Digital preservation: challenges and implementation

Kirchhoff, Amy

doi:10.1087/095315108x356716

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“…Migration is among the methods which demand a thorough understanding of the content being preserved. But emulation is a more technology-based approach, demanding a broad knowledge and skills in the predominant hardware and software on the market (Kirchhoff, 2008).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

Mwilongo

Luambano

Lwehabura

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The aim of this study was to assess the collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania. Specifically, the study examined the collection development practices and factors that influence these practices. The study involved four academic libraries and employed both qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. Primary data were collected through informant interviews, observations and questionnaires methods. The study involved 44 library staff who filled in self-administered questionnaires. The study discloses that collection development practices and particularly evaluation and weeding or deselection are rarely conducted at these academic libraries. The findings further reveal that collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania are constrained by inadequate funding, lack of skills for hybrid collection management and lack of collection development policy catering for both print- and electronic-based information resources. On the basis of the findings, the study recommends that academic libraries should establish a comprehensive collection development policy and introduce professional development programmes to library staff for efficient management of hybrid collections.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

Mwilongo

Luambano

Lwehabura

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…In all cases of reference rot, the temporary or irretrievable loss of access to a URL leads to information discontinuity and thus compromises reference‐related data or information integrity (Teixeira da Silva, 2021). It is thus necessary for libraries, academic institutes and journals to preserve information (Kirchhoff, 2008; Lynch, 2017). Some measures or tools to counter reference rot allow URLs to be preserved at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/index.php), hereafter referred to as the Internet Archive for simplicity, Webrecorder (https://webrecorder.net/; now Conifer: https://conifer.rhizome.org/), Portico (http://www.portico.org/), LOCKSS (http://www.lockss.org/), CLOCKSS (https://clockss.org/) or Perma (https://perma.cc/), free in the first case, open source in the second case, but paid in the latter four cases.…”

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“…In all cases of reference rot, the temporary or irretrievable loss of access to a URL leads to information discontinuity and thus compromises reference-related data or information integrity (Teixeira da Silva, 2021). It is thus necessary for libraries, academic institutes and journals to preserve information (Kirchhoff, 2008;Lynch, 2017). Some measures or tools to coun-…”

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Archiving website‐based references in academic papers: Problems caused by reference rot, potential solutions and limitations

Silva

Nazarovets

2023

Learned Publishing

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Key points Web‐based references form an integral part of academic culture and literature, as well as scientific communication. The preservation of web‐based references that are cited in‐text or in reference lists of academic papers is essential to ensure the integrity of knowledge preservation. When access or links to web‐based resources and references disappear, or if they are dysfunctional, these phenomena are collectively referred to as reference rot. Even though reference rot degrades the integrity of information in academic papers, no industry‐wide solutions currently exist. Given its prominence, we propose the Internet Archive as a possible solution to address reference rot, but also note its weaknesses and limitations.

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“…No standard definition exists for digital preservation. 65 But for government documents, several concerns are especially prominent:…”

Section: Preservationmentioning

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Documents for a Digital Democracy

Schonfeld¹,

Housewright²

2015

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Ithaka S+R (www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r) is the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. The Ithaka S+R team supports innovation in higher education by working with initiatives and organizations to develop sustainable business models and by conducting research and analysis on the impact of digital media on the academic community as a whole. Insights from these efforts are shared broadly, with more than a dozen reports freely available online. JSTOR, an accessible archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals and other content, and Portico, a service that preserves scholarly content published in electronic form for future generations, are also part of ITHAKA.

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Digital preservation: challenges and implementation

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Cited by 11 publications

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Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

Collection development practices in academic libraries in Tanzania

Archiving website‐based references in academic papers: Problems caused by reference rot, potential solutions and limitations

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