A centre of expertise in digital information management Digital Preservation / UK Web Focus Brian...
14
A centre of expertise in digital information management Digital Preservation / UK Web Focus Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY Email [email protected] URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is supported by:
-
Upload
lorraine-newton -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
2
Transcript of A centre of expertise in digital information management Digital Preservation / UK Web Focus Brian...
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Digital Preservation /UK Web Focus
Brian KellyUKOLNUniversity of BathBath, BA2 7AY
[email protected]://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
UKOLN is supported by:
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
About UKOLN / UK Web Focus
UKOLN:• Centre of expertise ion digital information
management• About 30 FTEs• Based at University of Bath• Funded by JISC and Resource, with additional
funding from JISC, EU, etc. project workUK Web Focus:
• Adviser to UK HE and FE and (since 1 Aug 03) cultural heritage sector in England & Wales on Web issues
• Project manager for JISC-funded QA Focus work and of NOF-digi Technical Advisory Service
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Work In Area Of Preservation
UKOLN activities include:• Membership of DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition)
– see <http://www.dpconline.org/>• Production of What's New newsletter -
<http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/>• Study on "Collecting and preserving the World
Wide Web" – see <http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/projects/archiving_reports.shtml>
• Participation on forum on Web archiving in March 2003 – see <http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/web-archiving.html>
Michael Day is active in this area – see publications at <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/publications/>
Michael Day is active in this area – see publications at <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/preservation/publications/>
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
What's Happening In UK?
In the UK:• JISC very active in this area:
Involvement in DPC Neil Beagrie is JISC's Assistant Director (Preservation
and Resources) Interest in preservation of scholarly reports, scientific
data, …
• Cultural Heritage sector have an interest: British Library NOF-digitise projects, …
• Interest at government level: British Library Preservation of 1997 election Web sites Post Sept 11 awareness of importance DPC launch outside Westminster
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
What's Happening Globally?
Much interest:• Preservation workshops e.g. ECDL:
<http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue8/ecdlws2/> <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/ecdl-web-
archiving-rpt/>
• National initiatives: Australia: <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/> Finland: <http://nwa.nb.no/> France: See <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/
december02/masanes/12masanes.html>
• Internet Archive: See <http://www.archive.org/>
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Internet Archive
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Who's Problem?
Should preservation of Web sites be carried out:
• By Web site owner's themselves• By owner, funder, …• By a national body (e.g. British Library)• By an international body (e.g. Internet
Archive)• By subject specialists• …
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
How To Preserve
Web site preservation can be carried out:• By automated harvesting of Web sites (a
client-side view)• By depositing (a service-side view)• A combined approach
An automated approach can be used to harvest all Web sites within a domain (e.g. all ox.ac.uk Web sites, all .ac.uk, …)Depositing requires Web site owner to upload resource to a repository
An automated approach can be used to harvest all Web sites within a domain (e.g. all ox.ac.uk Web sites, all .ac.uk, …)Depositing requires Web site owner to upload resource to a repository
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Challenges
Harvesting is getting more difficult:• Personalised resources• Dynamic Resources• Client-side features• Backend features 9e.g. search facility• Diversity of resources, formats, etc.
Other issues:• Copyright, IPR, accessibility, defamation, …
What do you want to do?• Provide access to static resources• Preserve look and feel• Provide access to Web site functionality
This is not an area to jump into lightlyThis is not an area to jump into lightly
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
But There Is A Need
WebWatching Telematics For Libraries Project Web Sites
• Of 88 EU-funded project Web sites, 23 have disappeared in Jan 2000
• See <http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue7/webwatch/>
WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites• Of 71 eLib project Web sites, 5 had disappeared
in Jan 2001• See
<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/web-watch/>
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
It Gets Worse!Webtechs.com
• Software company which hosted early HTML validation service
• In 1998/99 confusion over payment of domain name
• March 1999 company receives many messages saying validation service is now a porn site
• Over 30,000 links to Web site!
• Sept 1999 porn company agrees to sell domain name back to Webtech
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
The Embarrassment Still ExistsThe hijacked Web site can still be accessed using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Note that the archived Web site contains JavaScript (and Active X controls?) which could delete data on the viewer's PC
See <http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue1/webtechs/>See <http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue1/webtechs/>
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
What I'm Involved In
I am involved in:• Raising awareness of importance of Web site
preservation• Seeking to ensure that project-funded Web sites
are aware of the potential porn site time bomb• Seeking to ensure that projects consider
'mothballing' issues
See:<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-04/><http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/
nof-preservation-2003/><http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/
online-information-2002/>
See:<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-04/><http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/
nof-preservation-2003/><http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/
online-information-2002/>
A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Where To From Here?
Possible options:• Harvest appropriate Web sites. NB httrack is a
highly regarded, easy-to-use open source tool for capturing Web sites – <http://www.httrack.com/>, but remember need to provide capture metadata
• It's too big a problem• It's a big problem, but we can provide advice to
minimise problems• It's a big problem, but someone needs to tackle it,
and we've willing to take a lead from a subject perspective
• We need to read the reports, contribute to the <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DIGITAL-PRESERVATION.html> list, …
