Post on 20-Jan-2016
Preserving Digital Preserving Digital Collections for Collections for
Future ScholarshipFuture Scholarship
Oya Y. RiegerOya Y. Rieger
Cornell UniversityCornell University
oyr1@cornell.eduoyr1@cornell.edu
Part 1: Cornell Case Study
CUL Special Funds: 15,000 booksMicrosoft Live Book, 100,000 booksGoogle Book Search, 500,000 books
Part 2: Preservation
Why preserve?Why preserve?
Long-term returns on our investment Long-term returns on our investment in print collectionsin print collections
Users want content in digital formatUsers want content in digital format
Significant costs – likelihood of a 2Significant costs – likelihood of a 2ndnd round?round?
If not libraries, who will assume the If not libraries, who will assume the stewardship role? stewardship role?
Digital PreservationDigital Preservation
Managed activities to support the Managed activities to support the long-term maintenance of long-term maintenance of bitstreamsbitstreams to make sure that digital objects are to make sure that digital objects are usableusable
Digital PreservationDigital Preservation
Managed activities to support the long-Managed activities to support the long-term maintenance of term maintenance of bitstreamsbitstreams to make to make sure that digital objects are usablesure that digital objects are usable
Ensuring the Ensuring the usabilityusability of a digital of a digital resource by retaining all quantities of resource by retaining all quantities of authenticity, accuracy, and functionalityauthenticity, accuracy, and functionality
Digital PreservationDigital Preservation Managed activities to support the long-Managed activities to support the long-
term maintenance of term maintenance of bitstreamsbitstreams to make to make sure that digital objects are usablesure that digital objects are usable
Ensuring the Ensuring the usabilityusability of a digital resource of a digital resource by retaining all quantities of authenticity, by retaining all quantities of authenticity, accuracy, and functionalityaccuracy, and functionality
Envisioning & enabling new ways of Envisioning & enabling new ways of scholarshipscholarship based on digital content based on digital content
Digital Preservation Digital Preservation ProgramProgram
Organizational Organizational InfrastructureInfrastructure
Technical Technical ArchitectureArchitecture
Resources Resources FrameworkFramework
Digital Preservation Digital Preservation ProgramProgram
Organizational Organizational InfrastructureInfrastructure
Technical ArchitectureTechnical Architecture Resources FrameworkResources Framework Access VisionAccess Vision
technology
resources
organizationaccess
Organizational Organizational InfrastructureInfrastructure
Preservation mandate Preservation mandate & priorities& priorities
Policies for selecting, Policies for selecting, reselecting, and reselecting, and deselectingdeselecting
Technical Technical requirements and best requirements and best practicespractices
Training and Training and professional professional development development
Provenance, Provenance, authenticity, and authenticity, and integrity integrity
Intellectual property Intellectual property rights rights
CollaborationCollaboration Risk assessment Risk assessment Documentation Documentation
Technical ArchitectureTechnical Architecture
Repository to ingest, Repository to ingest, monitor, manage, monitor, manage, and archive and archive
Storage Storage architecturearchitecture
Ingest workflow and Ingest workflow and quality control quality control
Preservation Preservation metadatametadata
Interoperability Interoperability
Monitoring and Monitoring and managementmanagement
Preservation Preservation strategies strategies
Disaster-prevention & Disaster-prevention & recoveryrecovery
Security measuresSecurity measures Technical auditsTechnical audits Technology Technology
forecastingforecasting
Resources FrameworkResources Framework
Storage Storage architecturearchitecture PrimaryPrimary SecondarySecondary
Programming & Programming & systems staffsystems staff
Preservation policy Preservation policy staffstaff
Network chargesNetwork charges SustainabilitySustainability Cost recoveryCost recovery
PoDPoD DoD DoD
Access VisionAccess Vision
Redundancy Redundancy arrangements for arrangements for accessaccess
Search enginesSearch engines Access to materials:Access to materials:
Public domainPublic domain CopyrightCopyright
New forms of New forms of scholarshipscholarship Text miningText mining VisualizationVisualization Clustering Clustering New forms of New forms of
publishingpublishing Social networkingSocial networking
Part 3: Recommendations
Reassess Digitization Reassess Digitization Requirements: Create a New Requirements: Create a New
MetricsMetrics Contemporary digitization technologies and Contemporary digitization technologies and
image-processing toolsimage-processing tools
New archival file formats, such as JPEG2000 New archival file formats, such as JPEG2000 and PDF/A and PDF/A
Evolving access formats for sophisticated Evolving access formats for sophisticated retrieval and use of content such as text mining retrieval and use of content such as text mining
The correlation between image quality and The correlation between image quality and OCR accuracy OCR accuracy
Enhance Access to Digitized Enhance Access to Digitized ContentContent
Enduring access by enabling online discovery Enduring access by enabling online discovery Print preservation for materials in copyrightPrint preservation for materials in copyright
Collaboration for aggregated or federated Collaboration for aggregated or federated accessaccess
Understand the impact of contractual Understand the impact of contractual restrictions on preservation responsibilitiesrestrictions on preservation responsibilities
Support new e-scholarship formats & Support new e-scholarship formats & applicationsapplications
Outline an Archiving Action Outline an Archiving Action AgendaAgenda
Defining minimum requirements necessary to Defining minimum requirements necessary to facilitate shared storage and registry initiatives facilitate shared storage and registry initiatives
Making geographic data-redundancy arrangementsMaking geographic data-redundancy arrangements
Implementing distributed and collaborative Implementing distributed and collaborative strategies (LOCKSS and Portico)strategies (LOCKSS and Portico)
Sharing open-source preservation servicesSharing open-source preservation services
Exploring how usage statistics can inform Exploring how usage statistics can inform preservation decisionspreservation decisions
Understand Costs Involved in Understand Costs Involved in
Digital Preservation EffortsDigital Preservation Efforts Significant local expenses by Significant local expenses by
participating librariesparticipating libraries
Building and managing a digital Building and managing a digital preservation infrastructure is neither preservation infrastructure is neither easy nor cheap easy nor cheap
Share cost information – understand Share cost information – understand long-term implicationslong-term implications
Developing a Joint AgendaDeveloping a Joint Agenda
Institutional differences in opinion, funding Institutional differences in opinion, funding models, digital library infrastructures, and models, digital library infrastructures, and strategic goalsstrategic goals
Cooperative efforts should not slow the Cooperative efforts should not slow the community’s efforts, but rather complement community’s efforts, but rather complement the ongoing institutional programsthe ongoing institutional programs
Join forces among cultural institutions & Join forces among cultural institutions & corporate partners to leverage resources, corporate partners to leverage resources, strengthen causes, control risks, and expand strengthen causes, control risks, and expand alternative strategiesalternative strategies