While the Open Archive Information System (OAIS) model has become the de facto standard for preservation archives, the design and implementation of a repository or reliable long term archive lacks adopted technology standards and design best practices. This paper is intended to provide guidelines and recommendations for standards implementation and best practices for a viable, cost effective, a...

The National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) is one of eight initial projects funded by the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The project’s overarching goal is to answer the question: How can we preserve geospatial data on a national scale and make it available to future generations? This paper summarizes the project’s work in...

ESA-ESRIN, the European Space Agency Centre for Earth Observation (EO), is the largest European EO data provider and operates as the reference European centre for EO payload data exploitation. EO Space Missions provide global coverage of the Earth across both space and time generating on a routine continuous basis huge amounts of data (from a variety of sensors) that need to be acquired, proces...

A fundamental issue of digital preservation is that information resources must often out-live the systems that are used to maintain them at any given time. It is also important to consider sustainability across the boundaries of collection environments. Portability is an essential consideration. The project called “A Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Gove...

The Digital Preservation Program of the California Digital Library (CDL) is engaged in a process of reinvention involving significant transformations of its outlook, effort, and infrastructure. This includes a re-articulation of its mission in terms of digital curation, rather than preservation; encouraging a programmatic, rather than a project-oriented approach to curation activities; and a re...

Rapid technology advancement and obsolescence present a constant challenge for preserving digital objects in a digital repository system. To ensure the long-term preservation of archival content, DAITSS, a digital repository system developed for the Florida Digital Archive, implements a scheme to automatically identify, validate, characterize and transform the format of digital objects in its r...

Our purpose in this document is to inform about the objectives we have for the second phase of the The Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, JSCI (www.iiisci.org/Journal/sci), in order to get feedback as input for the final planning of the second phase of the journal. The main objectives of this second phase are the following:  To increase the readership of JSCI.  To broaden the ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine compliance with PREMIS at National Library Board Singapore and the National Library of New Zealand. It will look in detail at how the development process, variation in content types, existing embedded technologies, and current knowledge all play a role in influencing the shape of the preservation metadata that is created, stored and used in a digital pres...

Digital preservation requires a strategy for the storage of large quantities of data, which increases dramatically when dealing with high resolution images. Typically, decision-makers must choose whether to keep terabytes of images in their original TIFF format or compress them. This can be a very difficult decision: to lose visual information though compression could be a waste of the money ex...

This paper outlines an ongoing project to create of a knowledge base to support the development of institutional repositories in New Zealand. The knowledge base wiki includes a summary of key literature to date, highlighting best practice, and standards relevant to the New Zealand sector, and a set of case studies of how New Zealand institutions have developed their repositories to date. These ...