Designing and Implementing Second Generation Digital Preservation Services

A workflow management system to feed digital libraries: proposal and case study

“…Given the large scope of SDR, it also provides management functions that allow the system administrators to manage and control different activities, such as the progression of feeding tasks. However, [11] does not provide details on how the digitization process is managed. That is, SDR would be able to accommodate the documents resulting from other systems managing the digitization, but it does not directly support the digitization process.…”

“…The Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) [11] is other representative system for building and feeding digital libraries including the digitization activities. SDR allows to integrate in an institutional digital library contents coming from different sources (either internal or external).…”

“…Additionally, it helps to preserve such documents preventing their disappearance due to their antiquity and fragility [4,27,25]. There are many examples of this type of digital libraries; among others, the Spanish National Library 1 , the Library of Congress 2 [2], the Digital Library of India 3 , the University of Chicago Library 4 , or the Stanford Digital Repository 5 [11].…”

The Oxford Common File Layout: A Common Approach to Digital Preservation

“…This work, known as the Digital Library Build-out (DLB), was a continuation of pioneering research on archival digital libraries performed by Stanford and its partners in the Archive Ingest and Handling Test (AIHT) [2] (2003-2005) and in the National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) [3] project (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008), both funded by the Library of Congress' National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). A core component of the DLB was the redesign of the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) in 2009 [4]. The first iterations of the SDR stored preserved objects using the Library of Congress BagIt format, but after several years of experience it became clear that, while BagIt was appropriate as a transfer mechanism between repositories, it lacked several key features for managing the lifecycle of a digital object within a repository.…”

Cultivate, assess, advocate, implement, and sustain

“…From this theoretical foundation, concrete metrics began to be developed for digital preservation activities (Beagrie et al, 2002;Ambacher et al, 2007), culminating in the Audit and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories, which was codified as an international standard in 2012 (ISO 16363, 2012). Responding to and complementing this standard, library literature has outlined strategies for drafting digital preservation plans and policies (Strodl, et al, 2007;Bishoff, 2010;Mannheimer, et al, 2014); developing repositories for digital preservation (Cramer and Kott, 2010;Elstrøm and Junge, 2014); examining library digital preservation practices (Oehlerts and Liu, 2013); establishing and implementing preservation metadata (Lavoie and Gartner, 2013), and building and evaluating preservationaware digital storage systems (Baker, et al, 2006;Rosenthal, 2010;Han, 2015). Large-scale education and advocacy efforts have also emerged in the library community, including the Library-of-Congress-led National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program 1 in the United States and the Open Preservation Foundation (formerly Planets Project) in Europe.…”