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• Foreword - Adam Farquhar Preface - Neil Grindley Introduction - Janet Delve and David Anderson
• PART 1: WHY AND WHAT TO PRESERVE: CREATIVITY VERSUS PRESERVATION 1. Standing on the shoulders of heavily armed giants - why history matters for game development - Dan Pinchbeck 2. Archaeology versus anthropology: what can truly be preserved? - Richard A. Bartle 3. Make or break? Concerning the value of redundancy as a creative strategy - Simon Biggs 4. Between code and space: the challenges of preserving complex digital creativity in contemporary arts practice - Michael Takeo Magruder
• PART 2: THE MEMORY INSTITUTION/DATA ARCHIVAL PERSPECTIVE 5. Preservation of digital objects at the Archaeology Data Service - Jenny Mitcham 6. Preserving games for museum collections and public display: the National Videogame Archive - Tom Woolley, James Newman and Iain Simons 7. Bridging the gap in digital art preservation: interdisciplinary reflections on authenticity, longevity and potential collaborations - Perla Innocenti 8. Laying a trail of breadcrumbs - preparing the path for preservation - Drew Baker and David Anderson
• PART 3: DIGITAL PRESERVATION APPROACHES, PRACTICE AND TOOLS 9. Digital preservation and curation: the danger of overlooking software - Neil Chue Hong 10. How do I know that I have preserved software? - Brian Matthews, Arif Shaon and Esther Conway 11. Digital preservation strategies for visualizations and simulations - Janet Delve, Hugh Denard and William Kilbride 12. The ISDA tools: preserving 3D digital content - Kenton McHenry, Rob Kooper, Luigi Marini and Michael Ondrejcek 13. Ecologies of research and performance: preservation challenges in the London Charter - Hugh Denard 14. A tangled web: metadata and problems in game preservation - Jerome McDonough 15. Metadata for preserving computing environments - Angela Dappert 16. Preserving games environments via TOTEM, KEEP and Bletchley Park - Janet Delve, Dan Pinchbeck and Winfried Bergmeyer 17. Documenting the context of software art works through social theory: towards a vocabulary for context classification - Leo Konstantelos
• PART 4: CASE STUDIES 18. The Villa of Oplontis: a `born-digital' project - John R. Clarke 19. Preservation of complex cultural heritage objects - a practical Implementation - Daniel Pletinckx.
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This ground-breaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games. Drawing on the outputs of the JISC-funded Preservation of Complex Objects (POCOS) symposia, enhanced with specialist pathfinder solutions, this book will cover topics such as the legal and technical challenges of preservation, curation and authority, and digital archaeology. Written by international experts from a broad background of library, collecting institutions, information and computer science, and digital preservation backgrounds, this collection showcases the state of the art of the discipline and brings together stakeholder perspectives from across the preservation community. The collection is structured around six parts; 1) Why and what to preserve: creativity vs preservation; 2) The memory institution: data archival perspectives; 3) Digital preservation approaches, practices and tools; 4) Case studies; 5) A legal perspective; 6) Pathfinder conclusions. Academics and students on digital preservation, digital humanities and information management courses, and those working in preservation and collecting for memory institutions will find this a valuable read. It will also be of particular interest to computer scientists, artists, games and emulation communities, archaeologists and digital forensic scientists.
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• What is preservation in the digital age? : changing preservation paradigms
• Why do we preserve? : who should do it?
• Why there's a problem : digital artifacts and digital objects
• Selection for preservation : the critical decision
• What attributes of digital materials do we preserve?
• Overview of digital preservation strategies
• "Preserve technology" approaches : tried and tested methods
• "Preserve objects" approaches : new frontiers?
• Digital preservation initiatives and collaborations
• Challenges for the future of digital preservation.

This book provides a single-volume introduction to the principles, strategies and practices currently applied by librarians and recordkeeping professionals to the critical issue of preservation of digital information. It incorporates practice from both the recordkeeping and the library communities, taking stock of current knowledge about digital preservation and describing recent and current research, to provide a framework for reflecting on the issues that digital preservation raises in professional practice.
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• Introduction The really foolproof solution for digital preservation Introduction to OAIS concepts and terminology Types of Digital Objects Threats to Digital Preservation and possible solutions OAIS in more depth Understanding a Digital Object: Basic Representation Information Preservation of Intelligibility of Digital Objects Understandability and Usability of data In addition to understanding it - what is it?: Preservation Description Information Linking data and "metadata": Packaging Basic Preservation Strategies Authenticity Advanced Preservation Analysis Testing claims about digital preservation Tools for countering the Threats to Digital Preservation The CASPAR Key Components Implementation Overview of the testbeds STFC science testbed European Space Agency testbed Cultural Heritage Testbed Contemporary Performing Arts Testbed Sharing the Effort Infrastructure Roadmap Who is doing a good job? Audit and Certification Final thoughts.
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There is growing recognition of the need to address the fragility of digital information, on which our society heavily depends for smooth operation in all aspects of daily life. This has been discussed in many books and articles on digital preservation, so why is there a need for yet one more? Because, for the most part, those other publications focus on documents, images and webpages - objects that are normally rendered to be simply displayed by software to a human viewer. Yet there are clearly many more types of digital objects that may need to be preserved, such as databases, scientific data and software itself. David Giaretta, Director of the Alliance for Permanent Access, and his contributors explain why the tools and techniques used for preserving rendered objects are inadequate for all these other types of digital objects, and they provide the concepts, techniques and tools that are needed. The book is structured in three parts. The first part is on theory, i.e., the concepts and techniques that are essential for preserving digitally encoded information. The second part then shows practice, i.e., the use and validation of these tools and techniques. Finally, the third part concludes by addressing how to judge whether money is being well spent, in terms of effectiveness and cost sharing. Various examples of digital objects from many sources are used to explain the tools and techniques presented. The presentation style mainly aims at practitioners in libraries, archives and industry who are either directly responsible for preservation or who need to prepare for audits of their archives. Researchers in digital preservation and developers of preservation tools and techniques will also find valuable practical information here. Researchers creating digitally encoded information of all kinds will also need to be aware of these topics so that they can help to ensure that their data is usable and can be valued by others now and in the future. To further assist the reader, the book is supported by many hours of videos and presentations from the CASPAR project and by a set of open source software.
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• Digitale Herausforderung meistern Organisation, Selbstverständnis und Methoden der Archive im Wandel / Hans-Christian Herrmann
• Zwischen Records Management und digitaler Archivierung : das Dateisystem als Basis von SchriftgutVerwaltung und Überlieferungsbildung / Ulrich Schludi
• Schnittstellen im Verbund : Zusammenarbeit der baden-württembergischen Stadt- und Kreisarchive mit dem DV-Verbund Baden-Württemberg / Reinhard Schal
• Langzeitarchivierung : Umsetzung im DV-Verbund Baden-Württemberg / Katharina Ernst
• Dienstleisterpartnerschaft mit DIMAG / Christian Keitel
• Elektronische Archive : wie ist es in Frankreich? / Tiphaine Nougué, Daniel Peter
• Stadt im Bild 2.0 : Digitale Fotosammlungen in der Stadtverwaltung Worms / Tanja Wolf
• Digitale Archivierung astrophysikalischer Forschungsdaten / Klaus Nippert
• Gebäudeversicherung : ein Versichertenverzeichnis früher und heute / Martin Lüthi
• Selbermachen! Praktische Tipps zur Archivierung digitaler Unterlagen, Digitalisierung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit im Netz / Joachim Kemper, Kai Naumann
• Die Autorinnen und Autoren.

• Part 1: Archiving Basics Chapter 1: On Overview of Database Archiving Chapter 2: An Overview of Business Issues Chapter 3: Generic Archiving Methodology Chapter 4: Basic Components Part 2: Establishing a Database Archiving Project Chapter 5: Origins of a Database Archiving Project Chapter 6: Resources Needed Chapter 7: Locating Data Chapter 8: Locating Metadata Chapter 9: Data and Metadata Validation Part 3: Designing Database Archiving Applications Chapter 10: Designing for Archive Independence Chapter 11: Modeling Archive Data Chapter 12: Setting Archive Policies Chapter 13: Changes to Data Structures and Policies Part 4: Database Archiving Application Software Chapter 14: The Archive Database Chapter 15: The Archive Extractor Component Chapter 16: The Archive Discard Component
• Chapter 17: The Archive Access Component
• Part 5: Administration of the Archive Chapter 18: Testing Your Application Chapter 19: Managing Archive Data over Time Chapter 20: Managing Users Chapter 21: Managing Changes Part 6: Business and Legal Issues Chapter 22: Non-operational Sources of Data Chapter 23: The Archive and the legal department Chapter 24: The Archiving ASP Appendix A: Generic Archiving Checklist Appendix B: Goals of a Database Archiving System Appendix C: Job Description of Data Archivist.
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With the amount of data a business accumulates now doubling every 12 to 18 months, IT professionals need to know how to develop a system for archiving important database data, in a way that both satisfies regulatory requirements and is durable and secure. This important and timely new book explains how to solve these challenges without compromising the operation of current systems. It shows how to do all this as part of a standardized archival process that requires modest contributions from team members throughout an organization, rather than the superhuman effort of a dedicated team.
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• Definitions and scope
• Information resource attributes
• Tools and systems
• Metadata sources
• Metadata quality
• Sharing metadata
• Metadata standards
• Vocabularies
• The future of metadata.

Hider shows how information resources are organized through their descriptions, providing an overview of both the process and the product as they function in the contemporary information environment.

Discusses the issue of whether digitally stored information and knowledge will survive into the future. Features Peter Norton and Tim Berners-Lee.

• Legal aspects of digital preservation
• Copyrights
• Data protection
• Legal obligations to preserve data
• IT contracting.

Digital preservation has become culturally, as well as economically, indispensable. The preserving of business processes is an emerging challenge for each company, regardless of industry sector and size. This book focuses on the legal aspects of digital preservation and offers legal guidance in that area. This important book illustrates the implications of preservation actions on intellectual property rights and data protection. These can include: Potential violation of data protection laws through the storage of personal data, and potential infringement of a copyright-holder's exclusive right to reproduce and store their copyright protected data. The book considers the scope of protection under both IP and data protection rights, and offers strategies on avoiding potential infringement. Further IT contracting issues and selected existing legal obligations to preserve data are described with a particular emphasis on digital preservation. The clear exposition of the legal framework, and the detailed analysis of Legal Aspects of Digital Preservation will be of great utility to practitioner advising companies who are digitally preserving business processes, as well as those companies themselves, developers of preservation systems, and researchers in the field of digital archiving.
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Film is in a state of rapid change, with the transition from analog to digital profoundly affecting not just filmmaking and distribution, but also the theoretical conceptualization of the medium film and the practice of film archiving. New forms of digital archives are being developed that make use of participatory media to provide a more open form of access than any traditional archive has offered before. Film archives are thus faced with new questions and challenges. From Grain to Pixel attempts to bridge the fields of film archiving and academic research, by addressing the discourse on film ontology and analysing how it affects the role of film archives. Fossati proposes a new theoretization of film archival practice as the starting point for a renewed dialogue between film scholars and film archivists.
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• 1. Key issues in digital preservation - Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner
• 2. Strategies for digital preservation - David Holdsworth
• 3. The status of preservation metadata in the digital library community - Robin Wendler
• 4. Web archiving - Julien Masanes
• 5. Web archiving activities: case studies - Elisa Mason
• 6. The costs of digital preservation - Brian F. Lavoie
• 7. It's money that matters in long-term preservation - Stephen Chapman
• 8. Some European approaches to digital preservation - Peter McKinney
• 9. Digital preservation projects: some brief case studies - Jasmine Kelly and Elisa Mason.
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Digital preservation is an issue of huge importance to the library and information profession right now. With the widescale adoption of the internet and the rise of the WWW, the world has been overwhelmed by digital information. Digital data is being produced on a massive scale by individuals and institutions: some of it is born, lives and dies only in digital form, and it is the potential death of this data that is the concern of this volume. So how can information professionals try to remedy this situation? Digital preservation is a complex issue, with many different aspects and views, so in this book each chapter is written by an international expert on the topic. Many case studies and examples are used to ground the ideas and theories in real concerns and practice. This volume will arm the information professional with the knowledge they need about this important and pressing issue and give examples of best practice to help find a way to a solution for this problem. Chapters cover: formats of digital data authenticity of digital data preservation strategies international trends in digital preservation web archiving metadata institutional policies the cost of digital preservation and cost of data loss. Written by leading international experts in digital library development, each book in the Digital Futures series examines in detail some of the key strategic and practical issues facing libraries and other cultural institutions in the rapidly expanding world of digital information. Readership: This is an indispensable guide for all information managers, librarians and archivists. Others in the information and culture world, such as museum curators, media professionals and web content providers will also find it essential reading, as will students of digital culture on library and information studies and other courses.
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