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INF 392K Digital Archiving and Preservation, Spring 2017, Unique #28130--Resources
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General overviews:

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography, maintained by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.--most materials date to 2000 or later; this is the current (2012) version.http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcpb.htm

Materials pertaining to process in the class: Reflective practice

The links below point to materials on reflective/critical journaling as an assistance in helping you learn through surfacing what you are thinking, what is going on, etc., so you can come to grips with it. Each was prepared for a specific context, but they provide ideas for how to get started. In general, think narrative rather than checklist, though checklists can help you consider things to write about.
http://www.audiencedialogue.net/journal.html
http://www.clt.uts.edu.au/Scholarship/Reflective.journal.htm

David Boud, "Using Journal Writing to enhance reflective practice: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ace.16/pdf

Project-oriented resources for 2017 and past years (note: if you find project-specific useful resources, please let me know so they can be included here):

Videogame Preservation

Note that videogames as composite objects will also draw on many other preservation processes.

Jerome McDonough et al., Preserving Virtual Worlds Final Report (2010). Find the PDF at: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/17097

Email

Christopher Prom, Preserving Email, DPC Technology Report 11-01 (2011), Find the PDF at: http://dx.doi.org/10.7207/twr11-01 This document also contains a generous bibliography.

This is the 2003 document from the Dutch national archives about preserving email: From Digital Volatility to Digital Permanence: Preserving Email: volatility-permanence-email-en

Websites

The Digital Curation Center's latest report on the state of the art in Web Archiving is here: http://dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/reports/sarwa-v1.1.pdf

The International Internet Preservation Consortium includes all the major players in this space and is beginning to move forward with interesting models for Internet preservation: http://www.netpreserve.org/

The latest version of the Web Curator tool, which incorporates parts of Heretrix and Wayback but adds a more user-friendly GUI and the ability to set harvesting limits, is available here: http://webcurator.sourceforge.net/ and additional information (history, experience, etc) can be found by searching by its name.

Jinfang Niu, "An Overview of Web Archiving," D-Lib Magazine 18, 3/4 (March/April 2012). This is a useful and recent lit review: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march12/niu/03niu1.html.

SAA Archiving

Here is the LoC Twitter white paper on Twitter (which says access is an unsolved problem--interesting to see why, though): LOC_TwitterReport_2013jan

Digital Archaeology Lab history and ideas

Frankenstein II Project Report on pacer at: https://pacer.ischool.utexas.edu/bitstream/2081/23117/1/Frankenstein%20II%20Project%20Report.pdf

Ricky Erway, "Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration," OCLC (2012): http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/2012-08.pdf

Porter Olsen, "Digital Curation Workstation" (2012): http://mith.umd.edu/digital-curation-workstation/

Doug Reside, "Digital Archaeology: Recovering your Digital History" (2012): http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/07/23/digital-archaeology-recovering-your-digital-history

Douglas Elford et al., "Media Matters: developing processes for preserving digital objects on physical carriers at the National Library of Australia," IFLA (2008): http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/919/1189

Class Handouts:

Inventory document: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/Inventory2010.doc

Mailer (maximal) SIP agreement: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/HRCMailerSubmissionAgreement.doc

Most recent DSpace database schema (1.7.0): http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2012/spring/INF392K/db-schema1.7.0.png

Digital archaeology slideset "What to do with the bits?": http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/DigArchACT.ppt

Preprocessing steps before ingest: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/preprocessingstepsv32010.doc

Metadata

"Overview of metadata" slideset: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/sodmeta.ppt

DSpace QDC metadata: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/DspaceMetadata.doc

ISAD-G archival description metadata to DSpace mapping document: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/ISAD.doc

METS cheatsheet (permits an inside look at the METS schema): http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/METSCheatsheet.doc

UTDR mandatory DC elements (for DCAH collections): UTDRMandatoryElements.doc

Jenn Riley, "Glossary of Metadata Standards," http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/seeingstandards_glossary_pamphlet.pdf

National Library of New Zealand, Metadata Extraction Tool User Guide 3.5: http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/meta-extractor-user-guide-v3.pdf

"Document Metadata Extraction," a list of resources: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Document_Metadata_Extraction

Batch processes

Digital File Capture Protocol (DRAFT): INF392Kcaptureprotocol-1-1.doc

DSpace Ingest Worksheet: Metadata items needed on manual ingest: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/IngestWorksheet.doc.

DSpace Batch Import document: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/DSpaceBatchImportFormat.pdf

DSpace batch ingest Dublin Core XML document: DSpaceBatchIngest-DublinCoreXML.doc

Batch Ingest Handout: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/galloway/2011/spring/INF392K/BatchIngestHandout.doc

Materials Pertinent to Digital Archaeology:

Collaborative Electronic Records Project: Evaluation of Tools: http://siarchives.si.edu/cerp/RAC_SIA_CERP_tools_V2.pdf

Representation and Rendering Project, University of Leeds. Paul Wheatley, "Survey and assessment of sources of information on file formats and software documentation." This 2003 review of file format repositories, though a little old, has a useful overview of issues with older file formats and will be of help if you are dealing with strange file formats or are formulating a recommendation for long-term tracking of file-format expertise. Available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/FileFormatsreport.pdf

NDIIPP Partner Tools and Services contains descriptions of available products of NDIIPP-funded projects; alas many of them have, after the money ran out, been abandoned: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/resources/tools/index.html

General Resources:

Many significant resources for digital preservation exist online and should be actively used.

Dutch National Library Knowledge Base for Digital Preservation: this resource contains links to just about everything that is available up to 2010: http://en.archief.nl/knowledge-base/digital-preservation

The Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) site (http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/), maintained by the National Library of Australia (although discontinued in summer 2010, the site is still maintained and is rich in resources), is indispensable and its cooperative notion of "Safekeeping" is worth study in itself.

There is also now a German preservation site that goes under the name of the Nestor project (English version: http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/eng/index.htm); they are cooperating with PADI but have additional materials for Germany.

A new report on "distributed archiving" using the LOCKSS model is here: A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation

The British National Archives PRONOM file-format registry site is available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/ It includes a collection of useful tools from all over the planet for extracting metadata, detecting file formats, etc.

Chris Lacinak, "A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives," just released: AVPS_Codec_Primer.pdf

Anne Marie Donovan, Maria Esteva, Addy Sonder, and Sue Trombley, "Proposal for Establishment of a DSpace Digital Repository at the School of Information, University of Texas at Austin," final report for 2003 INF 392K class, focus on archiving the iSchool website and appraisal decisions made.
Find the paper here, plus appendices A, B, C, and D.

Carlos Ovalle has provided this link to the UT ITS document on what they refer to as "data classification" (for "sensitivity"/security considerations) :
http://www.utexas.edu/its/policies/opsmanual/dataclassification.html
This information should be taken into account when considering IP issues with the collections you will be working with.

In 2004 Galloway wrote this overview of digital object preservation:
Patricia Galloway, "Preservation of Digital Objects", volume 38 (2004), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Chapter 11, 549-590. Available on e-reserves.

Here is a useful PPT outline of the basics of OAIS, By Michael Day, University of Bath: The OAIS Reference Model

You may also want to check the contents of several online publications regularly, as they tend to carry useful articles on developments in digital preservation (and they also should be venues in which you aspire to publish)--some have listservs and increasingly there are RSS feeds available:

D-Lib: http://www.dlib.org

Journal of Digital Information (JoDI): http://journals.tdl.org/jodi

RLG DigiNews: moved in the OCLC merger, but if you have a citation to track down or want to browse, see: http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/newsletters/diginews.htm

First Monday: http://www.firstmonday.org/index.html

Richard Pearce-Moses, A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology, is on the SAA website in draft form: http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp

Resources for specific problems or formats:

Digital Video

Dave Rice, Sustaining Consistent Video Presentation (Tate UK, 18 March 2015): http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/sustaining-consistent-video-presentation

Digital Audio

Library of Congress projects report from the UT Sound Savings conference (see the whole proceedings of this); http://www.arl.org/preserv/sound_savings_proceedings/Digital_audio.shtml

Library of Congress information formats includes digital audio: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/intro/intro.shtml

National Archives information on audio file formats (such as it is): http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/dav-faq.html

And a pretty encyclopedic entry from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format

See Dr. Megan Winget's fall 2007 Survey of Digitization readings on digital audio, especially the main readings (scroll down to October 26) here: http://courses.ischool.utexas.edu/megan/2007/Fall/INF385R/readings.php

David Rosenthal, Thomas Lipkis, Thomas Robertson, Seth Morabito, "Transparent Format Migration of Preserved Web Content," D-Lib Magazine, January 2005. This article focuses on a method used in the LOCKSS system. Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/rosenthal/01rosenthal.html

Faculty Papers

SHERPA site listing the self-archiving policies of many journal publishers: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

Nancy Foster and Susan Gibbons, "Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories," D-Lib Magazine, January 2005. Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january05/foster/01foster.html

Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets ( 2003 ) RoMEO Studies 3: "How academics expect to use open-access research papers." This may be useful for faculty projects as it provides data to underpin the kinds of usage rights for faculty papers that peer readers might need. Available on the E-Lis open-access server. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00001427/

Important Digital Preservation Projects

Reagan Moore et al., "Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives--Part 1," D-Lib Magazine ( March 2000): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/moore/03moore-pt1.html and "--Part 2," D-Lib Magazine, (April 2000): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/moore/04moore-pt2.html

William E. Underwood, "Analysis of Presidential Electronic Records: Final Report," available at: http://perpos.gtri.gatech.edu/perpos/Final_Report.pdf This is a notable example of a very visible digital archaeology project (carried out for NARA).

 

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