Additional Reading
E-Journals and Blogs Covering Digital Preservation
D-Lib Magazine
First Monday
RLG DigiNews - Archived articles available
DPC/PADI What's New in Digital Preservation
The Ten Thousand Year Blog
Digitization 101

Additional Resources
Arts and Humanities Data Service. A
Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections.
Byrnes, Margaret. "Assigning
permanence levels to NLM's electronic publications."
Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes, March 2006.
Cornell
University Electronic Student Records Systems Project Report.
2000.
Council on
Library and Information Resources, Digital preservation
publications.
Data
Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images NISO
Z39.87-2002 AIIM 20-2002.
Digital Library
Federation, follow links for preservation
and publications
and resources.
Digital
Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions.
RLG. 1998.
ERPANET: ErpaTools – Cost
Orientation Tool
IASA-TC 04 Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Objects, 2004.
Into
the Future: On The Preservation Of Knowledge In The Electronic Age.
1998.
Metadata
Standards Framework - Preservation Metadata. National Library
of New Zealand, November 2002.
National
Historical Publications and Records Commission, Electronic Records
Projects.
National Library of Australia, "Guidelines:
Managing Web Resources for persistent access."
Preservation
Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art.
White paper by the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata,
March 2001.
Producer-Archive
Interface Methodology Abstract Standard (CCSDS), June 2002.
Reiger, Oya, Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, September 2007.
Ross, Seamus. "Changing
trains at Wigan: Digital preservation and the future of scholarship,"
February 6, 2001 Online National Preservation Office (NPO).
Russell, Kelly and Ellis Weinberger, Cost
Elements of Digital Preservation, (May 2000).
Selection
and Collaboration in Digital Preservation: An RLG-JISC Symposium,
March 24-25, 2003.
Submission
Information Package (SIP) Specification, Version 1.0 Draft.
Harvard E-Journal Archive. December 19, 2001.
UC-Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, Collection
and Preservation Policy.
Waibel, Günter. Like Russian Dolls: Nesting Standards for Digital Preservation.

Notable Digital Preservation Projects
Arts and Humanities
Data Service (AHDS) Preservation Management of Digital Materials.
Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR)
Creative
Archiving at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New
(CAMiLEON)
CURL Exemplars
in Digital Archives (CEDARS)
Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (DELOS)
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
Digital
Preservation Coalition (DPC)
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER)
eSPIDA
Florida Digital Archive
Harvard University
Digital Library Initiative
InterPARES
Project (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records
in Electronic Systems)
Kulturarw
Heritage Project
Lots of Copies
Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS)
PANDORA
(Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia)
National Archives
and Records Administration Electronic Records Archives
National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
OAIS
(ISO Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System)
OCLC
Digital Archive System Guides: Digital Archive Metadata Elements
San Diego Supercomputer Center and Chronopolis
San Diego Supercomputer Center and Storage Resource Broker (SRB)

Sustainability of Digital Formats, Planning for Library of Congress Collections
Topical Resources
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File Formats
Arms, Caroline R. and Carl Fleischhauer, "Digital
Formats: Factors for Sustainability, Functionality, and Quality," DLF
Forum, November 17, 2003.
Brown, Adrian, Selecting
File Formats for Long-Term Preservation,
The National Archives (UK), 2003.
Recommended
Data Formats for Preservation Purposes in the FCLA Digital Archive.
LeFurgy, William G. "PDF/A:
Developing a File Format for Long-Term Preservation," RLG DigiNews, December 15, 2003.
PRONOM.
UK National Archives' online source for information about file
formats and software products.
Care and Handling of Media
Brown, Adrian, Care, Handling
and Storage of Removable Media (PDF), The
National Archives (UK), 2003.
Image Permanence Institute, Media
Storage Quick Reference. 2004.
Advice on controlled storage of analog and digital media.
Byers, Fred R., Care
and Handling for the Preservation of CDs and DVDs — A Guide
for Librarians and Archivists, National Institute of Standards
and Technology and Council on Library and Information Resources,
2003.
Protecting
and handling magnetic media, National Archives of
Australia, 2002.
Media Selection
Brown, Adrian, Selecting
Storage Media for Long-Term Preservation,
The National Archives (UK), 2003.
Disaster Avoidance and Recovery, Backup
Ross, Seamus and Ann Gow, Digital
Archaeology: Rescuing Neglected
and Damaged Data Resources Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
Institute (HATII) University of Glasgow, 1999.
Russell, Kelly, and Ellis Weinberger, Cost Elements of Digital Preservation, (May 2000).
Zorich, Diane M. A
Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability
Concerns, June 2003.
Louis A. Pitschmann, Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources. June 2001.
ERPANET: ErpaTools – Cost Orientation Tool
Prestospace A/V Archive Digitisation & Storage Guide, Analysis Tools
NEDCC
Disaster Planning Leaflets
A Primer on Disaster Preparedness, Management and Response: Paper-Based
Materials
Disaster Prevention, Preparedness, and Recovery Resources
Independent Media Arts Preservation: Disaster Planning and Response
PORTALS (Portland
Area Library System): Disaster Prevention and Recovery Template
Plan
Minnesota State Archives: Disaster Resources
Cultural Heritage Resources for Disaster Preparedness, Response,
and Recovery
dPlan: The Online Disaster-Planning Tool
A Home User's Security Checklist for Windows
How ITIL Can Improve Information Security
by Steven Weil, CISSP, CISA, CBCP
last updated December 22, 2004
Information security and crime prevention
Company Checklist
Information Security Management Audit Check List
Rutgers RU
Secure
Security Checklist
Library of Congress NDIIP, JISC, OAK Law Project, and the SURFfoundation. International Study on the Impact of Coypright Law on Digital Preservation (2008) (pdf)
Section 108 Study Group. The Section 108 Study Group Report (2008) (pdf)
Coyle, Karen. "Rights in the PREMIS Data Model: A Report for the Library of Congress." Library of Congress. (2006) (pdf).
Hirtle, Peter."Digital Preservation and Copyright."
Hirtle, Peter. "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States." (2008) (pdf).
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). "Intellectual Property Rights - Overview." (2008).
Gasaway, Laura. "America's
Cultural Record: A Thing of the Past?" 40 Hous. L. Rev.
643 (2003).
Russell, Carrie. Complete
Copyright: An everyday guide for librarians.
Library Law
June Besek, Copyright
issues relevant to the creation of a digital archive: a preliminary
assessment (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information
Resources and the Library of Congress, 2003).
Catherine Ayre and
Adrienne Muir, "The
Right to Preserve:
The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation" D-Lib Magazine,
March 2004, Volume 10 Number 3.
Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress. Report on Orphan Works (2006) (pdf).
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