Automating the Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations with Archivematica: Poster - iPres 2013 - Lisbon

PERICLES - Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics : Poster - iPres 2013 - Lisbon

Realizing the Archivematica vision: delivering a comprehensive and free OAIS implementation

Archivematica began in 2008 as a working hypothesis that assumed a comprehensive yet free digital preservation system could be created by matching existing open-source software tools against the OAIS functional model. Five years later the production release of the software is ready to go into production at several major North American archives and libraries, while the beta version is already wi...

Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study in Preservation Planning

An increasing number of institutions throughout the world face legal obligations to collect and preserve digital objects over years. A range of tools exist today to support the variety of preservation strategies such as migration or emulation. Yet, different preservation requirements across institutions and settings make the decision on which solution to implement very difficult. The Austrian N...

Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Algeria

In accordance with a decree issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Algeria in August 2000, an electronic copy of every Master’s and PhD thesis defended in all academic institutions must be deposited at the CERIST Research Centre. Deposit is a condition for getting the diploma. CERIST is then entrusted with the mission to build a database of Algerian theses and to ...

Evaluating Preservation Strategies for Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Digital preservation has turned into a pressing challenge for institutions having the obligation to preserve digital objects over years. A range of tools exist today to support the variety of preservation strategies such as migration or emulation. Yet, different preservation requirements across institutions and settings make the decision on which solution to implement very difficult. The Austri...