The MetaArchive Cooperative has released a Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation:
This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and [...]
Tag Archives: Digital Preservation
Scanned Master Files Compared
08-Jul-09Here’s a quick chart that specifies the amount of disk space a single scanned 8.5″ x 11″ master file will take up.
JHOVE and Reconstructibility
23-Mar-09Garry McGath has an interesting post up over at File Formats Blog arguing for a little wiggle room within file format preservation:
UConn Survey on JPEG2000 Use
02-Feb-09Found this posted earlier last week via Digital Koans: Digital Project Staff Survey of JPEG 2000 Implementation in Libraries
Effects of Open Source on Preservation
05-Jan-09David Rosenthal has a detailed and useful analysis of the value of open format specifications for preservation:
If we plot the quality achieved by a newly created renderer for a format against the cost of creating it we will get an S curve. A certain amount of money is needed to get to a barely functional [...]
Usability Over Time
01-Jan-09Found this useful idea by Chris Rusbridge from a year-end review by Jill Hurst-Wahl:
It’s not just the language that makes digital preservation unconvincing to the decision maker. Part of the problem is that digital preservation describes a process, and not an outcome. … So I would argue that outcome-related phrases like “long term accessibility” or [...]
Reading a press release out of UCSD, this comment from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access [pdf] caught my eye:
A recent study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) said that in 2007, the amount of digital data began to exceed the amount of storage to retain it, and will continue [...]
Building a Scanning Studio from Scratch
09-Dec-08I’ve been asked by a small-sized museum / special library to make a suggestion on what kind of equipment a start-up digitization studio would need while operating under a budget of approximately $3,200. This studio would need the cabability of digitizing photos, and possibly some text, post-processing the scans, hosting the images on an existing [...]