The Principle of Digital Preservation

The Paradox of Digital Preservation

2 Computer The Paradox of Digital Preservation E asy Internet access presumes that everyone can capture, access, and use the world’s accumulated digital information. People, businesses, institutions, and governments invest time and effort to create and capture digital information for instantaneous access by anyone. Businesses that produce computers, semiconductors, software, and communications ...

Digital Preservation through Digital Sustainability

The concept of digital sustainability introduces a holistic approach on how to maximize the benefits of digital resources for our society. The nine basic conditions for digital sustainability also provide a contribution to potential solutions to the challenges of digital preservation. Elaborateness, transparent structures, semantic data, distributed location, an open licensing regime, shared ta...

Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network

The Chronopolis Digital Preservation Initiative, one of the Library of Congress’ latest efforts to collect and preserve at-risk digital information, has completed its first year of service as a multimember partnership to meet the archival needs of a wide range of domains. Chronopolis is a digital preservation data grid framework developed by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San D...

Digital Preservation Metadata Standards

Digital Archives and Preservation

DEFINITION Preservation is the set of processes that maintain the authenticity, integrity, and chain of custody of records for long periods of time. Authenticity is defined as the management of provenance information about the creation of the record. Integrity is defined as the ability to create an authentic copy. Chain of custody tracks all processing done to the record, including migration to...