Recent developments in digital archiving and preservation

Jan FullertonDirector General

National Library of Australia

A good source of information is:

PADI http://www.nla.gov.au/padi

What’s new in digital preservation

Issues that inhibit action :

• Funding to support sustainable programs

• Access to shareable tools and services

• Skills development

• Legal framework

• Confusion about where to start

A good overview of developments:

Networking for Digital Preservation: current practice in 15 national libraries

by Ingeborg Verheul, 2006

http://www.ifla.org/VI/7/pub/IFLAPublication-No119.pdf

International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)

Main goals:• Encourage and support national libraries to

address Internet archiving and preservation; and to

• Foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of web archives

International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)

Outputs: Standards

• WARC (Web ARChive) file format, a standard for storing data harvested during crawls of the Web

International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)

Outputs: Tools• Heritrix• DeepArc• Xinq• NutchWax• WERA

To help collecting institutions with limited technical support to manage activities associated with collecting web content

Web Curator Tool

• selection• description• permissions• harvesting• quality review

Web archiving

3 main approaches

• thematic (on a particular subject or topic

• selective (representing a number of subject areas and types of resources)

• whole domain

Some recent developments

• University of Lisbon

Tomba http://www.tomba.tumba.pt

• Denmark

http://www.netarkivet.dk/publikationer/DFrevy_english.pdf

• Croatia

http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Issues/Vol3/issue3_3_1.html

Internet Archive

Archive-It : a subscription service for organisations to do small scale, subject based archiving without having their own management systemhttp://www.archive-it.org

RLG Web Archiving Program

Archive-It is offered to members through its Web Archiving Program

Legal deposit

Digital preservation

• National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/about/index.html

• Digital Preservation Europehttp://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu

Digital institutional repositories

Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories(APSR) project (http://www.apsr.edu.au)

Aims to :•Increase awareness and understanding of the risk environment in

which repositories operate•Identify or develop tools and systems to deal with main risks•Encourage or mandate widespread practices that will increase the

likelihood that both content and responsibility for its management can be sustained

Is linking with related projects such as the Global Digital Format Register

Certification of digital repositories

RLG – National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) Digital Repository and Certification Taskforce set up to develop audit criteria for digital repositories and archives

PREMIS

Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies

PREMIS Working Group objectives:• Develop a core preservation metadata set with

broad applicability across the digital preservation community

• Identify and evaluate alternative strategies for encoding, storing and managing preservation metadata in digital preservation systems