AHDS Digital Preservation Bibliography
- Digital preservation (general)
- Digital preservation issues: text
- Digital preservation issues: databases
- Digital preservation issues: images
- Digital preservation issues: sound
- Digital preservation issues: video
- Digital preservation issues: GIS
- Digital preservation issues: CAD
- Digital preservation issues: VR
- Digital preservation issues: web archiving
- Digital preservation issues: file formats
- Digital preservation metadata
- The OAIS model
- Emulation
- Migration
- Collections and repository management
- Organisations
- Information portals
CEDARS Project, "Cedars Guide to Digital Preservation Strategies" (2002)
Chen, Su-Shing, "The Paradox of Digital Preservation" // Computer (2001)
M. Cloonan, S. Sanett, "Comparing Preservation Strategies and Practices for Electronic Records" (2000)
CLIR & DAI, "The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective" (2002)
DLM-Forum, "Guidelines on best practices for using electronic information" (1997)
Charles Dollar, "Authentic Electronic Records: Strategies for Long-Term Access", Cohasset Associates (1999)
Mary Feeney, "Digital Culture: Maximising the Nation's Investment", NPO (1999)
Tyler Hamilton, "Digital amnesia" // Toronto Star (2002)
Margaret Hedström, "Digital preservation: a time bomb for Digital Libraries" (1995)
Margaret Hedström, Cal Lee, "Significant Properties of Digital Objects: Definitions, Applications, Implications" (2002)
Gregory Hunter, "Preserving Digital Information. A How-To-Do-It Manual", New York/London (2000)
ICPSR, "Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving" (2002)
InterPARES, "The Long-term Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records: Findings of the InterPARES Project" (2002)
Maggie Jones, Neil Beagrie, "Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook", British Library (2001)
Nancy McGovern, "Cornell University Electronic Student Records Systems Project Report" (2000)
Maureen Potter, "Researching Long Term Digital Preservation Approaches in the Dutch Digital Preservation Testbed (Testbed Digitale Bewaring)" // RLG Diginews, vol. 6 (2002), no. 3
Task Force on Archiving Digital Information, "Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations", CPA/RLG (1996)
Kenneth Thibodeau, "Overview of Technological Approaches to Digital Preservation and Challenges in Coming Years", in: CLIR, "The State of
Digital Preservation: An International Perspective. Conference Proceedings" (2002)
"To Preserve and Provide Access to Electronic Records", TemaNord 1996:549, Nordic Council of Ministers (1996)
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James Coleman, Don Willis, "SGML as a Framework for Digital Preservation and Access", CLIR (1997)
"A Manager's Introduction to Adobe eXtensible Metadata Platform: The Adobe XML Metadata Framework"
Macduff Hughes, "PDF as an Archive Standard" (2002)
John Ockerbloom, "Archiving and Preserving PDF Files" // RLG DigiNews, vol. 5 (2001), no. 1
PDF-A Working Group, "PDF Archiving Requirements"
"Recommendations for Creating PDF Files in Excel 97" (2002)
"Recommendations for Creating PDF Files from Word with Acrobat 4.05x" (2002)
Steve Thomas, "File Formats for Electronic Text" (2002)
File format specifications
PDF File format specification, ver. 1.4
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Ronald Bourret, "XML and Databases" (2003)
Ronald Bourret, "XML Database Products" (2003)
Giovanni Guardalben, ShakuAtre, "Integrating XML and Relational Database Technologies: A Position paper" (2002)
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Michael Ester, "Digital Image Collections: Issues and Practice", CLIR (1996)
The Unofficial TIFF Home Page
File format specifications
TIFF 6.0 File format specification
PNG File format specification
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Samuel Brylawski, "Preservation of Digitally Recorded Sound", in: "Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving", CLIR / Library of Congress (2002)
Robyn Holmes, "MusicAustralia: a digital strategy for music" (2002)
File format specifications
RIFF WAVE File format specification
Ogg Vorbis I File format specification
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Howard Wactlar, Michael Christel, "Digital Video Archives: Managing Through Metadata", in: "Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving", CLIR / Library of Congress (2002)
File format specifications
QuickTime File format specification
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File format specifications
ESRI Shapefile Technical Description
MapInfo MIF/MID File format specification
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File format specifications
AutoCAD R13/R14/R2000 DWG File format specification (version 2.0)
Standard for long term CAD data archiving
Vector Product Format specification
SMIL File format specification
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Tony Gill, "3D Culture on the Web" // RLG DigiNews, vol. 5 (2001), no. 3
File format specifications
Extensible 3D (X3D) File format specification
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Allan Arvidson, Krister Persson, Johan Mannerheim, "The Kulturarw3 Project - The Royal Swedish Web Archiw3e - An example of "complete" collection of web pages" (2000)
Warwick Cathro, Colin Webb, Julie Whiting, "Archiving the Web: The PANDORA Archive at the National Library of Australia" (2001)
DPC Forum, "Web-archiving: managing and archiving online documents and records" (2002)
A. Kenney, N. McGovern, P. Botticelli, R. Entlich, C. Lagoze, S. Payette, "Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources: Virtual Remote Control in Cornell’s Project Prism" // D-Lib Magazine, vol. 8 (2002), no. 1
Kulturarw3: Long time preservation of electronic documents
Peter Lyman, "Archiving the World Wide Web", in: "Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving", CLIR / Library of Congress (2002)
National Archives of Australia, "Guidelines for keeping records of web-based activity in the Commonwealth Government" (2001)
PADI, "Preservation of networked digital material"
PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia
Louis Pitschmann, "Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources", CLIR (2001)
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Digital Preservation Testbed, "XML and Digital Preservation" (2002)
G. Lawrence, W. Kehoe, O. Rieger, W. Walters, A. Kenney, "Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation", CLIR (2000)
Maureen Potter, "XML for Digital Preservation" (2002)
Universal Preservation Format
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California Digital Library, "Digital Object Standard: Metadata, Content and Encoding" (2001)
CEDARS, "Metadata for Digital Preservation: the Cedars Project Outline Specification", Draft for Public Consultation (2000)
CEDARS, "Cedars Guide to Preservation Metadata" (2002)
Digital Imaging Group (DIG35), "DIG35 Specification: Metadata for Digital Images", version 1.1 (2001)
Wendy Duff, "Evaluating Metadata on a Metalevel" // Archival Science, vol. 1, 2001, pp. 285-294
E. Duval, W. Hodgins, S. Sutton, S.L. Weibel, "Metadata Principles and Practicalities" // D-Lib Magazine, vol. 8, no. 4, April 2002
Harvard University Library, "Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images", version 1.2 (2002)
IEEE P1484.12.2/D1, 2002-09-13 "Draft Standard for Learning Technology – Learning Object Metadata" (2002)
IMS, "Learning Resource Meta-Data Information Model", version 1.2.1 Final Specification
Catherine Lupovici, Julien Masanès, "NEDLIB Metadata for Long Term Preservation" (2000)
Microsoft, "Converting Files Between Different Versions of Office Software: A File Format Matrix"
National Library of Australia, "Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections", Exposure Draft (1999)
NISO Z39.87-2002 / AIIM 20-2002, "Data Dictionary – Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images" (2002)
OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata, "Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects" (2002)
OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group, "Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art" (2001)
Godfrey Rust, "Metadata: The Right Approach, an Integrated Model for Descriptive and Rights Metadata in e-Commerce" // D-Lib Magazine (1998)
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CCSDS, "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)" (2002)
CCSDS, "Producer - Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard. Draft Red Book" (2002)
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Stewart Granger, "Emulation as a Digital Preservation Strategy" // D-Lib Magazine, vol. 6 (2000), no. 10
David Holdsworth, Paul Wheatley, "Emulation, Preservation and Abstraction" (2001)
Jeff Rothenberg, "Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents"// Scientific American, vol. 272(1995), no. 1, pp 42-47
Jeff Rothenberg, "Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation", CLIR (1999)
Jeff Rothenberg, "Using Emulation to Preserve Digital Publications" (2000)
Jeff Rothenberg, "An Experiment in Using Emulation to preserve Digital Publications", NEDLIB Report series, 1 (2000)
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S.E. Binns, D.V. Bowen, A. Murdock, "Migration Strategies within an Electronic Archive: Practical Experience and Future Research" // Archives and Museums Informatics, vol. 11 (1997), no. 3-4, pp. 301-306
Digital Preservation Testbed, "Migration: Context and Current Status" (2001)
Paul Mellor, et al, "Migration on Request: A Practical Technique for Preservation" (2002)
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CEDARS, "Cedars Guide to The Distributed Digital Archiving Prototype" (2000)
CEDARS, "Cedars Guide to Digital Collection Management" (2002)
Robert Kahn, Robert Wilensky, "A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services" (1995)
Sandra Payette, Christophe Blanchi, Carl Lagoze, Edward A. Overly, "Interoperability for Digital Objects and Repositories: The Cornell/CNRI Experiments" // D-Lib Magazine, vol. 5 (1999), no. 5
OCLC/RLG, "Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities" (2002)
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The DLM-Forum (EU)
Digital Preservation Coalition (UK)
LOCKSS (US)
UKOLN (UK)
DigiCult
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PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources in Australia
U.S. National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
RLG DigiNews
D-Lib Magazine
MetaData-Watch (EU)
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