Information generated from various computerization processes is a potential rich source of knowledge for its designated community. To pass this information from generation to generation without modifying the meaning is a challenging activity. To preserve and archive the data for future generations it’s very essential to prove the authenticity of the data. It can be achieved by extracting the me...

Abstract Adaptive importance samplers are adaptive Monte Carlo algorithms to estimate expectations with respect some target distribution which adapt themselves obtain better estimators over a sequence of iterations. Although it is straightforward show that they have the same $$\mathcal {O}(1/\sqrt{N})$$ O <mml...

The EU-funded SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg, http://www.shaman-ip.eu/) project is investigating the long-term preservation of large volumes of digital data in a distributed environment, by developing a preservation framework that is verifiable, open and extensible. During the initial stages of the project, a detailed user requirements analysis led by HATII at ...

Scientific journals are more and more published electronically. Gradually the amount of e-books increases and on Internet a vast amount of digital information is being published. Electronic publishing offers major opportunities for dissemination and for access but at the same time imposes new challenges on national libraries and other deposit institutes in charge of preserving countries’ cultur...

Metadata is one of the keys for digital archiving and preservation. This is well recognized as an important issue in our networked information society. There are several standards for archival and preservation metadata, e.g. ISAD(G), EAD, AGRkMS, PREMIS, and OAIS. This leads to selection and interoperability issues for metadata standards in the design of metadata schemas for particular archival...

The emergence of the cloud and advanced object-based storage services provides opportunities to support novel models for long term preservation of digital assets. Among the benefits of this approach is leveraging the cloud’s inherent scalability and redundancy to dynamically adapt to evolving needs of digital preservation. Preservation DataStores in the Cloud (PDS Cloud) is an OAIS-based preser...

With the development of information communication technologies, a number of alternative strategies to the traditional scholarly publishing system have been evolved. Among these, Open Access (OA) model which promise to be extremely advantageous to peers everywhere, especially to those who have acute shortage of resources for purchasing scholarly literature. The impetus of OA was boosted by the O...

High-Energy Physics (HEP) has a long tradition in pioneering infrastructures for scholarly communication, and four leading laboratories are now rolling-out the next-generation digital library for the field: INSPIRE. This is an evolution of the extraordinarily successful, 40-years old SPIRES database. Based on the Invenio software, INSPIRE already provides seamless access to almost 1 million rec...

The Bibliothèque nationale de France has developed its trusted digital repository, SPAR (Scalable Preservation and Archiving Repository), as a data-first system. This implies having fully described collections, through use of metadata standards in the information packages, such as METS, PREMIS, MIX or textMD, in a way that will make sense given the diversity of our documents. The need for full ...

This article describes the development of Archives Ready To Archival Information Packages (AIP) Transmission a PREMIS Based Project (ARTAT). Following the project approach, the starting phase consisted of prototyping a layer conveying preservation metadata, which can be encoded from the existing archival systems, and exchanged with other repositories. This layer called Preservation Metadata Lay...