Expanding the Preservation Network: Lessons from Portico

Kirchhoff, Amy

doi:10.1353/lib.0.0048

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“…This can lead to potential hacking of the system or infection from viruses or malware. This backup situation is contrary to the Kirchhoff (2009) finding which posited that backups make adequate provision for the platform as they enable digital records to be copied and stored in different locations to make it possible to easily retrieve data in the event of a system failure, emergency or unforeseen disaster.…”

Section: Backupmentioning

confidence: 77%

A framework for digital preservation of Indigenous knowledge system (IKS) in repositories in South Africa

Balogun

Kalusopa

2021

RMJ

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the digital preservation policies and plans for long-term digital preservation in selected repositories in South Africa, with a view to develop a digital preservation framework for the preservation of Indigenous knowledge system (IKS) in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach Through the multiple case study research design, data was obtained from eight respondents in four Indigenous Knowledge Systems Documentation Centers (IKSDCs) in institutions that are part of the National Recordal Systems (NRS) initiative across four provinces in South Africa using in-depth face-to-face interviews. Data collected was also supplemented with the content analysis of several policy documents in South Africa. Findings The findings reveal that there are no digital preservation policies in place in the institutions, especially long-term digital preservation for IKS. However, some of the institutions are formulating policies that will include the management of IKS collected in the institutions. This study also reveals that digital curation, policy formulation and disaster preparedness plans to some extent are measures said to be in place for the digital preservation of IKS. Research limitations/implications This study focuses mainly on the NRS initiative in South Africa. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) related to traditional medicine, traditional plants and food are currently being digitized at the IKSDCs by IK recorders. This study will help in ensuring that the South African Government’s effort and investment in digitizing IKS and making them accessible online is not wasted. This study will help mitigate the risk of damage and alteration over time, either deliberately or in error. Originality/value This study fills a gap in the literature on the digitization and digital preservation of IKS from the context of the NRS project in South Africa. Very few studies have been carried out on the digital preservation of IKS in Africa. This study also proposed a framework for the digital preservation of IKS in South Africa.

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Section: Backupmentioning

confidence: 77%

A framework for digital preservation of Indigenous knowledge system (IKS) in repositories in South Africa

Balogun

Kalusopa

2021

RMJ

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“…This uncertainty of continuing access is a major hurdle which prevents libraries from moving to electronic only subscriptions 11 So libraries need to archive electronic journals before they can completely shift to e-journals only 12 . Since the libraries spent a substantial part of their budget on e-journals, they must protect the investment they make on e-resources 13 . Hence, digital archiving of back files of journals is very important in order to provide seamless access to the digital content to the future generations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is a very complicated process and requires lot of innovations in institutional and business models, technology infrastructure, social and legal frameworks 20 . Preservation of e-journals is "particularly challenging due to extensive diversity and complexity of data structures in use over time and across the publishing community" 21 . The archival holdings may be accessed infrequently-several cycles of technology evolution may occur in between accesses to digital content, thereby causing corrupted files to remain unnoticed for long.…”

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“…The new generation students (or netizens as they are popularly called) are more comfortable in online environment for information seeking. Zogby International as mentioned by Kirchhoff 4 has highlighted that a majority of students (18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24) year) are prepared to give-up television but not the Internet. Further, they are not only consumers of digital content; they, also known as millennials, generate it too by interacting with text, computers, and multimedia 5 .…”

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Digital Preservation of Electronic Resources

Gaur¹,

Tripathi²

2012

DJLIT

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Due to huge advances in information communication technologies (ICTs), there has been an astronomical growth of e-resources-e-journals, e-books, online databases and so on; libraries spend phenomenally on acquisition of these e-resources as these are very popularly used by the students and researchers. Unfortunately, this growth is accompanied by many threats. Digital content (of the e-resources) is fragile and not durable. Its accessibility and use by future generations depends on technology which very rapidly evolves and changes. Hence, ensuring access of e-resources for future generation of users is a big challenge for libraries. The present paper highlights various problems of digital content and elaborates how digital preservation is more demanding and challenging than preserving print copies of journals. It also gives a bird's eye view of various projects initiated for archiving digital content of scholarly journals.

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“…Besides portraying individuals as stakeholders, the broader digital preservation initiatives have a tendency to emphasise the central role of institutions and a need to "encourage" them to participate (e.g. Kirchhoff, 2009).…”

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The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of “participation” in archival literature

Huvila

2015

Journal of Documentation

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate how archivists, records managers and scholarly literature in the field(s) analyse how "participation" is discussed in the context of archives and records management, and to explore practical and theoretical implications of the disclosed discursive practices. Design/methodology/approach -The analysis is based on a discourse analysis of a body of archival literature and a sample of posts collected from the archival and records management blogosphere.Findings -The analysis shows that instead of discussing one notion of participation, the archival science literature is referring to nine different and partly conflicting types of participation from three broad perspectives: management, empowerment and technology. The discourses have also conflicting ideas of the role of engagement and enthusiasm, and of that what do the different stakeholder communities see as real options.Research limitations/implications -The analysed material consists of a limited sample of mainly English language texts that may not capture all the nuances of how participation is discussed in the archival literature. Practical implications -A better understanding of how different claims of the benefits and threats endorsing "participation" in archives helps to develop effective and less contradictory forms of collaboration between different stakeholders. Originality/value -In spite of the popularity of the notion of "participation", there little, especially critical, research on how participation is conceptualised by archives professionals and researchers.

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Expanding the Preservation Network: Lessons from Portico

Cited by 8 publications

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A framework for digital preservation of Indigenous knowledge system (IKS) in repositories in South Africa

A framework for digital preservation of Indigenous knowledge system (IKS) in repositories in South Africa

Digital Preservation of Electronic Resources

The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of “participation” in archival literature

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