Recent developments in the storage industry have resulted in the creation of an industry standard application programmer’s interface (API) known as XAM, the eXtensible Access Method. The XAM API focuses on the creation and management of reference information (otherwise known as fixed content). Storage vendors supporting the XAM API will provide new benefits to applications that are creating and...

The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) conducted a three-year pilot that explored preservation challenges with email collections. This paper reviews the acquisition model and workflow used based on the OAIS Reference Model. Rather than focusing on individual messages, the Collaborative Electronic Records Project (CERP) settled on preserving an accoun...

DURAARK is an interdisciplinary EU FP7 project which researches and develops processes and methods for the digital preservation of architectural three dimensional data. Challenges addressed within the project relate to different aspects of the curation and preservation process, including semantic and geometric enrichment, consistent naming schemas and ontologies, as well as pre-ingest tasks in ...

The DiVA system, originally developed at Uppsala University, has evolved out of a scholarly repository and publishing system solely used by one university into a system used and further developed in collaboration with seventeen universities in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The system consists of several modules which are entirely built on XML and Java technologies. This modularisation facilitates...

This article discusses the development and implementation of an open jurisdictional repository for published electronic material by the State Library of Tasmania, Australia. This repository is called the Stable Tasmanian Open Repository Service (STORS). It operates within the legal deposit provisions of the Tasmanian legislation and includes electronic documents published in Tasmania by governm...

Photon density wave is the modulated optical intensity wave which propagates through the diffuse medium and exhibits the amplitude and phase variations. It satisfies the time-dependent radiative transfer equation and is similar to temperature wave field, and has been used in medical imaging. This paper discusses the basic characteristics of the photon density wave and gives exact numerical solu...

Research journals are increasingly being published digitally. The advantage of digital publishing is obvious: immediate accessibility anywhere. Gradually a disadvantage is also becoming clear: digital publishing endangers the continuity of research information. As a consequence of the obsolescence of formats, hardware, software, and carriers, digital information will be lost unless we act. Digi...

In 2003 the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and Research Libraries Group (RLG) established an international working group to develop a common, implementable core set of metadata elements for digital preservation. Most published specifi cations for preservation-related metadata are either implementation specifi c or broadly theoretical. PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strateg...

Poster/Demo Program # Authors Title 1 Mark Leggott and Erin Tripp Mind the Gap. Bridging Digital Libraries & Archives 2 Adi Alter and Ido Peled Managing and Preserving Research Data in Ex Libris Rosetta 3 Pyounguk Cho and Art Pasquinelli The Oracle Cloud Storage Archive for Long-term Storage and Preservation # Authors Title 4 Jessica Tieman Strategies for Audit-based Repository Certification: G...

How to effectively ensure complex digitization processes including post-processing, workflow monitoring, archiving and making the content available is still a current issue from both national and international perspectives. To support the culture heritage institutions with open-source solutions, make their activities more effective and become the central access point to digitized documents stor...