Academic literature on the topic 'JH. Digital preservation'

In this article, we present two digital editions published by the Department of Medieval Literature at the University of Stuttgart: 'Das Himmlische Gastmahl' (13 th century) and "Meerwunder" (15 th and 16 th century). Furthermore, we discuss ways to perpetually preserve and access the data, evaluating different approaches (e.g.URL, PDF) and demonstrating how to store the data externally (CLARIN-D). Vorgestellt werden zwei digitale Editionen und ihre Sicherung im Netz. 'Das Himmlische Gastmahl' (13. Jh.) und Fassungen des 'Meerwunders' (15./16. Jh.) wurden auf der Webseite der Stuttgarter Altgermanistik veröffentlicht. Ferner werden Lösungen für die dauerhafte Sicherung (u. a. URL und PDF) und die Überführung von Primärdaten in eine nachhaltig zugängliche Infrastruktur (CLARIN-D) gezeigt.

The aim of this study was to explore the digital access to rare book collections and rare book librarian’s new profile. Internet search engines were used in collecting data from institutions and librarians from Brazil and around the world. People responsible for rare book collections that were listened on libraries sites and members of the electronic discussion lists related to rare books were contacted. A questionnaire was sent by e-mail and the results categorized into three classes: issues about the digital access, issues about the digital library’s characteristics and, about the rare book librarian’s profile. The valorization process of the rare book collections with the implementation of digital access is outlined in this study. The results shows that there is an increase in the number of local users and the emergence of new types of users as a consequence of the digital access to the most valuable rare material from the libraries. To provide digital access to the rare material is a strategic decision taken by the libraries management teams. These teams are still in the process of evaluating their holdings and the opportunities created by the new access. Our study identified some digitalization collective initiatives of rare material from libraries as a solution to the concern of the standardization of the practices related to the electronic documents. The major initiatives observed came from the university libraries that were preoccupied with the integration of rare book collections with the other institution’s research material. An evaluation of the rare book librarian’s profile was made focusing the experience and training adaptability to activities related to the digital access. Some of their special skills have became compatible to the new technology started from a personal interest in the technological developments of the Internet. As a general introduction to the rare books collections at the Internet, this study is best seen as a tentative interpretation of the new possibilities that the digital access may contribute to the libraries and to its most valuables holdings.

Mobile phones are ubiquitous, however they are vastly underpowered compared to their desktop counterparts. We propose a technique to play potentially resource intensive games over a network, and provide a prototype system called RemoteME which implements this technique. We also explore the responsiveness requirement for systems of this nature, establish benchmarks for responsiveness via user studies. We evaluate our implementation by measuring its responsiveness and comparing it to this benchmark.

This thesis aims to propose a Digital Preservation Criteria Set which is crucial for scientific information systems in the research units of the Science and Technology Ministry of Brazil. Four objectives were formulated in proposing the criteria: a) describe the digital preservation procedures currently being used; b) identify in scientific literature the key criteria used in building digital preservation systems; c) identify the digital preservation demands from the sampled research units; and d) identify both concepts and procedures that might interfere with standard digital preservation procedures of scientific information. A literature review has highlighted that a theoretical evaluation of both digital preservation criteria and requirements from international projects is nonexistent. It also highlighted that there are a very limited number of studies assessing the benefits produced by the application of this criteria and these requirements. Within the context of digital preservation both Archivistic and Information Science systems deal with tasks related to information flow. Only recently, are these areas proposing patterns, norms, policies and procedures directed to digital archiving. Trustworthy is a criteria for digital preservation procedures that stands out in the Scientific literature and is critical in identifying the digital preservation criteria set for scientific information. The proposed digital preservation criteria set is related to institutional aspects (Trustworthy, Political Responsibility and Economic Sustainability) and management aspects (Digital Repository Inclusion, Transparency, and Long-term Accessibility). These criteria are considered determinant elements in the management proprieties of administration systems for scientific information. The methodology in data collection included surveys, interviews, observation, and ethnographic content analysis according to David Altheide's approach. A descriptive bibliometric study was conducted in order to identify both the theoretical and methodological approaches in digital preservation literature from 1996 to 2007. Data analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences-SPSS. Qualitative data from field research indicated that most of the information unit managers consider digital preservation as procedures related to storage capacity, migration and content dissemination. They also realize that these procedures are administered in a centralized manner. Only one research unit's participants recognized the importance of institutional policies in defining data ingest functions and management of contents archived in the institutional digital library. Suggestions for future studies include investigating the acquisition and application of Norms and Standards by government staff responsible for the administration of scientific information systems and extensive discussions both on Preservation Metadata relating to scientific information and Long-term management of propriety rights within the digital environment.

"Digital preservation in institutional repositories: Gredos" is the title of a masters dissertation of the Master in Digital Information Systems, University of Salamanca, academic year 2009-2010. In the past seven years, two related events such as the Open Access movement and the creation of institutional repositories have caused that the preservation issue become one of the most studied in the field of digital documentation. This study focuses on digital preservation of open access institutional repositories, aimed at ensuring the accessibility and long-term use of digital objects deposited. The thesis intended also to reflect the current state of the digital preservation and to provide a practical application for Gredos (= Repository Management System Documentation at the University of Salamanca). The ultimate goal was, therefore, to establish the modus operandi in the development and implementation of a digital preservation plan for Gredos.

Information has gained, in the last decade, a huge importance. It is an extremely valuable social resource, for it generates wealth and it leads to scientific progress. Due to the new information technologies and the World Wide Web – the new privileged means of communication – information has acquired a digital basis which has made its production, distribution and diffusion easier, fulfilling the growing needs of organizations and individuals. However, because it is too vulnerable, digital information presents new challenges when we think of its preservation. The fast degradation of the media and the technological obsolescence and dependence make this kind of information unlikely to endure. For that reason, thinking about the preservation of digital information is, perhaps, more important than considering the preservation of analogical information, not only because of its economical value but also because its uniqueness demands ongoing and more complex actions and preservation strategies. Although the preservation of digital information is a task for a multitude of entities (such as authors/producers, hardware and software engineers, publishers/distributors, governments, users/consumers, etc.), libraries are still the irreplaceable agents to ensure that the cultural, literary and scientific heritage remains imperishable, now in a digital basis. Assuming this thought as a starting point, this essay presents the main features, concepts, strategies and challenges placed by the preservation of digital information, through the libraries perspective.

The aim of this thesis is to create a quantitative overview of the current stock of audio and video materials in a selected number of institutions, and to show where the strengths and weaknesses, concerning digitalisation and long-term conservation, are. Another goal is to give a general overview of regional differences, how the institutions develop their collections, how the holdings are conserved for future availability and if they are available for everybody or for specific user-groups only. A summary at the end analyses the status quo of the selected institutions, and identifies problematic areas and future prospects in this field.The inquiry is concentrated on a selection of 110 archives, museums and collections all over Austria. The study was done by mail questionnaire, some with call back or additional personal interview. In conclusion, it was found that a lot of institutions in Austria are not digitizing their holdings, some do not know about the importance of digitisation at all and the possibility of long-term preservation is not provided. A couple of institutions do not even know about the dimension of the audio-visual stock in their archive. In most of these cases, a shortage of staff and lack of financial aid are the reason for this situation.

As a part of the PLANETS project a handful of experiments was made trying to automate typically interactive procedures. These tests have shown that the remote control software VNC is a very promising solution. VNC builds upon RFB - a simple remote access protocol, which works at the framebuffer level and is consequently platform independent. The above mentioned tests were made using QEMU, which has an integrated VNC interface. The resulting automation technique should be generalized and tested with other suitable emulators. The goal of this work is the implementation of an integrated VNC server for another suitable emulator, thus help generalizing the above technique. As such an emulator Dioscuri is chosen. "Dioscuri is an x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java. It is designed by the digital preservation community to ensure documents and programs from the past can still be accessed in the future."

With recent strategic frameworks, the European Commission launched a new integrated approach to long-term preservation and access of the digital cultural heritage and scientific knowledge. Its communications outline the vision of digitization, online accessibility and digital preservation of heritage objects, highlighting the initiative and role of digital libraries. The article overviews provisions concerning the cultural policy and heritage digitization within normative documents of the Republic of Lithuania with the focus on legislation on published documents. It highlights the initiative of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania concerning a draft law on legal deposit, programmes and current projects for long-term preservation of the cultural heritage, and cooperation between memory institutions on the basis of the Integrated Virtual Library Information System.

The libraries that make up the Consorcio de Digitalización de Prensa Vasca keep a digitization project of contemporary newspapers related to Basque culture. Both characteristics and contents of the resulting digital collection are described. It is defended the need to undertake a project of digital preservation in the light of guidelines established by international experts and institutions. The paper also describes different technological choices in order to establish a storage infrastructure capable of facing the challenges posed by digital preservation. Finally, different choices are suggested to be implemented by the Consorcio at a lower cost and with a higher guarantee of success.

Ever since the picturisation of Umberto Eco's novel "The name of the rose", monastery libraries are perceived by the public as inaccessible silos of valuable knowledge. It is less known that today's monastery libraries – provided that there is staff – are open for the public. Several of the libraries had to sell parts of their collections due to financial reasons. In order to facilitate reconstructing the provenance of books and manuscripts sold by monastery libraries, it is necessary to catalogue the collections as soon as possible. In the first part of this thesis, an overview of the current situation of Austria's monastery libraries is given. In the second part, the basics of the European union's "digital heritage" policy are presented with a focus on the cataloguing and presentation of cultural assets from Austrian monastery libraries. As an appendix, a list of 95 Austrian monastic libraries and statistic data about those libraries are provided.