On the Nature and Importance of Archiving in the Digital Age

Tibbo, Helen R.

doi:10.1016/s0065-2458(03)57001-2

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“…We believe that the methodology sketched in this review is entirely consistent with archival principles described by Dollar, 72 Tibbo,73 Gilliland-Swetland, 74 and Duranti. 75 The key LDP requirements are expressed above in terms of what end users, both archivists and clients of archiving services, will want.…”

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confidence: 69%

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Long-Term Preservation of Digital Records: Trustworthy Digital Objects

Gladney¹

2009

The American Archivist

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A b s t r a c tThe proper entities for archival attention are patterns inherent in transmitted and stored messages. Most digital archival repository technology-what private sector enterprises call content management (CM) technology-has been thoroughly understood and widely deployed for more than a decade. This technology is not adequate for long-term digital preservation because it includes no mechanisms for reliably assuring authenticity and intelligibility of digital documents for fifty years or longer. CM provides for near-term preservation without handling long-term preservation, which must overcome risks associated with technological obsolescence and fading human memory. This article offers a solution to mitigate these risks. Implementing the needed software would be a small addition to widely deployed CM offerings. This long-term preservation solution, devised for cultural and scholarly digital documents, is already structured to support archival principles for business records, and the article describes this Trustworthy Digital Object (TDO) architecture and its design core sufficiently to show how archivists can participate in managing digital repositories that conform and are attuned to the particular needs of any archival institution.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

“…It is essential that the archival perspective that stresses preservation of authenticity and reliability of records and information be present in all such research if longterm digital archiving is to become a reality. 71 TDO methodology provides the solution Tibbo calls for. Our paper might be viewed as very technical by some archivists.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-Term Preservation of Digital Records: Trustworthy Digital Objects

Gladney¹

2009

The American Archivist

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“…It has focused in particular on the development of trusted repository systems and the adoption of appropriate digital preservation strategies, noting the key role of metadata. Digital preservation has been described as a grand challenge for the first decade of the 21st century (Tibbo, 2003). Preserving Web content for the long-term promises to be one of the most demanding parts of this challenge.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The key thing, whichever strategy (or combination of strategies) is chosen, is to understand that the purpose of any strategy will be to ensure that the significant properties of preserved objects can be retained. In the short to medium term, however, much more research into preservation strategies will be needed (e.g., Hedstrom, 2002;Tibbo, 2003;Ross & Hedstrom, 2005).…”

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The Long-Term Preservation of Web Content

Day¹

2006

Web Archiving

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“…While digitization provides the hope of ubiquitous access (Tibbo, 2003b), the inherent vulnerability and ephemeral nature of digital media and files, the rapid obsolescence of software and hardware systems, and the need for well-constructed file systems and metadata offer significant obstacles in terms of longevity (Rothenberg, 1999) (Bearman, 1999). Seamus Ross has argued that materials already in digital form have little chance of being accessible as soon as 2013 if proactive preservation measures are not undertaken now and continuously throughout their useful lifespan (Ross, 2000), and there are numerous examples of digitized materials being lost or otherwise non-functional (Higham, 2002) (Bury, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%