This paper looks at some of the domain specific preservation challenges faced by the Archaeology Data Service and how we work with these in order to maximise the re-use potential of the data that we archive. It looks in particular at one of the mandatory responsibilities of an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) and how we try to ensure that the data that we present to our designated commun...

The value of data in society is increasing rapidly. Organisations that work with data should have standard practices in place to ensure successful curation of data. The World Data System (WDS) consists of a number of data centres responsible for curating research data sets for the scientific community. The WDS has no formal data curation framework or model in place to act as a guideline for mem...

Secure archiving of authenticated and sensitive documents is becoming a necessity due to the dematerialization of paper based documents and processes. Huhnlein et al. combined the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model, Evidence Record Syntax (ERS) with Secret Sharing and proposed the Comprehensive Reference Architecture for Trustworthy Long-Term Archiving of Sensitive Data. Ho...

As more and more output from research institutions is born digital, a means for capturing and preserving the results of this investment is required. To begin to understand and address the problems surrounding this task, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories collaborated with MIT Libraries over two years to develop DSpace, an open source institutional repository software system. This paper describes DSpa...

The national library of France (BnF) is in the process of setting up a digital preservation repository, named SPAR (Système de Préservation et d’Archivage Réparti – Distributed Preservation and Archiving System). The infrastructure for the system, bought in 2005, is designed to support 1,5 petabytes of storage by 2014. The software components of the system are currently developped by Atos Origi...

Long-term preservation of software components is a key aspect of preservation of data, as software required for processing and analyzing data also needs to be preserved in order to maintain the re-usability of data in future. However, software preservation to date is a relatively underexplored topic of research and frequently seen as a secondary activity, mainly due to the inherent complexity o...

For emulation and other preservation actions, metadata is needed to describe the technical environment (operating system, related software libraries, hardware etc.) in which a given file or item of software can be rendered. This paper delineates an enhanced entity attribute relationship model suitable as a basis for a database (relational, object-relational or object-oriented), or for a RDF ont...

The Florida Digital Archive (FDA) is a long-term preservation repository for the use of the libraries of the public universities of Florida. The FDA uses locallydeveloped software called DAITSS, which was designed to perform the major functions of Ingest, Archival Storage, Data Management and Dissemination in the OAIS reference model. A DAITSS 2 project is in process to re-write the application...

The Chronicles in Preservation project, being led by the Educopia Institute, is undertaking research to evaluate the degree to which several of the current digital preservation standards in use today (e.g., OAIS, TRAC, PREMIS, METS, etc.) can be applied to the diverse and at-risk content genre of digital newspapers. Institutions need guidance on incremental, skilled approaches and lightweight t...