stockholm, Sweden. This example includes forecasts of cost development for the next few years which may help other institutions in analysing their own costs and budgeting for long-term storage. This often quoted article, published in the framework of the TAPE project, …
International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation
Contents: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Country Report for Australia Part 3: Country Report for the Netherlands Part 4: Country Report for the United Kingdom Part 5: Country Report for the United States Part 6: Summary Findings and Joint Recommendations Appendix A: Selected Provisions of International Treaties and Laws Relevant to Digital Preservation Appendix B: Selected Provisions of Australian Law …
Nothing Lasts Forever v.2
This handbook addresses the preservation of digital information in the museum community. One of the main tasks of museums is to ensure the protection of collections from disintegration. This documet guides the reader through the issues related to different preservation options, providing an overview of data formats and storage media options and giving practical suggestions for preservation of different objects, …
Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and responsibilities
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.
Digitization Activities- project planning and management outline
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 …
Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (web edition)
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 …